Elizabeth Trubetskaya


Elizabeth Trubetskaya, was a Russian Princess and salonist, by birth member of Belosselsky-Belozersky family. She hosted a famous literary salon in Paris during the Second Empire, and played a crucial part as a mediator when France and Russia established their diplomatic contacts in the 1870s. She was grandmother of Princess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova di San Donato, great-grandmother of Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia and thus ancestor of Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, actress Catherine Oxenberg and writer Christina Oxenberg.