The Washington times., 1923-02-23
MORE ONCE RICH
RUSSIANS
&C.
!. i. ! ARRIVE: !.
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44o Reaching New York, are
Broke" But Some Have
Dangling Ear Gems.
BY MARGERY REX,

| (Wrftten for international News Servlce.I
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Most Of
them were dressed up and only a
few had no place to go.
Russian refugees who came in the
other day on the Madonna, of the
Fabre Line, were the most fashion
able lot of immigrants who ever
made the Goddess of Liberty dissatis-
fled with her drapery.
Four hundred and forty-nine Of
them, remnants of Wrangefs army,
| their wives and children, shopkeep-
ers. students, representatives of vari-
Gus trades and professions, landed in
| New York, anxious to glue together
the broken pieces of their lives with
American opportunity.
Those who have money found moth
ing In the new Russia they thought
| worth the exchange.
Those who are without funds, but
have diamonds dangling in their ears
and expensive luggage, are going to
work like everything to retain these
advantages. 20
They say you can tell the ex-of-
ficers Of: the Cars army by their
extreme neatness of person. Colc,Rel
Vladimir Kriganowsky exemplifIed
this quality. He was a cavalry
officer, devoted to the slain ruler
and displeased with those who have
taken that unfortunate mans place
He speaks English well and acted
as interpreter while we asked ques-
tons about the group Of newcomers
waiting to take the boat from Ellis
Island to Manhattan.
Stu Lives His Part.
TNb1.oy,0I, flan x,1odo~,-., 20 ~. ~.
ernment's. halfway house in the
>harbOr the Russians could see the
towers Of, the magical city, like a
mirage well defined, above q founda.
ton of fog. The restless crowd held
only one quiet majestic figure. The
young colonel pointed him out to US
IA stout, important looking man, by
name Ivan Aydeef.
Fl It was plain that he had his mem
cries, Ivan Avdeef, of grand Ouch
esSes and Winter Palaces, Of the Lit
tie Father of all the Russians and Of
Her Imperial Highness.
Ivan Ivanovitch," we said to our
selves; you are still living your
part whatever your role was In the
tragedy q $50 .-o.eg --,ss r.,
n. Avdeef does mot wantfito become
ia great american eeraillionaire, or
|rgive lectures on riding to hounds
across the sreppes, Tot pua. his. feet
under d dowager's mahogany. He
is fanafiGaaiy attached to- one :; i idea ca
His Is an ambition too unusual these
days. 90
F. Wants To Be Cook.
He wants to be a good cook.
In fact, he has been that rare
thing-in the service of the Grand
pd0uchess Maria Pavlovna. 1t was
Ivan Avdeef who got up the finest
? repaste they. exer sat down to sin
fTsarskoe-Selo. 1T was he who prse!
pared the feast for the coronation
of Nicholas II. - -
/ One could almost picture this
proud, remote man unbending to talk
10 the soup and murnuring over the
sauce with that mixture of ecstasy
and grief that a waiter sometimes
displays IN serving the speciality of
| the house.
| We asked the colonel to tell Av
def that we considered it the noblest
thing in the world to be a. cook.
Every time we looked at Ivan there
after he lifted his snappy fedora
| and bowed.
From his wife's ears elaborate dia-
mona ornaments hung. She was
well dressed, but our interpreter said
she was tailor and had made the
IFctothes herself. She also intends
to conti2ue her own career. Their
three children were quite attractive:
Nina, sixteen; Alexis, thirteen, and
Ivan, twelve.
Colonel Kriganowsky said he was
without career or business, but
nevertheless he means to get along
here. He was in the Cars army,
and when that came to an end he
was without work. He is disguised
with the amateur freedom" of Rus
STA today and is passionately de-
voted to our own government. In
cidently he mentioned the Russian
actors now in New York.
'In Moscow" he said, "they call
Stanislavsky's Theater the 'Chudo-
jestweany.' or the theater of paint
ing, because the people and the
mise-en-scene are always so true to
life; Art Theater' is shorter and
more convenient"
- Tells Of Starvation.
Alexis Rosin, another soldier and
Red Cross worker, said in Russia
80 per cent of the people are starv-
ing, the grass grows in the streets,
that there are no motors, no horses,
and people travel afoot-that there
is little great prosperity and much
poverty. Rosin, like his companions,
was we'll, dressed.