Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13

friend, and after excusing himself with
drew. A few days later, however, the He
brew was, through his influence, appointed
to an almost sinecure Government post,
which placed him beyond want for the re-
mainder of his days.
The old Count was almost as tall as his son
and maintained his erect carriage to the
last. There was not man, woman or child
in Odessa who did not know and venerate
the grand looking old man, with his long,
snow-white beard and superb air. His
name figured first on the list of the citizens
of Odessa, and so proud was he of the ia ct
that he omitted all mention of his Adjutans
Generalship and of his various dignities on
his visiting cards. upon which he invaria-
bly, described himself as the first citizen of
Odessa.
The fortune which he left amounts to ten
or fifteen million rubles in money, besides
immense estates. Nor is this wealth of re-
cent origin, for the Stroganoffs have always
been among the richest mobiles in the land,
and the Stroganoff Palace, near the Police
Bridge of St. Petersburg, is one Of the show
places in the Russian capital, and was de-
Signed by the architect, Rastreli who was
likewise the designer of the Imperial Winter
Palace and of the Annitchoff Palace. 1t
contains a superb collection of pictures, that
is second in importance only to that at the
Hermitage. The palace has always been
known as a center of great charity and phil
anthropy. During the old Counts residence
there, he was, in the words OF several of the
st. Petersburg newspapers, "the eye of the
blind, the foot of the lame, and the friend of
ALL" In his early years he took part in the
war against Napoleon l., and was present at
the occupation of Paris by the allied troops
in 1915, being attached to the staff of Emper-
OF Alexander as one of his aides-de-camp.
A Lady Who Is in Royal Favor.
One of his elder brothers had been killed
three years previously while pursuing Ma
poleon's army on its disastrous retreat from
Moscow to the Berisina. Strangely enough.
the two brothers were educated by French
of1, thor,
brother of Marat, the French revolutionist,
who was killed in his bath by Charlotte Cor
DAYS knife. After the latter event he
changed his name to Boudri, and subse-
quently became the French tutor of the eel
ebrated Russian poet Bushkin, whose grand
daughter, Countess Sophie Merenburg, con-
with the Grand Duke Michael Michael
ovitch.
The only lady Of the court who enjoys in
any way the same consideration as Mime. de
Scheremetiew is the wife of Count Woron-
zow Dasckow, who holds the rank of Minis
tess has been a member of the suite of the
Empress since the latter came to Russia, to
whom she has endeared herself not only by
her tact and sympathetic character, but by
her domestic qualities. She has large
family of children, to whom she is devoted,
timacy of the young Grand Dukes and
Duchesses. Like Count and Countess Schere-
metiew, the Woronzow DaSckows are
enormously rich-their fortune indeed, is of
royal proportions-and it is probably the
knowledge that they are placed thereby
and corruption which is so rife in every
class of Russian society that induces Alex
ander to impose such implicit confidence in
their friendship.