Career
She was recognized as one of the most beautiful women of Russia of her times. She was the daughter of David Semyonovich Abamelik. Abamelik-Lazareva married to the governor of Kazan, Irakli Baratinsky, the brother of Russian poet Yevgeny Baratynsky.
She knew English, French, Armenian and German, translated poems by Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, et cetera and published them in Europe, also translated some prominent European poets into Russian.
