Description: Maria Nikolaevna Volkonskaja - was born 25.12.1805 the Daughter of general N.N.Raevskogo, great-granddaughter M.V.Lomonosova. Has married prince Sergey Grigorevicha Volkonsky (1788-1865), the general-major, a member of the Southern society condemned on I to the category. After the husband has arrived in Áëàãîäàòñêèé mine in February, 1827 Since 1837 together with the husband on settlement in village Urik under a Irkutsk, and with 1847 on 1856ú. - in a Irkutsk. Has died 10.08.1863 in village Voronki of the Chernigov province. The heroine of poems And, S.Pushkin, N.A.Nekrasov, K.Saterland
On the sketch for ÕÌÊ the portrait of princess M.N.Volkonskoj of the Swedish artist Charles-Peter Mazer, written by it in Irkutsk in 1849 (the author's copy of the given picture is stored in a museum of decembrists in Irkutsk, the original is in A.S.Pushkin's All-Russia museum in St.-Petersburg) is presented
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