The untitled film, financed by a Kremlin-backed fund, will tell the story of Mathilde Kschessinska, a mistress to the last Russian tsar described by producers as "the ultimate femme fatale." By Georg ...

While he didn’t make the schlep to Cannes this year, writer-director Paul Schrader has some skin in the Cannes game. He’s announced that he’s writing an English-language biopic of Kschessinska, the ...

Go ahead and tell me you didn't see this coming: The Russian government is underwriting a biopic of the late-19th/early 20th-century ballerina and tsarist "femme fatale" Mathilde Kschessinska, and its ...

Kommersant A Russian TV series devoted to the tragic love affair between Tsar Nicholas II and ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska has been chosen to compete at an international TV contest in Cannes. The ...

A secret diary has revealed that Russia's last Tsar got a teenage girl pregnant during an illicit love affair. Glamorous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska was Nicholas II’s mistress before he wed German ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Paul Schrader, writer of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” has signed to write a drama about Mathilde Kschessinska, a famed Russian ballerina and mistress to the last Russian tsar, in ...