Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-13
RUSS WOMEN.
MUST UNITE,
SAEDECLARES
Wife Of Once Wealthy Rus
sian Says Men Are Not
Able to Handle Things.

suizran on, the volga-If Russia
ever amounts to anything it will be
through the organization of her wom-
en- which has not yet taken place, de-
clared a sprightly. merry little wom-
an to the correspondent on the
through train from Tashkent, in
T~urkestan, to Moscow. Before the
revolution she had borne the title of
princess. Il hate Russian men," she
vent on. They are wishy-washy.
Iney have given us a land made. of
nitchevo (it doesn't matter) aftra (to-
morrow ia %nieznayu. Il don't know
and avos (perhaps). ~"
She had been to Tashkent to specu-
late in gold. Everybody had to do
something to live nowadays.
h was the wife Of a Mussulman,
once owning thousands of acres of
land with an. income of 100000 a
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 b had nearly died in a
Soviet prison.
Taking one thing with another, She
didn't regret her sunerings and losses.
It had taught her a lot She had
known court life. hat of Paris and
London. Now the revolution had
dropped her into abject poverty.
Tired of Struggle.
She vas 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
at it. She wanted to get abroad but
she wondered if she could ever settle
down in a calmer atmosphere; she
had become SO used to excitement.
Some OF her family had been
executed through the efforts of an
other woman politicians and she had
tried to have that oma and her
husband executed in their turn. It
had been a struggle between the Reds
and the Mussulmans of the Caspian
Sea country, The Reds had won and
she was made a prisoner. by the wom-
an she had tried to have executed. It
was KisInet.
: Rather than satisfy her woman
enemy. she had tried to commit sui
eide 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
hundreds of others. destined to an
Archangel prison. after. the Soviet
~SnAA w &S0PAC IA pAdSOS
distant from their people and homes.
She had to sell ven down to her un-
derclothes to get food T.
Made Herself m. s
Fortunately. she was able to make
herself III. She put snow on her
chest. caught cold. and then the
typhus, and .had to be put or at q
wayside hospital There a sister. Of
ana sSes sss Bssssh RPa ba ssff e = ss ass
blance Of: health. and through friends
In Moscow sMas finally freed. How
long her present freedom would last,
she couldn't say: She knew she could
not endure a. second imprisonment,
not eve for a week. so she carried
about her enough cocaine to defeat
the prison. t'.t -
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 prospecting. She
was sending money to her children.
She had stored away some family
jewels in a distant place to keep them
as q reserve for the future. !,