Note 175 — BOOK IX[156]

Dorothea Christophorowna Countess, later Princess de Lieven (1785-1855), née von Blenkendorf. She was much sought after by the statesmen of her time: Castlereagh, Canning, Metternich were her friends; Lord Grey wrote to her every morning from his bed. She has been said to have had an intrigue with George IV. In Paris, where she settled after her husband's death, she became the Egeria of M. Guizot.—B.