Films
- A play written by Ippolit Shpazhinsky was the basis for the 1910 Russian film Knyazhna Tarakanova (Княжна Тараканова) with V. Mikulina in the role of this pretender.
- A 1930 French film Tarakanova in which she is played by Édith Jéhanne.
- In 1950, a joint UK/Italian movie titled "Shadow Of The Eagle" was produced about the seduction mission by Aleksei Orlov of Princess Tarakanova, with Valentina Cortese portraying this Elizaveta and Richard Greene in the role of Count Orlov. Elizaveta Alexeievna is painted as a real princess who is a threat to Catherine the Great both politically and in royal lineage, not a pretender to the throne of Russia. The story portrays Orlov as a much more sympathetic character and betrayer to Catherine the Great, in that he allies himself to Elizaveta body and soul while claiming false allegiance to Catherine. The events in the movie follow history authentically until the meeting of Princess Tarakanova and Orlov takes place and the ending which alters actual real-life events, in that Orlov releases Elizaveta from prison in Russia after a daring raid and they live happily ever after, so this movie becomes a wildly fictional tale.
- In 1990 an award winning Soviet film production titled "The Royal Hunt" was released based on a play by Leonid Zorin of the same title. It told the story of the life and adventures around Europe of Princess Tarakanova and the operation by Aleksei Orlov to trick and capture her.
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