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painter Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, she looked no older than 16 at the age of 25 - after giving birth to 7 children,or that, according to Frederick William III, she became younger and more beautiful with each subsequent

later reigned over Russia as Emperor Paul I. Other fathers are also assumed for the empress' other children. The conspiracy theories and denigration of her character due to her self-confident sexuality persist

emancipated women would shift the status quo. The main task of a noble woman was to marry and bear children in order to preserve the dynasty. Marriage also served to accumulate more land and money, to claim

Many battles and captures took place there in the 1680s. What would we think if we ourselves or our children were kidnapped as “trophies of victory”, robbed of our name and theirs, and forced to adapt to a [...] mental state. However, research assumes that the traumatic experiences of their captivity, often as children or young adults, left lasting wounds. It is therefore particularly tragic that war and pirate games

director of Babelsberg Palace and Park “As a native Potsdamer, I started attending the Sanssouci children’s club at age 10 ‒ that was in the late 1970s. I was particularly interested in life at Emperor William