Comtesse Kiseleff
Also known as: la comtesse Kiseleff, la comtesse Kisseleff, Kiseleff
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The mother of Duke Clément Torlonia, born Ruspoli, remarried to Count Kiseleff. Marie: «Torlonia comprend le russe, sa mère, née Ruspoli s'est remariée en secondes noces avec le comte Kiseleff, ministre de Russie à Florence» (055.0669). Mon Journal t.7 index: «Kiseleff (comtesse), mère de Torlonia; née Ruspoli : 140, 277» and «Torlonia (duchesse Marie), mère, née Ruspoli, remariée au comte Kiseleff». She is Francesca Torlonia, née Princess Ruspoli (1830–1902), widow of the poet Giovanni Torlonia (1831–1858), duke of Poli and Guadagnolo (it.wikipedia «Torlonia»), who married on 10 November 1863 in Paris Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Kiselev (1800–1869), Russian envoy to the Roman and Tuscan courts from 1855 and to the Kingdom of Italy from 1864 until his death in Florence on 26 November 1869 (ru.wikipedia «Киселёв, Николай Дмитриевич») (0.85). The t.7 index calls her «duchesse Marie»; the sources call her Francesca.Relevance to Marie
Seen among the Russians of Rome: «la comtesse Kisseleff, mère de Torlonia, les Mechtchersky» (056.0333). In Naples maman predicts that she will arrange her son's marriage to Mlle Mechtchersky: «La comtesse Kiseleff mènera si bien l'affaire que la demande se fera par l'intermédiaire de l'ambassadrice» (058.0261).References in Diary
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- Mon Journal t.7, index pp.360, 365
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