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A Russian Princess Doing America

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
May
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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Madame Olga do Mal uta Fraloff is a Russian Princesa. Sho is baroness in hor ownright.and herhusband is Col.of Dragooii3 iif the Cavalry of tho Grand Duchoss Catherine. Madame, thtí Baroness Fraloff, is one' of those fabalous princessea who travel witli lacea and diaínonds vnd aro nlmost fairy god-tnothcrsin the contenta of theií trrlrrks. Why sliould sho not travel in style 'i BCear heí : Tho riames-of íny six landecí estatcs aro : Pokrowski, Marino, Neehaeoka, Ijanüowcav Seeroquosko and Ghoutor, They Wfcro all worki d: by siamés befóle the aet )f emancipation. ftfy Iitísíiafid" collocts ;he money and senda me all I meed. I lad !ftlO,(K)) iu {he hands of my bankera 'fur tliis jonrncy to America and aboiU $2,000 in bank bilis with mo. Why does she ñud herself in this country ? lioason jrives as follows: I aiu of the highest and oldest arhtoeracy of Iiussia, of tho l'rincess of l'artary. I ara thu adopted daughteíof the i'riucos Manzirotf. my aunt, now deud. 1 inherited her nain'o, oatates and - íl SO CTiDso c Mii'ri; ULI1er auuts anl :ny crandinotlier. I na me to visií fhís oouiífiy by tha advi'itr of )ny physici;ní, !,-. ('h-eylVí'th. of Londorí. 1 had proviously visitcii evoiy capítol of Enrope, and had trovelvf:d also in Asi ;uA AíVicu. I was llin-.tci'i il ;í!i al inweí eyemghí írom ni-iVMirs ficbiüfy.at.i.l Vas advix'i! hy my physician to travel ondïtaie !oL; vcyages and soek a completo chango of suene ; particularly was I reoonimcudcd in London to tako tho voyage to Aüiorica. Let us planeo at tho wardrobe sho bronghi wilh Jur. ,Sík jniTiiviisn trunks. tSéf M-vols of priot, Cashiwero shawls, fur cloalcs, Siooriiía SWbíéáJ a toilet of erniino furs, and one of Astrakan, white Cashmere opera cloaks ono borderod with gold, twolve or foarteen hats frora Faris, and dressos of volvot and silk and other ooatly materials. Her laces alone she valued at two hundrod thousand ílollars, vnd ftm the loss oí smn& of tliem,. tuiten i'roim hm trunk-s, as gh uileg es, wfiile on a juunioy front Allmny to New York, sho has sued the compariy for sevcnty-f!ve thousand dollars. A Satr Frántísco (lreiia:ikor wlio had proniised to-send a dreaa to a lady in San Joso in season tbr a ball, missed the tiain by threo minutes, and ohartered a seeíal cu gine at un expenso et flOB tt flU thu engagement, A inaïicïous ïerro II;tuter substiiuted' a paper full ot' white beans for the paokage of gum drops which anotheryoung. ihu was going to carry to bis Angelí iind the poor fellow waa kept busy till three o'olock in the iuoriiing tryiug to explain matte ra.

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