Maria Santi: Did he love the adventurer? Automatic translate

In past centuries, many kept women declared themselves secret children of rulers. If successful, this added to them an aura of attractive proximity to power and, as a result, gave credit from merchants. I was a year ago on the musical "Count Orlov". The count sang about the sudden love for the adventurer Tarakanova, and Catherine II was worried if she had imprisoned the real heiress to the throne. Life is not so sentimental.

Konstantin Flavitsky - Princess Tarakanova (1862)

“Princess de Voldomir”, as well as “Sultana Ali-Emeta”, “Princess of Azov” would hardly have liked the nickname “Princess Tarakanova”, with whom she went down in history. She lived on credit, ruining powerful men from time to time. One of them wanted to marry her, but, alas, she was not well-born for this. It is worth recognizing that she knew how to lie and command. And How! In better times, the retinue of a girl whose real name we will never recognize reached 60 people.

She became the "daughter of Elizabeth Petrovna and Alexei Razumovsky" when in Europe they heard about the Pugachev uprising. Perhaps she used this card to pump money, and she hardly expected that she would be taken seriously in faraway Russia, where she had never been. But she was noticed from there.

It’s not interesting to me that in musicals they make a sacrifice from a predator. This is required by the genre, because in life a rare sharpie will refuse to pretend to be a helpless sheep. I was surprised how an experienced adventurer, who lied further than she saw, entrusted her life to an unfamiliar nobleman. Tarakanova got up with Orlov on the ship (that is, the territory of another state), releasing most of the retinue. When she was arrested, she did not believe that her companion had betrayed her.

Do not hope that “divine justice” does not come to every killer and thief. The vices of many talented people were generously rewarded. And, as you see, attracted through the ages.

You can hear even more stories from the author of the article at the lecture “Pirates, robbers and adventurers in art” on Monday, February 23 at 19-00. The price and venue can be found in the group http://fb.com/proiskusstvo , link http://mashasanti.livejournal.com/6276.html and by phone +7 (968) 434-24-61.