WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 15 January 1917, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

The Quest of the Simple Life.

Nicholas tho Second's clever, amiable and wildly . original! sister, Grand Duchess Olga, has divorced her husband, Prince Peter' of Oldenburg, and will now'Tnarry plain - Captain DrOzdoff, says a-writer in the 'Frisco "Chronicle." The divorce has been decreed by the Orthodox Consistory, and been published in the "Ecclesiastical Gazette"; and at the. same time Lieutenant Drozdoff has had one push up in. rank, and is.now a captain. This is the most unequal and romantic marriag_o in Romanoff family history, but it.has the full support of Tsar Nicholas, .of the Tsarina, of the divorced husband himself, and of everyone except the Dowager Empress" Marie. Grand Duchess Olga has divorced Prince Peter because of her passion to bo simple. Ttiis is the comedy and tragedy of her fifteen years of life with Prince Peter, who had every, merit and talent as a husband except that he abhorred simplicity; . The real -arranger of tho divorce is Grand Duke Michael, tho Tsar's only living brother, who himself took to the simnle lifo when 'he married plain Madams Brassoff, bom Schoremetievsky, and retired from court.to a small estate in Orel province, where lie insist so rigidly on being simple that he himself currycombs his favourite horse, and sees no society except small farmers. Grand Duke Michael, and Grand Duchess Oka - have always been- close friends. / When > Nicholas.' II punished Michael for tho Brassoff marriage by appointing him a curator over lii's estates, Grand Duchess Oka interceded, and now, when Grand Duchess Olga. declared she -would marry, a plain army, officer. Grand Duke Michael came from Orel, begged Nicholas II arid tie Tsarina -to -savo-.their consent, and pacified the Dowager Tsarina, who at first threatened to leave Russia for ever if the remarriage took placo.

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