Dorothea de Ficquelmont

Russian salon-holder (1804-1863).

Born November 7th, 1804 in Saint Petersburg.

Died April 10th, 1863 at 58 years old in Venice.

Occupations
diarist, salonnière

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks