Biography of Amalia Lerhenfeld

Amalia Kryudener on February 1 Baroness Amalia von Kryudener, the nee Countess von Lerhenfeld, in the second marriage Countess vonlerberg - the portrait was written by Joseph Stieler for the Krasavits Gallery of the Nymphenburg Palace in the year, you should not look for the history of this fate in the secret archive of the Family of von Vittelsbakhov. The king did not save any letters, nor poems, nor dried colors that would remind of this beauty.

King Ludwig simply did not have them! But in the life of Amalia there were poems. There was great poetry! The name of this beautiful lady is inextricably linked with Russian literature, with the great Russian poet Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev. In the year, summer Fedor Tyutchev, who had just graduated with honors from Moscow University, arrived for serving at the Russian diplomatic mission of Munich.

He met and made friends with the young Bavarian diplomat Maximilian von Lerhenfeld. Max called on a friend of Theodore Tyuty, and often Tuherl, invited him to his house, introduced his half -sister Amalia. Then the romantic feeling that tied two young hearts for many years began. The story of the birth of Amalia was shrouded in a secret. She was considered the illegal daughter of the Bavarian diplomat Maximilian von Lerhenfeld Sr..

So Amalia was the cousin of the Russian queen. In the year, she received the right to be called Countess von Lerhenfeld, without the right to the coat of arms and genealogy. And when she began to appear in the light - the new first secretary of the representative office - Baron Alexander von Krudener, of the Russified Baltic Germans, drew attention to it. He suggested a young countess without a genealogy hand and heart - and she had to agree with the demand of her relatives about the need for this marriage.

Romantic love in Tyutchev passed, friendship and concern remained, which the impractical poet always needed. The story of Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev has long been told in textbooks. Dates, events, positions, wives, children, lines of verses. Some of them are dedicated to the "young fairy" - Amalia. She was a fairy in his life: her every appearance in most amazingly changed the fate of Fyodor Ivanovich.

Pushkin, as you know, was beyond any petty author’s envy and always welcomed every glimpse of true talent in the most warm way. Aksakov forgot to write about fairy, about her magic! Fedor Ivanovich was not ambitious, did not strive for fame, did not care about publications, and often did not sign poetry. When Mr. von Kryudener was appointed to the service of St. Petersburg, Amalia left for Russia, taking with her a pile of sheets written on both sides in the box.

Poems of Theodore, more! These were only the originals, there were no copies at all. Tyutchev accompanied them with a letter to Gagarin: “You asked me to send you my paper trash. I catch you on a word. I take the opportunity to get rid of it. Do with him everything you want. I have a disgust for the old scribbled paper, especially written by me. " Already at the first acquaintance with Pushkin, Amalia managed to charm the poet so much that Vyazemsky noted: “Pushkin trembled from the flashed interest, blushing glancing at the Kryudenersha and somewhat appeared around her.

Then there was a continuation. The selection was called "Poems sent from Germany." Signed F. Fairy smiled ... Once Fyodor Ivanovich committed an official misconduct: being the first secretary of the Russian mission in Turin, he universally went to Switzerland, to wedding with Ernestina Dernberg. A scandal with lost ciphers broke out! It was the end of his career!

I had to resign, settle in Munich, having no official position. And then the textbook reports: upon returning to Russia, Tyutchev was admitted to the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But this is possible only if the fairy again waved her magic wand! Smirnova-Rosset sovereign danced only with her, showered her with gifts the estate “own” with the palace and the park. The whole of Petersburg was gossiping about how much this hobby of the sovereign Platonic.

She became a neighbor and friend of the beloved daughter of the emperor, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna. The marriage of Mary and the Duke of Max Leoyuchtenberg was concluded not without the active participation of Amalia. And for the omnipotent chief of the gendarmes of Count Benckendorf later, the feeling for her became a real curse. He turned into an obedient servant of a brilliant beauty.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna wrote: “She used his money, his connections, where and as soon as it seemed profitable to her, and he did not notice it. At first she arranged an unofficial meeting with Benckendorf, and then the chief of the III department of his own imperial majesty of the Chancellery enrolled in the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mr.

Tyutchev, in the highest degree of “honest and capable man”, returning him the title of chamberlain, at a respectable age of 66, the chamberlain of the imperial courtyard Tyutdorev Fedorv Fedor Ivanovich, chairman of the censorship committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, walked along the Karlsbad embankment.

Among the vacationers there were many old acquaintances.After one of the meetings, he wrote almost without blots: I met you - and all the past.