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Yelizaveta Alekseyevna Tarakanova

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The Resume

    (circa 1745-December 15, 1775)
    Aliases include Knyaginya Vladimirskaya, Fraulein Frank and Madame Tremouille

Why she might be annoying:

    Her actual name and place of birth are unknown.
    She was a pretender to the Russian throne.
    She was thought to not even be Russian.
    Her (fake) names were very long.
    One myth reports she drowned in a 1777 flood.

Why she might not be annoying:

    While visiting Italy, she was seduced by Count Orlov, one of Catherine the Great's lovers.
    After the seduction, he had her arrested and extradited back to Russia.
    She succumbed to tuberculosis while in prison.
    Her adventurous life was the subject of two films, 'Tarakanova (1938)' and 'Shadow of the Eagle (1950).'

Credit: Black Chic


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 27 Votes: 59.26% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 53 Votes: 66.04% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 32 Votes: 65.62% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 36 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 60 Votes: 51.67% Annoying