- A
- Abruzzi, Prince of, 391
- Aden, 425, 442
- Admirers, see Love affairs
- Adriatic, storm in, 309
- Afghan Pretender, 508
- Alexandria, 299, 308
- America, journey across, 329-35
- Americans—manners, etc., 199, 200, 205-208, 217, 309, 321-2, 332, 343
- Amou-Daria river, 492, 509
- Amour Provinces, refer to Siberia
- Amour river, 511
- Anarchists in Russia, 144, 147
- —New York, 320
- Andidjan disturbances, 488, 496, 505
- Aoste, Prince Amédée de, 155
- Armenians in Erzeroum, see Erzeroum
- Astrakhan, 513, 514
- Athens, 298
- Atlantic voyage, 316-320
- B
- Baku, 489
- Balkan troubles, 73
- Barcelona, 263
- Batavia, 416-20
- “Batchas,” 516
- Batoum, 126
- Beethoven—Birthplace, 236
- —Anecdote, 407
- Bellinfanti, Señorita Estrella, 395, 396
- Berlin Congress, 120, 125
- Bernardines, Convent of, 253
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 145-6
- Betrothal, 66
- Biarritz, 39, 252
- —Bathing incident, 253
- Bicycling, 510, 519
- Bobrinsky, Princess (Countess Dürkheim), 233
- Bokhara, 487, 492, 514-15
- Bonn, 236
- Boulogne-sur-mer, 159
- Bourbon, Prince Jaime de, 519
- Brest, 249
- Brindisi, 309
- Brussels, 19
- Bull-fights, 255, 257-61
- Buriates, 511
- C
- Cairo, 299, 302, 307, 483
- Canton, 465-7
- Carisbrooke, 244
- Casamicciola earthquake, 229
- Caspian, Ice in, 523
- Castellamare, 226
- Caucasus, 60
- Cernobbio, 193, 199, 210
- Certosa Convent, 218, 229
- Ceylon, 423, 444-7
- Chamonix, 185
- Channel crossings, 21, 160, 163-4
- Chicago World’s Fair, 322-34
- Childhood and education, 13-21
- Chillon, 182
- China and the Chinese, 346, 380, 383, 387
- Boxer Rising, etc., 534, 536
- “Boys,” 342
- Women, 345, 401-2
- See also names of places
- Chino-Japanese War, 390-1
- Cock-fighting and wolf-hunting, 147
- Commander Islands, 455
- Como, 193, 196
- Constantinople, 291
- Copenhagen Exhibition, 270
- Coptic village, 305
- Corea, 398, 453
- Corniche Railway, 251
- Coronation Ceremonies
- Alexander III, 151-5
- Nicholas II, 435-6
- Cowes, 244
- Crimea, 52
- Czar, see Tzar
- D
- Dauville Races, 282
- Début in Society, 33
- Denmore, Lady, 298
- Dieppe, 164, 282
- Dolgorouki, Prince, 249, 287
- Dolgik, 15, 48, 141
- Domestic life, 135
- Doumtcheff, Kostia, violinist, 383
- Doukhovskoy, General, see Sergy
- Doukhow, Wilhelm, 379
- Dürkheim, Countess (neé Princess Bobrinsky), 233
- Duse, Eleonora, 284
- E
- Egypt, 299-308
- Emperor of Russia, see Tzar
- Empress Dowager, 315
- England, 21, 161-3, 240-6
- Erzeroum, 98-130
- Armenians, 99, 100, 102, 103, 109, 116, 124
- Armenians and Turks, 123, 125, 126
- Christian Schools, 117, 124
- Earthquake, 105
- Russians, feeling towards, 104, 120
- Sanitation, 102
- Tribute to Sergy’s administration, 131
- Typhus, 108, 118
- Euphrates, 116, 125
- Evil Eye, 155
- F
- Ferni-Germano, 284
- Flirtations, see Love affairs
- Florence, 217, 218
- France
- National Festival, 165
- See also names of places
- Fuji-Yama, 347
- G
- Galitzine, Prince Theodore, 13, 14
- Death, 268
- Galitzine, Princess (Mamma), 14, 19, 20, 75, 86, 519
- Geneva, 187, 189
- Genoa, 250
- German frontier experience, 156
- Gervais, Admiral, 288
- Golde Tribe, 381, 383
- Grand Duchess Olga Fedorovna, 74, 85
- Grand Dukes
- Michael, 150, 154
- Nicholas, 149
- Nicolas Constantinovitch, 494, 495, 499, 518
- Sergius, 288
- H
- Harems and Harem life, 107, 112, 293, 295
- Health exhibition, 240
- Helsingfors, 273
- Holland, 237
- Holland, Mr. and Mrs., 298, et seq.
- Hong Kong, 405-7, 463, 472
- Horses, Adventures with, 48, 64, 71, 224, 267, 268, 274
- I
- Illnesses, 36, 137
- Interlaken, 179-81
- Ischia, 229-31
- Italy, King Humbert and Queen Margareta of, 213, 214, 217
- J
- Jalta, 52
- Japan, 347-60, 399
- Chino-Japanese War, 390-1
- Russia, feeling against, war rumours, etc., 400, 460
- See also names of places
- Japanese Sea, 357, 361, 397
- Java—Batavia, 416-20
- Jews in Russia, 143
- Johore, Sultan of, 475, 476
- K
- Kahns, 459, 460
- Kaiser Wilhelm II., visit to Denmark, 272
- Kamtchatka, 455
- Kars, 90, 91, 131
- Kars to Erzeroum, 94-7
- Kassatkin-Rostovski, Prince, 354
- Kazan, 511
- Khabarovsk, 368-84, 387-92, 453
- Tigers, 454
- Railway to Vladivostock, 387, 456
- Khodinka Field, 144, 248, 288
- Kirghees, 493
- Kissingen, 533
- Kobe, 355, 356
- Komaroff, General, 87
- Kontski, Antoine, 402, 403, 404, 406, 456, 510
- Kopanski, General, 368, 369, 384, 393
- Korea, see Corea
- Korff, Baron, 313, 314, 343, 344, 375
- “Koulikovo Field” Anniversary, 141
- Kourakine, Princess, 33
- Kremlin, 151
- Kronstadt, 269
- Kurds, 114-5, 124, 357
- L
- Latin Road, 222
- Lebrun, Mme., Anecdote of, 219
- Li Hung Chang, 435
- Liszt, 407
- Lobanoff-Rostovski, Prince, 347
- London, 21, 161-3, 240
- Longchamps, 279
- Loubet, President, 526
- Lourdes, 251
- Loussavoritch-Vank, Monastery of, 118
- Love Affairs, Flirtations and Admirers, 17, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 35, 37, 39, 43, 44, 45, 48, 50, 53, 56, 57-9, 60, 72, 74, 76, 139, 148, 171, 197, 311, 315, 343, 424, 480, 482
- Lucerne, 171, 172
- M
- Macao, 468-71
- Madrid—Bull-fights, etc., 255-61
- Malmö, 270
- Marriage with General Doukhovskoy, 70, 133
- Marseilles, 431
- Masowah, Italian Soldiers from, 440
- Mediterranean Voyage, 430
- Mechrali, Brigand, 123, 127
- Melikoff, General Loris, 73, 76, 103
- Menaggio, 197
- Merv, 492
- Milan, 192, 194, 211-13
- Monaco, 266
- Monsoon, 442
- Mont Blanc Excursion, 185
- Monte Carlo, 266, 432
- Montenegro, Prince of, 35
- Montreux, 182-3
- Moscow—Gaieties, Society doings, etc., 135, 137, 142, 148, 248, 268, 274, 284, 286, 313
- Mouravieff-Amourski, Count, 376
- Munich, 235
- Music, Love of—Music lessons and musical triumphs, 42, 286-7, 311, 404, 454, 479, 499, 510, 513, 520
- Musicians, see their names
- Mussulmans of the Russian Empire, 511-12
- N
- Nagasaki, 359, 399, 452, 460
- Nagasaki to Shanghai, 400
- Naples, 27, 224-5, 231, 310
- “Natives and Mustard,” 501
- Nerves and Moods, 154, 174, 194, 198, 366, 499
- New York, 320-6
- Plot to assassinate Sergy, 327-8
- Newport, 245
- Niagara, 330
- Nice, 26, 251, 265
- O
- Oldenbourg, Prince of, 505, 507, 509
- Oussouri River, 373
- P
- Pacific Voyage, 340-6
- Paris, 19, 87, 167-70, 316, 434
- Exhibitions, 276-81, 524-31
- Peissenberg Sanatorium, 232-5
- Perim Islands, 441
- Persia, Shah of, 280, 282, 285
- Persian Princes, 60, 61
- Petrograd, see St. Petersburg
- Plague, 505-8
- Pompeii, 225
- Port Saïd, 429, 440, 485
- Portraits of the Authoress, 27, 218, 220
- Prospezi, Signorina Sofia, of the Hôtel Diomède, 226
- R
- Red Sea, 426, 428
- Rhine Voyage, 236-7
- Rigi, Ascent of, 175-7
- Roerberg, Aunt Nathalie, 60
- Roerberg, General, 491
- Romanelli, 219
- Rome, 221
- Rosen, Baron, 197, 222
- Rothschild’s dinner—Musician-guests, 407
- Rotterdam, 238
- Rougitzki, Volodia, Boy-Pianist, 510
- Rubinstein in Moscow, 146
- Ryde Family, 22-32, 240, 242
- Ryde, I.O.W., 241, 245
- S
- Saigon, 409, 410-12, 474
- St. Gothard, 190-1
- St. Petersburg—Gaieties, Society doings, etc., 33, 42, 50, 56, 133, 487, 505, 510, 518, 537
- St. Petersburg to Tashkend, 489-94
- Samarkand, 493
- Samoyedes at Geneva, 189
- San Francisco, 338-9
- San Remo, 265
- San Sebastian, 39-40, 254
- Sandown, 242
- Saragossa—A Bull-fight, 257-61
- Seliverstoff, General—Assassination, 326
- Sergy (General Doukhovskoy), 61-66, 69
- Appointments, distinctions, &c.
- Amour Provinces, Governor of, 313, 314
- Ardagan Exploit—Cross of St. George, 85
- Caucasus, Army of—Chief of Staff, 73
- Chinese Order, 436
- Coronation gift from the Tzar, 155
- Demarcation Commission, President of, 90
- Erzeroum, Governor-General of, 91
- General-Lieutenant, 249
- General-in-Chief, 510
- Italian Order, 212
- Légion d’Honneur, Grand Cross, 530
- Moscow Circuit—Chief of Staff, 134
- Siberian Deputation, presentation to Tzar, 435
- State Council, Member of, 537
- Turco-Russian War, 80
- Turkestan, Governor-General of, 487
- Resignation, 537
- Cure at Kissingen, 533-4
- Devotion as husband, 135, 167-8
- Failure of Health, 524, 535, 537—Death, 537
- Shah of Persia, 280, 282, 285
- Shanghai, 400, 401-2, 462
- Shanklin, 241, 243, 246
- Siberia—Sergy as Governor-General of the Amour Provinces, 362
- Colonists and Emigrants, 370, 378
- Convict Labour, 371, 377
- Cossack Settlements, 373, 385
- Official duties, 376-7
- Postal Arrangements, 379
- Roads, 371, 372
- see also Khabarovsk
- Sick Leave by Stratagem, 133
- Singapore, 413-14, 421, 449, 475-6
- Singapore to Suez, 478
- Skobeleff, General, 145
- Sledging with dogs, 383
- Socotra, 424
- Sorrento, 226
- Soungatcha, travelling on, 372
- Spa, 17
- Starving Plain, 495
- Steppes of Central Asia, 491
- Stockholm, 269
- Stuttgart, 21-26
- Suez, 428, 441, 482
- Suez Canal, 440
- Sumatra, Cannibalism in, 478
- Sunday in England, 21, 246
- Sven-Hedin, 515
- Sweden, King Oscar of, 246
- Swetchine, Aunt and Cousins, 42, 86, 87
- T
- Tashkend, 495-502, 515-7, 519-22, 535-7
- Tashkend to St. Petersburg, 489, 502-4, 522
- Tiflis, 60, 65, 73, 131
- Tiflis to Vladicaucasus, 67, 73
- Tifountai, 384, 435, 454
- “Tiger,” 137
- Tokio, 352-55
- Toumanoff, Prince, 113, 490
- Toutolmine, General, 519
- Trouville, 282
- Turco-Russian War, 73, 75, 79-93
- Turkish Barbarism, 103, 118
- Turks in Erzeroum, 123, 125, 126
- Turkestan, 487, 516
- see also names of places
- Typhoon, 355
- Typhus fever in Kurdistan, 89, 92
- Tzars
- Alexander II., 33, 133, 137
- Assassination, 142
- Ghost, 147
- Alexander III.
- Attempt on, during voyage to Japan, 354
- Coronation, 151-5
- Death, 388
- Nicholas II.
- Betrothal, 388
- Coronation, 435-6
- V
- Vanderbilt, Mrs., 326
- Vatican, 221-2
- Venice, 30, 215
- Ventnor, 244
- Verona, 250
- Vesuvius, 224, 227-9
- Vladivostock, 362-7, 394-6, 453, 459
- Volga, voyages on, 140-1, 510-14
- W
- Weidemann, Frau, and her boarders, 199-210
- Wight, Isle of, 241-6
- Windt, Mr. de, 383
- Y
- Yang-tse-kiang river, 400
- Yokohama, 347-51
About This Book
A woman records personal recollections and travel memoirs that move from early childhood and society life through marriage and wartime episodes to long tours across Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia, North America and East and Southeast Asia. The narrative prioritizes vivid impressions of places, social scenes, and notable persons, offering character sketches and descriptive travel writing rather than political analysis. Interwoven are accounts of colonial outposts, frontier life along the Amur, and the demands of public service, all presented with candid, observant detail and a charitable impulse behind publication.