Maria alekseyevna shcherbatova - lithograph by shertl from the original by dafinger. Maria alekseyevna shcherbatova (1820-1879) was the daughter of the ukrainian landowner a. P. Shterich. After the death of her mother, she lived in the house of her grandmother s. I. Shterich in st. Petersburg. In 1837, young maria married the hussar officer prince a. M. Shcherbatov. However, a year after the wedding, her husband fell ill and died. Lermontov met the young widow in 1839 in the karamzins' salon.
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