Madeleine Radziwiłł Princess Maria Madeleine Radziwiłł was a Polish–Belarussian aristocrat who financed many Catholic works.Biography She was the daughter of Count and the Countess Marie Kwilecka, former lady-in-waiting to the Russian Empress and great-granddaughter of King Stanisław August Poniatowski. The count was keen on archaeology and collected ancient medals and coins. They spoke French and Polish at home, as well as Belarusian with servants. She was educated by governesses and teachers. She spent her winters in Warsaw. Her older sister married of the Nieborów branch and also became a philanthropist. In 1882, Madeleine married the wealthy Count who was 27 years her senior. They had a daughter, Maria Ludwika , who married Prince Adam Czartoryski in 1901. As a widow, Countess Krasinska spent most of her time at her property near Igumen and also visited the properties inherited from her father. In 1904, she fell in love with the young prince Wacław Mikołaj Radziwiłł who was 19 years younger than her. They married in London on March 30, 1906. The scandal isolated them. The prince was dismissed from society, their London relations turned away from them. They left to settle in, owned by the princess. He was dedicated to the management of the property which included an immense forest of pines and oaks of 27,000 dessiatines. Prince Radziwiłł fought in the Russian Imperial Army during the First World War and died at the beginning of the war in East Prussia . She devoted herself to works of charity and becomes a Dominican tertiary . She was at the head of a large fortune with 18 estates and immense forests. She lived in Kaunas , then in Germany. Finally she was ruined and in 1932, finished her days in Fribourg , in a convent of Dominicans. Her ashes were reburied in Minsk .Philanthropy She financed a Belarusian newspaper, Biełarus , the publishing house, a society to fight against alcoholism, a school of the village of Kuchcičy. She received representatives of Belarussian culture such as Vaclav Iwanowski, a Minister of Education in 1918 of the Belarusian People's Republic ; the Lutskevich brothers publishers of the Belarussian weekly Nasha Niva ; Roman Skirmunt , member of the Third Duma and Chairman of the Belarusian People's Committee ; or Edward Woyniłłowicz a politician. She materially aided Maksim Bahdanovič in publishing his first books, as well as Maksim Haretski , Iakoub Kolas and Anton Levitsky. She helped finance Vilnius University . Radziwiłł also helped charitable works like the convent of Druya with their high school which was opened by the Marianists of the Immaculate Conception in 1923; had a seminary built in Vilnius and donated to the construction of the St Casimir's Lithuanian Church in London. She is active at the Minsk Charity Society helping victims of the war. After the war , she financed the seminary for the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church in Rome and members of the "Lithuanian Renaissance". She donated funds to build a church in Warsaw, and orphanages and children's homes in Minsk. She donated 1,009 books to the Lithuanian Scientific Society . In 1930, she was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas .
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