Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-07-09
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LONDON, July S.-Just back OF the
residence Of IN" American ambas-
sador in Gresham Place, BelRravia.
stands rather dilapida,ed four
storied mansion who1e doors once
opened only - royalty; the topmost
strata OF English aristocracy and the
elect OF court aud diplomatic circles.
1t was 'hcn IN" abode OF the i'm.
pcrial Russian ambassador.
Today. according 10 "A tootnote CT
Foreign Once diplomatic lists. II Is
merely "Chcsham House" and desig-
mated as the addrsas OF Monsieur +.
Sabine. charged with the liau,da-
ton or matters connected with me
late Russian government" This bril-
liant companies II knew IN former
days have given place 20 gatherings
of miscellaneous folk who spend an
occasional evening there dancing
and paying admission fees. which so
TO Russian refugee funds.
In Bond Street. London's famous
shopping center, AMI Moorrate
Street. within stones throw OF tn"
Bank OF England, are located the
pnlatlal Offices OF the consular and
trade delegation 81 the Russian So
cialist Federal Soviet Republic. IN
Park Lane is the magnificent resi-
utiiIc VI lscpnlu hTbb5lU, VINO. DIS
the reprct entative OF the Lenine-
Trotzky government. negotiated the
Anglo Russian trade agraemen,
which presaged the establishment o:
these Soviet agencies in London.
Last Representative of EEnr.
In an obscure corner of London
may be found the modest even hum
BILE, dwei:.i!G OF C"nstan,In Nabokoff
the last representative In London OF
Gear Nicholas II. Nabokon was coun-
sclor OF 1hc embassy when his
chief. Count BcnckendorH. the Rus
sian ambassador. died In January.
1917 Nabokoh thercupon became
charge d'afairs. and in that ex-
allied position was the master OF
Gresham Houae until Septemor- g.
1919, when he yielded TO T. Sabine
appointed by Sazonoff. foreign min
lister OF the Kolchak government.
NabokoT was member OF the
Russian delegation that concluded
the treaty of Portsmouth at the
! close Of the Russo japanese War
Today Nabokoff. once the dispenser
OF an autocratic monarch's hospi-
tally, slaves away at n desk In
Fleet Street preparing pamphlets do
signed TO keep alive the anti-BoI-
shevik cause. with ready smile and
cheerful optimism he talks conf
IDENTIFY OF the day not far in the
future" when. ne declared. Russia s
Bolshevist rulers vii! be dethroned
and successors chosen by tho pcc-
pie" will bring his land once more
within the sphere of international
affairs.
After the collapse of tho Kerensky
provisional government and the ac-
/ ceSsion of the Lenine-Trotzky regime
| all Russian government funds de-
| posted In London banks were con-
hscated by the British government
but the embassy itself was tcchni-
cally private property and could not
be seized The British Foreign OF
fee notified Petrograd authorities
that the appointment of a new Rus
sian ambassador to London was cx-
pected. Sazonon. formerly a sub
| ordinate Of Count BenckendorT. wa:
appointed His designation was well
coined by the British. but Sazonof:
| did not appear. Baron Mcycndorn
| was the second appointee for the
| post. This choice was made early In
June. 1917. But he did not come to
| London.
! TroubetzkoI Desired Rome.
The third ambassador. de signate
Prince GrcGoric Troubetzkoi. de.
clared at the eleventh hour that he
would prefer TO go TO Rome. Nab
okoff sought the approval OF the
British officials that De Giers. Their
Russian ambassador at Rome, should
| come TO London instead. Lord Hat-
:, dinge. undersccretary, exploded: