The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-12
PROUD RUSSIANS AREREADY TO
 GO TO WORK

NEW YORK, March 12.-Most of them were all dressed up and only 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 dis satisfied with her drapery.
 Four hundred and forty-nine of them, remnants of WrangeIs army, their wives and children, shopkeep- CTS, students, representative of vari- ous 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 noth- ] 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 go- ing to work like everything to re- tain these advantages. | E-Officer of Czar
 They say you can tell the ex-of- ficers of the Czars army by their extreme neatness of person. Colonel Vladimir Kriganowsky exemplified this quality. He was a cavalry off, cer, devoted to the slain ruler and displeased with those who have taken that unfortunate mans place. He speaks English well and acted as in terpreter while we asked questions about the group of newcomers wait ing for the boat from Ellis Island to Manhattan.
 Through the windows of the Gov ernment's halfway house in the har- hor the Russians could see the tow CTS of the magical city, like mirage well defined, above foundation Of fog The restless crowd held only one quiet majestic figure. The young colonel pointed him out to us--a stout. important looking man, by name Ivan Avdeef.
 It was plain that he had his mem- ories, Ivan Avdeef, of grand duchess and Winter Palaces, of the Little Father of all the Russias and Of Her Imperial Highness.
 'Tvan Ivanovitch," we said to our selves, "you are still living your part, whatever your role was in the trag- edy"
 A Real Ambition Avdeef does not want to become a great American millionaire, or give lectures on riding to hounds across the steppes, or put his feet under dowager's mahogany. He is fan jatically attached to one idea. His IS an ambition too unusual these days. He wants to be a good cook. In fact, he has been that rare thing-in the service of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. It was Ivan Avdeef who got up the finest repast they ever sat down to in Tsarsko-Selo. It was he who pre- pared the feast for the coronation of Nicholas H. One could almost picture this proud, remote man un- bending to talk to the soup and murmuring over the sauce with that mixture of ecstacy and grief that waiter sometimes displays in serving the specially of the house.
 We asked the Colonel to tell Av- deef that we considered it the noblest thing in the world to be good cook. Every time we looked at Ivan thereafter he lifted his snappy fedora and bowed.
 From his wifes ears elaborate dia- mond ornaments hung. She was well dressed, but our interpreter said she was a tailor and had made the clothes herself. She also intends to continue her own career Their three children were quite attractive: Nina, sixteen; Alexis, thirteen, and Ivan, | twelve.
 All Mean to Work l Colonel Kriganowsky said he was without career or business, but never | theless he means to get along here. He was in the Czar's army, and when that came to an end he was without work. He is disgusted with the "amateur freedom" of Russia today and is passionately devoted to our own Government. Incidentally he mentioned the Russian actors now in | New York.