The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-02
FIGHTS 7 YEARS
AGAINST WORLD
TO GO HOME
Four Governments File
Mass of Records on
'CountryleSS' Man.
LONG HUNT FOR KIN
Russian Spends Nearly
Decade TO Get Back to
U. S. After Leaving.
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press STAFF Correspondent


WASHINGTON, April 2.-Feodor
Borozdoh is back home again and
in Moscow, Washington, Simla and
Kashgar the voluminous records of
Feeders troubles are being filed
away to rot.
Moscow records Feodor as an
escaped prisoner suspected of spy
ing in Soviet Russia for the Amer
lean government.
Washington records Feodor as a
62-year-old Russian alien who came
here in 1907, departed in 1923 and
spent the better part of the next
seven years trying to get back.
Simla, which is the hot weather
capital of the Indian empire, lists
Feodor as an alien whose troubles
demanded attention of subsecre-
tarieS and consulS.
KaShgar remembers Feodor as a
man without q country who was
prisoner for twenty-six months after
he wandered into that capital of
Chinese TurkeStan from across the
snow mountains of the Than Shan
range.
Returned to Russia
Feodor was a footsore beggar
when he reached Kashgar three
months and 1850 miles out of
a northeast Russia prison and still
bold in his purpose to walk and beg
across the whole of Asia to Shang-
hal in search of his wife and three
children.
Between 1907 and 1923 many
things happened to blue-eyed bald
ish Feodor. TWO children, Amelia
and Alex. were born to him and Mrs,
Borosdoff.
The eldest child. KAMA, was born
in Russia. Feodor bought farm at
Granite Falls. sixty miles from Sc
attic, Wash. But his wife was un-
happy. There was a divorce and
she and the children went to her
brother at Kamchatka, eastern Sibe-
ria.
In 1923 Feodor decided to re-
turn to Russia. sell a small prop
erty in the Caucasus on the shores
of the Black sea, obtain custody of
his children and return them to the
United States. He landed at Vladi-
voStok and learned his family had
removed to Shanghai.
Found Property Gone
He crossed Asia to NovorossUSk.
on the Black sea. and found his
property gone. A year later Feodor
called on local Soviet authorities to
return his passport so that he might
visit Shanghai to search for his
family.
Belatedly noting the document
had been issued by KohInovsky,
czarist consul general at Seattle. the
Epu, or Soviet secret police arrested
Feodor, charged him with spying
for the United States and sent him
to Prison Kelogriv, Volgoda prov
ince, In northeast Russia
After two months Feodor escaped.
penniless. ad started TO walk across
the breadth Of Asia, turning south
east TO escape Arctic cold.
The story of his trek has not been
told vet, but three months later he
entered Kashgar, Chinese TTke-
stan. beyond which stretches the
Takla Makan desert plateau. Fec
doris brief description of his journey
says he crossed the snow mountains
into China
British Consul Aided
Chinese police arrested Feodor for
crossing the border without proper
papers. He explained he had no pa
pers. but would like to be an Ameri-
can. toward which he had taken out
first citizenship papers years be-
fore.
Then began an almost endless
exchange of correspondence between
Simla, Washington, Peiping and
KaShgar. where the British consul
general became interested in the
destitute Feeders plight.
For twenty-six months Feodor
remained in Kashgar's prison on
the desert edge because TO have
freed him would have meant star
walton and no country would admit
he belonged among its citizenship.
While making every effort to To-
cate Feeders friends in the United
States. Robert Frazer Jr., American
conSul-general at Calcutta. reiter-
ated to British officials there we're
no government funds available for
the wanderers relief and explained
the man was not an American citi-
zen
Found Wife Had Died
But Frazer was sure Feodor
could re-enter the United States and
obtained for him an opportunity to
work his way to New York in a
cargo vessel. British and Chinese
officials in KaShgar subscribed
money to get FeodoT to Calcutta.
Travelling by foot and pony. the
wanderer started south through the
mountains via Leh which was the
hoping off place for Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt's search expedition
after ehe owls poll, reaching Calcutta
In two months.
Feeders quest for his family
ended in the United Sites.