Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-12
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be found in 1.-The Almanach de Gotha is that con-
tracted by Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaovitch of
Russia, with the colossally rich and comely widow
of the great Moscow tea merchant Burinine The
wedding took place at Moscow on September 4, 1892
with the sanction of the late Car, which had been
obtained by the present Emperor Nicholas, always
a close friend and chum of the Grand Dukes
The Grand Dukes wife retained her name of Nine
Burinne throughout her married life, declined the
offer of title, and never expressed desire to be
received at court where she realized that her pO-
siton would be somewhat awkward one. The
union, though childless, turned out very happily
and her death she bequeathed her fortune to her
husband The latter has recently contracted second
and this time public marriage with Princess Stana of
Montenegro, the divorced wife of Duke George of
Leutenberg, and sister of Queen Helen of Italy.
Grand Duke Georges Experience
THE late Grand Duke George second brother of
Emperor Nicholas, was twice secretly married
Not until his tragicay sudden death while out driv
ing Abbas Tuman in the Caucasus, did the court
of ST. Petersburg become aware that he had secretly
married a Georgian woman of youth beauty, and
good birth, Princess Orkowski, a cousin of the
morganatic wife of his own kinsman Duke Con-
stantine of Oldenburg By her, Czarowitch George
had two and daughter, upon whom, after his
DEATH Emperor Nicholas, in response to his mothers
request, conferred the title of Count and Countess
Romanoffski, besides settling large of money
on each of them.
The other secret marriage of Grand Duke George
was contracted only short time before the death
of Alexander Ill. 1t generally believed at the
time that George in the very last stages of con-
sumption, and Alexander Ill is understood to have
permitted the alliance in order to the mind of
the dying lad, who was his favorite son. When,
however, Nicholas came to the throne, and George
became ipse tacto Czarovch. and at the same time
showed no indications of dying, but the contrary
OF recovering it became necessary that this alliance
should be dissolved. Indeed, Nicholas called upon
his younger brother, who had now become heir to
the throne, to repudiate his wife, who of the
most humble origin This, George, who in
Livada at the time, refused to do, and in the midst
of the dispute between the two brothers teegraphc
was received from the Dukes home at Abbas
Tuman in the Caucasus, to the effect that the girl
and her baby had suddenly died.
George at once returned thither, without waiting
for his fathers funeral, and from that time forth
until his death declined to his elder brother
pressing his conviction that the latter had not only
acted most ungenerously in connection with the
affair." but that he in way responsible for
the young womans sad end. While he did not openly
intimate that the present Car had instigated her
death and that of the child he did not hesitate to
assume openly that some INSCRIPTIONS individuals,
who were aware of the quarrel between the two
brothers and of the wishes of the Emperor, had put
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