Yuliya Samoylova (countess)

Countess Yuliya Pavlovna Samoylova (Russian: Графиня Юлия Павловна Самойлова, Grafinya Yuliya Pavlovna Samoylova, née Yuliya von der Pahlen; 1803 — 14 March 1875) was a granddaughter of Count Martyn Skavronskiy and the last scion of Skavronskiy family.

[1] She was born to Pavel von der Pahlen and Mariya Skavronskaya, but grew up in the house of Count Yuliy Litta, her step-grandfather, as a ward of composer Dmitry Bortniansky[2] due to early death of her mother.

Samoylova became an owner of Grafskaya Slavyanka manor (now Antropshino), near Tsarskoye Selo and a holder of several masterpieces.

On 25 January 1825 she married Count Nikolai Samoylov, but later divorced him as well as several other persons.

[3] In 1840 Samoylova sold Grafskaya Slavyanka and left Russia for Italy.