Maria Volkonsky – The Siberian Princess (Part two)
Read part one here. Her husband had been put to work as a labourer in a silver mine in Transbaikalia. She finally reached Nerchinsk where […]
Maria Volkonsky
Maria Volkonsky – The Siberian Princess (Part one)
Princess Maria Volkonsky was born Maria Raevskaya on 25 December 1805 as the youngest daughter of Russian general Nikolay Raevsky and Sophia Konstantinova. Her mother […]
