...Strachey. Pp. xxiv + 253- (New York : Doubleday and McClure Company, 1900.) THESE memoirs cover the period from the third partition of Poland to the incorporation...was left of that country with the Russian Empire. They deal with epispdes — more or less romantic and interesting — in Countess Potocka's career,...

...composed of intermittent sections, indited, as journeys and court balls and Napoleon and accouchements might allow, between 1812 and 1820, but describes...was left of that country with the Russian Empire, whose Tsar, Alexander I., impertinently invented himself "King of Poland" while astutely pleasing the...

...conversations with her father and other eyewitnesses, reaching back as far as 1794. Thus her reminiscences date from the third partition of Poland to the incorporation...was left of that country with the Russian Empire. The author was born Poniatowski, and was therefore related to the last king of Poland. She married...

...Poland, Russia and France. Her early remembrances go back to 1794 to the third partition of Poland, and the incorporation of what was left of that country with the Russian Empire. She died at the age of ninety-one in Paris, her salon there being one of the notable ones of the Second...

...Strachey. Pp. xxiv + 253- (New York : Doubleday and McClure Company, 1900.) THESE memoirs cover the period from the third partition of Poland to the incorporation...was left of that country with the Russian Empire. They deal with episodes — more or less romantic and interesting — in Couritess Potocka's career,...