Princess Klementyna Czartoryska (1780–1852) was a Polish noblewoman, the author of a diary, which has been published.

She was the daughter of Józef Klemens Czartoryski and Dorota Barbara Jabłonowska. She married Prince Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko on 26 June 1798 in Slavuta and had three children: Dorota (1799-1831), Roman (1800-81), and Władysław (1803–70). Her husband, meanwhile, was having an affair with Julia Lubomirska.

Klementyna Czartoryska

When her spouse was accused of treason in 1810, she negotiated with the government and defended his rights. In 1813, she settled in Sławucie, where she collected a great library. She also founded the church St. Dorota in Sławucie. In 1830, she prevented the confiscation of the family property and her son's exile by her friendship with empress Alexandra. Her diary from 1832-35 was published in 1927.

Klementyna Czartoryska

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1852 deaths

Klementyna

1780 births

People from Rivne Oblast

Polish diarists

19th-century Polish women writers

Women diarists

19th-century Polish nobility

Klementyna Czartoryska