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Marie-Clementine Bagration
Princess Marie-Clementine Bagration () (1810-1829) was the illegitimate daughter of Prince Klemens von Metternich with Princess Catherine Bagration.
Marie-Clementine was born on 29 September 1810 in Vienna. By the order and personal involvement of Emperor Alexander I of Russia she was recognized and recorded as the legitimate daughter of General of Russian imperial army Prince Pyotr Bagration who was a husband of Catherine Bagration, and became an official member of the Georgian royal Bagrationi dynasty.
Marie-Clementine married Prince
and lovely Catherine soon preferred traveling and, in 1805, fled to Vienna, where her salon and running affair with Prince Clemens von Metternich—who called her "the Naked Angel"—permitted her to serve as an important agent of Russian intelligence and diplomacy. Bagration was obliged by the emperor to claim their daughter, Marie-Clementine, as his own and to subsidize thousands of rubles of Catherine's debts. He had a reputation as a heavy gambler, as well, and was forced to sell estates to cover losses that rose as