The Russian Countess Maria Tarnowska gained international notoriety by standing trial for plotting and instigating the murder of one of her lovers. She got trial in Venice in 1910 and she attracted media attention from both sides of the Atlantic and later became the subject of various books, Annie Chartres Vivanti, Hans Habe etc. because she played a main role in the ‘Russian Affaire’. After marrying the Russian aristocrat Wassily Tarnowski at the age of seventeen and giving birth to a son and a daughter, she became romantically involved with several other men. She was also known to abuse narcotic drugs In 1907, one of her lovers, Nicholas Naumov, also spelled Naumoff, killed another Maria’s lover, Count Pavel Kamarovsky, in Venice, allegedly upon her instigation. The Countess Tarnowska, as she was commonly called, was arrested that same year in Vienna and transferred to La Giudecca penitentiary in Venice, where the trial was to be held. Several newspaper in Europe and in Usa reported the story. She emigrated to America under the assumed name of Nicole Roush.
Book Title: The Countess Maria Tarnowska
Total Pages: 74
Posted By: Shakil Ilyas
Total Pages: 74
Posted By: Shakil Ilyas
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