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Chap. V.
RUSSIAN PRINCESSES.
75
and I believe flourishing provincial towns, to visit the
church of St. Ib, celebrated for its splendid pulpit
of carved oak and ebony, and then later made a
pilgrimage to the abbey church, an ancient
convent within whose walls lie interred the sisters of
ill-fated Ivan of Russia, princesses of Brunswick, who
here lived for many a long and perhaps weary year, and
later terminated their existence. “ Bonitate Catherines
secondæ vitam traducerunt quietam.” Catherine, last
of this unfortunate stock, died in the year 1807. These
princesses occupied a house on the Place opposite to St.
lb’s church, now converted into a brewery. On the
whole, when you consider they were born at Archangel,
and later escaped the knout and Siberia, I do not think
they were to be pitied for ending their days at Horsens,
a city in the last century much frequented by the
provincial nobility, and which even now betrays an air of
better days, and where I have no doubt they were made
a fuss with.
Our hotel was once a palace in its day, that of
Lichtenberg, a family, the last member of whose race lies
interred in the abbey church hard by. Their elevation
was as rapid as their fall.
Some time in an earlier century a peasant-boy from
the village of Lisbierg, a clever lad, entered as clerk
in a commercial house, and later became himself a
merchant and a man of great possessions. He married
a lady of high birth, and for service rendered to his
sovereign was ennobled; but the name of Lisbierg,
the village which gave him birth, was Danish, and
much too vulgar for a nobleman to bear. The king,
Frederic IV., himself, as well as his noble spouse, would
not hear of it, so they Germanised the name to suit the
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