"LA TARNOVSKA."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1535, 3 September 1912, Page 5

"LA TARNOVSKA."

ECHO OF VENICE MURDER TRIAL.

ily MewMk-PreM Assoclatfon-Copyriirht Rome, September 1. At Russia's instance, King: Victor Emcanucl Wpardon«d the Countess Tarpovska, who was. unking «»*«"» "} Venice for insHgatinc th 6 murder <f Ceunt. Kamarowski in September, 1007. [The Countess is ill.

A RUSSIAN CIECE. The first glance of those privileged to «te7 the Venice. Court of Assizes (wrote the Venice correspondent of tho Daily Mail" in April, 1010), invariably turns to the strange, still woman in back who pits at tho end of the prisoners dock. She is at this moment the most-talked-pf woman in the world, tho Countess Maria Nikolaievna Tarnovska. I For a whole woek. I have watched her from six to eight hours every day, and all the. time I have been saying to myself: ■ ■'■ i ~ , "So this is the woman who, after eloping at seventeen with a wealthy, man, Count Tarnovska, grew to hate him because he was brutal and degenerate, and afterwards deceived him becauso her ideals had been hopelessly shattered; this is tho woman whose first lover, Borgetski, was Bhot by her- husband and died in her arms, while the husband was tried for murder and acqnitted; this is the woman for whom several men havo committed smcide, one of whom wroto to her before blowing out his brains: 'Dear. Maria Nikolaievna, I have still forty minutes to ■wait. My love- alone is living in me, and tho hopo "in a fW moments to see yon pass under my window in your carriago. _ Farewell, I kiss you ami die , ; this is tho woman who. after separating from her husband, left Russia with the lawyer Frilukoff, who embezzled his clients money; this is tho woman with whom Naumoff, a morbid boy of twenty-one, foil desperately in love, and this bojr Bhot, cm September i, 1907, Kamarovski, a wealthy nobleman, who had been also enslaved by her. Yes, this is the woman, firiallv, who is being tried for having conspired with Prilukoff to induce Naunioff to murder Count Kamarovski. She sits there motionless and witnont expression, surrounded by earbinieri holding their rifles, on which bayonets gleam. Ttae earbinieri are changed Several times daily, because La Tarnovska has admittedly 3uch a magnetic power over men than anyone who looks at her is fascinated end forgets his duties! • La Tanwvska'is thirty. I sincerely believe she looked thirty ten years ago, End I believe she will look thirty twenty veors hence, if sho lives. La Tarnovska, as not an ordinary human being. She is a phenomenon, a nroblem, a strange firoduct of Russian "civilisation.", Siminr human beings have been repeatedly analysed, and elaborately described in modern Russian literature. !