During one trip abroad she received a diploma as doctor of laws, medicine, and theology from Edinburg University.

Her Memoirs are famous, though not particularly frank, or in agreement with Katherine II.'s statements, naturally.

The Empress never ceased to be suspicious of her, but twenty years later a truce was patched up between them, and Katherine appointed her to the offices above mentioned--never held before or since by a woman.
Princess Dashkoff wrote much on educational subjects, and in the journal referred to above, she published not only her own articles and Katherine II.'s, but also the writings of many new and talented men, among them, Von Vizin and Derzhavin.

This journal, "The Companion of the Friends of the Russian Language," speedily came to an end when the Princess-editor took umbrage at the ridicule heaped on some of her projects and speeches by the Empress and her courtiers.
If Katherine II.

was the first to introduce real life on the Russian stage, Von Vizin was the first to do so in a manner sufficiently artistic to hold the stage, which is the case with his "Nedorosl," or "The Hobbledehoy." He is the representative of the Russian type, in its best aspects, during the reign of Katherine II., and offers a striking contrast to the majority of his educated fellow-countrymen of the day.
They were slavish worshipers of French influences.