Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova

Yekaterina Vorontsova Dashkova
Portrait by Dmitry Levitsky, 1784.
Born
Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova

(1743-03-28)28 March 1743
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Died15 January 1810(1810-01-15) (aged 66)
Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
SpousePrince Mikhail Ivanovich Dashkov [ru]
Children
Parents
Director of Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
In office
1783–1796
MonarchsCatherine II
Paul I
Preceded bySergey Domashnev [ru]
Succeeded byPavel Bakunin [ru]
Chairwoman of Imperial Russian Academy
In office
1783–1796
MonarchsCatherine II
Paul I
Preceded byoffice created
Succeeded byPavel Bakunin

Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Dashkova[a] (born Countess Vorontsova; Russian: Екатери́на Рома́новна Да́шкова [Воронцо́ва];[b] 28 March 1743 – 15 January 1810)[note 1][2] was an influential noblewoman, a major figure of the Russian Enlightenment and a close friend of Empress Catherine the Great. She was part of the coup d'état that placed Catherine on the throne, the first woman in the world to head a national academy of sciences, the first woman in Europe to hold a government office[3] and the president of the Russian Academy, which she helped found. She also published prolifically, with original and translated works on many subjects,[4] and was invited by Benjamin Franklin to become the first female member of the American Philosophical Society.


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  1. ^ Dashkova, Ekaterina Romanovna (1995). The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova. Translated by Fitzlyon, Kyril. Duke University Press. p. 31. ISBN 9780822316213. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  2. ^ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Dashkoff, Ekaterina Romanovna, Princess" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. This source reports that Prince Dashkov died in 1761.
  3. ^ Levitt, Marcus C. (1995). Early Modern Russian Writers, Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. pp. 65–68. ISBN 0-8103-5711-9.
  4. ^ "Dashkova, Yekaterina Romanovna". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 28 February 2019.


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