Dorothea Lieven

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English: Countess, later HSH Princess Dorothea von Lieven (Latvian: Doroteja fon Līvena; Russian: Дарья Христофоровна Ливен, Daria Khristoforovna Liven), née Benckendorff (17 December 1785 - 27 January 1857), a Russian noblewoman and wife of Prince Khristofor Andreyevich Lieven, Russian ambassador to London, 1812 to 1834, was a political force in her own right.
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