Catherine Radziwill
Catherine Radziwill was a Polish-Russian aristocrat. Born in St. Petersburg as Ekaterina Adamovna Rzewuska, a member of the House of Rzewuski, she came from a Polish family of warriors, statesmen, and notable writers; including Catherine’s great-great-grandfather, Wacław Rzewuski; her uncle, Henryk; and her aunts, Ewelina, wife of Honoré de Balzac, and Karolina, who kept a literary salon in Paris. Radziwill was a prominent figure at the Imperial courts in Germany and Russia but became...
