Maria Mikhailovich Volkonskaya

Maria Mikhailovich Volkonskaia (born on 13 March 1863 - died on 19 May 1943, Rome, Italy) was a Russian princess, Catholic convert and writer.

Biography

Volkonskaia was born on 13 March 1863 in an aristocratic family of Orthodox religion. In 1901 in Switzerland, like many of her relatives, including brothers Alexandr Volkonsky, Serge Wolkonsky and Peter Volkonsky, she adopted Catholicism. For many years she lived in Rome, was an active parishioner of the Russian Catholic Church of Saint Lawrence in Rome and involved in charity work and translations of Catholic spiritual literature into the Russian language. She died on 19 May 1943 in Rome.

Works

Our Lady of Lourdes. - St., 1906.

Don Bosco, the father of orphans and the poor. - St., 1906 Peter Olivain. - Petrograd, 1917.

Brief reflection on the Divine Passion of Christ. - Paris, 1932. The Story of a treatment (typing)

References

http://vselenstvo.narod.ru/library/lexicon.htm

http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/av/v_060.htm

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