The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
Become Servants, Shop
keepers, Anything
For A Living

TORONTO, April -12.-Little col
onies of Russian aristocratic, penni-
less refugees from home and country,
are forming in Canadian cities. Honors,
wealth, titles have all been swept away
! by eight years Of revolution. Life alone
remains, preserved in many cases by
all sorts of subterfuges and devious
journeyings.
These exiles are content to begin
life in a new home just as any other
immigrants would. Positions as do
nestle servants, as saleswomen, or as
ordinary laborers are accepted with
out murmur. AS rule aristocratic
arrivals are absolutely without friends
or any one to whom they can appeal
for assistance. Previous arrivals from
Russia drawn from the proletariat are
generally hostile.
If you enter leading jewelry story
in Toronto you may be waited on by
tall young woman in a blue sweater
coat, with wavy blonde hair knotted
loosely, a striking face in which ex-
perience and youth seem curiously
blended, who will try to learn your
wants in broken English. She is the
Baroness Luibich de Lozina Lozinoky.
The Baroness was a daughter of
Baron Ivan Tchteglovitova, who was
Minister of Justice in Russia, the last
Minister under the old regime from
1905 to 1915. To him fell the task
of the prosecution and punishment of
offenders during the abortive revolu-
ton of 1905. No doubt he attracted
his share of fear and hate.
Immediately on the outbreak of the
first revolution in Russia in 1917
Baron Ivan was thrown into prison
where he remained during the regime
of Kerensky. Then in 1918, when some
one shot at Leini in retaliation, Baron
Ivan and other prisoners were taken
from a dungeon below the Kremlin
and put to death.
Tragic Career
Life for Baroness Lozina since the
first imprisonment of her father until
recent months has been a succession
of tragedy, flight and adventures Her
child and her husband both died. For
time she served as interpreter for
an English mission. She served tea
in COnstantinope. She acted as a
maid in Italy, where she came in con-
tact with the wife of a professor at
the University of Toronto who was
instrumental, a few weeks ago, in
having her come here.
Life here is a fresh adventure. The
Baroness and her second husband, a
young doctor whom she met in Italy,
are starting afresh their lives in a
country, which while remainding
them of their own, they hope will heal
the tragedies of the past
Every morning the Baroness hur-
ries out of the commonplace rooming
house where they have made their
home to the street car at the corner
in the jostling morning rush-hour
crowd. She makes her way to the
store where her job is sales clerk in
the trinkets department
Was Friend Of Royalty
In the happy days before the revo-
luton this young woman was a friend
and playmate of the daughter of the
Gar. She possesses many letters and
photographs from the former Czarina
and other members of the royal fam
lily. There is, for example, among the
collection picture post card sent by
the CZarina from Tobolsk when she
was a prisoner there. In the picture
the Czarina had UNDERSIGNED the house
where she and her family were living.
Practically every link with her for
mer life has, like the Russian royal
family, vanished, for the Baroness
Lozina. The only relative who has
survived is an aunt, sister of her father
and the wife of a former Admiral of the
Russian fleet. This former Admiral is
knife grinder in the streets of Varna,
Bulgaria.
Il was strong" says Baroness Lo-
zlna who, when she speaks of her ex-
perience, does so almost without emo
ton and with the vivid calmness of a
narrative by Dostoevsky Those who
were not strong died. those who were
strong remain.
Reminded of Russia
Canada reminds me of Russias-
the nat lands, the snow everywhere.
We look for the spring when the trees
come out and the grass. That will
be just like Russia. Yon cannot en-
JOY the spring unless you have the
winter"
There is another salesgirl in local
gift shop, Nine. Zoia Stasenko, slen-
der, blond, with the carriage of the
salon and the hands and features of
nm artist But those slender hands.
now handling delicate bric-a -brac
have gripped the handles of a Vickers
machine gun. These gentle eyes have
squinted the sights of a mitrailleuse.
For Nine. Stasenko is one of the
few survivors of the famous Korniloff
Regiment, was decorated for bravery
on the field of battle and served as a
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