, 1872-10-16

o1Qets HoL TO BLOW ne1- TO sup Il! be1nl1, oAt
that he would accompany her to Hamburg or
Bremen, as she might prefer, and not leave her
until she had embarked on board vessel fol-
the United States. =
Yainly did she demonstrate, and, seeing that
the officer was inexozable, she finally said that
evening Of the next day they reached that city,
and a1ighted at the Hotel du Nord, where their
arrival excited no little surprise. -
Now, what was at the bottom Of all these
mysterious and rigorous proceedings on the
part Of the Russian and German authorities
toward the young and charming Princess? Was
this beautiful woman, whose Junonian form,
whose dreamy, almond-shaped eyes, whose
transparent complexion, regular features and
small hands and feet made her one OF the fair
est creatures on earth, dangerous political
conspirator7 Not at all. She had simply be-
come convert to the doctrines Of free-1ove
and, after studying the subject for a long time,
and reading the books and pamphlets that have
appeared in regard to the so-called,. Oneida
community in the United States, she had
opened q correspondence with the President Of
that community, and his arguments had made
so oWerful an impression upon her mind that
she resolved to Join that community, and bid
dofevermore farewell to her native country.
she mad done still more. Having been for four
years in the Imperial Female Seminary at Mos
COW, she had made the acquaintance Of at least
5oo OF 60o young ladies' belongings to the first
families Of Russia. To these friends Of hers
she addressed q secret Autographed circular, in
which she at length explained the motives and
causes that had Z induced her to embrace the faith
OF the Oneida Community, and she had earnest
" urged them to join her, and, painting to them
the joys and blessings Of the life that awaited
her in the United states in the brightest oolors,
she had urged them to initiate her example
and she had even offered to send them money for
the purpose OF fleeing from Russia to the
United States for the above mentioned purpose.
a st. Petersburg correspondent OF the Baltic
Gazette, to whom We are indebted for the fore
going particulars, says, in regard to this 1itho-
graphed letter Of the Princess:
IT is truly an atrocious production. It says
that the laws Of nnatrimony are execrable, and
gives extracts from 8 revolving circular purport-
ing to have been issued by one Noyes who calls
himself President OF the Oneida Community in
the State Of New York, United States Of Ameri-
Co."
Some Of these circulars fell into the hands Of
the Russian police. They were submitted to the
Emperor Alexander the Second, who ordered the
arrest and expulsion OF the Princess Trouble
schenef, On the ground Of the following ukase
issued BY the Gar Alexander the Second, in the
year 1929:
tsThe Imperial Government has the right to
perpetually exile from all the Russias persons
who try to subvert the fundamental laws OF So
clety. The decree Of expulsion involves the con-
fscatlon OF the estates OF the expelled person.
Imperial c1emency alone can revoke such q
Decree
The Princess Troubeschenefr was born in 1888.
and is now in her S4th year, although she looks
much younger She was q daughter Of General
stratonevoskof, who was Inortally wounded at
the battle Of 1nkermann. Already at an early
age she displayed extraordinary talents, and, il
accordance with the uaages Of the Russian aris-
tocracy, she WAS most carefully educated. Dur
ing the four years which she passed at the I'M
periM Female Seminary at Moscow, she became
proficient in several foreign languages, and, at
AIxA n& a. -
which vas fayorably received by the
critics and the public generally. This success
induced her to write few novels, which met
with the same reception. In 1861 ahe married
the young Prince Troubeschenef in the presence
Of nearly all the members Of the Imperial
Court, the wedding ceremonies being performed
at St. 1saac's Cathedral, in st. Petersburg The
next two years she passed with her husband in
Paris, where her beauty and accomplishments
we're generally admired, and where she wrote for
the GymnaBe Theatre short plsy which YVES
greatly applauded.
Unfortunately the Prince Troubescheneff was
an inveterate gambler, and having one night
lost nearly all his whole fortune at the Cerole
Imperial, where he played baccarat at very high
stakes, he committed suicide at an early hour
the following morning, in thickes Of the Bois
de Boulogne.
The untimely end Of her husband filed the
young Countess, who had been dev0tedly at
tached to him, with the most profound me1en-
cho1y, and ever since she Was noted for her &C.
centric freaks. She returned to Russia and
buried herself for several years IN her small
chateau on the shores of Lake Omega, admit
ting few or no visitors. Her relatives tried to
prevail on her to return to st. Petersburg, hop
ing that the gay life Of the Russian capital
would divert her troub1ed mind She stead
fastly turned deaf ear to rsolictations, un-
til she Was one day visited at her lonesome re-
treat by Home, the celebrated spiritualst.
What occurred between her and Home never
became accurately known. Suffice it to say that
she went back with him to St. Petersburg. where
she henceforth led gay life, strangely. con-
trasting with the lonely years abe had passed on
Lake Omega.