Eleonora Tyutcheva

Countess Emilia Eleanor Sophie Louise Christina Bothmer (German: Emilia Eleonore Sophie Louise Christine Gräfin von Bothmer; 19 October 1800 – 27 August 1838) married twice, first to Active State Councillor Alexander Peterson, and secondly to poet Fyodor Tyutchev. Biography Eleonora was born into the family of a German Diplomat, Count Karl-Heinrich-Ernest von Bothmer (1770–1845) and his wife Anna, nee Baroness von Hanstein (1777–1826), she was their eldest child, and would later have eight brothers and three sisters. The family often travelled with their father to Italy, France, and Switzerland. Eleonora and her sisters all received a traditional home education, by the age of sixteen she had become a beautiful socialite with impeccable manners, fluent in both German and French. She was considered by many to be "infinitely charming". In 1818, Eleonora became the wife of a Russian diplomat, then secretary of the Russian mission in Munich, Alexander Khristoforovich Peterson. He died in 1825, leaving her widowed with four sons. She had a modest house in Munich on Karolinenplatz opposite the Russian mission. At a social evening, hosted by the mission the following year, the countess met Fydor Tyutchev, who had arrived at the Bavarian embassy as an assistant to the secretary. The couple fell in love quickly and married secretly in March 1826. Second Marriage