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Murder on the Orient Express
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Agatha Christie
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Princess Dragomiroff is wealthy, elderly Russian woman who now resides in France. The other passengers remark on her ugliness, but also her strength of will and self-possession. An expensive handkerchief is planted in Ratchett ’s compartment in order to strategically draw suspicion to her, as her frailty makes her an unlikely murderer. Princess Dragomiroff was the godmother of Sonia Armstrong, Daisy ’s mother.
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The timeline below shows where the character Princess Natalia Dragomiroff appears in Murder on the Orient Express . The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
...the “nonchalance of the uninterested aristocrat.” M. Bouc clarifies that the lady is the Russian Princess Dragomiroff , an ugly but “cosmopolitan” woman who “makes herself felt.”
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Poirot again dismisses Pierre Michel and calls for the Russian Princess Dragomiroff . The investigators offer to meet her in her cabin, but she appears in the...
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Although Russian by origin, Princess Dragomiroff now resides in Paris and is on her way home after staying at the...
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It emerges that Princess Dragomiroff personally knew the Armstrongs through Sonia’s mother Linda Arden. As a result, she finds...
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Then, the Princess leaves, but not before repeating Hercule Poirot’s name and declaring, “It is Destiny,” a remark...
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Poirot has only one witness left to call: Hildegarde Schmidt, who is Princess Dragomiroff ’s lady’s maid. Poirot was adversarial with Ms. Debenham, but with Hildegarde “he was at...
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...maintains that she doesn’t know anything. She says she was called to attend to the Princess the previous night. When she notes that she doesn’t like to wear a dressing gown...
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With Princess Dragomiroff , Poirot assures her that, in her case, the search is a formality. The Princess ...
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...are of various nationalities. Colonel Arbuthnot has the evidence of the pipe-cleaner in Ratchett’s room. Princess Dragomiroff has a strong motive, as she was very close to the Armstrongs.
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...witness to write their name precisely to determine whether they are right- or left-handed. Only Princess Dragomiroff didn’t participate.
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...a moment, the elegance and expense of the handkerchief point to two women in particular: Princess Dragomiroff and Countess Andrenyi. He notes the convenience of the grease spot near the first...
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...that Countess Elena Andrenyi is actually Helena Goldenberg, Sonia Armstrong’s younger sister. As a result, Princess Dragomiroff , who knew the Armstrong family well, must have known Helena was on the train...
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...Poirot reminds him that there was another option for the owner of the handkerchief. Indeed, Princess Dragomiroff enters the dining-car to claim ownership of it.
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M. Bouc is shocked, objecting that her first name is Natalia, to which the Princess responds that the letter “N” appears as an “H” in the Russian alphabet. Poirot notes...
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Princess Dragomiroff admits that she lied to protect the Countess, who she knew was Sonia Armstrong’s...
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The Princess departs, and Poirot confers with the doctor to determine whether it’s physically possible that she...
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Canavan, Michael. "Murder on the Orient Express Characters: Princess Natalia Dragomiroff." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 13 Oct 2018. Web. 22 Aug 2022.
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Princess Natalia Dragomiroff
Character Analysis
There's nothing in this world like a hot girl who takes what She wants.
I relish in your need to please. It turns Me on to use you to My heart's content. I've had a league of boys since adolescence falling over themselves, eager to fulfill My desires, and now that troop has been replaced by My stable of willing submissives and slaves. There isn't any question why pleasing Me above all comes so naturally in My presence. Every fiber of My being radiates seduction and power.
Your efforts belong to My happiness.
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Princess Romanovskaya-Iskander of Russia
^ Behind the Name
^ Interview with Eleonora Dostal-Oruç (1999-2000's archive) Sabah News 29 January 2000, retrieved 19 June 2011.
^ About the family by Andrei Voznesensky Archived 2011-08-15 at the Wayback Machine includes Князь Михаил Греческий "Биография Великого Князя Николая Константиновича" and О.Лунькова "Княжна на мотоцикле".
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Princess Natalia Alexandrovna Romanovskaya-Iskander (Russian: княгиня Наталья Александровна Романовская-Искандер , tr. knyaginya, Natalya Aleksandrovna Romanovskaya-Iskander ; 2 February [ O.S. 20 January] 1917 – 25 July 1999), or simply Princess Iskander , was the last of two members of the male line of the House of Romanov to remain alive in the Soviet Union following the Revolution and its aftermath. The princess was a professional vertical motorcyclist and secret agent of the Lubyanka .
As the daughter of Prince Romanovsky-Iskander, né Alexander Nikolaevich Romanov [ ru ] , and his first wife, Olga Iosifovna Rogowska (b 1893; disappeared in the USSR; d c. 1962, daughter of Iosif Rogowski) Romanovskaya-Iskander was the granddaughter of Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich , the disgraced grandson of Tsar Nicholas I ; thus, she was a patrilineal great-great-granddaughter of Nicholas I . Her date of birth is disputed, and has been reported as 10 February 1916, 3 February 1917, or 17 February 1910.
Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich 's son, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich , was exiled to Central Asia in disgrace for stealing his mother 's diamonds. Grand Duke Nicholas established a palace in Tashkent and lived in grand style where he sired a son, whom Tsar Alexander III (his great-uncle) granted the title Prince Iskander (Iskander was the Arabic form of Alexander [1] ).
This prince, Alexander Nikolaievich (15 November 1887 N.S. – 26 January 1957) who granted the name of Iskander and the rank of a Noble of the Russian Empire by Imperial Ukase 1889 and that of Hereditary Noble by Imperial Ukase 1899, also granted the title of Prince Romanovsky-Iskander with the qualification of Serene Highness by the Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich of Russia , who became the grandfather of Princess Natalia in absentia, in 1925, in turn, fathered the Princess Iskander. Alexander Nikolaievich only had issue by his first wife.
Natalia Androsova was born in Tashkent , a member of the Constantinovichi branch of the Russian Imperial Family . She had an older brother, Prince Kirill Romanovsky-Iskander (1914–1992). Her parents, who had been married since 5 May 1912, separated and in 1924 Natalia and her brother moved with their mother to Moscow (first moved to Plyushchikha Street, later to Old Arbat), where Olga remarried to Nicholas Androsov. Natalia's stepfather adopted her and her brother so Princess Iskander was renamed Natalia Nikolaievna Androsova (Russian: Наталья Николаевна Андросова ). Her father remarried also, to Natalia Hanykova (b Saint Petersburg; 30/20 December 1893; d Nice 20 April 1982), dau of Maj.-Gen. Constantin Nikolaievich Hanykov and his wife Natalia Efimovna Markova, on 11 October 1930 in Paris.
After the Russian Revolution, Natalia and her brother Kirill were the only two Romanov descendants in the male line in the USSR ; the rest either fled or were killed. They lived their entire lives in the USSR. [2] She was married to Nicholas Vladimirovich Dostal (1909 - 22 April 1959) and had a daughter Eleonora Nikolaievna Dostal-Oruç (27 January 1937 - 2009). Her daughter was a socialite, philanthropist, noblewoman and an example of the modern phenomenon of the celebutante who rose to fame not because of her talent but because of her inherited wealth and controversial lifestyle in Turkey. The biographical novel The White Night of St. Petersburg (2004) was written by her second cousin Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark about her grandfather, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich of Russia , and was based on Natalia's memories of him. She was a friend of Alexander Galich , Yuri Nikulin , Yuri Nagibin , and Alexander Vertinsky . [3] Princess Natalia is also known for her brave personality. She was a motor-cyclist in motor-cyclist-circus. Besides, in the war time she was a driver in army.
When the revolution progressed, the Iskander family decided that it was safer in Central Asia and joined the old grand duke in Tashkent ; the place where Natalia's early childhood had been spent. Natalia was barely one year old when her grandfather was killed by local revolutionaries, the first grand duke to die in the Red Terror . The family never discussed the circumstances of his death, and now no one knows exactly what happened. Her father and uncle Artemi left home to join the Whites , and for a time the two Iskander princes were lost in the swirling havoc of civil war. Prince Alexander was reported missing in action. Meanwhile, the revolutionaries forced Natalia, her brother Kirill and her mother Olga to leave the grand ducal palace, but they did not persecute them.
The family were helped by the fact that their name was Iskander, not Romanov, but even more by the preoccupation of the revolutionaries with their own survival in a bitter seesaw civil war. After the war, the palace became a museum and little Natalia would visit it, aware of the fact that it had once been her home and that all its treasures-armor, sculpture, paintings-had once belonged to her family. The lavish rose garden, shielded by its high walls from Asian dust and harsh desert winds, continued to bloom. And in the cellar, a few hunting dogs still lived. Their master was gone, but they waited for his return. Peace meant that the Bolsheviks would have the opportunity to become interested in the Iskander family, conspicuous because of the memory of the grand duke. Nicholas Constantinovich had spent his own personal funds to build canals for irrigating the crops essential for sustaining the life of the people. But Natalia's mother knew she could expect no gratitude from the Bolsheviks and decided that she would take her family to Moscow.
Giving up her husband for lost, she married and changed the name of her children immediately to that of her new husband. Thus Natalia dropped Iskander for Androsova. Moscow offered new jobs and also safety in anonymity of big city life. Former tsarist officers, bureaucrats, professors and merchants hoped to find privacy and security in the bustling new capital of the Soviet regime. The new-Androsovs found a spacious apartment, but a neighbor, apparently wanting the place himself and learning who they really were, threatened to report them to the secret police.
The family fled to the Arbat District downtown near the Kremlin and to the squalor of a cramped basement apartment. Because they were neither peasants nor workers, the state gave them the status of lishentzy, people regarded as socially alien, having no right to vote and therefore unable to secure good jobs. Yet they survived. Natalia had grown up to be dazzling in appearance and dashing in manner. Tall and svelte, with finely chiseled (and also very Romanov) features, she had radiant blue eyes , long blond hair and a captivating smile. Her mother, despite changing her name, never tried to conceal the past from Natalia. All the family photographs sat on a shelf in the shabby Androsov apartment: Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich , his brother K.R. and Natalia's father, Prince Alexander Iskander.
Natalia would proudly tell close friends of her real origins. Everyone was astonished; one of the friends said disgustedly, "Put those pictures away; it is indecent to keep them!" But the Androsovs were bold. Friends returning from Siberian exile, political pariahs , always knew that they could spend a few nights with the Androsovs. Natalia perhaps inherited some of her grandfather's propensity for adventure. She did not conceal that she was a Romanov.
She chose a wild career, that of a professional motorcyclist. She joined the famous sports club Dynamo and became a prominent motorcycle racer . Then the troubles came. It was 1939; Russia was experiencing Joseph Stalin 's Great Terror , when millions were taken away to die, often inexplicably. Natalia was twenty-two. A young mechanic from Dynamo came courting her. When she boasted of her imperial lineage, he tried to blackmail her into sleeping with him. When she refused, he threatened to report her to the Lubyanka. Married and the mother of one, Natalia slapped him hard across the face. He was very tall and muscular, but "I was a very strong woman," she said proudly. Still, she panicked and burned all of her family papers. She changed her sports club and went to another famous one, Spartak . But in several weeks the Lubyanka summoned her. The secret police people were explicit. She had only two options, they said. Either she became a secret agent or she would be shot.
Under the codename Lola , Natalia began to work for Stalin's secret police . Her Lubyanka supervisor came regularly to the Arbat where they met, not in her apartment but in the shadows of an archway outside. Years later Natalia learned that her file at the Lubyanka described her in the most flattering terms. She was young, intelligent and attractive. She had, in short, all the qualities of an excellent agent except one: She did not want the job. Her friends knew nothing of her Lubyanka affiliation. But she knew which of them would be arrested and when.
Many people found Natalia's manner pleasingly raffish; she dressed in men's jackets and leggings. She smoked. She was proud of her ancestry, especially her grand ducal grandfather. She liked to whisper to guests that she was a Romanov, a descendant of tsars. Soon she became known as the Queen of the Arbat , a district that was taking on some of the character of New York 's Greenwich Village . Visitors found hers a warm hearth in a cold and gray metropolis. She embarked on an extraordinary career as a vertical motorcyclist at Gorky Park . She drove the machine up a wall. The secret to success, she said, was to feel the vehicle and to look only forward, never at the wheels . Then the war broke out.
In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded Russia . In the fall of that year, when the enemy came very close to capturing Moscow and the Soviet Government fled, Natalia stayed in the city. She was in charge of her neighborhood fire brigade , on the alert for incendiary bombs dropped by German aircraft. When
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