THE PRINCESS DOLGOROUKI.
A touching stoiy comes from St. Petersburg, and as it comes from several different soirees we. are led to consider it partly, if riot wholly, true. It:appears that the Princess was remarkable for the beauty and abundance of her hair, and the court legend tells us that, like many other great men, Alexander 11. had been caught in this ti'dt d'atiiour, which, accoroing to old Marot, the. poer, capture* the souls (if men. The Kmperor's admiration for the tresses of the Princess was so great that he often said to her "If I die ti.*fc,' I shall rest all the easier if that hair lies with me in my coffin." The impression on the mind of the Princess was so vivid that, at the very moment the news of the Emperor's'death reached her, she' cut off with her own hands the rich abundance of her tresses, and enclosed them in a sealed packet addressed to the Empress, with a humble request that the late Emperor's desire might be fulGUed. The Czarina's gentle and affectionate heart was moved to the core by the sacrifice and the request, and it is well-known among the ladies of the Russian Court that the white satin pillow ou which reposed the bead of the late Czar contained this last token of love and remembrance from the Princess Dolgorouki.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1503, 22 July 1881, Page 2
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