page_title: Alexandru Sturdza
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Alexandru Sturdza / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Княгиня Александра Елена (Лина) Николаевна Гагарина, ур. Гурьева (1825-1907), дочь дипломата графа Н. Д. Гурьева, с 1843 года жена князя Николая Николаевича Гагарина (1823-1902). Русский: Princess Alexandra Elena (Lina) Nikolaevna Gagarine, b. Gourieff (1825-1907), daughter of diplomat Count N. D. Gourieff, m. 1843 to Prince Nikolai Nikolaevitch Gagarine (1823-1902).
context_page_description: Prince Alexandru Sturdza was a Russian publicist and diplomat of Romanian origin. In his writings, he referred to himself with a French rendition of his name, Alexandre Stourdza.
context_section_description: Alexandru Sturdza was a member of the Sturdza family, born in Jassy, in Moldavia, as son of Scarlat Sturdza, Governor of Bessarabia and Princess Ekaterina Mourousis, daughter of Constantine Mourouzis, Prince of Moldavia. Through his mother he was related to all Greek Phanariote families. Alexandru Sturdza was brother of Roxandra Edling-Sturdza and a cousin of Mihail Sturdza, Prince of Moldavia from 1834 to 1849. After his family fled Bessarabia in 1802 in order to avoid the repression from the Ottomans, he was educated in Germany and Russia.
caption: Winterhalter's portrait of Princess Maria Gagarin, the only daughter of Alexander Sturdza. Her descendants were known as Princes Gagarin-Sturdza.
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