Talk:Natalya Golitsyna

Nicknames?
How did she come by her nicknames? Was she particularly hairy? Should this not be explained? Matthau (talk) 09:00, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 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)