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It is possible that both her husband and the tsar of Russia managed to quash permission for the marriage at the Vatican. The Russian government also impounded her several estates (she owned thousands of serfs), which made her later marriage to Liszt, or anyone else, unfeasible.
Through the Liszt biographer La Mara we know the contents of sixteen letters from Caroline to Liszt and his partner Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein. In a first letter dated July 23, 1853, Caroline wrote plaintively to Liszt: “Do you still remember me?”
For nearly fourteen years, beginning shortly before she and Liszt established joint residence in Weimar, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein sought an annulment of her first marriage in order that she and Liszt might marry under the blessing of the Church.'
Carolyne Iwanowsky (57-67) Born on February 8th, 1819 at Monasterzyska in the Province of Kiev to Polish nobleman Peter von Iwanowsky and his wife Pauline von Podoska. Married Prince Nikolaus Sayn-Wittgenstein on May 7th, 1836. Gave birth to a daughter, Marie, on February 9th, 1837.
In the past, serious biographers of Franz Liszt have found the matter of the thwarted marriage of Liszt and Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein most puzzling, but no longer!
- Alan Walker
- Alan Walker, Gabriele Erasmi
- Alan Walker
- Gabriele Erasmi
…February 1847 Liszt met the princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein at Kiev and later spent some time at her estate in Poland. She quickly persuaded him to give up his career as a virtuoso and to concentrate on composition.
With him is his new love, the married (but separated) Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein. Liszt reorganizes the city's musical institutions and places them in service of challenging, "new music" composers, especially Berlioz and Wagner.
