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Her relations with the new empress were not of cordial nature, though she continued devotedly loyal. Her blunt manners, her unconcealed scorn of the male favorites that disgraced the court, and perhaps also her sense of unrequited merit, produced an estrangement between her and the empress, which ended in her asking permission to travel abroad. The cause of the final breach was said to have been the refusal of her request to be appointed colonel of the imperial guards

In 1782, she returned to the Russian capital, and was at once taken into favor by the empress, who strongly sympathized with her in her literary tastes, and especially in her desire to elevate Russian to a high place among the literary languages of Europe. Immediately after her return the princess was appointed directeur of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and Sciences; and in 1784 she was named ... Read more here: » Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova: Encyclopedia II - Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova - Management of the Academy

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