Word: troubetzkoy
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...conservatives, they acquired much publicity but few customers. To Paris from Russia, three years prior, had come one Serge Stchoukine, an immensely wealthy Muscovite whose fortune came from importing the one luxury that rag-wrapped moujiks would not do without: tea. Tea Tycoon Stchoukine had bought the 18th Century Troubetzkoy Palace, filled its rococo halls with gilded French furniture and crystal chandeliers. He also had an instinctive appreciation of what the younger French artists were trying to do. In Paris he bought the Fayet collection of Gauguins outright, bought one canvas from Henri Matisse. He liked...
...Artist Robert Armstrong ("Sheriff Bob"), onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York Lewis Stuyvesant, onetime Congressman William Astor, Winthrop Astor Chanler, Mrs. John Jay Chapman, Mrs. Richard Aldrich, Mrs. Christopher Temple Emmet; of cancer; in Charlottesville, Va. Because of business affairs and his marriage to author Amelie Rives (now Princess Troubetzkoy), Brother John quarreled with his family, three of whom got him committed to Bloomingdale Hospital in 1897. He escaped to Virginia, had himself declared sane by the courts of that state and of North Carolina. It took Chaloner (he had adopted the old form of the family name) 22 years...
Married. Princess Luba Obolensky; and Prince Serge Gregory Troubetzkoy; scions of Russia's greatest pre-Revolution houses who have intermarried for five generations; in a Russian Orthodox Church in upper Manhattan. In 1931 the groom married the bride's sister. Princess Anna Obolensky, who two months later jumped off the Eiffel Tower...
...play is entirely Miss Kennedy and Sidney Blackmer, and not at all the work of its authors, Princess Troubetzkoy and Gilbert Emery, who seem to have loaned it little except their names. To be sure, there is a professional smoothness about the book of the play, an assurance which borders on insouciance; and the air of boredom with which the authors play on the easily tuned instrument of the public galls even the thick-skinned among Boston playgoers. There is an assumption that the playwrights know what the public swallows alive and buys wholesale, a dangerous assumption...
...seated in an armchair, gazing in a pensive and almost melancholy manner into the distance. The history of this superb painting can be traced back without interruption to the time of the famous Empress Catharine of Russia. This Bartholomew picture was known for a time in Russia as the "Troubetzkoy Rembrandt...