AN ARISTOCRATIC FREE LOVER.
It reads like a romance, yet it is a fact ■ that a handsome Russian Princess, aged 34, the married daughter of General Stratonevoskoff, who was wounded at Inkerman, has been expelled from; her country, and had her estates confiscated, because she J had become a convert to the " free love " doctrines professed and practised by the Oneida community, United States." The Princess, not satisfied with accepting the ."free, love," principles her- '■' selfy had circulated a lithographed letter .amongst 600 girls belonging tottie highest Russian families, denouncing marriage, commending " free love," and even offer- :, ing td ! assist, with money any' girl who ; r wished to leave Her country and proceed ' withliftrtelf to ijecpme # member of the . Oneida' community. The police obtained ■■'"' a copyof this - circular and laid it before >the Edbpdror.wno, beiieving the circulation' tion bf sudh doctrines amongst a lot of simple girls was calculated to result in ' " much evil, gave orders, that the Princess's property should be confiscated, and that she should be escorted to the Russian boundary, and should, not be released from : : , custody ' until placed on board a vessel bound for America. These orders were strictly carried out by the police, and the fair Princess was shipped from .. Bremen. ' . ' '••''. : ' './-. ' \ . .. ' <
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1512, 9 June 1873, Page 4
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206AN ARISTOCRATIC FREE LOVER. Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1512, 9 June 1873, Page 4
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