Countess Cosel
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Countess Cosel is a 1968 Polish film directed by Jerzy Antczak. The film is based on Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s novel Hrabina Cosel, a historical romance set in the court of Augustus the Strong, the fi
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Anna Constantia von Brockdorff, later the Countess of Cosel, was a German lady-in-waiting and noblewoman, and mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, in 1706–1713. Event
Countess Cosel
…the Strong, the first of the two Saxon kings of Poland, at the turn of the 18th century. The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia von Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704. Against the backdrop of life at Augustus…
Portrait by François de Troy, 1712
Anna Constantia during her marriage to the Baron Hoym
Anna Constantia during her exile at Burg Stolpen