He had the effrontery not just to cuckold the Empress but also to cuckold the cuckoldress, Countess Bruce, by beginning an adulterous affair with a Court beauty, Countess Ekaterina Stroganova, who left her husband and child for him.

His portrait, a half-length painted by Howard, was engraved by Vertue, and re-engraved for the Bibliographical Decameron.

I believe that had I continued to ride the crest of the wave of success from my initial springboard of The Facts of Life fame, I would not have become the deeply compassionate human being that I am.

Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.