1798 - 1885
Sofja Shcherbatova
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| Birthday |
6th December, 1798
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| Birthplace |
Moscow, Russian Empire
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| Died |
3rd February, 1885
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Occupation Text |
philanthropist, charity organizer
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| Year(s) Active |
1820s - 1880s, 1820s – 1880s
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Princess Sofya Stepanovna Shcherbatova (Russian: Софья Степановна Щербатова, née Apraksina; 1798 in Moscow, Russian Empire – 3 February 1885 in Moscow) was a prominent Russian philanthropist, the Dame Chevalier of the Order of Saint Catherine (1822). Princess Shcherbatova (since 1817, when she married Prince Alexey Shcherbatov) was the founder of The Grand Dames Helping the Poor charity (Damskoye Popetchitelstvo o Bednykh, 1844) which she remained the chairman of till 1876, the Nikolskaya Community (which proved particularly effective during the cholera epidemic in 1848 in Moscow and later during the Crimean War), many orphanages and shelters for homeless and elderly people. An heir to the famous Apraksin family, she was greatly interested in literature and arts, kept a fashionable Moscow salon and was a friend of Alexander Pushkin, Pyotr Vyazemsky and Mikhail Lermontov, among others.
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