Varvara Golovina

Varvara Golovina
Countess Golovina, by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
BornVarvara Nikolayevna Golitsyna
1766
Russian Empire
Died11 September 1821
Paris, France
Noble familyGolitsyn
Spouse(s)Nikolai Nikolaevich Golovin
FatherNikolai Fyodorovich Golitsyn (1728-1780)
MotherPraskovia Ivanovna Shuvalova (1734-1802)
Occupationartist and memoirist

Countess Varvara Nikolayevna Golovina, née Princess Golitsyna (Russian: Варвара Николаевна Головина, княжна Голицына, 176611 September 1821) was an artist and memoirist from Russian nobility, maid of honour of the Russian court, a close confidant of Empress Elizabeth, favorite Ivan Shuvalov's niece and Dame of Order of Saint Catherine (1816).