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Their few weeks together stretched into a couple of decades during which Misia continued to charm such people as Diaghilev, Clemenceau and Debussy, and Sert won an international reputation as a mural painter, plus a fortune in commissions. All was idyllic until Sert met Roussadana Mdivani, a Georgian princess young enough to be his and Misia's daughter. It was a strange triangle, with Sert torn between Roussadana and Misia. each of whom loved and consoled the other at every turn of Sert's affection. Misia let him have a divorce. "The poor girl was not responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Borderland of Bohemia | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Left, somewhere along the Champs Elysées, by Nina Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of Sherlock Holmes's creator: a jeweled brooch, shaped like a hand, with rubies on the fingernails and a sprinkling of diamond stars and emeralds. Nina-who used to be Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani-advertised her loss in the papers and let it go at that. "Even Sherlock Holmes would have told the police in such a case," mumbled Paris' police chief. "His daughter-in-law had better consult us if she wants her brooch back." (In 1935 Nina dropped $8,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ups & Downs | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Married. Louise Van Alen Mdivani, 37, Astor heiress; and Alexander Saunderson, 29, London lawyer; she for the third time (her first and second husbands were both "Marrying Mdivanis"), he for the first; in Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Mutton (first husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani; second, Count Court Haugwitz-Revent-low; third, Cinemactor Gary Grant) was back at the marriage-license bureau with another prince. Sharing the Swiss vistas with her in St. Moritz: tall, blond Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, leading candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Prince Alexis Mdivani, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, Gary Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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