Catherine Radziwill

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Princess Catherine Radziwill (March 30, 1858 - May 12, 1941)^[1] 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^[2] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[3] 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.

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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

[edit] 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.