Evening journal., 1919-02-27
WHO is AVXENTIEFF /?
BY ERNEST J. HOPKIN
Who is Nicolas Avxentieff?

Who Is Nicolas Avxentieh2
In Russia the of KeenSky spoken OF with Shrug
while that of Avxene uttered with the fervor oehng the
AvxeneG stayed on the job when Keensy weakened fail
ed and fed.
He President Russa the only President elected
Greatest Of the leaders of sane democratic slavdom he
was released from on BosheyS prison only 10 eeme9s ~
Avxente was Minister Interior in Kerenskys cabaet
Driven from Petrograd he fled to Moscow-and organized
that region against the Bohevld
Driven from Moscow, he passed through the Boshevk line;
disguise made his eastward to Omkand organized and
held that region against the Bolshevik
ity He up LIBERAL democratic Russian govenmentthe
moderate Russia that will ultimately be the Russia of the family OF
And having successfully liberated Siberia and East
Russia from Boshevk terrorism, Avxentef fell victim
Omsk a coup deat Of extremists OF wholly different
stsmp-reactionsry army officers and mitarists covey
loyal the House of Romanof and seeking to restore the
deposed monarchy.
The monaTchsts- Kolchak group-drove AvHentief
and his cabinet ministers from Siberia into China
Now he the United States, Paris, where
he viii strengthen the hands of Prince Lvof his close friend
and associate the conference With Lvo Avxen
tief speaks for moderate democratic Russia-the Rus-
sis of sanity and peace.
This the man whom America has hardly heard owing
to the censorship the west by the Boshev and on the east
by the conservative monarchists.
Travelling with him his cabinet ministers " Zenznoh
president of the provisional government; RogovSky sec
reay of state in charge of police and Agounof alternative
Avxenes personal story is as romantic any in history
eve Socialists but moderate socialists and not social evo
Of Moscow and of the University of Halle Under the
gme thrice imprisoned for political activity.
When the Bolshevik overturned the Kerensky government
October 25 1917, president of the Council of the Re-
public parliament which represented all parties This para
ment arrested and dispersed by the Bohev went into
hiding in Peogd and organized the Committee of Safety of
the Republic, of which president
Then spent two months travelling along the whole Rus
sian front from north to SOUTH seeking soldiers who would fight
the Bohevki All this time marked for assassination.
"The army hopeess-decomposed by Boshevk propa-
ganda returned to Peograd in hiding was found and arrest
ed For three months prisoner the Fortress of Peter
and Paul. daily expecting death. But in March, 1918
leased-why do not know
81 departed for Moscow and Immediately organized the
nonpartisan League for Russian Resurrection. Here
the French delegation that represented the Allies and ug
ed for that Allied be
Ambassador Francis Vologda and could reach
him. COL Raymond Robbins the only American hand was at
that time pro-Boshevk and with him could not confer.
"Once more was proclaimed outlaw. In May and June
strong antBoshev movement started in Siberia led by
the CzechoSovak refugees sent by the League for
sian Resurrection to lead and organize this movement
81 shaved my beard my hair and made out a
forged passport passed through the Bolshevi lines,
which then surrounding Moscow