New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-14
A NOTED WHILST DEAD.
SUDDEN END OF AN EVENTFUL CAREER.
COUNT ADoLPHUs NAIRAIKow. AN EXILE FROM

COUNT ADOLPHUS NARRAIKOW AN EXILE FROM
RUSSIA. DIES IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.
The varied career OF Count Adophus Narralkow
a friend OF Count Tolstoi and no'cd Nihst IS over
lie died NJ bellevue Hospital Yesterday from apopieAy
lie was found upon the pavement N the bo"ery
saturday night suffering from an apopiecuc stroke
lie was taken to the hospital where he was identified
by means Of papers In his possession The count
was unconscious to the last.
Count Adolphus Narraikow was member OF the
Polish nobility and at one time the owner OF large
estates in his native country. In his unpubhsheo
memoirs the date birth given 1s45. but it Is
believed that he at least fifty years old lie was
born In the province Of kovnow, Poland. and MS
family was once wealthy and influential lie was
educated at the University OF wilma, and attended
lectures at several European schools. When the
Polish revolution was on the eve OF breaking Out.
I'm 1862, he was youth. nineteen or twenty years
old He was suspected by the Russian ponce 81
meeting instruction. and one evening while nc was
attending a reception at the house OF the Pr'nccss
WleOhowsb In wilma, he was arrested For eleven
months he was Imprisoned IN the dungeons OF the
citadel Of Wilma and then sent To ArcIsngei. lie
Was closely guarded for five years and half lie
WAS not kept in prison. however, and was permitted
10 do some teaching, and had time To study law and
literature. lie wrote many letters to the Car, but
,hey were intercepted. lis release obtained in
1865 throug1 the Influence IT tho Prince Wlclohowsh
lie then went To thf province oi IciNd, IN i-i9t
Russ a. and from 1868 to 1873 was succ sfl lawyer
After his return from exile he became Nihiiist.
lie always insisted that he had no NlhIli'lic sym
pahe, until after his long Imprisonment in northern
siberia In 1873 he arrested by the a.enti OF
General Slverstoil, chief OF the Russian secret
service who was sass mated by sanilaas Padlewsky
IN Paris. For Il year and half Count NarraikOw Wis
il prisoner in the province of Oicncn. In Siberia.
Upon III, release he went to st. Petersburg and became
.
the Russian capital He was IN such constant
danger " arr,s. ;,at Ia ls77 h. ana his wife let
10 tbs comUy. COuat NaTakOw knew itlr Oi
tn. English language. AID he commended for many
ycaH against misfortune and poverty. lie sold
scientific books. wrote newspaper Articles ard made
TRANSLATE rs OF the wO.d, Of ToSpl. lie WAS
personal friend - To,sOi and adErer Of his books,
shortly before h., death he was engaged with Emery
Mclean IN transatlns roI~tos The Power OF Dark
ness
lie knew silvcn,oa, ard he wrote he Of
laIlcwsLy, Who Us l." always expressed II, hid
removed siivcr-iOl. In vliuns Of he mYstc.i us
death OF Ihdcw-.y in Texas. he invariably pat
IN. word ~su,cdr7 between quotation mar@-. lie
believed thai he and ohcrs .. III, NiAstlc views werc
watched by Russian spies and once appealed to tho
New York police Tor pr,tcction III, letters TO Russia
were intercepted and he never Succ cdel In getting
message 10 his friend. rolstd. Ills wife, the
Comics, Ella Marathon, il woli known writer.
Ste own, TWO painting, Ly Nculb WhIc tavc
aye, The M,.,c .';;' wifc7 anI ~ ,,t,iicmSnT
Cont Aa.sdii.DW Waa a ma. n Imposing appea anr"
He "'a i'n ara OF 'onh,4no'hS h,Hr,, IA, IL
comparatively young hs sufcileN had made him
prcmoturcN old tor tie last yea ne va y poor
lcltA and M inmate II Tie Homo FOR Ia
durable. uniIl recently. 1t SAL that he was in
sane hW ,hr physicians who examined him at
10 The lime Of H. doaih The count believed That he
would some day see the restoration Of Poland.