Nadejda Constanza Ivanka Gavrila Euphrosyna Stancioff Muir (Bulgarian: Надежда Димитрова Станчова, 17 January 1894 – 15 April 1957), also known as Nadezhda Stanchova Muir, was a Bulgarian diplomat and translator. She was the first woman to officially represent Bulgaria in the diplomatic field and participated in international peace conferences after World War I. She became the wife of a Scottish baronet.
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Early life and family
Stancioff was born on 17 January 1894 in Sofiagrad in the Ottoman vassal state of the Principality of Bulgaria.
Stancioff was the eldest daughter of Dimitar Stanchov, former Bulgarian Prime Minister and diplomatic agent of Bulgaria to the Court of Tsar Nicholas II, and the French Countess Anna de Grenaud de Saint-Christophe, Mistress of the Robes to Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma at the Bulgarian royal court. She had three siblings, Feodora (1895–1969), Ivan (1897–1972), and Helene.
The first few years of Stancioff's life were spent living in Bucharest in Romania and Vienna in Austria, during her father's diplomatic postings. She then lived for a decade in Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire, whilst her father was the diplomatic agent of Bulgaria to the Court of Tsar Nicholas II.