[2] Tatiana was the youngest daughter of Count Alexander Ivanovich Ribopierre, a Russian diplomat of Swiss origin and Ekaterina Mikhailovna Potemkina, who was a niece of Prince Potemkin.

Immediately after the coronation of Alexander II, Count Ribeaupierre received official permission from Vladimir Adlerberg for the marriage of the pair.

[4] Emperor Alexander invited the couple to Nice after the wedding, but the Holy Synod filed a case for an illegal marriage.

In her own words she "was surrounded by ceremonial courtesy and attention" and her "tiara produced a magical effect, the emperor looked at her for a long time, and then came up and asked who made her".

[4] Around this time a ceremonial portrait of Yusupova was made by Winterhalter depicting her in a diamond-pearl diadem, which she bought from Caroline Bonaparte, a maid-of-honour cipher, and the Order of Teresa.

In order to solve the issue of the Yusupov inheritance, and to protect himself from the claims of the princes Golitsyn, Nikolai decided to transfer all his family estates to his wife for life, which he did in 1862.

[6] Together, Tatiana and Nikolai were the parents of three children: The couple's first-born daughter was born in Moscow in October 1861, and named Zinaida after her paternal grandmother.

In 1863, the couple had a son in Saint Petersburg named Boris after his paternal grandfather, though he died only at 2 months of scarlet fever.

Through her daughter Zinaida, she was a grandmother of Nikolai Felixovich Yusupov (1883–1908) and Felix Felixovich Yusupov (1887–1967), who married Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895–1970), the only daughter and eldest child of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia.