Natalia Kurakina

In her lifetime, Kurakina has 45 songs attributed to her and at the time of this writing, only one other Russian composer, Osip Antonovich Kozlovsky (1757-1831), is known to have more.

In 1795, a collection of eight of her songs, Huit romances composees et arangees pour la harpe, was published by Breitkopf.

The Portrait of the princess, by the celebrated artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and held by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, shows her holding an album of music which could possibly be her own.

[3] Kurakina started performing in salons at the age of fourteen and continued after she married Prince Aleksei Borisovich Kurakin (1759-1829).

A set of three of her compositions titled Trois romances, pour le piano, composées par la Princesse Nathalie de Kourakin were published and performed at the salon of Empress Elizabeth, the wife of Tsar Alexander I.