' the Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood '  is the most famous painting by the Russian painter Konstantin Flavitsky (1830-1867).

Yelizaveta Alekseyevna (1753-1775) claimed to be the daughter of Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky and Elizabeth of Russia and made a claim on the Russian throne. Empress Catherine II sent Aleksei Grigoryevich Orlov to arrest Alekseyevna in Tuscany. She was returned to Russia in 1775 and imprisoned within the Peter and Paul Fortress. Historical accounts have the pretender to the throne dying of tuberculosis in December of 1775 and buried in Novospassky Monastery, next to other non-reigning Romanovs.

Two other theories have arisen surrounding the women who would later become known by the ...