Princess Leonilla Bariatinskaya
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Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
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9 May 1816 Moscow |
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| Died | 1 February 1918 (aged 101) Lausanne |
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| Spouse | Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | ||||
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| Father | Prince Ivan Bariatinsky | ||||
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| Leonilla Ivanovna Bariatinskaya, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn |
Leonilla Ivanovna Bariatinskaia, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (Russian: Леонилла Ивановна Барятинская) (9 May 1816 – 1 February 1918) was a Russian aristocrat who married Ludwig, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. She was the subject of a number of portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
Princess Leonilla Ivanovna Bariatinskaya was born on 9 May 1816 in Moscow. She was a daughter of Prince Ivan Ivanovich Bariatinsky, a member of one of the most influential families of the Russian nobility. She married one of the Tsar’s aides de camp, Ludwig, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1799-1866) on 23 October 1834 at Castle Marino, Kursk Oblast. He was a Russian aristocrat of German descent, who was known in Russia as Lev Petrovich Wittgenstein. He was a son of Ludwig, first Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein and Caecilia Snarska. Her husband had been previously married to Princess Stephanie Radziwil, who left him on her early death a rich large estate in central Europe and two children: Peter (who died without issue), and a daughter Marie, wife of Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of the German Empire.
Princess Leonilla and her husband had four children. Her beauty created an impression at the Russian court, but her husband fell from favor perhaps because his liberal treatment of his serfs. They left Russia in 1848. The Prince received, as a present from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, the former family seat Sayn Castle, which had been destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. With the purchase of a former knight’s manor in Sayn he gained the title of Prince (Fürst) zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. They had extensive landholdings in Russia. Among their properties were Pavlino; Kamenka, south of Kiev; and Werki, in what is now Lithuania. Princess Leonilla, who converted to Catholicism, preferred Rome and Paris, where she witnessed the pillage of the Tuileries in 1848. The princely family moved from country to country with the seasons taking with them their children, pets, servants and tutors.
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