Yuliya Samoylova (countess)

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Countess Yuliya Pavlovna Samoylova (1803 – 14 March 1875) was a Russian noblewoman, the granddaughter of Count Martyn Skavronskiy and the last member of the Skavronskiy family. She was born to Pavel von der Pahlen and Mariya Skavronskaya, but grew up with her step-grandfather, Count Yuliy Litta, as a ward of the composer Dmitry Bortniansky after her mother died young.

She owned Grafskaya Slavyanka manor near Tsarskoye Selo (now Antropshino) and held several masterpieces. On 25 January 1825 she married Count Nikolai Samoylov, but they later divorced, and she eventually separated from other partners as well.

Samoylova had close ties with the painter Karl Briullov, whose work The Last Day of Pompeii includes idealized depictions of himself and Samoylova. In 1840 she sold Grafskaya Slavyanka and left Russia for Italy. She was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.