Evening star., 1921-04-10
WOMAN, NOW IN D. c..
PICTURES REVOLUTION HORRORS
Nine. and Col. PoIoushkin
Forced to Flee From Reds
to Save Lives.
Husband Member Of Russian
General Staff During the
World War;.

Living quietly. practically obscure.
in a modest little apartment at 2511
Pennsylvania avenue northwest. are
two victims of the bolshevist revolu-
tion in Russia. Col and Nine Nicho-
las S. Polous.,kin. Four years ago
they wo-o members of Petrograd's so
1ciety. which maintained it's pomp and
ceremony despite the war. Today.
! their vast estates conflscated by the
bolshevists, they are beginning Il new
| life in the land of the free.
Col. Poloushkin was a member of.
the general STAFF of the Russian army
! in the great world conflict. Previously
| iy he mad served as an officer of in
| fantry in the Cars Imperial Guard.
Six months prior to the revolution
that oserthrew the car = government
he married Anne de Bretzel. the
the province of Novsorod, the estate
consisting of 5000 acres. The young
couple moved to home in Peterhof,
suburb of Petrograd.
| Colonel Escapes Death.
Then came the uprising. 1t was
the custom of Col. Poloushkin to com
mute between the capital and his
| home. and .his bride. on the first day
OF the revolution. upon learning that
mob was forming to kill all officers
! th2t arrived on the evening train,
rushed to the depot to defend her
OF the movement in time to save his
life and left the coach before it's
arrival in Peterhof, His companion.
also an officer. who did not heed the
crowd.
The following day the populace, in
famed with liquor, surrounded the
Poloushkin house and demanded
Wine. Fearing, the sight of her hus-
band in an officers uniform would
! infuriate the mob to violence Nine.
| Poioushkin. braving its enmity. threw
open the doors of her home. and fac
! ing it calmly and bravely prevailed
upon the men to keep cool in the face
| OF the peril that surrounded them. Her
courageous action had the desired eff
| fect and the men dispersed. That
| night. accompanied by young wom-
an friend, she trudged through the
snow to an encampment of soldiers
| nearby and induced them to return
to town with her and guard the resi-
dence from fire. All night long the
women served tea, cake and cigar
cites to the guards, and their faithful
duty saved the building.
Fled to United States.
On the third day matters became
worse. The servants began to gossip
among themselves quietly, and then
| became more bold. Harassed by the
fear of death at the hands of the
| revolutionists. the young wife pre-
| vailed upon her husband to abandon
their home, and they fled to Arch
I anger, where they for seven
months practically prisoners. In the
| meantime Col. Poloushkin had made
application for passports to take them
TO America, and one of the last acts
OF the kerensky regime was to sign
the important papers. The passports
| arrived AYchanpe1 m
OF the bolshevist revolution, but were
signed at the last moment by the lead
ing official Of the provisional govern
ment.
Arriving in the United States, they
eventually reached this city. where
| chancery Of the Russian embassy. re-
naming there until May of last wear.
Meanwhile Nine. Poloushkin turned
her talents as an artist and lineujst
10 iife advansase' snsm and thus they began
Picture. RUSSIAN Horrors, -
! Conditions in Russia, after we
left said Mme Poloushkin. yester.
! day: ARE indescrfbable. My father
i died of broken heart after the boil
| shevists confiscated his estates. Nv
| aged grandmother. she was eighty, was
! forced to work in the fields with a
| broken leg, and she >finalIy succumb
ed to this torture. Today my mother
who is past sixty. and my two sis
| ters. Helena and Margaret. are obliged
| to work on farms doing the most me
! MAI Kind OF labor. They were not
| even permitted to take any linen with
them when they were sent to Roro-
vltch1, where they were when l last
| heard from them Two of my broth
ers were killed fighting for Russia.
| My Oldest brother. Col Alexie de