praskovya zhemchugova.ater, nikolai sheremetiev and praskovya zhemchugova got married in the church of simeon the stylite on the arbat , a wedding attended only by the count's friend and girlfriend tanya shlykova than an unhappy ending, but the ending of this long play turned out to be completely unhappy. he demanded that sheremetyev live in st. petersburg, here in the house on the fontanka, two of the most difficult years in the life of this family passed, the stiff st. the verdict, the comedian cannot be countess sheremetyeva, nikolai petrovich even wrote to the empress asking to take his wife. under her care. nothing helped. praskovya almost did not leave the house, she communicated only with her husband's friends, the quarenghi architect and the artist. they say that both were unrequitedly in love with her, and she herself dreamed of only one thing to bring nikolai petrovich the heir and now , 2 years after the wedding. she had a son dmitry well, she herself was already 34. she was seriously ill with a