Countess Emilia Eleanor Sophie Louise Christina von Bothmer (German: Emilia Eleonore Sophie Louise Christine Gräfin von Bothmer; 19 October 1800 – 27 August 1838) married twice, first to Active State Councillor Alexander Peterson, and secondly to poet Fyodor Tyutchev.

Eleonora and her sisters all received a traditional home education, by the age of sixteen she had become a beautiful socialite with impeccable manners, fluent in both German and French.

At a social evening, hosted by the mission the following year, the countess met Fyodor Tyutchev, who had arrived at the Bavarian embassy as an assistant to the secretary.

She is clever, and seems to me with a certain pretension to wit, which does not fit well with her ethereal air; her husband is a small man with glasses, very ugly, but he speaks well.

"Eleonora's letters to her relatives depict her as a loving, sensitive woman who idolised her husband, it appears that she was unfamiliar with the business and economics of family life which were entirely her responsibility.

[1] Shortly after their arrival in Saint Petersburg, Fyodor was appointed an official of the Russian diplomatic mission in Turin, capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Tyutchev described the behaviour of his wife during this time:[2]"It can be said in all fairness that the children twice owed their lives to their mother, who, at the cost of her last remaining strength, was able to carry them through the flames and wrest them from death.

[4] Upon arrival, the family found themselves in a strict financial situation, due to money and official documents lost in the shipwreck.

Before long, stress from overworking, a severe cold, and a deep nervous shock which she was never able to recover from, contributed to worsening her already fragile health.

From her first marriage to Alexander Khristoforovich Peterson (1759–1825): Her eldest three sons graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg, the youngest was brought up in Munich.