Polina | Learn russian | Russian tutor on Instagram: "Did you know that Helen Mirren has Russian roots?🇷🇺Her family was Russian nobility dating back to the 15th century.😵 Her great-grandmother was a countess, and her grandfather Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov was a colonel in the Imperial Russian Army and a diplomat for Tsar Nicholas II. 👑 The family became stranded in England in 1917 due to the Russian October Revolution, and her father later anglicized the family name from Mironov to Mirren to