The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-27
NAME OF DEMIDOFF
STANDS FOR WEALTH

may be said to have been brought up
win the present Car, his brothers and
his sisters. Her father and mother.
Count and Countess Worontzoff- Dasch
KOHL We're the principal dignitaries Of
Alexander HIS household. from the
tlme OF his happy marriage to Marie
DaSihar' sister of queen Alexandra.
ana both remained until the cars
death the most trusted conndants and
constant companions of their Imperial
master ana mistress.
Indeed, when their daughter Sophie
married. Empress Marie felt almost as
ii size was assisting at the wedding
OF ono OF her own children.
II IS hardly necessary TO recall here
mat the founder of the House of DENT
don was q blacksmith of tho province
OF Tula. Nikita Dcmidon By name
Peter the Great when travelling in that
region hupDcned to break one of ms
most valuable English pistols which
Nikita succeeded in Intending SO quickly
and we'll that the autoCrat was over
70 remember him. Tho smith was DC
ginning to think that lie had been FOR
gotten, when there came an Official
document loaded with Imperial seals,
granting him the freehold OF a large
tract of imperial land in tho district
pemiaom went TO work on his new
property, began by developing the iron
mines he found there. built foundrics.
started silver mining. and became so
wealthy ana useful u citizen. that Peter
the Great delighted at having dis
covered this wonder ennobled MIN IN
l'-i, that is. shortly before his own
death, bestowins upon aim large ad-
dItlonal tracts OF imperial domain in
the Ural mountains.
Tho patent OF nobility carried with
1t no title. but invested the ex-black-
smith with all the privileges then on
FnfH 90. H4fHl
gliding that Of owning scrfs. IL was
his great grandson Nicholas Dcmidoif
VINO established himself at Florence at
the end of the eighteenth century and
which in those days carried with 1t
the Florcnt!nc title of count HIS
eldest son and successor Auatole Doml-
don. obtained from the Grauddukc OF
tuscany promotion 10 tho rank or
Prince OF san Donate. with right OF
sVcccsslo on to his nephew. Paul. son OF
MS brother Anetole Dcmidoa mar
red Princess Mathilde Buonaparte
daughter OF ox-King Jerome OF West
phalia by his Second marriage to the
daughter OF the King OF Wurteinberg.
As d matter Of fact. Mathildes mar
rage was something akin to a sale.
ior among the wedding presents which
AnatCle bestowed upon his bride was
= caskct containing her fathers /. o.
C5 TO an enormous amount
me break between the eternalIy
a
OF Car Nicholas TO Florence At
a iete given in his honor by Anatole
pemldon and his WIFE she sudde,lv
threw aside the lace that covered her
shoulders showed the Car the MARKS
OF the brutal blows which she mad re-
ceiVed from her husband. and bursting
INTO tears demanded Imperial protec-
This she received: for the CAR per
sonally punished Prince Anatole and
vruered MN 10 consent to judicial
separation ana TO grant his ill-used
Wife an annuity of $5uCO0 which shc
enjoyed until her death more than haif
q century later
Anatole leaving no children. was
succeeded as Prince OF San Donate by
his nephew Paul father ~ Prince Elm.
ana who married as his socend viz
Princess Helen Troubetxkoy.
ma" almost forgotten TO mention
mat IN lsf2 the late Grimes Paul OBJ
tanned from King Nic,o- Emnaiue |
tho conversion OF his Floreatirn end
Tuscan title OF Prince q san Dornto,
INTO one OF The Italian kingdom and
IN me same year Car Alexander H.
sranted TO MIN and lis descendants
the right until then denied. or usine.
TINS Italian title iu RussiI-thcu-l Of
curse the title remains foreign one
mere are other Demidoifs descended
OF the original blacksinith Who tra
not children OF Prince Taul Jnese Of
course POSSESS no rrilcelr title. and
are plain. ordinary Russian mobiles
, '.''"' anu ms N4i'' tp their sos row.
nave no children ana a; MS death
me chiettainship OF the family WIN 90
70 his half-brotha. Nnatolc one OF
ms halt- sisters is she iascinatin. Ilin-
cess Marie Abanalek lnxareu. VINO is
so passionntcly foni OF ianciu.. q,d
pantomine that She has added a larLo
private Theatre TO her pllsco "a. kon,e
where she chiefly raaides). and in
Which she eives oallei> of ner own
composition She even sometimes APP
pears on the ioWcr deck ~ littl, sr,lI.
20 great adva alag herself Hey nus
pand. t'rince La@areif is one OF t!:ose
great Russian mobiles who claim d.
rect descent from the Biblical King
David
downright 1919 by the Brentwoor
CompanyD