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However, when Baron Bourkhardt-Alexis-Constantine Krüdener, a widower sixteen years her senior, sought her hand, she had no such qualms.
He was a well educated ( he attending the University of Leipzig ), and a well-traveled man, who, like her father, was in favour with Catherine II.
However, the baron, a diplomatist of distinction, was cold and reserved, while the baroness was frivolous, pleasure-loving, and possessed of an insatiable thirst for attention and flattery ; and the strained relations due to this incompatibility of temper were embittered by her limitless extravagance, which constantly involved herself and her husband in financial difficulties.
This was due to the fact that despite having an older husband who she did not possess any passionate feelings for, his title and position in society were such that he could provide her whatever she might desire.
At the same time she endowed him with an even higher social status because of the social standing of her own family.
Her " earliest griefs arose from the fact, that, in her youthful inexperience, having chosen with her head, she expected at the same time to satisfy the longings of a singularly romantic heart ".
" The glowing description of the Count in Valérie represents Baron Krüdener more as his wife ’ s ardent imagination loved to picture him, than as he really was.
These notions, as well as the separation between her real husband and her fictional husband helped lead to marital instability and to the eventual love affairs she had with others.
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