Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19
EXILES FIND PEACE
IN CANADIAN CITY
Russian Aristocrats Forget
Serious in Their Labors.

Employed chiefly as sales girls or as
common laborers. colony in Toronto
Of Russian aristocrats, exiled from
their own country. already includes 80
or 40 members. says the Boston Tran
script.
The story of Baroness Lozina Lo-
zinsky, daughter Of Russia's last min
lister of justice, now q sales girl IN
Toronto. Is typical.
Here is another sales girl in local
gift shop. Nine. ZOia Stasenka. slen'
der, blonde. with the carriage Of the
salon. and the hands and features OF
an artist. But those slender hands
now handling delicate bric-a-brac have
gripped the handles Of Vickers ma.
chine gun. Those gentle eyes have
sQuinted the sights Of mitrailleuse.
For Madame Stasenka Is one Of the
few survivors of the famous Korniloff
regiment. was decorated for bravery
on the field Of battle. and served as
machine gunner In Baron Wrangers
Inflated campaign against the Boil
shevik forces. She began her military
service as feld nurse. Later she
was one Of horde Of 10000 herded IN
Constantinople barracks where typhus
took q toll Of 5000.
Another sales girl Is Nine. Valentino
Gloushkova. q dark Circassian. For
two and half years she served as
nurse attached to the brigade to
which her husbands regiment was at.
tached. seeing much fighting In the
Crimea and around Odessa. When
disaster and Reorganization overlook
the Russian forces, this fine horsewom'
an found her place. not in the hospital
tents. but helping with the carrying
forward Of ammunition and the evac-
uation Of the wounded from the for
ward area.
When final desolation fell she found
her way to Constantinople. where she
shared with Madame Stasenka the hOr'
rors Of the typhus barracks. Neither
have heard Of their husbands. who
were Russian officers, since the deba.
Gle.
In a large local factory is laborer
who Is Baron Nicolai Ropp, once an
officer of the Imperial guard, and the
only surviving member of one Of the
Oldest families in Russia. Watch him
at work piling wood on fiat cars, and
try to imagine him as he once was. an
exquisite Of st. Petersburg. dandy al
the court of the last car.
Walk into the Royal Ontario mu.
scum and watch mlddleaged man at
work busting cases. Then try to pic.
ture him in uniform and gold lace or
the bridge of a battleship answering
the salutes Of officers as they spring t.
attention at his approach. An ad
miral Of the Russian feet. Guideneff
who, like Nelson lost an eye in tn
service Of his country, turned museum
cleaner. his arms now a mop and
buster.
Here is q factory where dolls ar
made, kewpie dolls. the beautiful blue
eyed babies Of the summer spieler
Two men bend over with brushes at Il
bench industri0usly painting ruby lips
and rose-leaf bushes on waxen faces
One Of these men who thus turns Ou'
prizes for the boardwalk lappers T.
Capt. Paul Danchich, formerly Of thu
Russian navy; the other. Capt. Veto
Grommoff Of the guards.
Then again. In factory which
makes washing machines. mechanic
works, Capt. Vladimir Markoff, holde
of the St. Georges cross. the Russian
v. c. He Is almost cripple fror
wounds, but his spirit still scars higi'