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In the late eighteenth century, marriages to foreigners were all the rage among the Russian nobility, and the foreign partners were at times not representatives of the hereditary aristocracy at all, neither counts nor even barons, but merely French…

In the late eighteenth century, marriages to foreigners, male and female, were all the rage among the Russian nobility, and the partners from abroad were at times not representatives of the hereditary aristocracy at all, neither counts nor even barons, but merely French émigrés or Italian singers. With the marriage