Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-10-01
PRINCESS IS FOUND.
Worldwide Search Locates
Woman in New York.
Gar of Russia's Agents Locate Wife
CT Officer IN His Own Imperial Cav
aIry-She Wanted to Be an
Actress.

New York.-Princess Olga Colt
zine, wife of Prince Andre Golitzine,
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, family reputed to be
as old as the Romanoff dynasty, and
married at sixteen into the house of
Golitzine, the vivacious 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 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 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,
it was said The noblewoman insisted,
however, that her only companion had
been an English woman, who had as
sisted her in leaving her native land
after being told of the princess de-
sire for freedom and a 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 it 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 al
work.
For weeks the efforts of the secret
police were of no avail. Prince An
dre,> who she says stormed so VIC
lently when she appeared on the
stage that he 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 call from an attache of the
Russian embassy there she fed tC
New York, and stopped for several
days at the Knickerbocker hotel
Again she was discovered, she said
and took an apartment at the West
Forty-sixth street address. But he1
fight availed her nothing, and, practi
cally without funds, she agreed tc
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 is 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 Borissovitch
Gol1tzine, equarry to the court of the
czar, curateur of Moscow and marsha,
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
sia