New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-08
4 MONASTERY PRISON.
Fate of Prince "a. DoIgoro"ki-
lndrezc Carnegie 1SsaiLed.

. T. = monastery that Prince Alexis Dol
III who beat the Russian Minister o. For
e tSalrF Count I-amsdOre. about tie read anu
|,,,lse-s vith his cane IN the streets o. 81.
.,arsfurE attacking he statesman from Deiiii'u
.al,ing him altogether unawares. VII spend
hNU a,s,r5-r Of his DAYS as ar unwilling inmate.
~ = has been consigned by order OF the Car
re famous Soloyetsk Monastery about 100
It's bevond the remote White Sea port OF Arch
-. TIE winters there arctic in their IN
.-si.- while in summer the heat IS oppressive anu
TIE plaques o. l'lo94 ---- anu 0'-
81 endurance
~. monastery winch IS one Of the hottest places
. prsg,a having been founded in 1923 by st.
sa,bstbe,s has always been 4 favorite place OF
.a.er+ior Of people Of high rank who had offended
:. car They were sent there on the ground
hat their minds slightly unbalanced, and
-, removal from the temptations. the excitement
"a tho intrgues Of the outer world, together with
soutude meditation and companionship OF the holy
ren that IS 10 say, the monks Of the establish
-. was likely 10 restore them TO reason. Prince
.,,beny % Brunswick and his consort, Ann, Re
er, n Russia, simon Bekbulatovitch, the deposed
Tzar Of Kazan, and many other persons OF light
s,6 leading were imprisoned there, while even
:. she present moment there il among its inmates
p4nee Barten:eT. who. some ten or twelve years
400 murdered = lovely and popular young Polish
..rsss Al Warsaw In a fit of drunken jealousy.
Trba young Hussar officer was sentenced by the
oo,rt 70 penal servitude for life On the dreadful
island Of Sagha!ien. But she late Alexander III,
,,,m motives Of consideration for the princes
e,tber. who was Of the most trusted and
+st-hfai Of the veteran members OF the imperial
,o,sebold cornrauted the sentence Of the court
a oue Of detention n tbs monastery Of Solovetsk,
s,,g the ground that the prince must have
s.sn cut Of his mind at the time he committed
.bs crime n this way the prinCely house OF
,,,-.spies Vas SHARED the !ndignity Of having ore
- its gcious wearing the garb Of a felou. 1t
4. ,,rsorbtedy motives Of analogous char
sc,s- ira. haze prompted Emperor Nicholas 10
a.si IN his fashion with Prince Alexis Dolsoroukl
-. would have otherwise been sent TO jail. For
,.s extraordinary assault upon Count Lamsdorn
a only The elimination Of a career which, IN
~. last few years at any rate. has been one IN
....--rn+ed succession If troubles OF one kind
A. ancfher botn IN Russia and abroad He
ms -ct be coatounded with the Prince DolGorou-
~ NJ the same Christian name who married the
enormously wealthy Miss Fleetwood Wilson and
Who divides his tine between his own estates in
Prussia and those - his ErIlish wife in Great
Britain but belongs 70 entirely different branch
~ tbe family. Formerly he was an officer OF the
fyussars Of the Guards Regiment But after
ro.allderiag his OWN fortune and that OF ms Vile
al f,e card table he WIS turned out Of the army,
sr5 from that time forth lived mainly by means
Of his wits his wife having secured a judicial
seneratlon from him Count LamsdCrn was COM
PEELED 70 warn the Nuscovits embassies and le-
cations abroad 10 abstain from granting any sort
recognition 10 me prince 4A = - NI4iS' tpsCI'4-
with the refusal Of the Minister 10 recognize him
ar 10 grant him any post IN the diplomatic or
consular service as q means OF livelihood, that
led him 10 make the assault upon the Minister,
who was felled TO the ground, with blood stream
ing from an ugly scalp wound.
The Dolgorouk family is one OF the most ancient
and lustrious in Russia. They were princes before
the Romanoffs became czars. The first Romanon
Emperor Gar Mikhail, married Princess Dolgo-
rouki and Peter II died in 1879 on the very morn
ing Of the day appointed for is wedding TO an
other Princess Dolgorouki. Turing the reign Of
Catherine II a Prince Dolgorouki conquered the
Crmea and added IL TO her empire. receiving IN
return from her the surname Of ''Krimskoi'' 1t
was his grandson. Prince Michael Dolgorouk. who
was Minister Of War IN the earlier portion of the
reign Of Alexander II. who married the states
mans daughter, Princess Catherine Dolgorouh,
norganaticalIy short time after the death of his
consort. the Empress Marie whose maid Of honor
the princess had been.
The princess did not become Empress but was
created by her husband Princess Yourieffska, and
since the death Of her husband has lived entirely
abroad making her home al Paris. She has three
children. offspring Of her union with the Emperor
all born several years prior 70 her marriage how
ever The boy, Lalf-brother OF the late Gar
was formerly in the navy and visited the United
states at the time Of the Columbian celebration. in
1875. as midshipman on one OF the Russian men
of-War He now makes his home in St. Petersburg
where ne holds a commission in the Hussars Of the
Guard, bears the name Of Prince George Youri-
ensh and is married TO the Countess Alexander
Larnekau, a morganatic child OF the Duke Constan-
une O. odenburs. One Of his sisters the Princess
oga' Is the wife OF Count George Nuremberg while
me other, the Princess Catherine her fathers IA
Eoflue' and who was Tilted by Levi p Morton's
former son-ir-law, Count Bosom Talleyrand-Peri-
god' on account Of the insufficency Of her dowry
q now married 20 Prince Alexander Bariatinski.
he Do.2oroukis, whose name means the long
armed ones are influential in the Russian great
F9aa- FOR many years Prince Sandy DolgorouE
was tie Grand Master Of Ceremonies at court His
9lVl-er Prince Nicholas. spent a long time at
n4ih as military a;tache, while the salons Of three
" tAeiT sisters Mime. Albedynski the Princess
00iukoi and the Countess Steinbach were and still
are among the most popular and freQ,ented at ST.
Petersburg.