Russian Court Memoirs, 1914-16, with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war . DukePaul in Tzarskoe-Selo is a magnificent from Paris have been busily at work andthe result is marvellous. The palace is full of curiosand art collections, beautiful pictures, old china, rarecarvings, etc. The Countess Hohenfelsen is a very pretty womanstill, with radiant brown eyes, that have the powerof being caressing, or full of mirth, at will. The couple is a well-assorted one, for the GrandDuke is a very handsome man, with a tall, com-manding
Russian Court Memoirs, 1914-16, with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war . DukePaul in Tzarskoe-Selo is a magnificent from Paris have been busily at work andthe result is marvellous. The palace is full of curiosand art collections, beautiful pictures, old china, rarecarvings, etc. The Countess Hohenfelsen is a very pretty womanstill, with radiant brown eyes, that have the powerof being caressing, or full of mirth, at will. The couple is a well-assorted one, for the GrandDuke is a very handsome man, with a tall, com-manding figure, and resembles his mother theEmpress Maria Alexandrovna, who was a lovelywoman; he has inherited her chiselled nose and deepmelancholy eyes. Their son, Vladimir Hohenfelsen, is a delightfulyouth just turned nineteen, with his mothersglorious eyes ; he has the soul and gift of a poetunited to a noble disposition. He has just passedhis exams, and will soon be going to the Front. The two daughters are pretty little girls. It is reported that since the war the Grand DukePaul objects to his wife and children bearing a. COtTNTKSS OLGA THE TZARS DAUGHTERS 179 German name, and that the Emperor has consentedto give Countess Hohenfelsen the name of PrincessJaroslawsky, which is an historical one, belongingto the Romanoff family. Nothing is officially known,but rumour says the matter is settled. The Countess Hohenfelsen is on very friendlyterms with her stepdaughter, the Grand DuchessMaria Pavlovna, junior, and with her stepson, theGrand Duke Dmitry Pavlovitch. The Grand Duke Cyril (the Emperors firstcousin) is a very handsome man in an elegant has a very good figure and his whole personalitybears the stamp of birth and breeding. Since theinjuries received at the time of the disaster to thePetropavlovsk, he has always been rather marriage with the late Duke of Edinburghssecond daughter, the Grand Duchess VictoriaFeodorovna, is a very happy one, al
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