Quotes:Wittgenstein, Prince Emil-Karl-Ludwig von Sayn-

Zirkoff, Boris

Wittgenstein, Prince Emil-Karl-Ludwig von Sayn-. (Spelled with only one “t” in Russia.) Russian Lieutenant-General who belonged to a Princely House (now extinct) which was a branch of the 534 German family Sayn-Wittgenstein-Barleburg. He was born in 1824. In 1845, he accompanied Prince Alexander of Hesse to the Caucasus; in 1848, he took part in the war against Denmark; then entered Russian service, and soon became aide-de-camp to Prince Vorontzov, Viceroy of the Caucasus, where he took part in the military operations. In 1862, he was attached to the Grand-Duke Konstantine Nikolayevich in Warsaw, Poland. During the Turkish War with Russia, 1877-78, he was in the suite of the Emperor. He died in 1878. He was a close friend of H.P.B. and her family, and became one of the earliest and most earnestly interested members of the T.S. As appears from an Editorial Note by H.P.B. in The Theosophist (Vol. IV, March, 1883, pp. 141-42), Prince von Wittgenstein received, for some reason or other, special protection from the Brothers in times of great danger.

Aside from poetry, he wrote Kavalerie-Skizzen (Darmstadt, 1859) and Deutschland in die Schranken (Darmstadt, 1860).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, pp. 533-534