ellauri053.html on line 1004: Did he never hear from his own mother stories of giants and fairies and princesses?
ellauri092.html on line 100: In September 1874 they travelled to Belfast in the North of Ireland for five weeks of meetings like those in Scotland. Then onward to Dublin for a month where several thousand pounds sterling were reported converted to dollars. These were some of the most remarkable meetings ever held in Ireland. In November they sailed for England and continued to minister in the main cities and towns. In March 1875 he moved to London to start a 4 mouth campaign. Initially meetings had about 16,000 people in attendance. He bled the rich and poor, the famous and the destitute, princesses as well as paupers. It is estimated that a million and a half people paid him in this chief of cities. After one very brief visit to Cambridge University he returned home to America and did not return again until 1882 when he administered snake oil in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.
ellauri171.html on line 1104: Tamar probably had a marriage arranged for her when she was still a child – this was the usual procedure for royal princesses. But things did not go to plan.
ellauri203.html on line 204: Le mariage de Maximilien et de Marie est célébré dans la chapelle du palais d’Hiver, à Saint-Pétersbourg, le 2 juillet 1839. Il donne lieu à 15 jours de festivités mais soulève la désapprobation des Moscovites, qui sont choqués de voir l’une de leurs princesses s’unir à un prince français, dont le père a participé à la prise de leur ville en 1812. Immédiatement après les épousailles, le duc de Leuchtenberg reçoit du tsar Nicolas Ier le prédicat d'altesse impériale et le titre de prince Romanovsky. Il est nommé major général de l'armée russe et colonel en chef du régiment de hussards de Kiev. Il reçoit par ailleurs une rente annuelle de 100 000 roubles. De son côté, le tsar confère à Marie une rente de 700 000 roubles ainsi qu'une somme de 2 millions payable en bons du trésor à 4%. Afin de loger le couple, l'empereur s'engage finalement à construire et à meubler à ses frais un palais meublé à Saint-Pétersbourg et un autre situé dans les environs de la capitale.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 629: Novick’s second “case” is as flimsy as the first, but it has more documentation. It is based on James’ letters from Paris between 1875 and 1876. He has met Ivan Turgenev, the Russian master, and finds himself moving among assorted Russians. One of them is Paul Zhukovski, son of a Russian poet who tutored Alexander II when he was a prince. Reared in the royal court, Zhukovski is soft, dependent, spoiled, and weak-willed, but graceful and entertaining. James has never known any Russians, and Zhukovski becomes an agreeable companion; he is “picturesque,” and while James tells his parents that “human fellowship” is not his specialty, the two get along very comfortably. They dine with Turgenev, and with countesses, a duke, princesses. They make sorties into cabarets and cafes. James reports that he and Zhukovski have sworn “eternal fellowship.” One could read sex into this–as Novick does–but it sounds more like the drinking and singing that often takes place among young males, their swagger and “brotherhood.” At every turn, Novick introduces suggestions of a love affair.
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