Ekaterina Petrovna’s father was Prince Peter-August-Friedrich Holstein-Beck, Estland governor-general and field-marshal, and mother-countess Natalia Golovina. Her parents were among the adherents of Peter III, and she was with a 12-year-old girl along with them on one of the galleys accompanying the emperor on the day of the coup on June 28, 1762, when he fled to Kronstadt. In 1767, she married a lieutenant of Prince Ivan Sergeevich Baryatinsky.
The princes of Baryatinsky were one of the oldest noble families in Russia. Prince IS Bariatinsky was the adjutant of Emperor Peter III. He played a significant role in the success of the June revolution of 1762, which led to the throne of Catherine II. For which he was generously granted the empress, having spent most of his life at the most prestigious diplomatic posts. Princess EP Baryatinskaya shone in the Petersburg light, being considered one of the first beauties, had enormous success and a lot of amorous adventures.
They say that Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich was in love with her, and her connection with Count Andrei Razumovsky caused her break with her husband. At the end of the 1780s Princess Baryatinskaya left Russia to be treated abroad, and then settled in Berlin, where she died November 28, 1811. Yekaterina Petrovna and Ivan Sergeevich Baryatinsky had a son – Prince Ivan Ivanovich Baryatinsky, and a daughter – Anna. They were brought up in Russia, from a mother who lived separately from her husband.
Anna, having married in 1787 the Count Nikolai Alexandrovich Tolstoy, with the appointment of her husband as chamberlain under the Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich, May 10, 1793 became a member of the most intimate circle in the Grand Duke’s court, and from that time began her close friendship with the new Grand Duchess Elizaveta Alexeyevna, wife of the future Emperor Alexander I. Subsequently, the Countess Anna Ivanovna Tolstaya left Russia and lived abroad. Prince Ivan Ivanovich Baryatinsky – secret adviser, diplomat, ambassador in London and Munich, collector; After retirement, he started farming.
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