Tatiana Petrovna is a major antagonist in Peaky Blinders, serving as one of the three overarching antagonists (alongside her aunt and uncle) of Season 3. She is a Russian Grand Duchess forced to flee Russia after the revolution.
Character History[]
Background[]
Tatiana is the niece of Grand Duke Leon Petrovich Romanov and Grand Duchess Izabella Petrovna.
Series 3 · 1924[]
Tatiana is brought from London to Thomas Shelby by Sergeant Moss of the Birmingham Police. She gives the Peaky Blinders a case filled with 10,000 US Dollars in cash.
She barely speaks to Thomas, but is intrigued with his ability to carry out assassinations for the Crown.
It is revealed that Tatiana is to take a look at the vehicles in the Lanchester Motor Company that Thomas has prepared for the Russians.
At the Shelby Charity Foundation Dinner, Tatiana informs Thomas that the sapphire necklace Grace Shelby is wearing is "cursed by a gypsy," right before Grace is shot by an assassin.
Later, Tatiana seduces Thomas during a sex party and attempts to cure him of his sadness about his wife’s passing. In the end, she makes a deal with him to steal her family’s jewels so that he can return them to her and she can run away to another country where a lover is waiting for her.
Personality[]
Tatiana is cold, ruthless, sadistic, sexual, calculating, and intelligent. She is completely and utterly insane, wanting to play Russian Roulette with Tommy and pulling the trigger on herself, repeatedly. She embraces said insanity, calling it "freeing". She's shameless, undressing openly in Tommy's house after she called a maid. After Grace's death, Tatiana continues to bring up Grace and the "cursed" sapphire to taunt Tommy. She even tells Tommy she was going to seduce him to make sure of his cooperation, and informs him she still might do so. She is the frontrunner in her family's power schemes. She uses her charm and sex appeal to get what she wants, and is not afraid to resort to violence if that fails. She is incredibly beautiful, but extremely haughty and classist. She says that of all of his lovers, she's the only one who knows Tommy.
Quotes[]
"Can you do it? Can you kill?" — Tatiana to Thomas Shelby.
“Right now, you hide inside it like a boy who's broken in through the window.” — Tatiana to Thomas Shelby.
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