Alexandra Smirnova
Russian Lady-in-waiting and memoirist
Died when: 73 years 93 days (879 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Alexandra Osipovna Smirnova (Russian: ?????????? ???????? ????????, née Rosset, known also as Smirnova-Rosset, (????????-??????); 6 March 1809 in Odessa, Russian Empire – 7 June 1882 in Paris, France) was a Russian Imperial court lady-in-waiting who served first widow Empress Maria Fyodorovna, then, after her death in 1828, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna.
Alexandra Rosset (who in 1832 married Russian diplomat Nikolai Smirnov), was an elitist Saint Petersburg salon hostess and a friend of Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Lermontov.
She is best remembered for her memoirs, unusually frank, occasionally caustic, and, as it was argued decades later, not necessarily accurate.
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