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ZICHY CONTINUES VENERABLE TRADITION Translated from Die Zeit, Budapest Edition. She was born Countess Shoya Zichy of Hungary and her genes speak of a thousand years of statesmen, writers, artists and revolutionaries. Like many of her clan, her life underwent an abrupt change when, on a cold November evening, her family was forced to flee using false passports purchased with a dozen pigs. Today, she joins her cousins gathered from around the world for a reunion after decades of separation. Each evening they congregate around a wall at their ancestral palace, now a hotel outside of Budapest, on which is posted a large family tree. On the left is the branch that includes Princess Melanie Zichy Metternich, wife of the famed Chancellor of Austria. Melanie, a family member explains, used courier pigeons to warn Hungarian compatriots whenever Austrian powers planned an arrest. Next to Melanie is the painter Mihaly Zichy whose revolutionary musings led to life of exile and a career as a court painter to the Russian imperial court. His monumental canvasses now adorn the National Museum of Budapest. The other wall features Count Geza, one-armed following an early hunting accident who went on to a forty-year career as a concert pianist and was dubbed by his mentor Franz Liszt to be one of the marvels of modern musical history. Tonight, however, the cousins gather to honor one of the living. They drink champagne and with some trepidation take part in the Color Q quiz and exercises that serve as the basis of Shoya's two books, Women and The Leadership Q and the upcoming Career Match. The books outline four personality groups based on the work of Carl Jung. Jung, no doubt, would revel at the use of his work to bridge a family after forty years of separation. |
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