KROZET ISLANDS. See CROZET, ante.
IntiiDENER, JULIANA VON. a religious and enthusiast, daughter of baron von Vietinghoff, was b. at Riga in 1766. When she was but 14, she married the baron von Kri)(leper, a Livonian nobleman, who held the post of Russian ambassador at Venice. Her married life, however, was unhappy, and after the birth of a son and daughter, she was divorced from her husband. The succeeding incidents of her stormy career are supposed to form the groundwork of the novel of Valerie, which she pub lished in 1803. After many adventures, M. von Krtideuer came to Berlin, where she was admitted to the close intimacy of the queen, Louisa, of all whose projects M. von Krthlcuer was the confidante and sharer. The shock occasioned be the death of this princess is said to have disturbed the balance of M. von Krildeuer's mind; and from that date she became a zealous disciple of the celebrated pietist, Stelling., and ulti mately gave herself up to religious mysticism in its most exaggeratdform. From Ber lin she moved to Paris, where she appeared as a prophetess, and the herald of a new religious era; and she attracted such notice by tire fulfillment of certain of her predic tions of public events, as of the fall of Napoleon, his return from Elba, and the final crisis of Waterloo, as to obtain access to the emperor Alexander, and eventually to acquire much influence over him. Her gigantic schemes for the elevation of the social
and moral condition of the world. caused her to appear a dangerous character in the eyes of persons in authority, and she was obliged to withdraw from France and other countries in succession. In consequence, she retired to one of her paternal estates near Riga, where she entered into relations with the Herrnhilter or Moravian brethren; but her restless disposition soon carried her into fresh enterprises, the latest of winch was the formation of a great correctional establishment in the Crimea for the reformation of criminals and persons of evil life. In the midst of her efforts for this object, she died at Kara-su-bazar, Dec. 13, 18'24. Besides the novel already named, her only other work was a pamphlet entitled Le Camp des Vertus (Paris, 1815); bit many curious details of her conversation and opinions are preserved in Krug's Conversations with Madame von Kfriidener, published at Leipsic in 1818. •