Elizabeth Trubetskaya

[2] She hosted a famous literary salon in Paris during the Second Empire, and played a crucial part as a mediator when France and Russia reestablished their diplomatic contacts in the 1870s.

The princess was in correspondence with many political figures of the time: Francois Guizot, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Adolphe Thiers and Prince Alexander Gorchakov.

Lise was the owner of the Elizavetino summer estate from 1852 in the Saint Petersburg province, the main building was designed by architect Harald Julius von Bosse in 1874, and a collector of material about the Trubetskoy family.

[4][1] In 1851, she married Prince Pyotr Nikitich Trubetskoy (1826-1880), True State Councillor and Saint Petersburg district leader of the nobility.

Through her eldest daughter Elena, she was a grandmother of Princess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova di San Donato, great-grandmother of Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia.