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The brightest favorites and mistresses of Russian emperors I February 7th, 2018

Hello dears.
Quite a broad topic. There is, as they say, where to turn around :-)))
Because it turns out that among the Russian emperors only Alexander III did not have a mistress :-)
We won't talk about the two most famous mistresses. For Martha Skavronskaya generally became an empress and even ruled (well, quite formally, to be honest, considering that she almost never dried out :-)) under the name of Catherine I, and Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova became the morganatic wife of Emperor Alexander II, gave birth to 4 children and even introduced a new word for sex - bingerle. This is exactly what they called this process in correspondence with the emperor :-)

E. M. Dolgorukova

Let's not remember both Nelidovs, the unfortunate Hamilton and Kantemir. Let's focus only on 5 ladies :-))

The first and probably the brightest of all was Olga Alexandrovna Zherebtsova nicknamed "domestic Milady"..Née Zubova, from a young age she learned to party and light up in such a way as to frappe the public even in not at all puritanical times :-)

The lady was born in 1766 and married very early, to a representative of the old but seedy Zherebtsov family. She immediately began the carnival of life, saying that she was “a widow with a living husband” :-) When Platosha’s brother was caressed by the aging Catherine the Great and became her last lover, she moved to St. Petersburg and shone with new facets. Having changed several lovers, she focused her attention on two - the heir to the throne, Pavel Petrovich, and the English one after Whitworth. The first one was interesting as a “dessert”, and she really loved the second one. maybe in her own way, but she loved it. It's funny that it was precisely because of her love that she played a fairly large role in the Conspiracy of March 11-12, 1801, thus helping one of her lovers destroy another (albeit a former one). And if you take into account that Count Palen was another of her lovers, then you get a rather complex love figure :-)
However, Whitworth was expelled abroad shortly before the coup and Zherebtsova rushed after him. But the mechanism has already been launched...

Charles Whitworth

Beyond the borders of Russia, the English envoy tried to get rid of Olga Alexandrovna, who was already unnecessary and fairly tired of her extravagances, but she was not ready to just give up. Then Whitworth...ran away, and a couple of weeks later married the Dowager Duchess of Dorset. Zherebtsova did not back down and broke into London to sort things out. She left there after some time and was no longer missing her former lover. Evil tongues say that the Duchess of Dorset simply... paid off :-) And I can’t even imagine what the amount should be (if this is really not a legend), because after Platosha’s favor, as well as his participation in the Conspiracy, with the money from Zherebtsova there were no problems.

However, she did not go to England in vain :-) According to rumors, there she became the mistress of the Prince of Wales, the future George IV, and even gave birth to a son, Yegor. She passed off this illegitimate son as the son of the British monarch until the end; he rose to the rank of colonel and took Princess Shcherbatova as his wife.

George IV

She spent the last years of her life in St. Petersburg. In her old age, Zherebtsova was an interlocutor of the young A. I. Herzen, who dedicated several pages to her in “Past and Thoughts.” Here's what he wrote about Zherebtsova:
«… A strange, original ruin of another century, surrounded by a degenerate generation on the barren and low soil of St. Petersburg court life, she felt superior to him and was right... Her mistake was not in contempt for insignificant people, but in the fact that she mistook the works of the court garden for our entire generation».
She died on March 1, 1849 and was buried in the family tomb of the Zubov counts, in the Trinity-Sergius Hermitage.

Beautiful Maria Antonovna Naryshkina, born Princess Svyatopolk-Chetvertinskaya, nicknamed “Russian Aspasia,” was the mistress of Alexander I for about 15 years. “The bald dandy” was generally a big hit, but Maria Antonovna was the main pearl in his collection. Again, his legal wife Elizaveta Alekseevna (nee Louise Maria Augusta Badenskaya) was tolerant of her.

Maria Antonovna was born on February 2, 1779 in cheerful Warsaw. Her father, Polish tycoon Antony Chetvertinsky, was a pro-Russian politician, for which he was literally lynched by a mob during the Kosciuszko uprising. Catherine II ordered his widow and children to be taken to St. Petersburg and took upon herself the arrangement of their future. After such a protectorate, the fate of the girl and her sister and brother was secured. Despite the fact that the mother could not bear the loss of her husband and soon died, leaving the children orphans. But fate turned out well for them. His brother, Prince Boris Antonovich Chetvertinsky, later became the manager of the Moscow stable department and chief horseman, and his sister, Princess Zhanetta Antonovna Chetvertinskaya (married Vyshkovskaya) became the mistress of Grand Duke Konstantin and almost divorced him from his wife :-)

Zhanetta Grodzinskaya (by her husband)

Maria Antonovna herself, at the age of 15, Maria was promoted to maid of honor, and a year later she was married to 31-year-old Dmitry Naryshkin, one of the richest nobles of Catherine’s era. By the way, it was this wedding that Derzhavin sang in “Housewarming of the Young”.

In marriage, Mary's beauty blossomed so much that she became the first beauty of the court. Despite her appearance and enormous wealth, she was always sweet and very modest. It was this modesty that perhaps attracted the attention of Tsarevich Alexander Pavlovich. Their relationship lasted more than 15 years even after their official marriage, and according to rumors, the emperor had several children with her. Although I strongly doubt this - he was childless. But everyone says with confidence that the daughter Sofya Dmitrievna Naryshkina was his. And her death from consumption at a young age greatly undermined the health of the emperor himself.

Sofya Dmitrievna

When her older sister Jeannette formed the same “shadow family” with the emperor’s younger brother, Constantine, it turned out to be an interesting and piquant situation :-)
However, this did not last very long. It is not clear to Uon whether she broke up with the emperor herself, or whether he believed the rumors about many other lovers. At least two were talked about openly - about Prince Gagarin and Adjutant General Count Adam Ozharovsky.
What about the husband, you ask? Oooh..that was an interesting character. Remember the “Order of Cuckolds”, because of which Pushkin later died? Dmitry Lvovich Naryshkin in the world was considered his “Master” :-))

After the end of her love affair with the emperor, Maria Antonovna did not lose his favor, but left Russia in 1813 and lived mostly in Europe.
During a short visit to St. Petersburg in 1818, Naryshkina arranged the marriage of her eldest daughter with the son of minister D. A. Guryev. In 1835, M. A. Naryshkina settled with her husband in Odessa. From this time on, the former adjutant Brozin began to play a noticeable role in her life. According to some reports, having become a widow in 1838, Naryshkina married this general, which caused the displeasure of Nicholas I. She spent the last years of her life with Brozin abroad. She came to Odessa only occasionally.

She died on Lake Starenberg and was buried in Munich in the old southern cemetery.
This is such an interesting lady.
To be continued...
Have a nice time of day.

Being an emperor in the Russian Empire was not so easy, because many responsibilities and urgent matters of national importance always awaited them. In some matters, the kings were even forced people.

The main problem that awaited any monarch was a marriage of convenience. It was impossible to love a woman whom he did not choose as his wife. Therefore, I had to find a way out for my feelings. Yes, the sovereigns were not soulless machines, they also knew how to love. Now we will tell you about the mistresses of emperors, whose names you will not find in textbooks.

Anna Lopukhina (Paul I's mistress)

Anna came from the Lopukhin family and was a descendant of the first wife of Peter I. An amazingly beautiful young lady with excellent manners and incredible grace struck the heart of Emperor Paul I during one of the balls. Having fallen in love with a girl, the Tsar moved her family to St. Petersburg and awarded her ranks so that she would always be by his side.

The Emperor adored Lopukhina so much that he named ships after her and even rashly ordered the walls of the Mikhailovsky Palace to be painted the color of her gloves.

The happiness did not last long: Pavel turned out to be not demanding enough, so Anna married Prince Gagarin and was forced to break off the vicious relationship. Two years later, the emperor was killed by conspirators.

Maria Naryshkina (mistress of Alexander I)

Maria came from the Polish noble family of the Chetvertinskys. While still a child, she was brought to St. Petersburg, where she became a maid of honor and at the age of 16 she married Chief Jägermeister Naryshkin.

Maria became the mistress of Tsarevich Alexander in 1799, despite the fact that he was married to Elizaveta Alekseevna.

The king and the favorite were together for 15 years, Maria even gave birth to five children to Alexander. However, they all received the surname of Naryshkina’s legal husband.

The emperor's mistress turned him against his wife and demanded a divorce. The result of the dispute was their separation in 1814.

Varvara Nelidova (mistress of Nicholas I)

Nicholas I was a rather tough and secretive person. For his bloody suppression of uprisings, European monarchs nicknamed him the chief gendarme of Europe.

In 1832, Emperor Alexander's wife gave birth to her seventh child, after which doctors strongly recommended that she stop all sexual intercourse. Then 36-year-old Nikolai found a replacement for her - 18-year-old Varvara. She turned out to be a “hereditary mistress”, because she was the grandniece of the favorite of Paul I.

The sovereign carefully hid information about illegitimate children, but the courtiers still learned about the two heirs that Varvara gave him. He, of course, did not recognize them.

When Nicholas I fell ill with pneumonia and was waiting for his last hour, Alexander’s wife was not against her mistress saying goodbye to him.

Ekaterina Dolgorukova (mistress of Alexander II)

Alexander was friendly with the Dolgorukov family and met Ekaterina when she was only 12 years old. The girl was wayward, so she refused the king when he began to show signs of attention to her.

Either out of pity, or for reasons of self-interest, Dolgorukova became the Tsar’s mistress after his wife Maria Alexandrovna suffered from tuberculosis and was unable to fulfill her marital duty.

Alexander II made Catherine his wife's maid of honor so that she would always be by his side. She bore him four children who could not claim the throne. She hurried, because Maria Alexandrovna soon died, and the Tsar took her as his wife.

The Romanovs never accepted the new empress, so after the death of her husband at the hands of anarchists, she emigrated with her children to France.

The harsh Russian emperors, who could order the suppression of popular uprisings and execute people without blinking an eye, were ordinary people with simple human weaknesses. Unloved wives even often turned a blind eye to the kings’ intrigues; they were quite satisfied with the title of empress and all kinds of honors.

The ladies-in-waiting lined up in droves, wanting to become the sovereign's favorites, but not everyone was lucky. Agree, any woman would even agree to be the emperor’s mistress. Not a wife, but at court.

“Over the last hundred years, only one Russian Tsar did not live with a ballerina. It’s me,” Alexander III declares in the film “Matilda.” Moreover, this emperor had no mistresses at all, unlike his predecessors from the Romanov dynasty. Whoever was their favorite... And the fate of these women turned out differently.

Peter I

Russian Emperor No. 1 was an amorous man: two official marriages and many mistresses. The first favorite of the young king was Anna Mons. And Peter met a beauty - the daughter of a merchant from Minden in the German settlement in Moscow, where he liked to go in his free time to communicate with the foreigners who lived there.

Anna Mons

At that time he was already married to Evdokia Lopukhina. His affair with Mons lasted more than 10 years. Peter even divorced Lopukhina and sent her to a monastery. But the king never married Anna, although he lived openly with her. According to rumors, Mons never loved Peter very much; rather, she allowed herself to be loved and used him for her own purposes. Moreover, she had affairs on the side, for which she eventually received her resignation in 1704. Peter had already begun an affair with Martha Skavronskaya, the future Empress Catherine I. Mons was put under house arrest and accused of divination. Her relationship with the Prussian envoy to Russia, Georg-John von Keyserling, saved her from further troubles. Peter eventually even gave the go-ahead for their marriage. The husband, however, died suddenly shortly after the wedding. And three years later, in 1714, Anna herself died of consumption in Moscow. Mons was 42 years old. Her last lover was the Swedish captain Karl-Johann von Miller, whom she presented with valuable gifts and to whom she bequeathed almost her entire fortune (5,740 rubles).

The youngest daughter of the Yakut governor Mikhail Arsenyev Varvara she was no different in beauty. But she was smart and educated, which charmed not only Peter, but also his wife Catherine, whose maid of honor she served. Varvara Arsenyeva’s sister Daria was the wife of the Emperor’s closest associate, Alexander Menshikov. However, they say that the women gave love to both gentlemen in turn. Arsenyeva survived Peter, but not Menshikov’s disgrace. She was exiled to a monastery, where she died a year later.

Varvara Arsenyeva

"Maria Hamilton before her execution."

Photo: wikipedia.org. Artist: Pavel Svedomsky

Fate was even more tragic Maria Hamilton. Catherine's maid of honor quickly disappointed Peter; however, there was never a smell of love here. Then she began an affair with Peter's orderly Ivan Orlov. But he cheated on her, and Maria, in order to return her gentleman, showered her with gifts: jewelry that she stole from the empress. And when she eventually became pregnant by him, she killed the baby. When all this became known, Peter ordered Mary to be executed, although the empress stood up for her. But the monarch did not change his mind, and the former favorite was beheaded. Orlov was forgiven.

In parallel with Hamilton, Peter had an affair with Avdotya Rzhevskaya, to whom he gave the nickname “boy-woman”. A happy fate awaited the favorite. Peter married her to his orderly Grigory Chernyshev, who later rose to the title of count and the rank of general. The woman bore him four children. Avdotya Chernysheva continued to enjoy influence at court: she was equally valued by both Anna Ioanovna and Peter’s daughter, Elizabeth.

Avdotya Chernysheva

Photo: wikipedia.org. Unknown artist of the 18th century

Maria Rumyantseva

Maria Matveeva was a distant relative of her namesake, Maria Hamilton. But how different their destinies were. The granddaughter of boyar Matveev, the closest associate of Peter’s father, Alexei Mikhailovich, spoke fluent French, danced well, had beauty and liveliness, which attracted the attention of Peter I. He was very jealous, and married her to another of his orderly (it was profitable then position) - Alexandra Rumyantseva.

According to rumors, the father of her son, the famous Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev, may have been the emperor. Maria Rumyantseva lived to be almost 90 years old. She became famous for hosting foundlings and street children in her home.

Maria Cantemir

Photo: wikipedia.org. Artist: Ivan Nikitin

Peter's last love is the daughter of his ally, the Moldavian ruler Dmitry Maria Cantemir . The father, who lived in Moscow at that time, encouraged his daughter’s romance with the emperor. Mary became pregnant by Peter, but the boy was stillborn. After the emperor's death in 1725, Cantemir never remarried and died alone in 1757.

Alexander II

After the death of Maria Alexandrovna, Alexander II, to the displeasure of his relatives, married Dolgoruky. Their romance had already lasted 14 years at this point. But this marriage was considered morganatic, that is, their children had no rights to the throne. Dolgoruky was granted the title of Most Serene Princess Yuryevskaya, and from now on her and the emperor’s children bore the same surname. Alas, less than a year after the wedding, Alexander II was killed by Narodnaya Volya. And Alexander III, who ascended the throne, did not intend to tolerate Princess Yuryevskaya. And she and her family leave Russia forever. Ekaterina Dolgorukova died in Nice in 1922, at the age of 74. History has preserved numerous letters from lovers and memoirs written by the princess already in a foreign land.

Ekaterina Dolgorukova

With a young woman Katenka Dolgorukaya The emperor met for the first time when he was 41 years old. But they started dating only 7 years later. Alexandra's wife Maria Alexandrovna was already sick with consumption by that time. And then there was the death of her eldest son Nikolai, which greatly undermined her. The affair with Dolgoruky was not approved by either the court or the emperor’s relatives, primarily his son Alexander, heir to the throne. The monarch was even forced to send his favorite abroad, where he went on dates. But over time, he settled her in the palace with the children. They had four of them, one boy, however, died in infancy.

Nicholas I

Curious things sometimes happen in history. Thus, the most famous mistress of the third son of Paul I became Varvara Nelidova- cousin niece of his father's favorite. Actually, Ekaterina Nelidova raised her. The wife of Nicholas I, Alexandra Fedorovna, gave birth to numerous offspring, but, alas, because of this, at the age of 35, according to rumors, she could no longer fulfill her marital duty. So the emperor became interested in his wife’s maid of honor. Their relationship lasted almost 17 years. Alexandra Fedorovna, they say, approved of them, at least she did not interfere and did not create scandals. And this connection was not openly advertised.

Varvara Nelidova

Nelidova was a worthy and beautiful girl, unlike her aunt. But she captivated Nicholas not only with her beauty, but also with her intelligence. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, “she knew how to control her master with the tact characteristic only of a woman. Pretending that she was submissive in everything, she always knew how to direct him to the path that, in her opinion, was the best. She could have abused her influence in terms of intrigue and nepotism, but she was far from it and never tried to show off, did not surround herself with ghosts and an aura of power; she was well aware of the proud and suspicious character of the sovereign.” After the death of Nicholas I in 1855, she wanted to leave the court, but his son Alexander II did not allow it. Nelidova almost never went out into the world, and she also never got married. She outlived Nicholas I by 42 years, dying during the reign of his great-grandson Nicholas II.

Alexander I

Alexander I and his favorite, according to rumors, had children - in particular, a daughter, Sophia, who, of course, bore the surname Naryshkina. She died young shortly before her wedding. They say that Alexander was very worried, and this undermined his health. He died a year later, in 1825, without leaving an heir. The throne passed to his brother Nicholas.

Maria Naryshkina

Naryshkina, after breaking up with the emperor, went abroad, then settled in Odessa, where, according to rumors, she married again - to the former adjutant Brozin. She died at the age of 75 and is buried in Munich.

Paul I

One of the first students of the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens Ekaterina Nelidova She was also not a beauty, but she danced beautifully, was smart, educated and well-read, and knew how to conduct conversations on various topics. This is how she attracted the heir to the throne, Pavel Petrovich. They spent a lot of time together, which naturally embarrassed the Tsarevich’s wife Maria Feodorovna, whose maid of honor Nelidova was. But Ekaterina Ivanovna managed to convince that they only had friendly relations. And Pavel repeated more than once that he and Nelidova are united by “sacred and tender friendship, but innocent and pure.” Maria Fedorovna believed her husband and also became friends with his favorite, who by that time had become the boss of Smolny. Together they tried to influence the future emperor.

The first persons of the state could afford the most noble beauties, after all, they were absolute rulers, constrained only by some official tradition - to marry members of the imperial houses, and not just anyone, but whoever was needed. For the sake of their souls, kings kept favorites and loved many more than their legal wives. Amateur. media talks about some of the mistresses of the Russian tsars.

Alexander II met Ekaterina Mikhailovna during military exercises near Poltava, when he was visiting her father, Prince Dolgorukov. She was still a little girl. The misfortune of this family helped the happiness of the emperor - Dolgoruky went bankrupt, leaving his wife with four sons and two daughters without funds. Alexander II took them into his care, placing the Dolgorukov brothers in military schools and the sisters in the Smolny Institute.

In March 1865, during a visit to Smolny, he was introduced to 17-year-old Ekaterina Dolgorukova, whom he remembered and, it seems, fell in love with then. The first meetings took place secretly - near the Winter Palace. Afterwards, in Peterhof, they began to spend more time together. The king's legal wife was sick with consumption and did not get out of bed. Ekaterina Dolgorukova gave birth to four children to Alexander, but her marriage was not recognized by the Romanovs; one of the most ardent opponents of the morganatic relationship was the Tsarevich - the future Emperor Alexander III.

Ekaterina Dolgorukova gave birth to four children to Alexander II

It is believed that Anna Vasilchikova was the fifth wife of Ivan IV, popularly called the Terrible, but this marriage was not recognized by the church, that is, in fact it was not a marriage.

The Tsar found Anna Vasilchikova in the house of Prince Peter Vasilchikov as a 17-year-old beautiful girl and immediately planned to take her to his palace. The prince did not want to give up his daughter, but Grozny simply sent matchmakers to him. True, this marriage did not last long - only about three months. Moreover, the king lost interest in her already at the end of the first. Vasilchikova was forcibly tonsured in the Suzdal Intercession Monastery. In 1577, it became known about her death under mysterious circumstances. The tsar himself announced the death - sending out the news of the commemoration of Vasilchikova.

Ivan IV lost interest in his mistress Vasilchikova a month later

Ekaterina Ivanovna was called a phenomenon by Catherine II herself; she herself loved to marvel at the talented, graceful and beautiful graduate of the Smolny Institute. Nelidova received a gold medal from the Empress. In 1776, she was appointed maid of honor to Grand Duchess Natalya Alekseevna, and by the time Paul I came to the throne she had already become a maid of honor.

The emperor called their relationship “sacred and tender friendship, but innocent and pure,” she claimed that God himself had appointed her to protect the sovereign. True, a disagreement soon occurred between them - Nelidova was much more the party of Catherine II, and not her lover. As a result, the emperor expelled Nelidova from St. Petersburg. Having learned about the murder of Paul I, Ekaterina Ivanovna was so shocked that literally within months she became a complete old woman.

Catherine II called her son's mistress a phenomenon

Maria Andreevna comes from a noble noble family, the daughter of an actual Privy Councilor, a woman of incredible beauty. Peter I not only loved her terribly, but was also terribly jealous. Once he even punished her for being too free with other men and threatened to marry her to a man who would imprison her at home, as in a monastery. By and large, he did just that, but he entrusted her only to one of the people closest to him - Alexander Rumyantsev.

Together with his wife, the Tsar distinguished his orderly with “considerable villages” and a plot of land for a palace on the road to Tsarskoe Selo, on the banks of the Fontanka. However, having a husband, as they say, did not interfere with meetings with the emperor. While Rumyantsev was in Constantinople, and then dealt with state issues on the Persian borders, Peter I visited his love and even allegedly gave her a son, named Peter in honor of the Tsar.

Peter I punished his mistress for free behavior with others

The favorite of Peter III, Elizaveta Romanovna Vorontsova, according to some statements, did not give the impression of beauty. With olive skin, a face scarred after suffering from smallpox - these are the remarks of Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseevna, to whom Vorontsova was assigned as a maid of honor. The passion of Peter III (in general, an eccentric person) for it caused general surprise; “the Grand Duke expressed a very deplorable taste.” He himself, as they say, called his mistress in a simple way: Romanovna.

As soon as Peter III became emperor, Vorontsova became his official favorite. Appointed as a maid of honor, she spent almost all the time with him, participating in the entertainments and amusements of the king, who was bogged down in his childhood. The heyday of Vorontsova’s era will end with the decline of the era of Peter III, although the measures against it will be quite mild. She will even manage to marry a state councilor.

Peter III called his mistress in a simple way: Romanovna

But in the old days there were no stars, because there was no stage, no television. There were royal families and other aristocrats - they caused such mass admiration as actors and musicians do now. And they could not talk about PR relationships: they married only those who could be married, and their lovers became favorites. That is, lovers!

Favorite of Alexander II Ekaterina Dolgorukova

She is a princess, an aristocrat, but not a princess, and therefore could not marry her lover. The Emperor was friends with her family: he met Katya when she was only twelve. He gave education to all the Dolgorukov children after the death of their father, and then he met again a sixteen-year-old girl... and fell madly in love! But the girl refused to become a mistress!

However, when Maria Alexandrovna, the queen, fell ill with tuberculosis, doctors strongly recommended that she refrain from intimate contact with her husband. This suited Catherine, and she officially became the Empress’s maid of honor in order to live next to her lover! She gave birth to four, note, children. And when Maria did die, the emperor married Katya with a clear conscience. Alas, her family did not accept her, and did not even allow her to attend her lover’s funeral, so she had to take the children and leave for France.

Mistress of Alexander I Maria Naryshkina

She was sixteen, she came from Poland - the princess was married to the aristocrat Dmitry Naryshkin! Maria amazed everyone with her beauty and taste, and shone at balls. Alexander I not only fell in love with her - he made an agreement with her husband! And, despite the presence of both legal spouses, Alexander and Maria constantly appeared together at balls. But he refused to divorce his wife, and Maria, who gave birth to five children (at least four from the tsar, all under the name of her official husband, who, let us remember, was not against it!), left Alexander.

Only one question remains open: was it or Dmitry simply could not object to the emperor due to any threats?..

Mistress of Paul I Anna Lopukhina

At the age of nineteen, Anna met the emperor... and it was a fatal meeting. Pavel ordered the Lopukhina family to move to St. Petersburg, gave all relatives good positions and even titles. The Emperor painted the walls of the Mikhailovsky Palace the color of her gloves! Gave the ships the name "Anna"! But in the end, since the pressure from society was strong, she still left the king and got married. Pavel believed that Anechka would return, but two years later he died - so she remained with her husband. Gagarin, but in the heart

Mistress of Nicholas II Matilda Kshesinskaya

Prima ballerina and author of amazingly fascinating memoirs! She lived in a mansion in St. Petersburg, bought for her by the Tsar in love, and they met there for four years. Nicholas was not an heir then, just a royal son, and sincerely hoped to get married, but it didn’t work out. And when he had to become emperor, he left Matilda. Kshesinskaya began dating cousins of the imperial family, two at the same time, and still did not know who the father of the two was! But in the end she married one of the brothers, went to Paris, and opened a ballet school. And Nikolai died during the revolution.

Journalist JoeInfoMedia Diana Lynn reminds that, in fact, modern people in power have enough of such mistresses... Let society finally stop putting pressure on people so that they can meet and live together openly!