Category: diary
January 1842. Sophie Knorring’s Diary.
The diary chronicles the life of Sophie von Knorring in St. Petersburg during January 1842. It captures her reflections on the new year, social events, family dynamics, and her vocal studies with Maestro Tamburini. Amidst society’s festivities, personal struggles unfold, particularly regarding her rejection of a suitor and her longing for home.
December 1841. Sophie Knorring’s Diary.
← Read November 1841 | Continue to read → Begun around May 1, 1841, at her parents’ estate of Paslep, completed around March 1, 1842, in St. Petersburg *. The discoverer of this document and…
November 1841. Sophie Knorring’s Diary.
← Read October 1841 | December 1841 → Begun around May 1, 1841, at her parents’ estate of Paslep, completed around March 1, 1842, in St. Petersburg *. The discoverer of this document and the…
October 1841. Sophie Knorring’s Diary.
← Read September 1841 | November 1841 → Begun around May 1, 1841, at her parents’ estate of Paslep, completed around March 1, 1842, in St. Petersburg *. The discoverer of this document and the…
September 1841. Sophie Knorring’s Diary.
← Read August 1841 | October 1841 → Begun around May 1, 1841, at her parents’ estate of Paslep, completed around March 1, 1842, in St. Petersburg *. The discoverer of this document and the…
Summer 1841. Sophie Knorring’s Diary.
← Read May, 1841 | September 1841 → Begun around May 1, 1841, at her parents’ estate of Paslep, completed around March 1, 1842, in St. Petersburg *. The discoverer of this document and the…
Diary of Sophie Knorring. Part 1 – May 1841.
A young, sharp-tongued, and brilliantly educated Sophie Knorring from a powerful Baltic lineage arrives in the very heart of glittering St. Petersburg to distract herself from family upheavals and the personal drama of a broken engagement, to savor the capital’s cultural life, and perhaps to secure a suitable match. For nearly a year, she remains at the epicenter of high society, and her private entries become an ironic and remarkably candid mirror of the Pushkin era.
