; a biographical and literary study . ed to arms that they might go whereyoung Kireeff had gone. Alexanders handwas forced, and the war began, which but forEnorlands intervention would have clearedEurope of the Turk. We have the text, butnot the sermon ; the Preface ends abruptlywith an almost clumsy peroration. The lady who inspired both the eulogy andthe curtailment was Madame Novikoff, morewidely known perhaps as O. K., with whomKinglake maintained during the last twentyyears of life an intimate and mutual Olga Novikoff, nie Kireeff, is aRussian lady of aristocr
; a biographical and literary study . ed to arms that they might go whereyoung Kireeff had gone. Alexanders handwas forced, and the war began, which but forEnorlands intervention would have clearedEurope of the Turk. We have the text, butnot the sermon ; the Preface ends abruptlywith an almost clumsy peroration. The lady who inspired both the eulogy andthe curtailment was Madame Novikoff, morewidely known perhaps as O. K., with whomKinglake maintained during the last twentyyears of life an intimate and mutual Olga Novikoff, nie Kireeff, is aRussian lady of aristocratic rank both byparentage and marriage. In a lengthenedsojourn at Vienna with her brother-in-law, theRussian ambassador, she learned the currentbusiness of diplomacy. An eager religiouspropagandist, she formed alliance with the Old Catholics on the Continent, and withmany among the High Church English clergy ;becoming, together with her brother Alexander,a member of the Rdtinion Nationale, a societyfor the union of Christendom. Her interest in. mai)a:\ie novikoff. O. K. MADAME NOVIKOFF 93 education has led her to devote extensive helpto school and church building and endowmenton her sons estate. God-daughter to the CzarNicholas, she is a devoted Imperialist, nor lessin sympathy, as were all her family, withRussian patriotism : after the death of herbrother in Servia on July j^^-, 1876, she be-came a still more ardent Slavophile. Thethree articles of her creed are, she says, thoseof her country, Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Na-tionalism. Her political aspirations have beenguided, and guided right, by her tact and good-ness of heart. Her lifes aim has been tobring about a cordial understanding betweenEngland and her native land ; there is littledoubt that her influence with leading Liberalpoliticians, and her vigorous allocutions in thePress, had much to do with the enthusiasmmanifested by England for the liberation ofthe Danubian States. Readers of the PrincessLievens letters to Earl
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