Career
Natalia"s father was Count Boris Sheremetev, Russia"s first native Field Marshal. He died when she was 4. After the Emperor"s sudden death, Dolgorukov fell into disgrace, but Natalia did not desert her lover, and insisted on getting married.
She was 16 at the time.
Several days after the wedding, the entire Dolgorukov family was exiled to Beryozov, a remote Arctic town. She gave birth to two sons in exile but was allowed to return to Moscow ten years later, after her husband"s execution.
Her short memoir was written shortly before that date. lieutenant appeared in print in 1810.