A passage from Prince Felix Yussupov from his memoirs where he mentions the Paleys:
"Dmitri's sister, the Grand Duchess Marie, had married Prince William of Sweden. Later she divorced him to marry an officer in the Guards, Prince Poutiatin, whom she also divorced. I often saw Dmitri's half brother and his two half sisters, the children of his father, the Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich by his morganatic marriage to Madame Pistohlcors. They were near neighbors of ours in Tsarskoe Selo; the Grand Duke Paul's two daughters were talented amateur actresses. Their brother Vladimir was also extremely gifted. If he had not been brutally murdered in Siberia with several other members of the Imperial family, there is no doubt that he would have been one of the best poets of our time. Some of his works might be compared to those of Pushkin. His beautiful and intelligent eldest sister Irene was very like her grandmother, the Empress Marie, wife of Tsar Alexander II. She married my brother-in-law, Prince Theodore, and had two children by him, Michael and Irene. Vladimir's younger sister, Natalie, was radiantly pretty and had all the charming grace of a playful kitten. She married the French couturier Lucien Lelong, and afterward an American, Mr. J. C. Wilson."
