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This 1901 villa on the French Riviera recently underwent a top-to-bottom renovation. But nothing could erase the home’s unusual history—a tale of an exiled Russian aristocrat and his lover, a famous ballerina who fled the Russian Revolution.
Now, more than century later, the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom Villa Marizzina is on the market for €30 million, or about $32.87 million.
Its current owner is a Russian billionaire…