One theory about the travels of the Tereshchenko diamond goes back to Tereshchenko's time in Paris and a woman known by her stage name, Mademoiselle Primrose. According to the Gemmological Association of Great Britain, if Tereshchenko had been in Paris in 1913 when he left the blue diamond at Cartier, it's not unlikely that he encountered Mlle Primrose on more than one occasion.
Mlle Primrose was born Suzanne Marie Blanche Thuillier and was a French dancer who was performing in Le Théâtre des Capucines in Paris by 1911. By some accounts, in 1924, newspapers began reporting stories of a former Parisian dancer who had resided in St. Petersburg, Russia, returning to France just before the revolution along with a 43-carat blue diamond.
Some newspapers even reported that she'd been given the diamond by the Tsar himself. At one point, Le Parisien newspaper asked Thuillier directly where the diamond came from. She reportedly admitted that it hadn't come from the Tsar since she hadn't technically been admitted into the imperial court, but that she'd associated with someone who "occupied the highest positions." For some, Tereshchenko is a likely contender.
Unfortunately, Thuillier reportedly had a hard time keeping it in her hands. After she brought the diamond to Nice in a secret pocket in her sealskin coat in 1916, she ended up pawning it by the end of the year. Thuiller reportedly had to pawn the Tereshchenko diamond more than once to pay for her gambling debts and extravagance.
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