Evening star., 1921-03-28
RUSSIAN NOTAbLES
! LIVING IN POVERTY
Costly Jewels Treasured as
They Wear Rags, Eating
Soup Handed Out.
MEDALS ACROSS BREASTS
Costly Furs Are Now Worn Almost
Threadbare-Imperial Arms .
Borne on Linen.
Bv the Associated Press

u! the Associated freSS.
RAGUSA, Jugoslavia, March 2S.-
Friends of the late Car Nicholas.
members of the upper crust of society
of imperial Russia. princes. dukes.
generals and barons, are living in
squalor in camps infested with ty-
phus and typhoid here and at Cat
taro bay. on the Dalmatian coast.
They constitute group of about
1.5eO of the refugees brought out
from the Crimea when Gen. Wran-
gels ti-bolshevik army collapsed
and who have since been scattered
about the Balkans.
Eestiges of their former imperial
grandeur peep out from their rags
when costly jewels saved in their
brought out from the recesses of the
old bundles composing their dirty.
unkept baggage. Princes. princeSseS
and generals sleep on hard cement
floors and barely manage to exist on
the meager allowance of food doled
out to them. Their costly furS. once
exuberant but now scant and worn
almost hairless, show the former
riches of their owners.
Generals in Tntters.
The Associated Press correspondent
visited several barracks of old forts
and airplane hansars where the Rus
slams are quartered. Generals could
be seen in tatters waiting their turns
for rations and eating soup and stew
out of mess tins and then filling up
on black bread Their uniforms car
ried the insignia of imperial Russia
with strings of medals across their
breasts. Cossacks. stood around in
threadba-e regalia of the old regime
wearing dilapidated astrakhan hats
and tunics intended for British SOL
diers, while their riding boots were
torn and ragged from long use.
The clothing of the women consist
ed of relics of better days. Some
wore riding boots. the last footwear
left from what once had been an
extensive wardrobe. Some carried in
their baggage Persian rugs which
they had been able to save on their
well enough acquainted with
visitor. they offer for sale such
jewelry as they still possess, so as to
tide themselves over this period of
distress. Some of the women had
linen bearing the imperial arms.
Prince Tchachkofsky, formerly
owner of several immense estates in
Russia, considers himself the luckiest
OF the refugees, for he has managed
to obtain job tending bees, for
which he receives the equivalent of
40 cents a day. The only clothing he
owns is a convalescent's suit, shoes
and underwear issued by the Amer
lean Red Cross.
Unable to Pay Duty.
Baron Won Goersten,a who says he
was Gen. Wrangefs adjutant in the
Crimean campaign, has at Cattaro
$2,000.0 900 worth of regimental silver
weighing several tons, but can do
nothing with it as the Jugoslav gov
ernment refused to admit silver with
out paying a large duty. which the
baron is not able TO do. So the silver
remain at the customhouse.
Baroness Nina Won Setachelberg in
sists upon keeping up appearances,
and sews and knits for the American
Red Cross, for which she feceives SO ;
cents a day, enabling her TO rent
small room in hotel
Maria Homiakoff. daughter of the
former president of the. Russian
duma, has an executive position with
the American Red Cross at 50 cents
a day Col. Beylavenetsi.x formerly
commandant of the cars. artillery
school, and wearer of twenty decof2-
tions, is an. Office man for the Amer
lean Red Cross at so cents - day.