known as Mme SWETCHINE (1782-1857), writer, mystic converted to Catholicism.
A beautiful and touching letter ...

known as Mme SWETCHINE (1782-1857), writer, mystic converted to Catholicism.
A beautiful and touching letter in which Mme Swetchine deplores death
of her friend, Countness Natalia Stroganoff (1800-1855, daughter of Prince Kotchoubei, former Minister of Tsar Alexander, Imprerial chan- cellor, wife of Count Alexander Stroganoff, former Minister and then governoe of St Petersburg and New Russia)
PROVENANCE : from the collection Robert Schumann.