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...Russian journalist named Markov demands 250,000 francs for withholding from publication the memoirs of Tzar Alexander II, written by his morganatic wife, the late Princess Catherine Yourievska...
Alexander II, grandfather of the last Tzar, Nicholas II, often visited the Riviera and Switzerland with the Princess Yourievska, during the last ten years of his life, completely neglecting the Tzarina, whose Maid of Honor the Princess had been. Alexander and Catherine had three children before he married her, only six weeks after his legal consort died. The daughter who is being approached by journalist Markov is known as Princess Yourievska in London, where she has attracted attention through her vocal concerts...
...Court of Appeals upheld a verdict awarding $45,000 damages and costs to the Russian Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the ex-Tzar...
...noble parentage in 1863 during the insurrection which was finally put down with great cruelty by the Russians after the Polos had appealed in vain to Europe. He was educated at Vilna and Kharkow, was deported to Siberia (1887-1892) for alleged complicity in a plot to assassinate the Tzar. His sympathy became definitely socialist after this and he was active in many movements for the emancipation of Poland, and soon became the leader of the Socialist party at Lodz. Here he founded the Kobotnik (Workman) - still the organ of the Socialist Party in Poland. After searching vainly for years...
...help his fellow Patriarch in distress, the Most Rev. Tikhon. And if possible, the Turks will prevent Constantinople from becoming the seat of any other Greek Orthodox Patriarch. The Greek Orthodox Church has ancient patriarchates at Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, but these are all cities in foreign hands. The Tzar, who used to have an authority in Greek Orthodox circles somewhat less than the Roman Catholic Pope, is dead. To whom can Tikhon go for help...