Evening star., 1923-06-24
One Member of the RomanOff Family
Repairs Fortunes Through Marriage

Nicholas, to order the withdrawal
from the scene of both his uncle,
Grandduke Paul, and of Gen. Pistol
kors On the following day after the
sensational and public social execu-
tion OF the lady, the general was
called upon by his fellow officers to
at once divorce his wife or to resign
both his commission and his mem
bership OF every club in the Russian
capital. and naturally chose the for
mer alternative, the more SO as he
received q handsome bonus from the
grand duke for relinQuishing the legal
hold which he had on the lady.
She left Russia with the grand
duke secretly before tho week was
over, and the next thing that was
heard Of them was of their morga-
nattc marriage at Leghorn, which
had no value in the eyes of the secu-
lar or ecclesiastic laws of Russia.
Indeed, the various Russian embassies
abroad were ordered to accord no
recognition whatsoever to the former
Nine. .Pistolkors, or even to the grand
duke, and this continued, as I said
until shortly before the outbreak of
the great war, when a reconcilia ton
took place between the grand duke
and his nephew, the late emperor.
Up to that time he had even been
deprived of the guardianship Of his
two children by his first wife, Prin-
cess Alexandra of Greece, who died
In such q tragic fashion. These chill
dren, the Grand Duchess Marie Paw
logna and Grand Duke Memitri Paw
lovitch. were brought up entirely by
their aunt, the late Grand Duchess
Elizabeth. who was murdered by the
bolshevists, and whose remains were
brought all the way to Jerusalem
via Vladivostok for interment in the
holy city,
1t is unnecessary to relate here how
the Princess Palei managed to escape
the shocking fate by which her hus-
band and so many members OF the
historic house Of Romanon were over
taken. There are many who scoff at
tho somewhat fantastic stories which
she relates Of her adventures, more
especially as she ascribes her safety
to the potent. influence which her
beauty and charm exercised on those
bolshevtst terrorists who had con-
SiSueu hor Imperial huSpbuo anu NE
relatives to SO cruel q death.
In order TO explain the fact that
the young Princess Irene Palei was
abie to secure the hand of Prince
Theodore Of Russia, that is to say
the son of Grand Duke Alexander
Mikelovitch and OF Grand Duchess
Xenia, eldest sister. of the late czar
1t 10 necessary to explain that the
young fellows parents are in ex-
tremely straitsned circumstances
brought in the criminsi courts oi
London against dishonest agents
who had undertaken 70 sell th.
Grand Duchess magnificent pearls
and who had swfndied her of almost
the entire amount, revealed to tht
public the financial straits to which
she had been reduced. The grand
duke himself will be recalled as hav.
ing visited the United States few
years before the war, and as having
spent q considerable portion of one
summer at Newport. Had it not beer
for the difficulties with which Crane
Duchess xenia 10 confronted in pro
viding for her children, ii Is pretty
we'll certain that neither she, and
still less her mother, tho Widowed
Empress Marie. would have evel
Fivsn their consent to young Thee,
dors's leeding to the altar IN PariI
the daughter and heiffss OF = lad,
with sueh q stormy pGft N the OK,
Nine. Pistolkors, now{Syincess Palei