HISTORY SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE MARVELS AT THE TALE OF A SERF TURNED COUNTESS WHO MARRIED HER OWNER

The Sunday Telegraph London | June 22, 2008| | Copyright

The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia

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In 1801 Count Nicholas Sheremetev, aged 50 and the richest man in Russia, secretly married 32-year-old Praskovia Kovalyova in a ceremony that shocked the Tsar and all of the nation's aristocrats. Until just days before, Praskovia had been not only a peasant without any noble connections but a serf, a slave owned body and soul by the count himself. But she was no ordinary slave and their love story is one of the great romances of its ...

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