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LIV.—MADAME SWETCHINE.
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— i .— In our last number we reviewed th...
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Liv.—Madame Swetchine.
LIV . —MADAME SWETCHINE . ( Concluded from page 314 . )
— I .— In Our Last Number We Reviewed Th...
— i _. — In our last number we reviewed the life of Madame Swetcliine 1
But during one the of those thirty moments -four year was s whi fast ch , she approaching spent in her for native her , in Russia which .
the arbitrary will of a despotic sovereign can turn the whole current of an individual career , and cause it to now on far apart from
its ing " ori , exiled ginal ; destination but a party . was General formed Swetchine against dexterousl him was at not court , strictl attributed , and y a speak fault to
him committed and ; taking he found b alarm y one that at of his his his enemies false subaltern position were s was gaining and unwilling ground y against to risk h . ira his
, pride of quitting by running Russia the on chances his own of accord enforced . His exile wife , he , took who the had resolution recently
quitted the Greek communion , under which , as the national relithe gion Roman of Russia Catholic , she had church been was educated likewise , and an object become of a dislike member and of
suspicion to the followers of , the Greek Patriarch about the court , and her departure caused much satisfaction . The Czar , undecided , ,
and deceived by those about him , showed his personal regrets at losin Alexander g her , 's by mind asking alway her to s correspond ardent and with unsettled him during had her been travel long _s -
, , under the influence of the mystical Madame de Kriidener , a woman who believed she had special revelations from heaven ; his intimate
friends adhered to the equally mystical sects which found footing iu those days in Germany ; some among them placed all their
trust in societies for the diffusion of the Scriptures , without wishing for any ecclesiastical organisation ; others rushed into a contrary
extreme , and thought that the regeneration of Russia was to be developed out of the action of the Masonic Lodges ! But this confusion
of influences did not hinder Alexander from relying in intimate personal friendship on Madame Swetchine , whose moderate and
well-balanced intellectual powers , naturally colored by her early affinities among the French refugees , pursued both in religion and
politics the middle course suggested by the circumstances in which she was born and bred . Her correspondence with Alexander
lasted until his death : she kept with precious care the Emperor ' s lettersand he bestowed the same respect on hers . On his death ,
either , in accordance with his expressed will , or by the delicate kindness of the Emperor NicholasMadame Swetchine ' s letters
, were sent to her at Paris , and in 1845 she showed the entire double correspondence to a friend ; but , as no sign of it appeared among
her papers after her death , it is feared they were burnt by precaution in 1848 .
In quitting Hussia _,, the general and his wife appeared scarcely to
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/18/
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