She was born in
Ulvila, in Saaren Kartano,
Finland, into a
Swedish-speaking family. She was the daughter of Carl Johan Stjernvall and his wife, Baroness Eva Gustava von
Willebrand, daughter of Baron
Ernst Gustaf von Willebrand and wife Wendla Gustava Wright and related to
Adolf Fredrik Munck and
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Her father was a high official in the
Grand Duchy of Finland and became the First Governor of the
Viipuri Province in 1812. Following Stjernvall's death in 1815, Karamzin's mother remarried and became the wife of Finland's Procurator, Carl Johan Walleen (1781-1867). Karamzin had an older brother, Emil Stjernvall Walleen, who added his stepfather's name to his own and later became a Finnish Minister of State and a
Baron. She also had two sisters, Emilie Stjernvall and Alexandra (Aline) Stjernvall. She was a close relative of Finnish writer Marie Linder. Emilie married Count Vladimir while Alexandra became the second wife of 1st Baron of Seisal José Maurício Correia Henriques, later 1st Viscount of Seisal and 1st Count of Seisal. They also had three half-brothers from their mother's second marriage to Walleen, of them Vladimir Alfons became a Major General and a Governor. ==Life==