Catherine Radziwill

Princess Catherine Radziwill (March 30, 1858 - May 12, 1941) [ [http://www.tomfolio.com/AuthorInfo/authors/C_Radziwill.asp TomFolio.com - Books by Author Catherine Radziwill ] ] was a Polish princess from a famous Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic family called the Radziwills. She was born as Countess Ekaterina Adamovna Rzewuska. She married Prince Wilhelm Radziwill at age 15 [ [http://www.tomfolio.com/AuthorInfo/authors/C_Radziwill.asp TomFolio.com - Books by Author Catherine Radziwill ] ] and moved to Berlin to live with his family. It was speculated that she was the author of a book gossiping about the German Emperor William II and Berlin society in 1884 under the pen name Paul Vasili.

She stalked the English-born South African politician Cecil Rhodes and asked him to marry her, but he refused. She then got revenge by forging his name on a promissory note. She was convicted of forging Rhodes' signature and spent time in a South African jail for her crimes. Fact|date=May 2008

Catherine Radziwill played major role in the history of antisemitic hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In 1921, she gave a private lecture in New York. She claimed that Protocols were compiled in 1904-1905 by Russian journalists Matvei Golovinski and Manasevich-Manuilov at the direction of Pyotr Rachkovsky, Chief of the Russian secret service in Paris. [cite news
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title=PRINCESS RADZIWILL QUIZZED AT LECTURE; Stranger Questions Her Title After She Had Told of Forgery of "Jewish Protocols." CREATES STIR AT ASTOR Leaves Without Giving His Name-- Mrs. Huribut Corroborates the Princess. Stranger Quizzes Princess. Corroborates Mme. Radziwill. Never Reached Alexander III. The Corroboration. Says Orgewsky Was Proud of Work.
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accessdate=2008-08-10] Golovinski worked together with Charles Joly (son of Maurice Joly) at "Le Figaro" in Paris. This account, however, contradicts basic chronology of Protocols publication, as they were already published in 1903 in Znamya newspaper. Moreover, in 1902, Rachkovsky was dismissed from Paris Okhrana and returned to Saint Petersburg. In 1935, Catherine Radziwill repeated her statement as a witness at the Berne Trial.

Works

*Radziwill, Catherine. 1900. "Cecil Rhode's Future". [North American Review]
* The Resurrection of Peter. A Reply to Olive Schreiner. 1900. [ i.e. to Schreiner’s book: Trooper Peter Halkett of Mashonaland (1897)]
* My Recollections. 1904
* Radziwill, Catherine. 1914. "Behind the Veil at the Russian Court".
* Radiziwill, Catherine. 1918. "Cecil Rhodes:Man and Empire Maker".
* Memories of Forty Years. 1914.
* The Royal Marriage Market of Europe. 1915.
* The Austrian Court From Within. 1916
* Sovereigns and Statesmen of Europe. 1916
* Because it was Written. [fiction] . 1916
* The Black Dwarf of Vienna, and other weird stories. 1916
* Germany under Three Emperors. 1917
* Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-maker. 1918
* Russia's Decline and Fall: The Secret History of a Great Debacle. 1918
* Rasputin and the Russian Revolution. 1918
* The Firebrand of Bolshevism; The True Story of the Bolsheviki and the Forces That Directed Them. 1919
* Secrets of Dethroned Royalty. 1920
* Those I Remember. 1924
* The Intimate Life of the Last Tzarina. 1928
* Child of Pity: The Little Prince [the Tsarevitch] Rides Away. 1930
* Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars. 1931
* The Taint of the Romanovs. 1931
* It Really Happened; An Autobiography by Princess Catherine Radziwill. 1932
* The Empress Frederick. Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa (1840-1901), oldest daughter of Queen Victoria; married German emperor Friedrich III (1831-1888)] . 1934

References

*Farrant, Leda. (2000). "The Princess from St. Petersburg: The Life and Times of Princess Catharine Radziwill".
*Roberts, Brian. (1969)."Cecil Rhodes and the princess". Hamilton. ISBN 0-241-01603-7.
*Anthony, Thomas. (November 1997). "Rhodes: The Race for Africa". London Bridge. ISBN 0-563-38742-4.

ee also

*Protocols of the Elders of Zion

External links

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