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A Russian poet; born at St. Petersburg, 1808; died 1825, at 17. She was very precocious in language-study and literary aptitude, and wrote in Russian, German, and Italian. Her Russian poems, edited by the Russian Academy, appeared in 1833; the best edition of her German verse is that of 1857; the Italian poems were published at Milan in 1847. Her poetry, written in a simple and clear style, showed keen observation, considerable descriptive power, and a lively imagination: Goethe prophesied for her an honorable place in literature. A monument was erected to her memory by the Russian empress.