The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-28
MAY RESIGN RANK TO
WE'D WOMAN HE LOVES

and out of the ranks of the family. and
reduced him from tho status of
mediatizcd prince to that of Count OF
AlteniIirchen. For time he vegetated
as such in Berlin But finding that many
of his former friends and relatives
turned their backs upon him, he oetook
himself to Russia with his actress-wife.
secured naturalization as Muscovite
citizen. and ultimately managed to
induce the present Car to bestow upon
him the Russian title of Prince Sayn-
Wittgenstein. Of which he had been de-
prived in Germany. and to the com
pulsory surrender of which he had given
his written consent at Berlin.
He died three years ago. leaving two
sons and a daughter by his actress
wife. One Of the sons, Prince Alexan-
der. was killed in duel not long ago by
Prince Anatole Bariatinski following
a silly quarrel about demimondaine'
with whom he was acquainted. and who
had appealed to him at a railroad
station for protection from Bariatin-
ski The surviving brother, Prince
Henry. has inherited much Of the Sayn-
Wittgenstein property In Russia, wnlcn
at one time belonged to his granduncie'
Prince Peter.
The latter. an aide-de-camp of Car
Alexander II, was one of the most
brilliant figures of the court OF the
Tuileries during the reign OF Napoleon
III, but on the fall of the empire mar
ried Rosalie Leon. daughter of an inn
keeper OF the village of Guepavas.
near Brest. and one of the queens OF
the half-world in Paris. To please
her, he built a most magnificent cha
teau in Brittany, where she, however,
bored herself so intensely that she
took to drinking ether and succumbed
thereto. She left no children.
Prince Emil Won Wittengenstein
married in 1865. morganatically. bal
lerina of the Warsaw opera. Gambia
Stefanska. The children of this union
were ennobied by the Grand Duke OF
Hesse as Barons Won Kleydorff, and
one of them, Baron Emil Won Kley-
dorff. figures on tho Berlin comic opera
stage under the name of "Egenieff.
Prince Alexander Sayn-Wittgen-
stein-Ludwigsburg was obliged TO
resign his rank and to descend TO the
status of a Count Hachenburg on mar
rying Mile. Helene Krolikovska, the
governess of the children of his hrst
wife.
Miss Harriet Pigott. who married
Gustav Sayn-W ittgenstein, was more
women who bestowed their hands
rpon princes of this German house
She was a clever Irishwoman, daugh-
ter of an Irish baronet. Sir george
Pigott. of kellyville. When obstacles
were raised to her marriage, on &C
count of the alleged inequality or
her birth TO that of her husband, she
was able to get matters satisfactorily
adjusted by showing that she com
prised a large number of former Kings
of Ireland among her ancestors, ana
this was considered as qualifying her
to mate her princely husband on
footing of equality.
the princesses of the house of Sayn-
Wittgenstein was that wonderful Prin-
cess Caroline who was the Egeria OF
composer List and the cause of his
seeking refuge in holy orders. 1t
NAV be recalled that long before
priest, she eloped with him from
her chateau in Russian Poland, and
endeavored in vain to induce her
husband to divorce her. so as to leave
her free to marry the composer
When, years later. her husband died,
Liszt was greatly embarrassed For
he had plighted his troth not only
to her. but also to the Countess
Aroult. mother of his two daughters,
Nine. Richard Wagner. of Bayreuths
and the late Nine. Emile Olivier.
whose husband was French Premier
at the time of the war OF 1870 Llszt
consulted his friend Cardinal Ho-
henlobe. who, anxious to avoid
mesaIliance by his kinswoman, the
princess, advised him to enter the
church, and thus extricate himself
from his awkward position Llszt
followed this advice and took holy
orders
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