Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-09-10
PRINCESS IS FOUND
Worldwide Search Locates
Woman In New York.
czar Of Russla's Agents Locate Wife
Of officer In His Own imperial Cav
alry-she Wanted to Be an
Actress.

New York.-Princess Olga COLT.
zine, wife OF Prince Andre Golnzine,
an officer OF the cars own imperial
cavalry, who has been missing for
three months, was found In New York
by the Russian secret service In a
worldwide search. The princess has
gone home, She had, while here,
been In the care OF Pierre de Routsky.
acting Russian consul general.
The princess, who is practically pen
niless, having pawned her jewels In a
mad flight to various cities OF the
east, was located In the Holland apart.
ments. &C West Forty-sixth street.
Born a princess Of the house OF
Tcherkasskia, a family reputed to be
as old as the Ronanof dynasty, and
married at sixteen into the house Of
| Golitzine, the viYacious Olga left the
pomp and ceremony OF the Russian
court for a career on the stage in
New York city. She wanted to be
an actress, but In the last month
her dreams have been shattered. Aft
er a flight across Europe, which
proved the platitude that fact is al
ways robbing fiction, she must, as she
confessed, return across the Atlantic
at the urgent demand OF the Russian
government
Reports that the companion OF the
princess on her hurried flight from
Russia was a well-to-do American led
to rumors that she had eloped. He
passed much time with her on ship
board and at the New Willard hotel
during her stay In Washington, width
er she FIRST journeyed after landing,
1t was said The noblewoman insisted,
however. that her only companion had
been an English woman, who had as
T'sted her in leaving her native land
Gfter being told OF the princess de-
sire for freedom and career ON the
stage in America.
Continental society, already aston
ished by her appearance early last
winter on the stage Of the Imperial
theater, in st. Petersburg, was shock
ed when 1t was learned that she had
disappeared. The car, angry because
of her theatrical debut, had ostra-
ciZed her from court, but when she
disappeared that mysterious system
which covers Europe like a net, the
Russian secret service, was set at
work.
For weeks the efforts Of the secret
police were of no avail. Prince An
Dire, who she says stormed so vio-
lently when she appeared on the
stage that no forced a separation.
was heartbroken, she asserted Final
ly, few weeks ago, the cars agents
discovered that she had been at the
New Willard hotel in Washington.
After a call from an attache Of the
Russian embassy there she fed to
New York, and stopped for several
days at the Rnickerbocker hotel.
Again she was discovered, she said,
and took an apartment at the West
Forty-sixth street address. But her
flight availed her nothing, and, practi.
cally without funds, she agreed to
go home.
Acting Russian Consul de Routsky
says that the father of the princess
was an officer In the Imperial guards
and one Of the proudest and oldest
families In Russia The Golitzine
family 10 one of the most prominent
in Russia and best known in Europe,
he said.
The 1912 edition of the Almanac of
st. Petersburg shows Prince Andre
Golitzine to be the fifth son
of Prince Alexandra Bofissovitch
Golitzine, equarry to the court of the
car, curateur Of Moscow and marshal
to the governor of Vladimir. Prince
Andre was born In October, 1889. Prin-
cess Olga Alexandrovna is the daugh.
ter of Prince Dimitri Tcherkassky
marshal in the Odessa district Of Rus
STA.