She wrote pieces for the theatre, and many other works, one of her chief aims, in which she was successful, being to wake up the Albanian people to a desire for freedom. Her marriage with a Russian prince, with whom she lived for a few years at St. Petersburg, was unhappy, and from 1855 she resided mostly at Florence. She wrote a good deal in reviews and magazines under the name of Dora d'lstria.
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Ghika, Helena, Princess (1829-1888), was born at Bucharest, her father being Prince Michael Ghika. She received a classical education, and then travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, making herself acquainted with modern languages.