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THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE

OF RUSSIA.

One of the most interesting literary and histrionic achievements of the last year of the nineteenth century was made by the Grand Dake Conatantine of Russia, who translated 'Hamlet* into Bussian, and himself undertook the title role in a performance which took place at the beautiful bijou theatre of the Hermitage, before the Tsar and Tsaritza and the elite of Bussian Society. It was the event of the St. Petersburg season, and no more cultivated and critical audience could be found than was there assembled, yet everyone was full of praise for the acting of the Grand Duke, and also of Mme. Olgo Lapououktrine, a clever amateur   actress, who played Ophelia. The Grand Duke Constantine married, in 1884, Princess Elizabeth of Saxe Altenburg, who celebrated her thirty-sixth birthday on January 26th. She is the only foreign Princess in the Russian Imperial Family who has not embraced the orthodax faith, remaining, as she has always been, a Lutheran, though her children are, of course, members of the Russian Church. They are five boys and a girl, the Princess Juliana, who is eleven years old, and who

has the distinction of being the eldest of the only four little Princesses of the  

House of Bomanoff.

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