By the time Andrei Petrovich met her, he was already a widower: his first wife, knyazna Ekaterina Meshcherskaya, died just nine months after their marriage.
No tempo no que coñeceu a Andrei Petrovich, el xa era viúvo: a súa primeira esposa, knez Ekaterina Meshcherskie, morrera tan só nove meses despois do seu matrimonio.