Writer, painter, historian, feminist. She translated from Greek to German at 14 years old The Illiad of Homer. She married Russian prince Alexander Kolotov Massalski and lived in Saint Petersburg during the Crimea War. She publicly sympathized with France and UK and was detained and tortured by the Russian authorities. She lef her husband in 1856 and travel to USA and through Europe. She published extensively on Romanian principalities, but also on the Balkans, on women.
