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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blackmail? | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blackmail? | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

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