Word: nostitzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COUNTESS FROM IOWA-Countess Nostitz-Putnam...
...lost his personal fortune and was engaged in the champagne business in Manhattan. With him she returned to Germany, was presented to the Kaiser, learned that her husband was heavily in debt, was soon neglected by him. At a ball for the young Hohenzollern princes she met Count Nostitz, military attache of the Russian Embassy, divorced the Baron to marry the Count...
...life she lived in pre-Revolutionary Russia and pre-War Paris has become familiar to readers of the memoirs of onetime Russian aristocrats. Countess Nostitz was accused of being a spy during the War, witnessed the disintegration of the old order under the sequence of defeats, was almost more hostile to the opposition party within the ranks of the nobility than to the revolutionists...
...Nostitzes escaped to Finland, were trapped again in the Ukraine, eventually got out by way of Constantinople. In Paris and New York Countess Nostitz ardently propagandized against the Bolsheviks, flinging "her entire energies into it, even at the risk of being unpopular." Despite her zeal, the only success she could record was that of persuading the late Senator Medill McCormick, who had "leanings towards 'giving the Bolsheviks a chance,' " not to visit Russia...