The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-02-13
If Russia Comes Back
HerWomen Will Do IL

Suizran on the Yolga, Feb. IO.-If
Russia ever amounts to anything III, !
will be through the organization OIL
her women which has not yet taken
place, declared sprightly, merry lit
tie woman to the correspondent on the
through train from Tashkent, in Turk
estan, to Moscow. Before the revolu-
ton she had borne the title of prin-
cess.
II hate Russian men," she went on.
"They are wishy-washy. They have
given us lond made of nitchevo (itI
doesn't matter) aftra tomorrow ia
nieznayu, q don't know and avos
(perhaps)."
She had been to Tashkent to spec
.late in gold. Everybody had to do
something to live nowadays.
She was the wife of a Mussulman,
once owning thousands of acres of
land with an income of 800 900
year.
She had warned him to get out of
Russia, three years ago, sell his lands,
but he was obstinate and now he was
wandering she knew not where, both
he and she were separated from their
children and she had nearly died in a
Soviet prison.
Taking one thing with another, she
didn't regret her sufferings and losses.
It. had taught her q lot. She had
known court life, that Of Paris and
London. Now the revolution had
dropped her into abject poverty.
She was tired of the struggle. The
prison had broken her spirit. Like
many Russians, she was morally bank
rupt. She had had her fling in poll
tics and at time had lot of fun at it.
She wanted to get abroard but she
wondered if she could ever settle down
in calmer atmosphere; she had be-
come so used to excitement.
Some of her family had been exc
cuteed through the efforts of another
woman politician and she had tried to
have that woman and her husband ex-
ecuted in their turn. 1t had been a
struggle between the Reds and the
Mussulmans of the Caspian Sea coun-
try. The Reds had won and she was
made a prisoner by the woman she
had tried to have executed. 1t was
Kismet
Rather than satisfy her woman en-
emy, she had tried to commit suicide
in the Cheka prison by taking an
overdose of cocaine. 1t had failed.
She had been put on the prison train
and shipped North, with several hun
dreds of others, destined to an Arch
angel prison, after the Soviet manner
of locking up people in places distant
from their people and homes. She
had to sell even down to her under
clothes to get food.
Fortunately, she was able to make
herself ill. She put snow on her chest,
caught cold and then the typhus, and
had to be put off at wayside hospi-
tai. There sister of charity recog-
lied and befriended her and she was
brought back to a semblance of health,
and through friends in Moscow was
finally freed. How long her present
freedom would last she couldn's say.
She knew she could not endure q Sec
ond Imprisonment, not even for
week, so she carried about her enough
cocaine to defeat the prison.
Meanwhile she was working, trying
to keep afloat. She had sold most of
her old jewels, and things. Sometimes
she did odd jobs as a seamstress,
sometimes she went to the country
and brought in baskets of eggs TO sell.
Just now she was prospering. She
was sending money to her children.
She had stored away some family jew
els in distant place to keep them as
q reserve for the future.