New Britain herald., 1922-02-17
PRINCESS
 NOW IN POVERTY
Says RuSSia'S Future Rests With
 Women Of Country

Sui2ran on the NolGa, Feb lf.--If
 Russia ever amounts 10 anything II
 will he through the organization of
 her women which has not vel taken
 place, declared sprightly, merry lit,
 tle woman 10 the correspondent m the through train from Tashkent, in Turkeston 10 Moscow Before tbs
 revolution ahe had horne the tltle of
 princess
 hate Russian men" she went
 on They are wishy-washy They have given us land made of niche. No n' doesn't natter aftra tomor.
 row) Ia nieznayn, q don't knopD and avos tperhaps)''
 She had been to Tsshkeni to specu.
 late in gold Everybody had 10 do something 10 live nowadays
 She was the wlfo of a Mussuman
 once owning thousands of acres of land with an income of sinonon < year
 She had warned h,m to get out of
 Russia. three years ago. sell his lands. but he was obstinate and now
 he vas wandering she kneu not
 "h'''' p''h h' anu sne were SC par ated from their children and sho had noarly died m Soviet prison.
 Taking one thing with another She didn't regret her suffering and losses lt had taught her lot She had known court life. that of Paris and London Now the revolution had dropped her into ahlert poverty
 She was tired of the struggle The prison had broken her spirit. Like many Russians, she was morally bankrupt She had had her fling in politics and at times had a lot of fun st 1t She wanted 10 get abroad but she wondered if she could ever settle down in calmer atmosphere she had become so used 10 excitement.
 Some of her family had been ex- ecuted through the efforts of another woman politician and she had tried 10 have that woman and her husband executed in their turn IL had been a struggle between the Reds and the Mussulmans of the Caspian Sea coun- try The Reds had won and she was made prisoner by the woman she had tried to have executed II vas kismet
 Rather than satisfy her woman en- emy. she had tr1ed 10 commit suicide in the Cheka prison by taking an overdose of cocaine It had failed
 She had been put on the prison train and shipped North. with several hundreds of others, destined 10 an Archaneel prison, after the Soviet manner of locking up people in places distant from their people and homes She had 10 sell even down to her un- derclothes 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 3 wayside hospital, There sister of | charity recognized and befrlended her and she was brought back to sem hlsnce of health. and through friends in Moscow was finally freed How long her present freedom would last | she couldn't say She knew she could not endure second imprison- nent- not even for week so she ,arried about her enough cocaine to lefeat the prison,
 Meanwhile she was working. trying c keep afoat, She had sold most of Ter old jewels. and things Some ines she did odd jobs as seam tress, sometimes she went to the and brought in baskets of ges to sell. Just now she was pros ,erine She was sending money to Ter children She had stored away ome family jewels in distant place 0 keep them as 3 reserve for the uture.