New-York tribune., 1905-07-21
THE COUNTESS WlTTE.
CIeCer Wife of Cars Peace Com
missioner Is .Tezcess.

Countess Witte wife OF the eminent statesman
who has Just been appointed by the Gar to be his
principal pleaipotentiary in the peace negotiations
with Japan at Portsmouth. y h. next month is
-ewess, fact have not seen mentioned in auv
The reviews Of the career Of the count p,blishes
IN connection with his nomination. Those who re-
call the treatment OF the Hebrew race IN Russia bv
court government and people viii be able 20 ap-
pTec!ate the extent 20 which this union has hand-
capped De Witte, the situation being rendered still
more difficult by the fact that the countess besides
being OF humble birth, was formerly the wife OF a
very obscure Official subordinate OF De Witte TO
wee whom she obtained dissolution Of her first
marriage.
* Is true that the countess is a very clever wom-
ar, that her second marriage WAS a love match and
That she and her husband devoted couple
moreover her salons at st. Petersburg are fire.
quented by La Haute Finance" both Russian and
foreign. which has led on more than ore occasion
70 totally uEfounded and slanderous runors, cir
cuateo oy her husbands political foes. TO the effect
that The habitues Of her salon used them TO hatch
"coups de bourse' on the money markets both at
home and abroad. with official inforua ton and
secrets obtained through her from the count On
one occasion the charges OF this kind took such
pronounced form that De Witte demanded OF the
Car an Independent inquiry into their foundation,
which resulted in the establishment Of the ground
lessness OF the accusations
Hith ali that however. Nine de Witte has until
now not been received at court and the great world
At 81 Petersburg has followed suit-that IS TO say,
The feminine portion thereof n fact the late Di-
mitri Sipjagulne. who was murdered few years
ago. while Minister Of the Interior incurred no end
OF u-Wll4. not only in society. but also at court
when not OAg after his marriage TO Princess Vyas-
Eenska he was led by his warm friendship for
De Witte 70 take his bride 10 call upon the lat
te-'s wife Indeed, the widowed Czarina did not
hesitate TO manifest her dispeasure in q very
marked manner 10 SipJaguine about the matter
De White Is devoted TO his daughter who has been
Il very particular way her fathers companion
and conhdante- She IL married TO q member Of the
llustrlous house Of Narshkine. which, although IN
titled. is one Of The Oldest and grandest of the
AuEcovite ar-stocray y several zarinas having been
SarishklDes. including the mother Of Peter the
Great
CAUSED AN ENJOYS RECALL FROM HERE.
Nine de Catacazy whose death has just taken
place at Paris. al an advanced age, was in years
gone By the subject OF no little unpIeasentness be-
tween the governments OF the United States and
Russia Indeed. she the cause Of demand
By this country upon Russia for the recall Of N.
&c Catacszy from the post OF Minister Plenipoten-
tlary at Washington singularly beautiful wom-
an she left her first husband, the Neapotan Prince
de Santa Severina, tn order 70 accompany 10 this
country n. de Catacazy, when he was attached 10
The Russian Legation at Washington as its sec
rerary The prince, q member Of the diplomatic
service Of the King Of Naples had been one Of the
colleagues Of " de Catacazy IN e European capi-
tai and the fight Of the princess TO this country
when Catacazy was transferred here naturally ere
ated seusation- However. as Catacazy in those
5avs lived in the city Of Washington, near the le-
garion. and the princess lived out in the suburbs
where she maintained no kind OF social intercourse
win rnerropolitan or Official society, nobody had
any fault find
Nv ard bv Catacazy was promoted TO another
most IN Europe, and some years later he returned
here as the Cars Minister Plenipotentary The
Prince Of santa Severina had meanwhile died and
his widow rad availed herself OF her freedom 10
vvbfc 0F had
known ali about the circumstances OF her former
residence in the national capital, could not bring
s-seIf 10 accord TO her either the welcome or the
consideration due TO q Russian Ambassadress. She
was boycotted even by the Official world and in the
end the state Department, in order TO put an end
10 an ntoIerable situation, asked, by the direction
q President Grant, II I remember Alright. for her
husbands recall, as persona no longer ''grata, .
a demand which was at once granted by the Rus
san government