Marion Ream Vonsiatsky

Since Marion was an heiress worth $45 Million Dollars- (yes in 1920) her scandals were not kept quiet. After she married Annie Vonsiatsky, his wife came over and took her to court trying to obtain money from her since Annie (Little Orphan Annie) was not legally divorced. Below is the account in a newspaper. Under that is the translation of that account - it's written in a strange 1922 manner and the article is broken up with some coding commands but it is a bit fascinating!

THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1922 The unpretentious house in Ridley . Park, Pa., where ' the latest "love- in-a-cottage" experiment is en-,, c o u n t e r i n g so many embarrassing and unexpected obstacles always has been Iove ; and "You Cannot Ignore Any Longer {fee Legal Situation of My Husband, Whom You Pretend Personally to Defend Against the Charge of Bigamy^ I Summon You to Break Off Immediately All RelationsWith Anastase Vonsiatsky, My Husband, Unless You Intend to Assume Personally the Full Responsibilities of Your Conduct"-- Cablegram Sent by Mrs. Liobotiff Mouromsky  ' Vonsiatsky to the Former Mrs. Marion R.- Stephens x ever since there were cottages we have regarded them "as the best setting In the'world for love. Love in a cottage has become the symbol of true and undying affection. ' But-now when some one mentions'a couple who have married and .gone to live in a cottage as-being on the most certain and ideal road to happiness, somo one else may rise and object: "Ah, yes. But you forget the Von- siatskys!" The marriage last winter of the young Russian soldier, Anastase A. Vonsiatsky, to Mrs. Marion Ream Stephens, heiress to a fortune of $45,000,000, was one of those unions which are so interesting because of a variety of unusual elements. It attracted great attention at the time of its consummation, and ever since it has been closely watched to see whether or not it would be successful. That is a judgment which cannot yet be made, and yet the case for love in -a cottage looks far less hopeful than it did.- For out of far-away Russia has. come a girl who claims that she, and not Mrs. Stephens, is the legal wife of Anastase Vonsiatsky. From her determined actions it would appear that she is bound to assert what she' believes to be her, rights and make the alleged invasion of them very costly indeed. And so another handicap has come to the little cottage in Ridley Park, Penn- aylvania, whose inmates, people say, already were handicapped severely enough in their quast for married bliss. In the first place, there was the difference in the ages of thj couple, for the bride was forty-five and the bridegroom but twenty-three. Such a disparity would not matter so much, critics declared, if the man were the elder, but one may be pessimistic about May and December alliances when they are a question of an older woman holding the love of a young husband. But that gap had no terrors Jor the bride. The age of her husband might not be measured by his years, she explained. He might be said to have lived many times his age through his ex- perfence as a soldier in the successive armies that vainly battled against the crushing, blows of Bolshevism. This army experience was just; the trouble,"if we may believe the statements of the woman who calls herself Mme. Liouboff 'Mouromsky Vonsiatsky. For it was while serving as a soldier in the Crimea that Vonsiatsky married her, she says. Then there was the wide difference in the financial condition of the heiress bride, and her husband. He had only what he earned through a humble $4-a- day job in the Baldwin Locomotive Works. But any fears that Vonsiatsky might prove a fortune hunter and be willing to let his wife support him were set at rest when he remained right on his job. He and his bride returned from their honeymoon, and in spite of her wealth they went to live in what really is a cottage, and not a very fancy cottage ,at · that. The daughter of one of the millionaire founders of the National Biscuit t Company and . the United States Steel Corporation settled down in a little town, presumably to rise early, to do with one servant, when 'she had been accustomed, to dozens; to drive her husband to-the station, instead of employing ' a chauffeur, and to-put aside the finery and luxury which had been hers for years. This difficult experiment was in progress, love in a cottage was being put to this, severe test, when out of the past of Vonsiatsky came a woman who swears she's his only true and lawful wife. . It was as if a giant hand had. thrust Anastase A.- Vonsiatsky, the $4-a- day \vorkmgman whose honeymoon wi,th his heiress bride has been rudely interrupted by another woman's claim to be his only legal wife itself through-the .walls of the' little cottage in Ridley. Park and an accusing finger pointed straight at the couple dwelling there. ..*What a"rude shock it must have been to many hopes and plans. It was an embarrassing and 'a .terrible thing. - ' . . And then to the bride came this cablegram from the girl'from Russia. It was- addressed to Mrs.. Marion-R. Stephens, Ridley Park,' Pa.,', thus refusing to. recognize her right to. call herself by Von- siatsky's name. Perhaps its effect was like that of the handwriting on the wall which so startled the royal feasters of Babylon.  T h e cablegram read: . . . "You" cannot ignore any longer the legal situation of my husband, whom you pretend'personally'to'defend against the charge of biga'my. I summon you to break off immediately all relations, with Anastase Vonsiatsky, my husband, un- lers you intend to assume personally the full responsibilities of, your, conduct. "LIOUBOFF' VONSIATSKY.";, This proved to " be . the beginning of 'trouble for the cottage Covers. And ..it brought forth a.tale that might.furnish the plot for a modern novel of 'romance and adverrture. ' According to'the'story of-the Russian girl, she met Vonsiatsky r when, the red waves of Bolshevism" were sweeping _over Russia-after' the war. Mlle."Mouromsky and her father-'lived in- the town  of Yalta, in the Crimea;; which became'the storm center - of one of  the -terrific cain-" paigns of the'Reds" arid : those.. who-were attempting -to" save .Russia' from their' grasp. The town, which was occupied'by the , Bolsheviki,-was attacked and finally captured by their - foes,' airiong; whom was according-to Vonsiatsky, and he was free to marry when -he. came to* America ' ' ' The former Mrs. Marion Ream Stephens, the. $45,000,000 Vonsiatsky, a gallant young -officer. L o. v e dawned between h i ' m and the pretty girl who lived in the-'town he had saved and .* she was legally married to. him, she says, only to .be deserted later. But a contradictory story is told. Vonsiatsky is said to have admitted marrying the girl--in order to save Tier life. Following t h e $ taking of the city from the' B.olsheviki an 7 other peril is said to have · beset the hapless inhabitants. 1 A wave .of anti- Jewish feeling .broke out ' 'and threatened the'lives of all the citizens o f ' that -race pf which Mile. Mouromsky and her father are declared to. bo ..members. Vonsiatsky is said', to ' have affirmed that he ."married the beautiful young Jewess simply to give her a Christian name and as his wife" to save,'her from death in a pogrom.*. But this the Russian girl denies, and tells this story: "Everything went .well "after our marriage until the defeat' of general Wrangel, when we wera · forced -to- flee to Constantinople. After 1 several.-months there, where I was. registered with the Dutch Consul as. Vonsiatsky's wife, we succeeded in" reaching. Paris with my father. ' · , - "We-~had lost almost everything, but friends helped .'us 7 as much" as possible.. .Vonsiatsky had trouble- / with a Russian military leader there, -' named General Miller, who ' op- pos'ed the " French, 'government's . giving' him the necessary carte de sejour,'although; IJ was'aWe to.re- .ihanrhere'by."accepting an identity,card - . · ... -.""-. under" the name of Mouromsky . ' ~ ; - hard'strugglefor,:existence, and pleading · '"Then ;Vonsiatsky went to 1 : America, ' ;that^6cessik;had,f^7^TM "^. a , ^^g^ft^fe'' n^y-. 80 ;on;to: and .-when he "saw the opportunity.of mar- ' marriage'; wi^h;-the rich. Mrs. ..Stephens. ; , --· , bo ,a.,..iegai, pawi . , . _v__ ,, ; _.__ ^·iriTier"-Hii im» 14-liI'l-'sayS,''' OTlfili secret:"'*! Liobouff Mcuromsky, the beautiful Russian who d«- posseision .af.the-sinan she say* ;he. .married, ·and. also $500,000 "damages But .the;,surprising charges brought by the Russian -beauty are by.no means the 'But^les's:Vonsiatsky;'who;is said-to-. only, ^embarrassing and. unexpected ^ob- ^'.'fTMTM'. «*; n'rtblB "PolishS-famiiy/ can - stacle,which: Mr:; Vonsiatsky and the former- Mrs.^S.teph.ejis. have encountered.in ' com'e '· 'from '· a": .noble.V:Pplish^family,~ can .prove'his 'statements: and, disprove those.. - - , -- . . - -- - , . , - -. . 6f th'e girl-whovdeclares^heris-hisjwife'.. their;effort:to,find peace, and happiness he starts,liable^'p^^ amv · This probably: would-be :fatar-n6t .met-such-a.^ariety^f obstacles that their _ . "j ^ x _ . "L _ _ ' l^^nvk ·»ww4-w*M SeTwhV : ^to"lSs^^^^tt^e,but^:his, ; e^stence^tordate- has-been anything ftjress WTO . .^.^_ o _ v ^^^V.^-^iV^osition.with: but peaceful;/, : cKances : ..of success : in-his;;position:with:: butpeacefuh. , . - --^ _ . ,,*·-!,*- - the/'Baldwin'^Ldcdrnotive-Wofksr-the; . Ev^er.-smce:,they settleJ dp^n; in .the °£ bl .-'- Resident *f ^icH.'.Samuel ^V^uclain^.is modesticottage.m^idley^^rk-.fchey have i. .. ., +Av^v; "o-'-t^^ii'-:i^t.ftVfiRt:in 11 :th'e'^oreiene'r ;· .been .relentlessly ^pursued -by. ·innumera- js shocked" to find her herself Mrs. Vonsiatsky disputed a "special :i ihtel-love:rh^ing.-it-^eme^ v : 'th"'"t'""th a '-' ; ''"··'''·"''' " ·· ' ! ' "' ' · fast 'The beggars-wanted.some .-of the ;SU!^L'.":i,S^«i^i^if!:tiin;·" V heiress^' : weilth; to^reliev^'. the^'.suffer-. ings'., "And",the cranks, sought the -back- ' . ?--'~-^'.rt-f til" '^' k '-»''*- ef ' c Tviinipiri«.-fn-r np-pt^i _. e a v - - e and aU sorts of .umenis-'seht "to Tthe -Ryssian : Cfiurch; : in;: , otlier ;.wild. sche^s; , _ : o r c e d e a r e m a w a y - f r o m . i h e -VMrs'.'.'.," Stepbens^'as ; ;his_-..sjs1 ' ". ' "· ''_-'"' i · " '.^ .* ' -·''·'.*-- ' _ _ _ J «v« 4^14-1 sacred; Cathedr'a'l: rying'the wealthy Mrs.' Stephens.'the.torie.'' 'He urged^'her^.sTie.'saj of- his -letters', began "to .change." ' :· - ' ";vious'lmarriagiB.,a;-sea .-The;'girl 1 said "she-.began 'to see^'whaj; . evidence .of^it,~.' ~ , .'-,-.. was Keihg"planned -when she ; received'let- : '."' Vbrisi'a'tsky, it" is · u'nd . , _ _ _ _ _ _ n d ; which" protested ''" .deny ;the : :'maFris 'loo-strongly''that-tnefe-'was;'-'nothing''be- : 'ilegality,'on *^° ' tw'een' him -and" Mrs. Stephens.'' °--"' *^ T " cL " tT 1 ' n; Soon' : - after that their^marriage occurred. She-... dox'Russian:. insists he wrote, reminding her of-'his-' formed-by".the