Cour de Russie Mémoires, 1914-1916, avec quelque compte de cour, la vie sociale et politique à Petrograd avant et depuis la guerre . ted un mariage qui a donné lieu à un greatdeal de ragots. Madame Soukhomlinoff est un bon-à-sym, pathétique, femme intelligente d'origine hébraïque. Elle isone de ces petits, légers, bien proportionné,les femmes qui ont plus de grâce que de femme beauté réelle.Au premier regard, elle semble insignifiante, pas evenpretty, mais ses attractions touristiques semblent pousser sur un;elle n'a pas éblouir mais elle fascine, et knowshow pour garder une main forte sur les hommes. Mile. Gashkevitch (c'est Madame Soukh

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Russian Court Memoirs, 1914-16, with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war . ted a marriage which gave rise to a greatdeal of gossip. Madame Soukhomlinoff is a good-looking, sym-pathetic, clever woman of Hebrew origin. She isone of those small, slight, well-proportioned women, who have more womanly grace than actual beauty.At a first glance, she seems insignificant, not evenpretty, but her attractions seem to grow upon one;she does not dazzle but she fascinates, and knowshow to keep a strong hand over men. Mile. Gashkevitch (that was Madame Soukhom-linoffs maiden name) commenced her career as acopyist in a notarys office in Kiev, where she hadthe opportunity of coming in contact with her firsthusband M. Boutovitch, a wealthy landowner fromthe south of Russia. The marriage turned out afailure, and Mme. Boutovitch obtained a divorcefrom her unwilling husband. The Generals mar-riage with Mme. Boutovitch took place seven yearsago, when he had just been appointed Minister ofWar. Society began by holding aloof and lookingaskance at the Ministers wife, but her tactful. MADAMK SOUKHOMl.INOll- IN UKR liOlDOlR THE TZAR AND HIS GENERALS 143 attitude, her graceful ways, her elegance and, aboveall, her perfectly ordered dinner-parties overcameall obstacles. A year or two before the war a startling articleappeared in the Vetchernoe Vremia, accusing ColonelMiassoyedoff of suspicious transactions on thePrussian frontier. This accusation was supportedby so serious a person as M. Gretchkoff, an in-fluential member of the Duma. A great hue andcry was raised, but General Soukhomlinoff silencedeveryone by his staunch defence of Miassoyedoffsrectitude, vouching for his innocence and integrity.The whole affair ended in a scandal at a race meeting.Colonel Miassoyedoff knocked Boris Souvorines(the editor of the Vetehernoe Vremia) hat off and aduel ensued. Subsequent events proved, however, that the accusation was well-founded and that theColone

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