uired a dozen paintings after the death of Gerrit Braamcamp, but the valuable cargo on board of Vrouw Maria got lost near the coast of Finland in a storm. About two years later, the Ambassador and his wife hosted Diderot (two months in 1773) on his way to Saint Petersburg. On his way back in 1774 Diderot spent half a year in the Dutch Republic. In the same year the couple split and Princess moved from Kneuterdijk to a country house between The Hague and Scheveningen, the better to oversee raising her children in a way J.J. Rousseau had promoted in his "Emile, or On Education". There she met often with Frans Hemsterhuis, the philosopher, her teacher and council. Princess Wilhelmina of Orange, wife of stadtholder William V, and her eldest son were frequent visitors. In 1776 he made a trip to London together with David-Louis Constant de Rebecque. In 1778, the sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet visited The Hague on his way back from Russia for a long stay at Kneuterdijk, joined in July 1779 by the sculptor Marie-Anne Collot. In July 1782 Tsarevich Paul and his wife came to visit and were received by Golitsyn. In December 1782 the Ambassador had to leave The Hague. His capacities as a diplomat during the First League of Armed Neutrality were not estimated as much as his scientific interest in mechanics and min