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A fact from Natalya Golitsyna appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 May 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Princess Natalya Golitsyna(pictured) acquired the nicknames the "Moscow Venus" and the "Queen of Spades"?
Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
How did she come by her nicknames? Was she particularly hairy? Should this not be explained? Matthau (talk) 09:00, 11 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
Agreed, I am planning a rework of the article. The rather cruel name came much later in life as an elderly woman, and was only used behind her back - (Усатая княгиня in Russian). It was supposed that she developed prominant facial hair, though portraits of her late in life do not show this, and it may be more heresay than actuality. Similarly the nickname 'Queen of Spades', as related to Pushkin's story (she was already in her 90s when it was written), was also later, and in fact never appears to have used in her lifetime, though it did later become attached to the house in St Petersburg where the Golitsyns lived (Дом Пиковой дамы - The House of the Queen of Spades), through the influence of Pushkin's work. Spokoyni (talk) 21:38, 17 April 2019 (UTC)Reply
