id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9965 Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova - Wikipedia .html text/html 2951 387 65 Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (Russian: Екатери́на Рома́новна Воронцо́ва-Да́шкова;[1] 28 March [17 March O.S.] 1743[note 1] – 15 January [4 January O.S.] 1810[3]) was the closest female friend of Empress Catherine the Great and a major figure of the Russian Enlightenment. Vorontsova-Dashkova was the first woman in the world to head a national academy of sciences and helped found the Russian Academy. "The Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin and the Age of Enlightenment" exhibition was held in Philadelphia, U.S.A., from February to December 2006. ^ The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova|Duke University Press |date=2003 |page=149 "The Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin, and the Age of Enlightenment". The princess & the patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin , and the Age of Enlightenment, Volume 96, Part 1, Editor Sue Ann Prince, American Philosophical Society, 2006, Wikisource has the text of an 1879 American Cyclopædia article about Princess Dashkova. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9965.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9965.txt