DREAMS OF DEATH

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3771, 19 June 1936, Page 8

DREAMS OF DEATH

“SAW” MDIVANI’S FATE. STRANGE SPIRITUAL POWER. Prince David Mdivani, only survivor of the three marrying Mdivani brothers,” and his sister, Princess Nina Mdivani (Mrs. Charles Huberich) revealed to the correspondent of a London paper that each had repeated premonitions of their brothers’ deaths. Prince Alexis, the youngest, was killed at the age of 28 in a motor smash when accompanied by the Berlin society beauty, Baroness Maud von Thyssen, in Spain last August. Prince Serge, the eldest, was 33 when he met his death in a polo match, near Palm Beach, Florida. At a luncheon party at the Ritz Hotel, London, the conversation turned to the occult, and'Prince David, who is 30, said: “I am not a Spiritualist, but I come from Georgia in the Caucasus, which is between East and West. “The myths and traditions of my country go back to the Dawn of Time and I beleive we Georgians have spiritual and subconscious experiences which would be abnormal for most people living in the hurly-burly of an industrialised and mechanised Europe or the United States. “Five times after we had parted last month, and when I was on my way across the Atlantic to settle up Alexis’ affairs in Europe, I dreamed that Serge was dead. Each time I saw him being struck on the side of the head, and saw blood flowing from the gaping wound. “It was the same in the case oi Alexis, but not so plain. I dreamed repeatedly that he had been killed in an accident. “The Atlantic seems fated for me. It was when I was crossing in 1933 that I heard of the death of my father. I dread the crossing back in case something else may happen.” Princess Nina said how she had dreamed vividly twice of Prince Serge's death, and that his fate was connected with an accident in which horses were involved. She had a premonition that her brother Alexis would be killed in a car crash. Speaking of their plans, she said that although Prince David would live in the United States she was looking for a flat in the West End of London. She already has a house near Crowborough, Sussex. Referring to her brothers’ nickname—the “marrying Mdivanis,” she said: “I do not know why they should be called that. Lots of well-known people in the United States marry five or six times, and none of my brothers has married more than three times. In any case, it is better to divorce than to live unhappily together.” “I agree,” said Prince David, and added that one day he hoped to return to the family’s Georgian estates. “Stalin, the Russian dictator,” he said, “is a fellow-Caucasian, and quite friendly disposed towards us.”