The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-02
BY LA MARaUISE DE FoSTENoY.
. RlNCE ALEXANDER BARIATIN-
- SKI, who has just died at Flor
ence, leaving couple OF little
boys, was son-in-law of EN-

BY La MARaDISE DE FOSTENOS
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III ence. leaving couple OF little
boys, was son-in law of EN-
peror Alexander IL OF Russia for the
now widowed Princess Catherine Ba-
riatinski is the child whom the muir
dered Car dandled on his knee and
to whom he gave his last embrace on
leaving the palace of her mother. aft
ter luncheon there on March 10, 1881.
to so to his shocking doom few
minutes later at the hands of the Nj
hilists. She is the youngest of the
three children borne to the Inflated
/ autocrat by Princess Catherine Dol
4 gorouka. who received the name OF
/ iourieffska, along with the princely
title for herself and her children. on
| the occasion of her morganatic mar
liage TO the Emperor less than year
before his death. The children were
born several years prior to this mar
riage, and during the lifetime of the
cars Imperial consort. Empress Ma
| RE
Alexander Bariatinski was cap
| tain of the Regiment of Chevalier
Guards UP to the time of his bank
ruptcy three years ago. which created
a tremendous sensation, for. although
there are plenty Of Russian mobiles
sance, and especially by high play.
quietly disappear from the scene, cases
OF bankruptcy Iudicially declared arc
extremely rare among the Russian
fifty years there have only been three
instances of scions of the old pa
triciate of Russia being gazetted as
bankrupts. The first is that of Prince
vast forests, went into the timber bus
mess on large scale. and came to
grief through lack of working cap
ital. The second case was that of
mt fnt1f JNar ,t,r
mere spendthrift. The third and last
case was that of Prince Alexander Ba-
riatinski. who has Just died.
There was something peculiarly dis
creditable not so much to himself as
to his, mother-in-!aw the Princess
Yourieffska. For, when Gear Alex
ander was murdered it was found that
posting some time previously sum
estimated at considerably over s25,-
5000 In her name. and for the bene-
fit of herself and her children. in the
er investments abroad with the same
object in View. He knew full we'll
that owing to the manner in which
he had neglected his first wife. the
princess. the latter would receive but
scant consideration at the hands of
his son and successor. Alexander III
II Princess Mourieifska is therefore
Y
enormously rich. having. it is under
stood. almost doubled her fortune by
judicious investments. But she has
also earned the reputation from one
end of Europe to the other or uyarice
of the most sordid character, and
though the money given and bequeath-
ed to her. by her husband, Alexander
H., was intended for the benefit of
his and her children quite as much
rs for herself. she has always treated
them in the most shabby manner from
a financial point of View. Her two
girls, Princess Olga and Princess Cath
crime, We're repeatedly engaged before
finally married, the match in every in
OF the refusal of their mother to give
them a dowry, or ANYTHING beyond n
small allowance. the payment of which |
was Wholly dependent upon her ca
price and her pleasure Projected al
rand Perigord, who afterwards mar
rled Levi r. Morton's daughter, and (
was divorced by her. and also with |
the late Due de Chaulnes who after
wards married Miss Th go FRA shonts:
the day appointed for the wedding, on
this account. and when eventually the |
two girls did get husbands, Olga mar ),
rying Count MerenberE. eX-pretender !
burg. and Catherine wedding the late
Prince Alexander Bariatinski, both men,
had to agree to be content With what
ever their stingy mother-in-law would
to do for them In q financial
way.
Count Nuremberg got along without
much trouble having Inherited a tidy
fortune from his father. the late
Prince Nicholas Of Nassau, a fortune
a%n a nmn1,o through the 9wnersh II CT
baden, of the penultimate sovereign
Duke of Nassau. who was the father OF y