The Nenana daily news., 1919-02-18
SOCIAL WORKERS NOW IN STATES
 ID AID RUSSIA

the Grandmother of the Russian Revolution, who recently arrived in this city on her way from Russia to Washington, has spent 50 of the 75 years of her life working for, what she believed to be, the better ment of her native country. Thirty of these years she has spent in various Russian prisons, and as poli- tical exile in the bleak Siberian penal institutions,
 Born of well to do and educated parents, she early evinced an ardent interest in the condition of the people about her. Their ignorance and condition of semi-slavery arous- ed in her the determination to do what she could for their betterment, and this has been the keynote of her efforts ever since Her activity was unremitting and of a practical kind, including lectures and the rais- ing of money for the purpose of education.
 As an anti-imperialist, she was in the United States on a lecture tour during 1905. When the first revo- lution broke out in Russia at that time she immediately cancelled all her engagements and returned to that country to render what aid she could to the movement.
 Again she came to America just prior to the outbreak of the great war and lectured in all of the larger cities of the country, including New York, Chicago and San Francisco. With Russia embroiled, she believed the situation there again demanded her presence In the general arrest by the government of the czar of all those who were suspected of hav- ing revolutionary tendencies, Mime Breshkovskayia was included and deported to Siberia.
 Her liberation came with the downfall of the Romanoff dynasty. All political exiles were set free and asked to return. Roads leading out of Siberia were filled with these released prisoners. AS a mark of special attention, Mime Breshkov- skayia was provided with a special train. Hers was triumphal re- turn to Petrograd. As she passed through it's streets crowds were lined up to do her homage, while little children strewed her pathway with flowers. ..s.:
 Then followed the days when Pre- mier Kerensky was endeavoring to bring order out of chaos. To his cause Mime Bresnkovskayia gave every ounce of her effort and SUD- port. With the downfall of the Ker- ensky regime and the rise of Bol- shevism, under the leadership of Lenine and Trotsky, for which she had no toleration, Mme Breshkov- skayia disappeared from public view. Many rumors of her assassination or death were current. ....~... -.
 In an interview accredited to her while in Japan, on the way to this country, she is reported to have said:
 Neither Bolshevik nor monarch ist can rule Russia. An elected gov ernment is our hope; the people will never consent to anything but the constituted assembly. The Bolshe- viks beyond the Urals and the mon- archists who now are in power at Omsk must go."
 Mime. Breshkovskayia has many friends in this country as the re- suit of her previous visits. They are professors, social workers and men and women who were students when she was in this country on her first visit, thirteen years ago. She knows Jane Addams and has lived in Hull House. One of her early American friends was Mir. Arthur Bullard, now head of the Russian division of the American Committee