Roland Hayes: Difference between revisions

In 1925, Hayes had an affair with a married [[Czechs|Czech]] aristocrat, Bertha Henriette Katharina Nadine, Gräfin von [[Colloredo-Mansfeld]] (June 21, 1890 in [[Týnec (Klatovy District)|Týnec]] – January 29, 1982 in [[Auch]]), which resulted in a pregnancy.<ref name=kolowrat>Brooks, Christopher A. 2015, pp. 358, 361–362, 366–367, 379.</ref> Bertha had been married in Vienna since 10 August 1909 to a member of a German [[Princes of the Holy Roman Empire#Imperial state|princely family]], Hieronymus von Colloredo (November 3, 1870 in [[Dobříš]] – August 29, 1942 in Prague), who was 20 years her senior. He refused to allow the expected child to bear his name or to be raised along with the couple's four older children, quietly managing to obtain a divorce in Prague on 8 January 1926, while Bertha left their home in [[Zbiroh]], [[First Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovakia]], to bear Hayes's child in Basel, Switzerland. Hayes offered to adopt the child, while the countess sought to resume the couple's relationship, while concealing it, until the late 1920s.<ref name=kolowrat/> Their daughter, Maya Kolowrat, would marry Russian ''[[émigré]]'' Yuri Mikhailovich Bogdanoff (January 28, 1928 in [[Leningrad]] – 2012), son of Mikhail Borisovich Bogdanov and wife Anna Osten-Sacken and paternal grandson of Boris Alexandrovich Bogdanov, shot in 1917, and wife. Maya later gave birth in [[Saint-Lary, Gers]], to twins [[Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff]] in 1949, who later attributed their early interest in the sciences to their unhampered childhood access to their maternal grandmother's castle library.<ref name="auto"/>