herself was actually elena vasilievna mironova, helen's grandfather peter mironov was a colonel in the tsarist army, a military engineer and a staunch monarchist. he often visited london troops, having learned about the coming to power of the bolsheviks, peter fled to england with his two-year-old son vasily, the future father of the movie star vasily, by the way, unlike his dad, he was extremely left-wing and found an english wife from a working environment, a staunch anti-monarchist, in 1945. they had a daughter, elena, in order to assimilate in britain, vasily mironov replaced exactly bezil nyren, and he renamed his daughter helen already becoming. nita , she came to russia several times and it was here on the set of the film white nights in st. petersburg that she met her future husband, hollywood director taylor hackford, and in 2010 mirren and her sister kate visited the smolensk region, where their family estate was once in moscow met with russian relatives after seeing. their sister helen immediately shed tears and the relatives immediately recognized them as englishwomen. the trembling of the russian soul is another half-russian, as he once said about himself