Evening star., 1922-06-04
HUSBAND CRUC|F|ED
!. PRINCESS ASSERTS
Labor Department Hears
Thrilling Story of Soviet
Background.
WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY
Flights, Reconciliations, Tragedies,
Involve Fight to Stay in
. America. -
WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY

friHeesS ivan TschernltSchew of the
| former Russian aristocracy, who
claims American citizenship and who
has been denied admission y to the
United States by the port authorities
| of New Orleans. has succeeded in get
ting her case before Secretary of
Labor Davis, who is expected to rem
der a decision within a few days.
The story told by the princess TO
the Labor Department authorities
was said to deal with "the murder
and crucifixion of her husband by
the bolsheviki, the disappearance Of
her eight-year-old son, a black dis
patch box containing secrets of the
lost royalist cause in Russia. a flight
across Europe on foot to evade the
secret agents of the soviet. and trip
across the Atlantic, partly as a stow
away and partly as a stewrdess.
Born I'm Kentucky.
The Labor Departments statement
said: -
The princess claims that she is a
native American, born in Louisville,
KY. August IS, 1881. She says her
mother was Countess Potenpkin of
the Russian aristocracy, closely con-
nected with the Russian royal family,
who renounced her rank to wed her
father. Frederick Schhch, q German
naturalized as an American citizen.
She says her father vanished when
she was two years old. The princes
ha h>-
New York, at 36 West 34th street.
until 1895, when she was fifteen years
old. Then her mother took her to
Europe, and in Berlin, in 1909, she
says, she was married to Prince Ivan
)Tschernitschew, Russian She spent
but one day with the prince, return
ing to her mother in Berlin. Mother
and daughter returned to New York
in 1902 and lived there until 1903.
In that year. the princess says. her
mother. i'll in health, returned to Riga
to visit her relatives. taking her. .
Reconciliation Effected.
"At Riga the, mother effected, a
reconciliation between her daughter
and husband and died. At Riga. the
princess claims. her son was born,
and the family lived in peace until
the boIshevik uprising. During the
early days of the revolution, she
says, her father sent her son away
to a place of safety and she has not
seen him since. In 1919, her husband
was. taken by the bolsheviki, and she
tells narrowing tale of his death
by crucifxion. Before his death she
says her husband, with the strictest
injunctions of secrecy. intrusted to
her black iron dispatch box which
he told her contained papers of vital
Importance. to the royalist regime in
Russia.
With her dispatch box the princess
says she fed to the estate of Count
Dusterlohe, where she remained
until in 1912 the bolshevik forces
attacked the estate. She says she fed,
leaving behind all of her possessions,
including the mysterious dispatch
box, which she believes contained pa
pers relating to the secret diplomatic
dealings of various European and
ASlatlC ndtioHS with NuSSldn roydIty.
She left Dusterlohe on foot, she says,
and made her way across Germany,
followed every foot of the way, she
says, by agents of the Russian reds,
who were under orders to kill her
rather than permit her to reach
America with the Secrets of the lost
dispatch box. She made her way to
Massayck, Belgium, and reached Ant
werp November 9, 1921.
"The princess says that in her de-