Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-30
PRINCE OF
RUSSIA IN
HONOLULU
Great Grandson of President
Grant Stops Off on Way to
States, Whittier He is Taking
His Sisters for Safety; Says
SIaVs Will Keep Up Fight
Against German AutoCraCy
RINCE mitchell CANTACUZENE,,
- Jr., great grandson Of Gen. Ulysses

RINCE Mitchell CANTACUZENE,
- Jr., great grandson Of Gen. Ulysses
Grant, civil war hero and for two
terms President Of the United States.
is a visitor to Honolulu today with his
two young sisters, Princess Barble
and Princess Zeneide. They are re-
speCtively grandson and granddaugh-
ter OF Fred Grant, son of the late
president, whose eldest daughter,
Miss Julia Grant, was married to
Prince Mitchell Cantacuzene, a mem
Der Of a noble Russian family.
The romantic union of the Russian
nobleman and the granddaughter of
the former United States president at
tracted international attention due to
the prominence of the two European
and American families united by mar
riage. The marriage ceremony was
performed at Newport, R. l., in 1899.
after COurtship which began in
Rome, Italy, where the Russian prince
first met Miss Grant.
Prince Mitchell Cantacuzene, Jr.
who is passenger aboard the TenyO
Maru in port today, is bound for the
states where he is taking his sisters.
Unsettled conditions in Russia are
given as the reasons for the removal
Of the two girls to the United States,
where they are to make their home
for the present with their grand
ton, D. c. The two princesses are but
s and. - years of age respectively,
Although unassuming, modern and
democratic, Prince Cantacuzene, who
is only youth of II years, showed
some reluctance in explaining the
real purpose of taking the young girls
to the United States. This, however.
he admitted to be because no one in
Russia today knows what may occur
The provisional government may
may result" he says,
is the main reason it was decided to
have the princesses domiciIed with
their grandmother.
Prince Cantacuzene intends to re-
turn to Russia, where he feels he
should be in this crisis Of his nation.
His father is a brigadier-general who
has been in command of Russian
troops on the eastern front until re
Gently, but is at present with his wife
at kiev. The family home is in Pol
tava, in the southern part of Russia.
What young Prince Cantacuzene
will do when he returns to Russia is
just at present undetermined, but he
may enter the army.
Despite the uncertainty which reigns
in Russia, he says that the govern
ment will continue the fight agains!
German autocrcy. Upon this point
he has little doubt. Although a social
list leader and to some extent opposed
to royalty, Minister of War Kerensky
is the strongest man in Russia today, !
thinks the young prince.
Such men as Kerensky, the intellt |
gent ones, treated the members of the |
royal families with consideration ami |,
no property was Confiscated, says
Prince Cantacuzene, but some hostility |
was shown by the masses in the !
period following the revolution. But, |
the prince adds again with a thought,
full look, mo one knows what may
happen in Russia now"
An interesting remark of the prince |
is that the Russians never had much |
liberty before and they are now en-
gagged in talking, talking and talk
ng" What may come of this talking !
IS what causes the uncertainty, he in.
Inmates.