Career
She was a leading figure of Saint St. Petersburg society and frequently mentioned in the literature, diaries and memoirs of the period. She was the daughter of prince Sergey Alekseyevich Trubetskoy and Yelena Nesvitskaya and in 1786 married General count Aleksandr Samoylov, nephew of Potemkin. In 1782 she became one of Empress Catherine the Great"s ladies-in-waiting.
During her stay with her spouse in Bender in 1787-1791, she was rumoured to have had an affair with Potemkin.