" As an artist, her
paintings have been much admired. One of her books of travel,
_A Summer on the Banks of the Danube_, has a drawing by its
author, a view of Borcia in Roumania. From a notable exhibition
at St. Petersburg she received a silver medal for two pictures
called "The Pine" and "The Palm," suggested to her by Heine's
beautiful little poem:
"A pine-tree sleeps alone
On northern mountain-side;
Eternal stainless snows
Stretch round it far and wide.
"The pine dreams of a palm
As lonely, sad, and still,
In glowing eastern clime
On burning, rocky hill."
This princess was the idol of her native people, who called
her, with the warm enthusiasm of their race, "The Star of
Albania." The learned and cultivated also did her homage. Named
by Frederika Bremer and the Athenians, "The New Corinne," she
was invested by the Greeks with the citizenship of Greece for
her efforts to assist the people of Candia to throw off the
oppressor's yoke, this being the first time this honour had
ever been granted to a woman.
The catalogue of her writings fills several pages, the list of
titles given her by learned societies nearly as many more and,
while born a princess of an ancient race and by marriage one
also, she counted these titles of rank as nothing compared with
her working name, and was more widely known as Dora D'Istria
than as the Princess Koltzoff Massalsky.
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