Troubetzkoy

Also known as: Troubetzkoy, Troubetskoy, Troubestkoy, les Troubetzkoy

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Overview

In March 1882 the Troubetzkoy women are in Nice: Princess Lise (Elisabeth) Troubetzkoy, whom Marie calls «l'ineffable Lise», and her daughter, «la petite Troubetzkoy». The Mon Journal indexes list «Troubetskoy (princesse Lise)» and «Troubetskoy (Alexandra), fille» (t.9 p.205), «Troubetzkoy (Elisabeth, princesse)» (t.11 pp.150, 213, 248, 276), «Troubeskoy (princesse Elisabeth)» (t.13 p.73) and «Troubeskoy (Mme Lise)» (t.14 pp.299, 301). The «petite» of 1882 is probably the daughter Alexandra (0.7).

Relevance to Marie

  • 24 March 1882: «La scie de Pomar est finie, on dit qu'il épouse la petite Troubetzkoy, fille de l'innéfable Lise. On y travaille depuis trois mois» (094.0340). Pomar is, in Marie's words, «fils de lady Caithness» (see POMAR, LADY_CAITHNESS).
  • 26 March: «Etincelle me cite dans la matinée du "Colbert" ... mais la grande tirade est pour la petite Troubetzkoy dont le mariage avec Pomar est raté. Les Troubetzkoy sont parties»; gossip says Princess Lise had her dresses seized (094.0350). The mother told Pomar that her daughter adores him and he will have her unhappiness on his conscience; Marie finds him «bien dur», one of the many girls who break their teeth on him (094.0351).

References in Diary

Sources

Diary as quoted; Mon Journal t.9–14 indexes.

Merged entries (TROUBETSKOY, TROUBESTKOY)

Earlier and later mentions of the family under other spellings: on 28 November 1876 Berthe «ne parle que de la fille de la princesse Lise Troubetskoy dont le salon est bien connu à Paris» (067.1333); 27 May 1877, a Mme Yakovleff «qui a des parents parmi les Troubetskoy» (071.0478); 7 and 24 May 1882, when Marie meets «Aurore» at Etincelle's «en l'absence de l'inéffable Lise» (095.0027: «l'incomparable Aurore ... Mlle Troubetskoy qu'Etincelle glorifie», «sa maman, l'excentrique Lise court après les partis pour cette Aurore de vingt-quatre ans au moins»; 095.0088); in February 1878 «la jeune princesse Troubetskoy» (078.0292); and Orthodox Easter night 1881, «Mme de Peyronney était là avec les Troubestkoy» (091.0520), probably Princess Lise and her daughters (a guess). The princess herself is #Princess Lise Troubetzkoy.

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