Princess Tarakanova

A radio play about the fate of Princess Elizaveta Tarakanova—one of the most mysterious figures in Russian history.

A strange and tragic destiny of this beauty, adventuress, who passed herself off as the daughter of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna from a secret marriage with Alexei Razumovsky, shocked even people of the 18th century who were accustomed to much.
Who was she?

This woman did not reveal her real name even to a priest at confession before her death. She called herself Ali-Emete and Eleanor, the Princess of Azov, and Princess Elizaveta Vladimirskaya, the All-Russian Grand Princess—yet she was never Princess Tarakanova. It was historians and writers who gave her that name…