Vera Vasilchikova

Vera Vasilchikova (née Protasova, 1780 – 2 October 1814) was a maid of honour, the first wife of General Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine (1814).

Vera Vasilchikova was one of the daughters of the senator and governor of the Kaluga Peter S. Protasov (1730–1791) and his wife, Alexandra Ivanovna, née Protassova (1750–1782).

She gave her nieces brilliant concepts for the then education, and the focus was drawn to foreign languages, including Latin and Greek at the expense of Russian, which they did not teach, as well as national history and religion.

In 1801, Vera Petrovna became the first wife of General Hilarion Vasilchikov (1776–1847), son of Vasilii Alekseevich and Catherine Illarionovna, née Ovtsyna.

Despite the fact that the marriage was not happy, the couple had two children: Together with her sisters Alexandra Galitzine, Countess Catherine Rostopchina and Barbara Protassova she adopted Catholicism, converted themselves from Russian Orthodoxy.