[1] Alexandra Albedinskaya was born to chamberlain Prince Sergei Alekseevich Dolgorukov and Maria Alexandrovna, nee Countess Apraksina.

Alexandra Albedinskaya was a descendant of a member of the Supreme Privy Council of Prince Alexei Grigoryevich Dolgorukov.

[2] Albedinskaya had four brothers ( Nikolai, Alexander, Alexei, Dmitry) and four sisters (Anna, Margarita, Varvara, Maria).

According to Anna Tyutcheva, she initially had friendly relations with Alexandra Albedinskaya, but then “instinctively felt in her whole being some kind of isolation, which made me restrained as well.” They said that she was always the subject of hatred from her mother, who beat her so much that she developed a disease that resembled a herd in her.

She fell into a state of tetanus, which sometimes lasted for whole hours.” Dolgorukova “was amazingly gifted, perfectly fluent, spoke five or six languages, read a lot, was very educated and was able to use the subtlety of her mind without the slightest shadow of pedantry or frivolity, juggling thoughts and especially paradoxes with a slight grace of a magician.