RUSSIA. Catherine RADZIWILL (1858-1941) daughter of the Polish count Adam Rzewuski and niece of Madame Hanska, adventurer and forger (including letters from Madame Hanska confiding about Balzac). 4 L.A.S., 1886-1891, to the Marquis de Saint-Vallier; 12 pages in-8, envelopes. Berlin June 4, 1886. Her husband is ill: "the doctors have decided that we must go to Cairo for the next winter. She does not want "to leave Europe without saying goodbye to all our friends in France"... October 18, 1886, leaving Paris: "We are going first to Moscow, where I will let my husband and children rest while I myself will go for two days to Petersburg, where I will take leave of my father, whose health unfortunately leaves much to be desired. - On October 10 we will embark for Odessa, and if God pleases we will be in Alexandria on November 6"... Cairo January 3, 1887. On the health of her husband, who had a serious relapse: "Ah! this exile is very painful!"... Saint-Petersburg December 29, 1891 ("last letter of the princess"), on the dramatic situation and the famine in Russia: "Entire villages are literally dying of hunger in spite of all the efforts of the public charity which is finally beginning to be wearied by perpetual requests. Everyone is looking for the hungry. At my place, where misery is black, I have established a free kitchen where soup is distributed to the needy and it doesn't work too badly, but we absolutely lack bread"...