Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1913 — PRINCESS IS FOUND [ARTICLE]

PRINCESS IS FOUND

World-Wide Search Locates Woman in New York. Czar of Russia’s Agents Locate Wife of Officer in His Own Imperial Cavalry—She Wanted to Be an Actress. New York.—Princess Olga Golitzine, wife of Prince Andre Golitzine, an officer of the czar’s own imperial cavalry, who has been missing for three months, was found in New York by the Russian secret service in a world-wide search. The princess has gone home. She had, while here, been in the care of Pierre de Routsky, acting Russian consul general. The princess, who is practically penniless, having pawned her jewels in a mad flight to various cities of the east, was located in the Holland apartments, 66 West Forty-sixth street Born a princess of the house of Tcherkasskia, a family reputed to be as old as the Romanoff dynasty, and married at sixteen into the house of Golitzine, the vivacious Olga left the pomp and ceremony of the Russian court for a career on the stage in New York city. She wanted to be an actress, but in the last month her dreams have been shattered. After a flight across Europe, which proved the platitude that fact is always robbing fiction, she must, as she confessed, return across the Atlantic at the urgent demand of the Russian government -- Reports that the companion of the princess on her hurried flight from Russia was a well-to-do American led to rumors that she had eloped. He passed much time with her on shipboard and at the New Willard hotel during her stay in Washington, whither she first journeyed after landing, It was said. The noblewoman insisted, however, that her only companion had been an English woman, who had assisted her in leaving her native land after being told of the princess’ desire for freedom and a career on the stage in America. Continental society, already astonished by her appearance early last winter on the stage of the Imperial theater, in St. Petersburg, was shocked when it was learned that she. had disappeared. The czar, angry because of her theatrical debut, had ostracized her from court, but when she disappeared that mysterious system which coven Europe- like a net, the Russian secret service, was set kt work. For weeks the efforts of the secret police were of no avail. Prince Andre, who she says stormed so violently when she appeared on the stage, that ho forced a separation, was heartbroken, she asserted. Finally, a few weeks ago, the czar’s agents discovered that she had been at the New Willard hotel in Washington. After a call from an attache of the Russian embassy there she fled to New York, and stopped for several days at the Knickerbocker hoteL Again she was discovered, she said, and took an apartment at the West Forty-sixth, street address. But her flight availed her nothing, and, practically without funds, she agreed to go home. Acting Russian Consul de Routsky bays that the father of the princess was an officer in the Imperial guards and one of the proudest and oldest families in Russia. The Golitzine family is one of the most prominent In Russia and, best known in Europe, ,he said. The 1912 edition of the Almanac of St. Petersburg shows Prince Andre -Golitzine to be the fifth son of Prince Alexandre Borissovitch Golitzine, equarry to the court of the czar, curateur of Moscow and marshal 'to the governor of Waldlmlr. Prince Andre was born in October, 1889. Princess Olga Alexandrovna is the daughter of Prince Dimitri Tcherkassky, marshal in the Odessa district of Russia.