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Anna Kern
Russian socialite and memoirist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovna and the family name is Kern.
Anna Petrovna Kern (Russian: Анна Петровна Керн, née Poltoratskaya (Полторацкая), name after second marriage: Markova-Vinogradskaya (Маркова-Виноградская); 22 February [O.S. 11 February] 1800 – 8 June [O.S. 27 May] 1879) was a Russian socialite and memoirist, best known as the addressee of what is probably the best known love poem in the Russian language, written by Aleksandr Pushkin in 1825.
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