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Identifier: russiancourtmemo00lond (find matches)
Title: Russian Court Memoirs, 1914-16, with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Publisher: London, Jenkins
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ry handsome, with a somewhat haughty bearingand old-fashioned, courteous manner. Brought upby an English tutor, they were quite English in theirways and customs and spoke the language likenatives. Prince Alexander Dolgorouky was an art-lover and a great collector. The picture-gallery inhis lordly house on the English Quay in Petrogradcontains several masterpieces of the old and modemschools. The whole house is a regular museum andfull of valuable artistic gems. The Dolgoroukycollection of snuff-boxes is unique. His widow, the Lady of Honour, Princess OlgaDolgorouky, born Countess Shouvalov, enjoys thepossession of this house during her lifetime. Shewas never quite so popular in society as her husband,and since his death, and the marriage of herdaughters, limits her appearance to intimate gather-ings in her own set. One of her daughters, thePrincess Olga Dietrichstein, is married to an Austrianpeer, who at one time was the military attache ofthe Austrian Embassy in Petrograd. The other
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COUNTESS MARIE GOLENISTCHER-KOUTOUZOFF,ONE OF THE PRETTIEST WOMEN IN PETROGRAD SOCIETY OF PETROGRAD 283 three daughters are : Countess Sophie Fersen, thewife of Count Fersen, already mentioned, PrincessMary Troubetzkoy and Madame Barbara Koschouby- The Princess Olga Dolgoroukys eldest son, PrinceSerge Dolgorouky, will some day be one of thewealthiest men in Russia, for he will inherit theShouvalovs entailed property, which is very great. The Dolgoroukoff branch of the family is not richand is more numerous than the above-mentionedDolgoroukys. The late popular Governor-Generalof Moscow, Prince Vladimir Dolgoroukoff, belongedto this family, as well as the Serene PrincessYourievsky. The family of the latter is not muchesteemed in Russia. The inauspicious part playedby Princess Catherine Dolgoroukoff during the life-time of Alexander IPs Consort, the Empress MariaAlexandrovna, and the latters moral martyrdom,endured for so many years, has not been forgotten. When the Empress Maria was suf

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