Carmen-Alfonsa-Fernanda-Estrella-Natalena Koroleva (3 March 1888 – 1 July 1966) was a Ukrainian writer.
The daughter of Count Adrian Yurii Dunin-Borkovsky, of Polish descent, and Maria Clara de Castro Lacerda, from an aristocratic Spanish family, she was born Carmen-Alfonsa-Fernanda-Estrella-Natalena Dunin-Borkowska in San Pedro de Cardeña near Burgos, Spain. Her mother died while giving birth to her. Koroleva grew up in Spain, Ukraine, France and Italy. She was educated at the Convent of Notre Dame de Sion in France, the Kyiv Institute for Noble Maidens and the Archeological Institute in Saint Petersburg. She studied history, archaeology, philosophy, medicine and music theory and was fluent in a number of languages including French, Polish, Spanish, Arabic and Italian. Koroleva participated in archaeological expeditions to Pompeii, Alexandria, Armenia and Iran.
Her first work, written in French, was published in journals in Paris in 1909. She returned to Kyiv in 1914 because her father was ill. She served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I and was seriously wounded.
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