A QUANDARY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13424, 11 July 1911, Page 2

A QUANDARY.

TO WHOM IS HE MARRIED? Count Tolstoi’s Son in Trouble. PARIS, July 7. All Paris is interested in the career of a young man named Alexander Koutouzov, who claims to be a son of Count Tolstoi, and also says that he was the Czar's huntmaster. Koutouzov is before the courts on a charge of bigamy, but in an interview in Le Matin he asserts that the only legal marriage that he contracted was with a Miss Frottingham at the Russian Church in Paris. Eighteen months ago, he says, he met a woman named Coriat at a music hall in London, and a few days later he learned with astonishment that he had married her. With remarkable sang froid be adds that this alliance is unimportant and invalid under the Russian law. He came to Paris and lived with Coriat for a few months, and then they parted. The woman wrote asking for money, but her letter was unanswered, and to save further trouble, Koutouzov obtained a ukase from the Czar annulling the marriage, if there was a marriage. He has also inked the French judiciary to annul the union, making the following plea:—"This in my answer to the , rumour; 1 married Julia Jackson at Hull, England, in 1898. This lady (Coriat) has apparently forgotten the fact.”