The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-10
Russ Grand Dukes
Are Now in Exile
BY JOSEPH sHApLEN.

tCnlted freSs Stan nNoIiespohueh'-f :
New York, Sept. 21.--Ail the Ro-
manoffs have been exiled from Petro-
grad and vicinity.
Grand Dukes Paul Alexandrovitch,
Nicolai Michailovitch. Serge Michail.
ovitch, as well as the brother OF the
wife of Paul Alexandrovitch, Prince
Paul Alexandrovitch Palei, on leaving
Petrograd took with them only neces-
saries and books. They took very
little baggage with them, due to i'm.
possibility of transporting anything
cumbersome in Russia. All articles
OF luxury, art. paintings, religious OBJ
jects and precious stones belonging to
the grand dukes were left in Petro-
grad
The Grand Duke Nicolai Michailo.
witch, who is noted writer and his
torian, in fact the only man of big
talent produced by the Romanoff dy.
nasty in recent years, left all his writ.
ings, memoirs and very rich historical
library in the care of q certain promi-
nent Russian writer and politician.
who played a big part in the revolu-
ton and prominent member of the
Russian Historical Society, which.
after the revolution unanimously
chose the Grand Duke Nicolai Mich
ailovitch its president.
This grand duke is noted through
out Europe not only as an historian
but as an antiquarian and collector.
The palace of Nicolai Michailovitch
is wonderful museum of ancient his
tory, the contents OF which he col
Iected from all parts of the world. The
grand duke refused to go to Perm.
where he has many powerful friends,
and preferred to go TO vologda be-
cause, he explained, there was a col
lection of ancient ikons and an an.
cient church there.
The former grand dukes are great
ly worried about their property. Par
ticularly under the -Bolshevik regime
many of the precious and rare paint
ings and things of art belonging tC
the grand dukes have been stolen
and scattered throughout Europe. A
horseshoe, studded with diamonds, for
example-the property of the Grand
Duke Andrei Vladimirovitch- val
ued at more than 100000 rubles
(about s1,0o0.o0o in normal times)
was obtained by speculator for 3,00t
rubles and sold for 35o,0o0rubies. For
tunately, the horseshoe was recov
cred through the grand dukes own ef
forts. The pillow on which Alexan
der ii slept was sold on the Alexan
tlrinski market for Is rubles. after
wards resold for so rubles, and finally
located at the home of a cab driver
The handkerchiefs of Catherine Il
and the former Czarina were sold in
the streets of Petrograd at rublt
t13 cents) apiece. peasant who OBJ
tanned a handkerchief used by Cath
crime ii sold il to a member of the
French military mission for $4,000
rubles. Valuable dogs belonging to
the Gar were sold at from 10 to Il
rubles each. One dog named "Pt,'
which accompanied the Car OF all
his trips and was the gift of the
Kaiser. was sold for rubies. The
boots of Peter the Great were sold
for 20 rubi.s.
The grand dukes have addressed a
special plea to the Bolshevik govern
ment for the security of their prop
erty. The matter was taken under
consideration by the Boisheviki-aftel
much of the property representing
part OF the cultural estate of the Rus
sian people was stolen.
Only the grand dukes residing in
and about Petrograd have been exilet
to Vologda and Perm. 1t is believed
however. that Grand Duke Dmitri Paw
1ovftch. Rasputin's slayer and son o.
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch, viii
also go to Vologda in view of the crit
ical illness of his father. Dmitri /.
now in Tcheran, whittier he was ex
He'd by the Car for leading the assas
sfnation of Rasputin. The grant
dukes residing in Finland and Crimei
VIII not be molested. They will sim
Ply have to register. Now that tn,
Germans are in control of these re
gions. the grand dukes are in theil
hands.
Grand Duke Nicolai Michailovitch ii
working hard in vologda on his me
naoirs, covering period of man,
years. particularly the intrigues a