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Tilsit date. Napoleon, Alexander I, Louise and Frederick William III of Prussia’ by Nikolas Gosse, 1807

«Princess Louise…she combined inexpressible charm and grace with restraint and tact, quite rare at the age of fourteen. In all her actions, the result of her mother’s worries, both respected and beloved, was visible. Her mind, soft and delicate, grasped with extreme rapidity everything that could decorate it, like a bee that knows how to get honey from the most poisonous plants. Her conversation reflected the freshness of her youth, and to this she added a great correctness of concepts.»

© Countess Varvara Nikolaevna Golovina about princess Louise of Baden, future Russian Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna.