Anna Vorontsova

31 December 1775]), was a Russian lady in waiting, salonist and noble, cousin of the Empress Elizabeth of Russia.

[2] She was the daughter of the elder brother of Catherine I of Russia, Karl Samoilovich Skavronsky, and Marya Ivanovna.

Anna Karlovna loved fine arts, and her house was constantly visited by artists, writers, scientists, government people.

In the short reign of Peter III of Russia, the Vorontsovs belonged entirely to the party of the Emperor and is among those who accompanied him on 28 June 1762 in flight in the galley of Oranienbaum in Kronstadt.

Widowed in 1767, the Countess Anna Karlovna did not play a prominent role at court, although the Tsarevich Pavel Petrovich called her aunt.