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قراءة كتاب Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess)
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ARTIST AND MODEL
(THE DIVORCED PRINCESS).
BY
RENÉ DE PONT-JEST.
THE
ARTHUR WESTBROOK COMPANY
Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A.
(Printed in the United States of America)
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| PART I. | ||
| I. | Lise Barineff. | 5 |
| II. | A Winter at St. Petersburg. | 11 |
| III. | At Pampeln. | 19 |
| IV. | General Podoi. | 39 |
| V. | Princess and Model. | 52 |
| VI. | Paris and St. Petersburg. | 67 |
| VII. | At the Opera Comique. | 79 |
| VIII. | The Revenge of an Honorable Man. | 85 |
| IX. | In Flagrante Delicto. | 92 |
| X. | The Inquiry. | 104 |
| XI. | The Meyrins. | 112 |
| XII. | The Divorce. | 118 |
| XIII. | The Last of a Princess. | 127 |
| PART II. | ||
| I. | Vera Soublaieff. | 136 |
| II. | The Studio in the Rue D'Assas. | 149 |
| III. | Motherhood. | 160 |
| IV. | Sarah's Revenge. | 170 |
| V. | Divorce—Separation. | 182 |
| VI. | Lise and Vera. | 190 |
| VII. | Madame Daubrel's Story. | 203 |
| VIII. | Abandoned. | 210 |
| IX. | Far Away. | 217 |
| X. | Two Husbands. | 224 |
| XI. | Lise and Marthe. | 236 |
ARTIST AND MODEL.
PART I.
THE PRINCESS OLSDORF.
CHAPTER I.
LISE BARINEFF.
When, in 1860, with the permission of the czar, Prince Pierre Olsdorf married Mlle. Lise Barineff, the Russian aristocracy was rather scandalized by the mésalliance. Everybody was well aware that the new princess was born not only before the marriage of her mother, Mme. Froment, with the Count Barineff, but even some months before Mme. Froment appeared in St. Petersburg, where, at the Michael Theater, she was brilliantly successful both as a woman and as an artiste.
It was not forgotten that one evening, at the time when she was to appear on the stage, the French actress had sent word to the stage manager that she was