Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-12
THE WIFE OF A CAR.
The PrIneess DOlgOrOukI I'm Paris
Her Words OF SelF-Defense.


The Gdhto1S.
Just as we had announced, the
Princess Jouriewskaja, the morganatic
widow of the Emperor Alexander IL,
arrived in Paris on Friday evening at
eight o'clock. She put up at the Hotel
de Loudres, where she has engaged all
of the first story. She is an elegant
Young woman, call and slight, and het
mourning toilet gives her a touching
grace. Her head is small, regular, and
modelled with great purity. The clear
complexion reminds one of the freshest
German beauties, notwithstanding the
insolent birth register, which sets down
the Princess as thirty years of age, and
in spite also of the group of three child
dren inseparable from their mother-a
boy of ten years, quite elegant and
already serious; a girl of seven, that
promises to be as handsome as her
mother; and, finally. a girl of three
years, that yesterday held In her
arms doll dressed in mourning like
its little mistress, the two other
children, the Princess, and all her SER
wants, without forgetting the Princess
Mestchersky, thirteen years old, cousin
of Nine. Dolgorouki, and who forms one
of the band of children. Besides her
suite, composed of about ten persons,
including English and French govern
esses for her children and her intendant,
Nine. Dolgorouki is also accompanied by
three superb Russian dogs, one of which
was the favorite of the Emperor Alex
ander. The Princess passed a consid-
cradle portion of yesterday at the hotel.
She occupies the apartment just quilted
by Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg, hus
band of the daughter of the King of the
Belgians. She went out yesterday for
an hour to the Bots, breakfasted and
dined in the Rue de Castiglione, where
she will remain fortnight.
AS to the motives which have decided
the Princess to leave Russia. we are told
that it is simply an exile, the author OF
which is Count Ignatieff. The Minister
of the Interior is supposed to have in
duced the Gear to believe that the NOR
ganatic wife of his father had an eye
upon the throne of the Romanoffs for
her son. The actual dynasty, the Minis
ter is said to have remarked, is more
German than Russian, since from the
time of Catherine H., who was herself
German Princess, the family alliances of
the Cars have been exclusively German,
while the Princess Dolgorouki boasts of
her direct descent from the ancient dy-
nasty of the Ruricks. 1t is needless to
add that these are only calumnies des-
tined to render all the more complete the
disgrace into which the widow of Alex
ander II. has lately fallen.
EUenement.
cit has been asserted" said the Prin-
cess to writer of the Tenement, chat
there used to be serious dissensions be-
tween the Emperor Alexander III. and
myself. 1t has been added that | had
been exiled by order of Gen. Ignatieff,
the Minister of the Interior. Gen. Igna-
tieff, it is true, never had any kindly
feeling for me, but that has never been
the case with the present Gar, who
wrote me letter few days before my
departure from st. Petersburg asking me
not to leave Russia"
Hereupon the Princess called upon her
lady companion to read aloud the letter
in question, in which the Gear wound up
by saying he could never forget the
Princess had been 'this poor fathers
wife," and that as such "his palace
would be ever open" to her. "You can
see," she said, chow erroneous have
the Cars sentiments toward me. 1t is
General Ignatieff, the victim of whose
anger have been for more than a year,
who has been disseminating the state
meut that | am at the head of party
intent upon producing a revolution
to place my little son on the throne.
You yourself must feel how absurd
these stories are. Even if l had ever had
any such idea, my boy could not pos
sibly ever ascend the throne The truth,
besides, is that refused to be crowned
during my husbands lifetime, so as to be
perfectly free regarding the country l
love so much. In Russia, moreover, the
law on the point is strictly laid down. l
have never been anything but the
morganatic wife of Alexander IL, and
neither | nor my children, therefore,
can ever sit on the throne"
At this point the Princess explanations
were interrupted by the arrival of the
Grand Duke Constantine, who warmly
embraced the children. The interviewer
was about to retire, when his hostess
stopped him with the remark that she
wished to add that the report that she
had hung out black flag on the ami
versary of the late Cars death was en-
tirely false
cat the time in question l was in the
Cars palace at Gatschina," she contn-
ued. THE present Gar strongly urged
me not to leave Russia nor to visit Paris,
where he was sure all sorts of rumors
would be made current about me-"