Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Hanna Puacz was a Polish teenager when Russia’s tsar made her into a star. With her new name Madame Ganna Walska, she became a celebrity in Europe known for her marriages, her love of plants, and her Sisyphean pursuit of a career in opera.
Madame accepted numerous marriage proposals and in total had six husbands, including a Russian count, a yogi, a playboy conman and the inventor of an electromagnetic “death ray”.
When she wasn’t playing ‘femme fatale’ and enjoying the high life that…
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