A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Rostopchin, Countess

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ROSTOPCHIN, COUNTESS,

Is esteemed highly in her own country as a graceful poetess. A collection of her poems was published at St. Petersburg in 1843, of this work a British critic observes,—"The Countess Rostopchin has given proof of very superior talent in this volume. Though none of the pieces are of very great length, and manifest no power therefore in regard to sustained effort, they display imagination, feeling, and originality of thought. Some of the writer's earlier productions might have been omitted without any injury to the collection."