Catherine Radziwiłł

From The Firebrand of Bolshevism, 1919 by Catherine Radziwill

The facts presented in the following pages may perhaps not be accepted without surprise and wonder as to their authenticity. The world at large has not yet quite appreciated the full extent of the secret intrigues which were carried on in the former German Empire before and during the war that was to break its might and destroy it. And yet the whole fabric of German politics was built on these intrigues. From the time that Bismarck instituted his famous Bureau of Espionage, these machinations were steadily going on throughout the whole of Europe and in America as well, and it seems desirable that the activity of this bureau in its nefarious work in Russia be exposed in somewhat the same manner as has been done for the United States in that remarkable recent book " The German Secret Service in America."*

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    * John Price Jones and Paul Merrick Hollister, The German secret service in America, Boston : Small, Maynard 1918. — (WPT)

 

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In the Prussian Intelligence Department as Holstein organized it there was hardly a person of note or consequence in Europe about whom everything was not known, including, of course, his weaknesses and cupboard skeletons. And this knowledge was used when necessary without any compunction or remorse. After Holstein's retirement, however, there was a different spirit and the activities of this wonderful department were transformed in the sense that they were applied to the task of bribing people rather than of intimidating them.

The story of the greatest bribery for which it was responsible I am going to relate ; the story not only of the corruption of individuals but of a whole country. Russia, which so many have called a traitor, never betrayed any one, but she was herself betrayed by those in whom she had hoped to find saviors. All the details of the conspiracy to which she fell a victim are not known and probably will never be known in their entirety, but what can be established, thanks to the documents published by the Creel Information Bureau with the sanction of the United States government, is the fact that the so-called Bolshevik movement which brought so much evil to Russia, only became possible through the German government spending money to bring it about. It is also apparent that the so-called treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which has now become one of those scraps of paper to which Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg alluded in his famous conversation with Sir Edward Goschen, would never have been signed had not Germany contrived, thanks to her intrigues and her lavish use of money, to put at the head of the Russian government puppets like the men called Lenine and Trotzky, the latter not even a Russian subject. The destruction of the former realm of the Romanoffs was caused not so much by the disasters which befell its armies as by the corruption of men, who were thrust into positions for which nothing fitted them, by banknotes most of which were not even genuine.

The full extent of the Bolshevik movement and the part which Germany played in its development is not sufficiently known and appreciated. It ought to be told, if only because it may help in understanding the fact that it is just as necessary to fight Bolshevism as it was to fight Prussianism of which it is the worthy child and descendant.

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Boston : Small, Maynard 1919.

Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The Empress Frederick. Publisher London [etc.] Cassell and company, limited [1934] Description xi, 246 p. front. (port.) illus. (facsims.) 22 cm Language English Subject Victoria, Empress, consort of Frederick III, German Emperor, 1840-1901. Format Book Library NRLF UCSC 2 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The Empress Frederick, by Princess Catherine Radziwill. Publisher New York : H. Holt, [1934] Description ix, 246 p. front. (port.) illus. (facsims.) 22 cm. Language English Subject Victoria, Empress, consort of Frederick III, German Emperor, 1840-1901. Format Book Library SRLF CSL UCSC 3 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Alexandra Feodorovna, la dernière tsarine. Tr. de l'anglais par Olga Georges ... Publisher Paris, Payot, 1934. Description 268 p. ports. 23 cm. Series Bibliothèque historique Language French Note Princesse Catherine Radziwill, at head of title. Subject Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918. Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917. Format Book Library NRLF 4 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Nicolas II, le dernier tsar / Catherine Radziwill ; traduit de l'anglais par Olga Georges. Publisher Paris : Payot, 1933. Description 286 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series Bibliotheque historique Language French Note Ouvrages consultés: p. [287]. Subject Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918. Format Book Library UCB 5 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title It really happened; an autobiography by Princess Catherine Radziwill. Publisher New York : L. MacVeagh, Dial press, inc., 1932. Description 3 p. l., v-xi p., 1 l., 15-278 p. front., plates, ports. 21 cm. Language English Format Book Library SRLF CSL 6 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Nicholas II: the last of the tsars. Publisher London [etc.] Cassell and company ltd. [1931] Description 319, [1] p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm. Language English Note "Works consulted": p. 307-308. Subject Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918. Format Book Library CSL UCD 7 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Child of pity, Publisher New York, Sears publishing company, inc. [c1930] Description 4 p. l., 302 p. 20 cm. Language English Subject Alekseĭ Nikolaevich, Czarevitch, son of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1904-1918 -- Fiction. Format Book Library UCD CRL 8 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The intimate life of the last tsarina. Publisher London, Cassell [1929] Description xi,339p. illus. 23cm. Language English Subject Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918. Format Book Library NRLF UCB 9 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The intimate life of the last tzarina, by Princess Catherine Radziwill. Publisher New York : L. MacVeagh, The Dial press; Toronto, Longmans, Green & company, [c1928] Description x, 325 p. plates, ports. (incl. front.) 24 cm. Language English Subject Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918. Format Book Library UCLA CSL UCSB UCD 10 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title They knew the Washingtons; letters from a French soldier with Lafayette and from his family in Virginia, Publisher Indianspolis, The Bobbs-Merril company [1926] Description 255, [1] p. 22 cm. Language English Note Letters of doubtful authenticity, signed by Gaston de Marie Leonard Maussion de la Bastie] and by members of his family. Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, French. United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775. Format Book Library UCSC CSL SRLF UCD UCB 11 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Those I remember / by Princess Catheine Radziwill (Catherine Danvin). Publisher Boston : Small, Maynard, [1925] Description ix, 273 p. : port. ; 22 cm. Language English Note Includes index. Subject Courts and courtiers. Format Book Library SRLF 12 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941 Title Those I remember, by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Danvin) Publisher London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, ltd. [1924] Description 273 p. front. (port.) 21 cm Language English Subject Courts and courtiers Format Book Library UCSD 13 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Secrets of dethroned royalty, Publisher New York, John Lane company; London, John Lane, 1920. Description vii, 9-249 p. front., ports. 22 cm. Language English Subject Russia -- Court and courtiers. Austria -- Court and courtiers. Germany -- Court and courtiers. Format Book Library CSL UCD 14 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The firebrand of bolshevism; the true story of the Bolsheviki and the forces that directed them. Publisher Boston, Small, Maynard & company [c1919] Description 5 p.l., 293 p. front., plates, ports, facsims. 21 cm. Language English Subject Propaganda, German Secret service -- Germany. Communism -- Soviet Union. Communism Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 Format Book Library UCSB SRLF UCB CSL UCD UCI 15 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The disillusions of a crown princess; being the story of the courtship and married life of Cecile, ex-crown princess of Germany. Publisher New York, John Lane company; 1919. Description 224 p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm. Language English Subject Cecilie, Crown Princess of the German Empire and of Prussia, 1886- Format Book Library CSL UCD 16 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Cecil Rhodes, man and empire-maker, by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb-Danvin); with eight photogravure plates. Publisher London, New York [etc.] : Cassell & company, ltd., 1918. Description xii, 235, [1] p. 8 port. (incl. front.) 24 cm. Language English Subject Rhodes, Cecil, 1853-1902. South Africa -- Politics and government. Format Book Library UCLA SRLF UCI CSL NRLF 17 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Confessions of the Czarina, Publisher New York London, Harper & brothers [c1918] Description 8 p.l., 297, [1] p. front., pl., ports. 21 cm. Language English Subject Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918. Russia -- Court and courtiers. Format Book Library UCB UCSB CSL NRLF UCD UCSC UCR 18 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Rasputin and the Russian revolution, Publisher New York, John Lane company; London, John Lane, 1918. Description 319 p. front., plates, ports., facsim. 23 cm. Language English Subject Rasputin, Grigori Efimovich, ca. 1870-1916. Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921. Format Book Library UCSB CSL NRLF UCR 19 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Russia's decline and fall : the secret history of the great debacle. Publisher London ; New York : Cassell and Co., 1918. Description viii, 256 p. ; 21 cm. Language English Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917. Format Book Library CSL NRLF 20 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Germany under three emperors, Publisher New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1917. Description x p., 1 l., 379, [1] p. front., ports. 25 cm. Language English Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Germany under three emperors, by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb-Danvin) with eight photogravure plates. Publisher London, New York Cassell, 1917. Description x, 379 p., illus., ports. 25 cm. Language English Note Printed in Great Britain. Subject Germany -- History -- 1789-1900. Format Book Library NRLF 22 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The tragedy of a throne, by Hildegarde Ebenthal [pseud.] with four photogravure plates. Publisher New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls company, 1917. Description viii p., 1 l., 327 p. illus. 25 cm. Language English Note Printed in Great Britain. Subject Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, 1845-1886. Bavaria (Germany) -- History -- 1777-1918. Format Book Library NRLF 23 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The Austrian court from within, Publisher New York, Frederick A. Stokes company [1916] Description 5 p. l., 235 [1] p. 8 port. (incl. front.) 25 cm. Language English Subject Austria -- Court and courtiers. Austria -- History -- Francis Joseph, 1848-1916. Format Book Library UCSB UCD UCLA SRLF 24 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Sovereigns and statesmen of Europe. With eight photogravure illustrations. Publisher New York, Funk & Wagnalls company, 1916. Description x, 259, [1] p. incl. front. ports. 24 cm. Language English Subject Kings and rulers Statesmen World War, 1914-1918 Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918 Format Book Library CSL 25 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The Austrian court from within, by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb-Danvin) with eight photogravure illustrations. Publisher London, Cassell and co. [1916] Description 5 p. l., 235, [1] p. 8 port. (incl. front.) 25cm. O Language English Note Printed in Great Britain. Subject Austria -- Court and courtiers. Austria -- History -- Francis Joseph, 1848-1916. Format Book Library UCSB CSL UCB 26 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The royal marriage market of Europe, by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb-Danvin) with eight half-tone illustrations. Publisher London, Cassell and co. 1915. Description vii p., 2 l., 270, [2] p. front., ports. 23 1/2cm. O Language English Subject Royal houses. Marriages of royalty and nobility. Europe -- Politics and government. Format Book Library CSL 27 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Sovereigns and statesmen of Europe / by Princess Catherine Radziwill, with eight photogravure illustrations. Publisher London : Cassell and Company, ltd., 1915. Description x, 259, [1] p. : incl. front. ports. ; 24cm. Language English Subject Kings and rulers. Statesmen. World War, 1914-1918. Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. Format Book Library NRLF SRLF 28 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title The royal marriage market of Europe, by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb-Danvin) with eight halftone illustrations. Publisher New York, Funk and Wagnalls company, 1915. Description vii p., 2 l., 270, [2] p. front., ports. 24 cm. Language English Subject Royal houses. Marriages of royalty and nobility. Format Book Library SRLF UCD 29 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Ekaterina Rzewuska, kni︠a︡gini︠a︡, 1858-1941 Title Memories of forty years by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb) Publisher New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1915 Description xiii, 357 p. ports. 25 cm Language English Note Includes index Subject Great Britain -- Court and courtiers Russia -- Court and courtiers Germany -- Court and courtiers Format Book Library UCLA SRLF UCSD UCI 30 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title France from behind the veil: fifty years of social and political life. Publisher New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls, 1914. Description viii p., 1 l., 395, [1] p. incl. front., pl., ports. 24 cm. Language English Subject France -- Social life and customs France -- Politics and government -- 1851-1970. France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940 Format Book Library CSL 31 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Memories of forty years, by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb) ... Publisher London [etc.] Cassell & Co., 1914. Description xiii, 357, [1] p. front., ports. 24 cm. Language English Note Printed Great Britain. Contents pt. I. Memories of England.--pt. II. Memories of Germany.--pt. III. Memories of Russia. Subject Great Britain -- Court and courtiers. Germany -- Court and courtiers. Russia -- Court and courtiers. Format Book Library NRLF 32 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Behind the veil at the Russian court. [microform] By Count Paul Vassili [pseud.] With twenty-three illustrations in photogravure. Publisher New York : J. Lane Co., 1914. Description viii p., 2 L., 3-407, [1] p. front., pl., ports. Language English Subject Russia -- Court and courtiers. Russia -- History -- Alexander II, 1855-1881. Russia -- History -- Alexander III, 1881-1894. Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917. Format Book Library UCLA UCSB UCD 33 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title France from behind the veil : fifty years of social and political life / by Count Paul Vassili ; illustrated. Publisher London ; New York : Cassell, 1914. Description viii, 395 p., [7] leaves of plates : ports. ; 24 cm. Language English Subject France -- Social life and customs. France -- Politics and government -- 1852-1870. France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940. Format Book Library SRLF NRLF 34 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941. Title Behind the veil at the Russian court, by Count Paul Vassili [pseud.]; with twenty-three illustrations in photogravure. Publisher London : Cassell & Co., ltd., [c1913] Description viii p., 2 l., 3-407, [1] p. front., pl., ports. 25 cm. Language English Note Printed in Great Britain. Subject Russia -- Court and courtiers. Russia -- History -- Alexander II, 1855-1881. 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Title La socieìteì de Londres : augmenteì de lettres ineìdites / Comte Paul Vasili. Publisher Paris : Nouvelle revue, 1885. Description 464 p. ; 25 cm. Language French Note A collection of studies originally published in the Nouvelle revue. One of a series of volumes on Berlin, Madrid, Rome, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Paris. "On attribua [aÌ mme. Adam]...les eìtudes sur les socieìteìs eìtrangeÌres publieìes sous le pseudonyme de Paul Vasili..."--Vapereau (1893) Subject London (England) -- Social life and customs. Great Britain -- Court and courtiers. Format Book Library SRLF 39 Details/Locations Author Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941 Title La société de Berlin. Augmenté de lettres inédites Publisher Paris, Nouvelle revue, 1884 Description 262 p. 25 cm Language French Note A collection of studies originally published in the Nouvelle revue One of a series of studies originally published in Nouvelle revue. Madrid, Rome, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Paris "On attribue à Mme. 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