The Holbrook news., 1921-04-08
Refugees, Impoverished oy the BoIsheviki, Help Each Other
 in Warsaw.
MIME. LUBINOFF IS LEADER
Conducts Relief and Commands Ad- miraIs, Generals and Governors Peel Potatoes and Chop Wood in
 Poland for a Living.

Warsaw.-Driven from palace to hoveI, some of the members of the aristocracy of old Russia now are peel ing potatoes or chOpping wood here for living.
 Five thousand men and women and children, some of whose resounding titles once brought them homage of courtiers, are clustered here after hay ing fled to Poland before the Bolshe- wiki. Helping them to help themselves is Mime. Ludmila Lubinoff, herself a refugee, though born a princess of one of the oldest Russian houses and the wife of the former civil governor of Warsaw.
 This remarkable woman is conduct Ing soup kitchens. sewing rooms and workshops for members of her unhap- py class. and taking orders from her are men who once commanded the armed forces of the Russian emperor On her staff are admirals, generals, governors, mayors and members of the old Petrograd court, while her husband has laid aside his gubernatorial duties to become her secretary.
 A Woman of Action.
 A beautiful woman, she hides the tragedy of her life under an optimism that is an example to the unhappy folk to whom she ministers. A woman Of action. too, for she escaped from PetrO- grad with her two sons after freeing her husband from the fortress of Peter and Paul and arming him with fictf- tious passport that enabled him to flee to Warsaw. Here the family was re- united.
 Selling virtually all she possessed to aid her fellow countrymen, Mime. Lubinoff organized the Warsaw branch of the Russian Red Cross, which is being aided by the American organiza- tion.
 Sparing not herself, Mime. LubinOff has not spared the colony of refugees which included many of the former Russian nobility. In the soup kitchen and wood yard, which she has estab- lished in a Russian orthodox church at Podwal-a squalid property placed at her disposal working men and women of title at tasks which once servants performed for them.
 In the dingy little courtyard Gen eral Oblonsky, formerly architect at the Russian court, chops wood for a living with several officers of the crack imperial guards, one of whom has lost his reason and must be watched. In small and dirty build ing Prince Meschersky, who was mas ter of ceremonies at the imperial court, peels potatoes for his daily bread.
 Nobility as Servants.
 In the crowded rooms the meals are served by women of the Russian nobility-Princess Rukoff, widow of Admiral Rukoff, who was executed by he BOlsheviki; Princess Ouchtomsks, whose husband was reputed one of the richest men in Petrograd and is DOW cashier in the next room at 4,0O0 Polish marks a month, the equivalent of S4 today, and Mime, Koudravatsky, widow of the vice mayor of Petrograd, who was put to death by the Red rev. 2lutionists.
 Colonel Kesselaeff of the Imperial Russian Guards runs errands for Mme Lubinoff. ands refugees who collapse from, exhaustion while waiting for their food are attended by Mile. Car agestoff. a former wealthy resident of Petrograd, now a nurse.
 Working in an American Red Cross warehouse are twenty officers of the Imperial Guards regiment headed by NJ. Riekshensky, a lawyer of Kieff, who arrived in the Polish capital