Julia Kurakina


Julia Kurakina was a Russian noblewoman and royal court official. She served as Ober-Hofmeisterin or senior lady-in-waiting to empress Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) in 1866–1881.

Life

She was the daughter of Fjodor Sergeevich Golitsyn and Anna Alexandrovna Prozorovskaya, and was the granddaughter of Sergei Fedorovich Golitsyn. She married the diplomat prince Alexei Borisovich Kurakin in 1835.
She became senior lady-in-waiting to Maria Feodorovna in 1866. She remained in office after Maria Feodorovna became empress in 1881, but died later that same year, and was succeeded by Hélene Kotchoubey.