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How a fake Russian prince fooled Paris Irina Baranova The biography of Ivan Trevogin reads more like an adventure novel. In 1783, this lad from a small provincial town in the Russian Empire went to Paris and posed as the heir to the throne of a fictional kingdom. More incredibly still, he nearly pulled it off. Ivan Trevogin (1761–1790) was blessed with two undeniable gifts: limitless imagination and chutzpah. These talents, plus Lady Luck, took this simple boy from Kharkov (then in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine) first to St Petersburg, then to Paris. Sooner or later, though, his shenanigans always came to light, forcing him to flee. ....