Barbara von Krüdener
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Beate Barbara Juliane Freifrau von Krüdener, often called by her formal French name, Madame de Krüdener, was a Baltic German religious mystic, author, and Pietist Lutheran theologian who exerted influ
Baroness von Krüdener and her son Paul, painted in 1786 by Angelica Kauffman
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Holy Alliance
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The Holy Alliance, also called the Grand Alliance, was a coalition linking the absolute monarchist great powers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, which was created after the final defeat of Napoleon at
Barbara von Krüdener
…her contact with the Russian Emperor she and Henri-Louis Empaytaz, a member of the Réveil, were in part responsible for the religious aspects of the Holy Alliance. Meanwhile, the baroness had been reveling in the intellectual society of Coppet and of Paris. She was now thirty-six; her charms were fading, but her…
Contemporary caricature of the Congress of Verona, 1822