MDIVANI TRAGEDIES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12887, 13 June 1936, Page 12

MDIVANI TRAGEDIES

DREAMS OF DISASTER BROTHER AND SISTER LEFT “SAVOUR GONE FROM LIFE.” - LONDON, May 2In an endeavour to find peace of mind- and scape from the tragedy that has clogged her .family, Princess Nina, Mtlivani, sister of the ill-fated brothers, Serge and Alexis Mdivani, is seeking a country house somewhere deej) in the heart of Britain. This woman, Europe’s most tragic princess, talked of the misfortunes, that have befallen, the lamily, and of the premonitions which came to her long before the tragedies happened. “I hope to stop in Britain for a time. I am looking for somewhere quiet where I can* ride and keep dogs and forget all the sadness that has come to us this last year,” is-ui'd Princess Nina. With Princess Nina is her brother, .David, and they talked about the tragic deaths of their brothers Alexis—'killed in a motoring accident in Spain—anil Serge who lost his life while playing polo.

“This was to have been a happy re-union—-Serge was to have been here withi David and me, but now ho is dead.” s«4d Princess Nina, “ft is dreadful, for we were such a united

family. We have alway-s helped one another. If one has been in difficulty

the others have, been instantly ready to help. Despite everything, the revolution, the struggles- which followed and all the difficulties which have beset us, wo have held together as a real family.” Tho bond) of affection which binds Ibe family is made even stronger by the strange, vivid, prophetic dreams which the Mdivan s have always ex-

perienced before misfortune has befallen any member of tile family. “A few days before 1 sailed from America,” said David. “I spoke to Serge on the telephone and tried to persuade him to join me. J pressed him as much as I could, or I had already had several dreams in which I had seen him lying dead with a wound in liis head. But Serge would not leave before the end of the polo season. I left hv heat for Britain. Again I had; the same dream. And then, in mid-ocean, I got the news of Serge's death from a polo accident.” Princess Nina, said she a dream of Serge’s death and of the premonition she had that Alexis will

jbe killed in a car crash—as he was in ; Spain last August. The double j tragedy has affected both brother and i sister very deeply. “What is the j meaning of all this tragedy which j lias overtaken us?” asked Prince i David. “It is terrible to have to live • on and try to forget. Life has lost ! its savour.”