The New York herald., 1922-01-22
Others Are Farm Hands, One Sweeps the :.
Streets, While More Fortunate
Refugees from BOLshepik Russia Have
Opened Shops or Taken Minor SaIaried
PIaces---Tragedy of the War and
It's Aftermath Affects Pets -
of the Late Gar .sMyeH

capital in the entertainments he still gave
in his great palace.
The last time l saw him was before the
war, when he had become General, and
when in front of his palace there always
was company of soldiers on duty to guard
him from the assassination which all lead
ers of the rule by blood" military party
feared.
Yet when that dgnifed, prematurely
gray haired butler opened the door for
me at the Park avenue apartment of the
friend upon whom was calling, / knew
him instantly. Unconsciously, after so
many years-years that have made great
changes in me and in my station-my
hand went to my forehead in salute. For
the grave and silent butler before me was
none other than the gay, debonair
youngster, the proudest arstocrat in Rus
sa, none other than he who was the most
powerful of the court clique of Generals
Prince Olinow.
He did not recognize me until recover
ing from my establishment, / told him.
His heels came together with click;
something of the old poise of power and
self-assurance seemed to creep into his
bearing; for moment he was no longer a
butler. but His Highness, the General in
Command" Then he smiled wanly and
dropped again.
THE fortunes of war;" he quoted-and
that was all.
did not reveal to my friend the identity
of his butler when / saw that he did not
even suspect that he had prince who
might have married grand duchess tend
ing door for him. In response to my ques
tion. my friend said: Eyes, my new man is
quite an efficient servant. He seems to
know just how to run my place. got him
through an employment agency that spe-
cializes in high class servants"
General Has Millinery Shop,
Wife Designing the Hats
There is another Russian General in
New York who would scarcely be recog-
nized to-day by his former officers. These
would best remember him for the bril-
liancy and determination with which he
led his division against Hindenburg on the
member also the Generals charming wife,
who was a princess from the Crimea and
one of the most beautiful of the hostesses
in the palaces along the Yelagin Ostrov.
This Is Gen. Lodijensky. He Joined Kor-
niloff In that officers illfated opposition to
Kerensky and found it advisable to flee.
He succeeded In getting his wife also out
of Moscow and came eventually to New
York
Through various stages of hard times
and servitude Gen. Lodijensky has
achieved the dignity of a small millinery
shop. where he sells the hats his princess
wife designs. They are very smart hats
each seeming to have touch of rakish in
dividuality. The ex-General says: THAT
distinguishing characteristic, as you call
II, Is just my wife's memory of Russia's
White Nights, expressed in ribbons and
pompons instead of in laughter and sleigh
songs"
Quite a few debutantes have been very
well pleased with the modish hats they
have purchased from this one of the Cars
former favorites. They would fondle their
hats with greater satisfaction IL they knew
the smartness they so admire was put into
them by one who many time entertained
the Cars daughters as mistress of one OF
the most beautiful Of the white stone pal
aces on the aristocratic Yelagin Ostrov.
Romance, comedy and stark tragedy in
evitably are woven into the lives of these
once naughty princes princesses and
lesser mobiles, formerly so rich and care
free, who have found sanctuary In the
United States. They are working as clerks
Inn oshoraman isnftors and houao aide
Just few days ago In an elevator
bringing down from the upper floors of a
towering Office building in the financial
district the clerks and other employees
who were hurrying to make their varied
uses of their lunch hour, two girl stenog-
raphers glanced casually into each others
faces. Their eyes met. Each started as
IL touched by an electric current. Their