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- She travelled a great deal with her mother, lived long with her at Dresden, and was seldom at Riga, She eventually settled at Blankenburg in the Harz, where she owned a villa. In 1914, when the war broke out, being a Russian subject, she was ordered to report herself to the German authorities every day, but later was allowed to spend a winter in Berlin, and afterwards received permission to go to Switzerland, where she was in July, 1919. In the summer of 1913 she visited us in England. She was a good linguist, spoke and wrote English fluently, was a good pianist and used in her younger days to paint in oils. She came finally to England August 30th, 1920, and took up her abode with the Percy Allens at Oxford, in whose house she died April 21st, 1924.
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