Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 6, 26 May 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

THE TSAR'S DAUGHTERS. CHOICE OF HUSBANDS. Strange I llinois were afloat in tlie Russian capital on the eve of the arrival ol the Crown Prince and Princess of Rouxna:iia with their son, who is to be engaged to many one of the Tsar's daughters. One rumor was to the effect that, yielding to the entreaties of his eldest daughter, Olga, the Tsar, has de- ■ iiird to .pardon the Grand Duko Diniitri Pavlovich, who was mentioned but a year ago as the future son-in-law of the Tsar, but was .-subsequently expelled from the regiment for misconduct, and lost the favor of the Emperor. If the rumor should prove true, it would mean I that all this time a great drama has •been going on in the Imperial family, • tho Grand Duchess Olga being averse from marrying anyone but the first choico of her heart, and tho Tsar ultimately yielding at the critical moment to the tears of his eldest daughter. If so, Prince Charles, it is said, will be of- j fered the second daughter of the Tsar, Tatiana, who is distinguished by great . beauty and wit. Another rumor seems stranger still. It is to the elicit that the Tsarwiil offer as a sort of dowry, of whichever daugh- ' ter may be selected, the retrocession to Roumani-i of the Bessarabian provinces. ' These territories, as it is well known, ' though originally taken away by Russia from the Turks, were after £he Crimean war'united with the Moldavian | and Wailachian principalities, out of which Roumania was subsequently conI stituted. They were, in fact, RoumanI ian, both in race and historical associations, and to this day the Moldavians j sad Wa-Uachians forui the preponder Jating part of the population. But in j 1R37, in spite of the signal services renI dered by Rouf.nania to during ( t-he lattor's' war with Turkey, Russia : re-occupied the (provinces and then pre- ! railed upon the Berlin Congress to rati:fy the usurpation. Roumania, it is true was "compensated by the attribution to her of Dobrudscha, which was in every respect Bulgarian but she none the less was not ablo to forget the injury inflicted -upon her by Russia, and she gave henceforth 'her political sympathies to Austria. In course of time, however, the attitude of Roumania towards her northern neighbor has changed, and the match between her prospective king, and the Czar's daughter, was to soaJ the RitssianRoumanian. friendship. If now Russia tihould. in adition, restore to Roumania her old Bessarabian provinces, the reconciliation would l be complete, and Itus- | sia wou'.d sicquire in Roumania an ally ; whose services to iher, whether in the | Balkans or in Austria, would be invalj uable.