Editing Cissy Patterson (section)

==Education and marriage==
She was educated at [[Miss Porter's School]] in [[Farmington, Connecticut]], graduating in 1901. When her uncle [[Robert S. McCormick]] was named ambassador to [[Austria-Hungary]], she accompanied him and his wife, Cissy's maternal aunt Kate, to [[Vienna]]. There, she met Count [[Josef Gizycki]] and fell in love with him, a romance not interrupted even by her return to America, where she lived in [[Washington, D.C.]] In Washington, she was a leading light in society, where the press labeled [[Alice Longworth|Alice Roosevelt]] (daughter of [[Theodore Roosevelt|Theodore]]), [[Marguerite Cassini]]<!-- https://boundarystones.weta.org/tags/countess-marguerite-cassini https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/28444538/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/09/oleg-cassini-201009 https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001704018/  --> (daughter of [[Arthur Cassini]], the Russian ambassador to the U.S.A., mother to [[Oleg Cassini]]), and Cissy the "Three Graces." Count Gizycki came to America, and they were married in Washington on April 14, 1904, despite her family's objections.

A daughter was born to them on September 3, 1905, and was named Felicia Leonora (1905–1999). Cissy went with the Count to his home, a vast feudal manor in Russian Poland. Their family life did not go well. They separated and rejoined several times, but Cissy eventually set herself on leaving. She took their child, hiding her in a house near London, but the Count pursued her and kidnapped their daughter, hiding her in an Austrian convent. Cissy filed for divorce, which took thirteen years to obtain.