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Princess Catherine Radziwiłł ((ポーランド語:Katarzyna Radziwiłłowa); 30 March 1858 – 12 May 1941)〔(Books by Author Catherine Radziwiłł ), TomFolio.com. ''The New York Times'', on 13 May 1941, reported that the death of Catherine Radziwiłł occurred on 11 May.〕〔Farrant, Leda. (2000). ''The Princess from St. Petersburg: The Life and Times of Princess Catherine Radziwiłł''.〕 was a notable Polish aristocrat. Born in Russia into the House of Rzewuski, her maternal family was the illustrious Dashkov-Vorontsov. Carefully educated, in 1873 she married the Polish Prince Wilhelm Radziwiłł. She became a prominent figure at the Imperial courts in Germany and Russia, but became involved in a series of scandals. She combined her love for the luxury of the courts, social life, gossip and intrigue with her literary talent and she is notable as the author of two dozen books on European royalty and the Russian court in particular most notably: ''Behind the Veil at the Russian Court'' (1914) and her autobiography ''It Really Happened'' (1932). == Family and early life == Princess Catherine Radziwill was born in St. Petersburg as Countess Ekaterina Adamovna Rzewuska, a member of the House of Rzewuski, a Polish family of warriors, statesmen, adventurers and eccentics. She was the only child of the Russian General Adam Adamowicz Rzewuski (1845—1911), who took part in the Crimean war, and his second wife Anna Dmitrievna Dashkova, a daughter of the writer Dmitry Vasilyevich Dashkov, Tsar Nicholas I's minister of justice. Catherine's mother, who belonged to some of Russia's most notable families: Dashkov, Stroganov, Pashkov and Vasilchikov, died while given birth to her. Catherine's father married for a third time and provided her with three half-brothers including Stanislaw Rzewuski, who became a novelist and literary critic. The Rzewuski was a family of notable writers including Catherine's great-great-grandfather Wacław Rzewuski, her uncle Henryk and her aunts Ewelina, wife of Honoré de Balzac, and Karolina, who kept a literary salon in Paris. Catherine was carefully educated under the supervision of her stern father in his large estates in central Ukraine. Although, the Rzewuski family originated in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Catherine had no attachment to Poland and considered herself Russian. On October 26, 1873, at age fifteen, she married Prince Wilhelm Radziwiłł (1845-1911), a Polish officer in the Prussian army.〔 The couple moved to Berlin to live with his family. She had seven children, four sons and three daughter. Two of her sons died in early childhood, but the other five children: Louise, Wanda, Gabriela, Nicholas and Casimir, reached adulthood. Little is known about Catherine's marriage except what she herself wrote in her memories: Her husband treated her kindly, but she felt bored and frustrated. The couple became prominent at the court in Berlin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catherine Radziwill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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