Her records of her experiences provide a valuable insight into social life in Napoleonic France and Italy and tsarist Russia
Katherine Wilmot: spent time in Napoleonic France and then Italy, participating in many social gatherings and mixing with all shades of political opinionKatherine Wilmot, who died 200 years ago on March 28th, was a remarkable person by any standards.
Her sister Martha had gone to Russia in August 1803 to stay with Princess Dashkova at her Troitskoe estate; the princess had been close to Catherine the Great, became first director of the Russian Academy of Science and, now in old age, became dependent on Martha as a companion. Katherine left Cork in June 1805, with her maid Eleanor Kavanagh, and reached Russia two months later with a view to accompanying Martha home. However, the sisters spent a further two years with Princess Dashkova.
Katherine departed Russia about a year before Martha did. Her return journey was complicated by passport problems on land, wars and storms at sea but she reached Ireland in October 1807. Some years later she settled at Moulins, in France, preferring the drier climate there. After a decline in her health, she moved to Paris, where she died in March 1824.
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