Russian lady-in-waiting and noblewoman (1729–1785)
Praskovya Bruce
Portrait, c. 1756
Born
1729
Died
1785 (aged 55–56)
Spouse(s)
Count James Bruce
Occupation
Lady-in-waiting
Countess Praskovya Aleksandrovna Bruce (Russian: Прасковья Александровна Брюс; née Rumyantseva; 1729–1785) was a Russian lady-in-waiting and noblewoman who was a confidante of Catherine the Great.
Countess Praskovya Aleksandrovna Bruce (Russian: Прасковья Александровна Брюс; née Rumyantseva; 1729–1785) was a Russian lady-in-waiting and noblewoman...
refer to Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russia (1694–1731) PraskovyaBruce (1729–1785), Russian lady-in-waiting and noble Praskovya Ivanovskaya (1852–1935)...
Countess PraskovyaBruce was prized by her as "L'éprouveuse", or "tester of male capacity." Every potential lover was to spend a night with Bruce before...
their biological mother.[citation needed] Protasova replaced Countess PraskovyaBruce as Catherine's confidante and first maid-of-honour in 1779 and became...
after the ruling Emperor who was his godfather. He was the brother of PraskovyaBruce, confidant of Catherine the Great. Pyotr Alexandrovich first saw military...
previously owned by the Russian Countess Catherine de Bruce (daughter of Count James Bruce and PraskovyaBruce), for $50,000. In the 1980s, the villa was host...
Events from the year 1729 in Russia Monarch – Peter II PraskovyaBruce - Russian lady-in-waiting and noble, confidant of Catherine the Great (d. 1785)...
Benckendorff - diplomat and general Hans Karl von Diebitsch - general PraskovyaBruce - lady-in-waiting and confidant of Catherine the Great Ivan Firsov...
Fyodorovich (1657 – 1723), was house stolnik of Peter I. His mother, Praskovya Yuryevna Khilkova, was the daughter of Yuri Yakovlevich Khilkov (1682...
Friendship, Russian: Торжество дружбы (1773). In 1785, Potemkin married Praskovya Andreevna Zakrevskaya (02.09.1765 – 1816), maid of honor of the court...
Fyodor Glebov was born to General-in-Chief Ivan Glebov [ru] and his wife Praskovya Ivanovna. He was the second of the four Glebov brothers. On January 1...
on the right side 3 15 August 1773 Countess Praskovya Alexandrovna Bruce 1729–1786 Married Count James Bruce in 1751 4 15 August 1773 Princess Daria Alekseevna...
1790s. Maria died in 1807; their three daughters (Elizaveta, Vera and Praskovya, 14 to 18 years of age in 1807) were raised by Gavrila and Darya Derzhavin...