Princess Tarakanova

Name: Princess Tarakanova
Director: Maurice Maître
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1910
Duration: 18 min
Cast: V. Mikulina, N. Aleksandrova, Nikolai Vekov, S. Lazarev, Nikolai Vasilyev

1910 Drama History 18 minutes Directed by Maurice Maître

About Princess Tarakanova

In 1775 Count Orlov writes to Empress Catherine II and names Princess Tarakanova a traitor and a pretender to the throne. Kai Hansen's short, also credited to Maurice Maître, stages that denunciation.

Cast & crew

Maurice Maître Director
V. Mikulina
N. Aleksandrova
Nikolai Vekov
S. Lazarev
Nikolai Vasilyev
F. Semkovskiy
Anatoliy Rzhanov
Nadezhda Nelskaya

More about Princess Tarakanova

Cheslav Sabinsky wrote it. Georges Meyer was the cinematographer. The Russian title is Княжна Тараканова. English Wikipedia names Hansen as director; Wikidata also names Maurice Maître.

Themes

a pretender
Catherine II
a letter of denunciation
Tarakanova
Orlov
1775

Look

Georges Meyer photographed the film.

Notes

The catalog cast includes V. Mikulina, N. Aleksandrova, Nikolai Vekov, S. Lazarev, Nikolai Vasilyev, and F. Semkovskiy.