Identifier: courtofrussiainn01hodguoft (find matches)
Title: The court of Russia in the nineteenth century
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hodgetts, Edward Arthur Brayley, 1859-1932
Subjects: Russia -- Kings and rulers Soviet Union -- Politics and government 19th century Soviet Union -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e camp Alexander regained strength and vigour, butthese enforced separations are not conducive to constancy,and Schnitzler tells us that le besoin daimer led Alexander,who was born with strong passions, towards other women.As Chateaubriand said, from his variable weaknessesthere issued an attachment which lasted for eleven years.Secrecy lent a special charm to these relations, to whichthree children owed their feeble and transitory existence.Supplanted by a rival who equalled her in nothing butbeauty, Elizabeth listened perhaps too exclusively to thedictates of her wounded pride, took no pains to regainAlexanders affections, but shut herself up with her grief.We are told that it was not unusual for her attendants tosurprise her bathed in tears contemplating the portraitof that Alexander who was so charming and so faithless.For whatever else may be said of her august consort atthis time, he never treated her otherwise than with thegreatest courtesy and consideration. It is to be feared
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THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH, WIFE OF ALEXANDER I FROM AN ENGRAVINt; BY TURNER OK A PAINTING BY MONIER HOME AND FEMININE INFLUENCES 45 that the climate of St, Petersburg did not agree with thispoor neglected, sensitive plant, her looks forsook her, shelost her complexion, her nose grew red, and she was evenfor months so chilled with the damp cold of St. Petersburgthat her voice failed her, and she was practically speechless.Finally, she was seized with the strange idea that her loveand favour, on whomsoever they were bestowed, invari-ably brought misfortune in their train. The small circleof her quiet and secluded life was composed principallyof the venerable historian Karamsin—whose history, pub-lished at anything but a popular price, had such a successthat 3000 copies were sold in a month, no bad result whenthe limited number of cultivated readers is taken intoaccount;—Miss Pitt, an English companion ; and MileValouieff, a maid-of-honour and the member of a distin-guished Russian famil

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