the russian countess lidia andreevna kamenskaya was the great-granddaughter of field marshal count mikhail fedotovich kamensky, and helen mirren herself was actually elenaer peter mironov was a colonel in the tsarist army, a military engineer and a staunch monarchist. he often visited london to purchase weapons for the emperor's troops. having learned that the bolsheviks came to power, peter fled to england as a two-year-old son, vasily, the future father of a movie star. by the way, vasily, unlike his dad, was extremely left-wing and had an english wife found from the working environment, a staunch anti-monarchist in the forty-fifth year. they had a daughter, elena, in order to assimilate in britain, vasily mironov changed his name to basil marin. and he renamed his daughter helen, already becoming famous. she pressed several times to russia and it was here on the set of the film white nights. in st. petersburg, she met her future husband, hollywood director taylor hackford in 2010, mirren's sister. kate visited the smolensk region, where their family estate once was, and then met with russians in moscow relatives, when they saw their sister helen, the