Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-03-02
H|CH-BORN RUSSIANS
NOW AT HUMBLE TASKS
Admira Generals and Princes
Aids in Soup Kitchens
These Later Days.
nr A.rnnintrd Press TO Every Evening.

pv As-ociated Press TO Every Evening.
Warsaw. Feb. 2s-Driven from pal
ace 10 howell aome of the members OF
IN. aristocracy OF old Russia now are
peelins potatoes or chopping wood
hero for living.
Five thousand men and women and
children some OF whose resounding IL
ties once brought them homage or conr-
tiers are clustered hereafter having fled
10 Poland before the Rolshevild. Help
inv them 20 help themselves Is Madame
I.udblla Ludinoss. herself refugee.
though born a princess Of one of tho
oldest Russian houses and tho wife OF
the former civil governor of Warsaw.
This remarkable woman IS conduct
ing soup kitchens. sewing rooms and
workshops for mombers of her unhap-
py class nnd taking orders from her
arc mon who once commanded the
armed forces Of the Russian Emperor.
ON her stan are admirals. generals.
governors. mayors and members OF tho
old Petrosrad court. willis her husband
has laid aside his gubernatorial duties
10 become har secretary.
A beautiful woman, she hides tho
trssedy OF her life under an optimism
that In an exsmple to the unhappy folk
20 whom she ministers. woman of
action. too, for she escaped from Petro-
grad with her sonr after freeing her
husband from tho fortress of Peter and
pnui and srrning him with fictitious
passport that enabled him 20 fee to
warsaw. Here the family WAS reunit-
ed.
Falling virtually al rhe possessed to
aid her feiiow-countrymen. Nine bu-
hinor organised The Warsaw branch
y. gr, -
ing aided by the American organiza-
ton
spartng not herself. Madame Lubin-
20 has not spared the colony Of ref
uee>s which include many OF the form
or Russian nobility. In the soup kitch-
On and wood yard which she has
tahiishsd In . Russian orthodox church
81 pcdvai-e saualid property placed
~ her disposal-ers working men and
women of title at tasks which once
servants performed for them.
In the dinsy little courtyard General
ohlonsky, formerly architect at tho
Ru~sian court. chops wood for liv
ing With several officers of the crack
imperial guards. one OF whom has iost
his reason and must be watched In a
small and dirty building. Prince Mes
hersl<y. who WAS the master of cere-
monies ut the Imperial court peals po-
tatoes for his bread
In th. crowded rooms the meal. are
s.rved by women of the Russian nobil-
ttv prtncess RukoT. widow Of Admiral
liukoff who was executed by the Bcl-
sheviki: Princess OuChtomsxy. whose
husband wa. reputed one OF the rich
st mon IN Petrograd and is now cash
toy IN the next room at 5000 Polish
marks a month. the equivelant of four
dollars today and Madame Koudrav-
wtsky, widow Of the Vice Mayor OF Pet
rorrad who was put TO death by the Red
revolutionists
Colonel ke.selae~ or tho Tn.r,,iar
Ruaaian Guards runs errsnds for Ma
dame l.urinor and refugees who cCi-
lspRe from exhaustion while waiting
for their food. are attended by Mile.
CaraResor. a former wealthy resident
~ petrogrsd. now nurse.
Working IN an American Red Gross
warehouse are 20 officers of the I'm
perial Guards Regiment. headed by NJ.
I}i,kshensky. a lawyer OF Kiev who ar
wed in the Polish capital without TN
deY,,lothins or footwear. He said his
sister had been killed this winter by
the polshevtk and that the capital OF
the Ukraine had become city Of the
dead
Madame LubsncY boasts storehouse
about ~ 4ize of an Ayrer. ran house
wifes "a, try which is In charge Of
Michael amchenlSo, the son OF the
sovernor ~ Tchernitofr. who was killed
hv tn. Bolsheviki The assistant store
ls~rer 10 Victor Borsenko. who was
governor Of Novrcrod