The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-13
GRANDDUKE With
GUN HALTED CAR
. FROM ADVOCATING
Refugee AristoCrat Reaches
U. S. From Russia and Re-
IateS Story Of How Emperor
Was Forced to Hold Throne.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 1S.--
Surrounded by few precious memen-
toes of the Romanoff regime which she
was able to bring in her, flight from
Russia, Nine. Anna Jouromska, aris-
tocratic refugee, waits in her little
apartment here for the next act Of the
drama that turned her world topsy-
turvy and set her adrift among strange
people. On one wall hangs a richly
embroidered silk shawl, $50 years old,
that belonged to Nine. Jourmonska s
Polish grandmother
Near it is an almost priceless paint
/, ing by Bruloff, one of the few. exam
pies of this famous artists work to be
found outside the imperial Russian mu-
scum. On the table is rocco silver
salver, the last piece of the family
plate
On stand there are Russian books
and periodicals and locked portfolio
where Nine. Jourmonska keeps In Gu
rious juxtaposition, among other pa
~pers, copy of scurrilous bolshevist
sheet in which the car is caricatured
with menu of luncheon with the
car and his family when she was a
guest at their summer palace at Tsar-
koe-Selo few years ago.
Both through her own family, the
Ostoya Starreniovska, of the old Polish
nobility and her late husband, Leo
Jouromska, Russian noble, civil en-
gneer and builder of the water system
for all the railroads Of Russia Nine,
JouromSka held high position in st.
Petersburg society.
1.-THE car was a good man. mild ma
tured and simple in his tastes" she
said. He was devoted to his family,
did not care for pomp and power. In
fact, he wanted to resign many times,
but his uncle, the Grand Duke Vladi-
mir, who was strong and unscrupulous,
In in on throne
one time threatening. with a loaded
revolver to kill him II he dared to abb
dicate"
No Trace of Niece.
When asked to express her opinion
about the Bolsheviki, Nine. Jouromska
said without a trace of bitterness:
you can't expect me to like them
when they took everything l had, not
only my money and property, but my
family--all are gone. For two years
have not been able TO learn anything
about the fate of any of my relatives.
II have appealed to the Red Cross
to try to find some trace of my beau
tiful niece, Elena Baronnina, who was
famous opera singer and dear to me
as a sister, but they have not beer
able to help me. She was singing II
\ Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk, when that city
| q. was attacked and captured by thu
i Turks. l dare not think OF the fate
that may have been hers. 1t is terri
NJ BILE"
Not with any intention TO criticize the
Botsheviki, hut as an illustration &
I show how little prepared the peasant:
I were 20 appreciate the privileges OF self.
4 government when it was placed in thei
l hands, Nine. Jouromska told an inter.
Il esting anecdote.
She said a soviet representative wa,
I addressing a large gathering OF peas
\ ants in certain district. After Ions
I speech in which he told them the gov
4 eminent was oyerthrown, the czar wat
dead and they were free, he sat down
I Then the leader OF the peasants aros,
and solemnly announced they woult
4 sing God save the Gar"
Being q good finguist, like enc ma
jority of educated Russians, Nine
| Jouromska has an excellent comman
of English, acquired during extensiv
travels in English speaking countries
While awaiting the establishment @
order in Russia, she is using this knowl
j edge to translate into English some Q
her own numerous writings that hay
beep published in Russisn nlsSasiness