Flora's Living Room, Flora's Apartment Lounge

In the past, sixteen portraits were gathered here, primarily of European rulers, including Louis the Fifteenth, Tsar Paul the First, his wife Maria, Tsar Peter the First, Tsarina Catherine the Second, as well as portraits of Peter Biron and his daughters, made by Luigi Remondini. Currently, in the room, attention is drawn to the beautiful mirror ceiling with motifs of golden suns and a painting by Bożena Cajdler depicting a beautiful woman playing a harp. This is one of the four daughters of Peter Biron - Joanna. Sad, thoughtful, perhaps missing someone? At sixteen, Joanna fell in love with a musician from the ducal theater. Public opinion considered the relationship of the musician with the duchess a mésalliance, which led the young lovers to attempt to escape to America. However, this was thwarted. After the disgrace that befell him, Duke Biron left for Prague and at the end of his life, he disinherited his daughter. Letters from her beloved Arnoldi to Joanna did not reach her, they were intercepted. Later, the beloved was captured and murdered, and the illegitimate son Frederick, due to the origin of his father, was raised away from his mother. Additionally, an unsuccessful marriage to the twenty-four years older Italian, Francesco Pignatelli Belmonte d’Acerenza, added to her cup of bitterness.