The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-24
WEDDING MAY TAKE
PLACE WITHIN YEAR

NJ IA MAR0UIsE DE E'oNTENoY.
- INFERIOR NICHOLAS has within thc
l. last three weeks held n fnmil,
council nj the Tsarkoc- Scic
palace. attended by all the adult
members of the Imperial House, In
order 10 consider the question OF the
engagement OF Princess Tatjana Con
s'antinovna. daughter OF Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess Constantine Con-
sthntinovitch. to Prince Constantine
| Bagration. This engagement was an
nounccd in these letters some weeks
a so. on which occasion gave n de-
scrlption Of the Bagration family. and
or rs ayowedly Jewish origin. boasting
as Il does. OF lineal descent from the
biblical King David.
rhe council. presided by the Gear,
might he allowed TO subsist. no marri-
year: that In the meantime Prince
Bagration should be relieved OF his
military duties as lieutenant OF the
Chevaller Gardes at St Petersburg. and
America, while the princess's parents
have taken her away from ST Peters
h,lrg. down to their beautiful country
place IN the Crmea. on the shores al
not TO see or to hold any communica-
lion with one another until the new
year; and then, II they are still Of the
same mind but only in that case. is
me wedding to take place at ST Pc
Il will he the second union since tho
GAYS OF Peter the Great Of princess
of the imDeria family of Romanofi
perial rank. The only other instance
was that OF Grand Duchess Marie
Nikola5ewna. sister of Emperor Alex
ander H.. and who after the death OF
u fret htuel Na,N Il II
Imperial Duke OF Leuchtenberg, mar
rted with the reluctant consent of her
father. Count Nicholas Stroganoff
known as the most handsome and The
TO this union there was born d daught
| er. who married General Count Via
dimr Scheremitioh. at tho head OF
alexander His military household,
! and whose son. Count Sergius Schere-
mitieff. married to cousin of the
same name Is now military attache OF
the -hInscorite embassy at Constants
nople.
her full rights and preroga tives as a
princess OF the reigning house, even az
ter her marriage TO Count Scheremitieff
who, thanks to this was able to escape
| ing an unfortunate coiffeur ut Nice
| The count. entering his wife's dressing
rtom, found tho Figaro displaying al
| together undue ia miliarity while In the
L
duchess, and accordingly seized him by
| the nape of his neck, and by Ills waist
hand and lifting him into the air
! hurled him crashing through the closed
windows, into the gardens two stories
| below, where he succumbed half an
| hour afterwards TO his injuries. rho
| count was at once placed under arrest
and 1t was only because he happened
to be the husband OF Grand Duchess
Marie, and that the latter had retained
all her prerogatives as a princess Of the
leon III. INTERVIEWED. and relieved the
count OF all further legal proceedings
criminal or otherwise. The grand Ouch
| ess. however, bestowed a large sum OF
money upon the barber's widow and
| fatherless children.
| Incidentally. 1t may be mentioned
that morganatic marriages are alto
gcther unknown In Russia. Every
member of the reigning house who
weds must by the terms OF the Family
| Statutes of the Romanoffs, statutes
| the land, secure from the Emperor a
| ukase. bearing his signature, counter
| signed by the Minister of the Imperial
| House, and addressed to the Senate OF
! the Empire. sanctioning the union. II
| that ukase is issued, the union is, ipso
| facto, legal. and tina wife entitled to
share all the honors and dignities OF
| her husband, no matter what her birth
or; origin. II tho Gear neglects to is
suc this ukase. the marriage remains OF
| doubtful legality in point of ecclesias-
national law. the wife being dobarred
! II ON sharing her husbands honors and
| titles. while the children of tho union