Dorothea de Ficquelmont

Dorothea de Ficquelmont
Countess de Ficquelmont
Portrait of the countess de Ficquelmont by Pyotr Sokolov
BornCountess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen
14 October 1804
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died10 April 1863
Venice, Austrian Empire
BuriedDubí
Noble familyTiesenhausen
Spouse(s)Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont
FatherFerdinand von Tiesenhausen
MotherPrincess Elisabeth Koutouzova

Dorothea "Dolly" de Ficquelmont (Russian: Да́рья Фёдоровна Фикельмо́н; Daria Fyodorovna Fikelmon; 14 October 1804, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 10 April 1863, Venice, Austrian Empire), born Countess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen, was a Baltic-German writer and salonist. A granddaughter of the Russian war hero General Prince Kutuzov (who distinguished himself in the Napoleonic Wars), she was of German Baltic origin, and later a member of the Austrian nobility as the wife of Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont.