Eliza Stephens
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Eliza Stephens was an English governess. She worked for the English aristocrat Mary Eleanor Bowes as a governess and companion and was instrumental in helping Andrew Robinson Stoney become Bowes's sec
Portrait of Andrew Robinson Stoney, who took his wife's surname in 1777.
Catherine Shuvalova
Mikhail Speransky
Elizaveta Mikhailovna Speranskaya
Mikhail Speransky
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Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky was a Russian statesman and reformist during the reign of Alexander I of Russia, to whom he was a close advisor. Honorary member of the Free Economic Society and t
Eliza Stephens
…in Russia. She worked for Countess Catherine Shuvalova, a lady-in-waiting to the empress Catherine the Great. Stephens's daughter Elizabeth married Mikhail Speransky, who would become an advisor to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in 1798. Elizabeth died in 1799 soon after giving birth to her daughter, Elisabeth…
Portrait by Alexander Varnek, 1824