Show i j jF F t T Tv v a s y x 3 a t tf c y f 5 pry t atSy R r wv k y h 3 o r 5 j r s r y yc Y rY r y c k y wK e ek ti P s h s f i t r v A iQ i i s I i Af 0 CI 4 O p C. a 0 aThe The Late Czarina of Russia Reported Ki Billed 1 lea d at t on Jul July S Sr 16 1918 1913 r B By y Artl Arthur 1 u r Wynne Vynne RECENT cable dis dispatch P etch from front Constantinople Constantinople Constanti Constanti- A no nople P le announced the sa safe e arrival of the toe Grand Duchess Olga sister j 1 of the ill-fated ill Czar Nicholas II of Russia at that port And a 3 few days dars later word was received received re- re I that she had sailed for Denmark where she Bhe will mako make her ller future home A wealth of romance and tragedy is veiled behind those two meagre announcements The beautiful Grand Duchess Olga who until three years ears ago held sway as one of the great luminaries of the most sumptuous royal court in Europe and who was later reported to have bees been shot dead with the tho Czar and Czarina and heir children has been found starved half-starved and in rags f- f livin living in a 3 tumble-down tumble box car on a railroad side track near South Russia Sh Sho was yas hiding there amid stricken poverty-stricken surroundings surroundings surroundings surround surround- ings sickness and death in mortal terror of being being being be be- ing discovered by the dreaded executioners of her unfortunate brother Nicholas r ci 1 Hunting Do Down m the V I Since dis disposing P osin g of the ca captured P Czar and Czarina and all their children shooting them down according to Bolshevist reports in cold blood the Czars Czar's e. e executioners have rave maintained a a afar afar far and wide search for any possible remaining members of the royal house of the which once ruled over the whole Russian Empire The complete story of how the Grand Duchess Olga escaped assassination has n not t been Leen revealed and never never may be Dur During ng those thos dark hours hour in Russia's Russia s upheaval val dating from March 15 1917 the day the Czar was forced to abdicate until a afew few fear weeks ago the beautiful grand duchess was wasa a hunt hunted d fugitive Her friends those who had known her as a leader in fashionable court circles at Petro Petrograd grad and Moscow gave her up for dead clead almost two years ago She disappeared very suddenly leaving behind as loot for the populace costly f furs rs jewels her richly appointed home bome motor cars cars and all those accessories which a Russian Rus Rus- ian sian grand duchess was entitled to possess And a s 's later a humble peasant wom worn j The Former Grand Duchess Olga and Her Ill Ill Fated Fated Niece Tatiana Daughter of the Czar and Czarina At the Time the Grand Duchess Fled Tatiana Vas Was Reported to Have Been Killed b by Y the Bolshevists i t 1 4 J 4 1 r l 14 r a t t t p ff V It i II 1 a I V Vr r 1 r 1 a 4 p The e Almost mo s Incredible nc r e e Adventures e n rs r r 1 f 1 f r l l r of the Beautiful Grand Duchess o e ea r a n c es s I w Y r yr 1 Olga of Russia Reported f ao ssi a 9 e o r r G i Shot Death the c i 0 to 0 e by 1 1 i Bolshevists o s e is s 7 an and Now J q i iJ J A sf d Rescued e Side C from r a Life Y r. r of Abject c Poverty r a i re wI J r r r n r i t. t yr fy in a Down Broken o e n o n f J F yr y i f Box D CaraI tar Cara r t f o e i c BOX ox i fI n J i ev i j y ll l' l ri 1 G c i f. iY r J S' S li J. 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A Wt t. t ir rr l 1 1 4 r fy t rr tW f lG I f. f I i. i r. r a r d r I Y L I 7 an who wire called herself hersel Mme binte arrived arrived arrived ar- ar rived at N She was clad in rags and seemed grateful for the food which the humble folk gave her in the name of charity She found shelter among these people and in return for the food shelter and clothing g the they Yg gave eve her she began began be be- gan gar to render them render them little services as a seamstress house drudge drude 0 e and even farm laborer In this way ay she contrived to keep body and soul together together together to to- gether and gradually sho she be began g an to ac acquire q some standing above that of an ordinary Y be beggar gg ar To those who inquired she ex explained P that she sho sho was a homeless refugee from froin Moscow Her husband husband husband hus hus- band a your young oung s arnt army y offic officer r had been eau caught g ht in inthe inthe the revolutionary Y u upheaval P and now she did not know what had become of him or of their two young sons There was nothing in m this explanation or inthe in inthe inthe the appearance of the Woman oman to connect her with the dashing Grand Duchess Ol Olga g a who for years ha had d been beon the leader in the most exclusive court circles in in Russia Diplomats courtiers ambassadors ambas ambas- seders princes dukes and even heirs presumptive had danced attendance on this famous Russian beauty whoso whose entertainments clothes and jewels were the envy of every other woman in the Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian scan capital There was no suggestion of regal standing pulchritude or even good breeding about Mme Dime during her het house drudgery days at Fro From t Palace to Box Bet Car Nobody recognized her tier as the as-the the Grand Duchess Olga who married Prince Oldenburg and later was ryas divorced from froin him and there was little likelihood likelihood likelihood like like- that anybody ever would and much of that portion of ot South Russia at that time was under Bolshevik rule and it is quite probable that the humble Mme bime came in iii constant contact with soldiers sol 80 diets diers who if they had lied only k Mown known iown who she actually actually actually actu actu- ally was would have put her to death In Iii one of the recent internal upheavals of th that t unhappy country the were driven out No er feature Service 1920 r I i. i r i i J Q J 1 rYr t I W. W r 1 11 of The former grand duchess then established herself in an abandoned box car on a railroad spur track and after the fighting was over she turned her box car home into a hospital for the wounded soldiers Although without funds hospital supplies or ar even any clothing beyond the rags in which she site was clothed the grand duchess did what she could nobly aided by those who could bo be reached by her appeals for assistance When the AmerI can Red Cross workers entered and opened headquarters there for the relief of tho the war sufferers they heard constant words of praise about a Mme who had converted a box car into a hospital and was doing wonder wonder- wonderful ful work It was to the Americans that Mme Koulin Koulin- kovsky revealed her identity She asked for news of her husband and of her t two vo children from whom she had been separated during the revolutionary days which tore torn the from t the throne throne and and transformed Russia into a lic ic Her husband is a young army officer to whom the grand duchess had been married mar mar- vied ried following g her ter divorce from Prince Old Oldenburg Although the Russian law would have permitted ed her to retain the title of princess she dropped it with the P Parm prince rince and after her marriage to the the duchess role rola arm army Y officer she dropped grand also and P preferred referred to be addressed simply a as s Mme Dime T The he Last of the j Through Throng It the efforts of the Americans the hu husband bus hus- y 1 I band and tw two 0 y young oun b sons of the former gra grand d bd and within a n afew i duchess were located locate d near her Koulin- Koulin able to rejoin few days th they e y yd were worn heard a word from his wife since hog kovsky sly ha had d not the rho day o of or f her disappearance in August 1917 following th the c abdication of the Czar She had fled fearful for the safety of ot her husband and herself well wen as as sons The happy ending of this womans woman's remarkable Constantinople Constantinople Constanti Constanti- adventures is told in a dispatch from which reads nople Grand Duchess Olga sister of Nic Nicholas kolas of Russia has left eft th this Emperor former she route to Denmark where for Serb Serbia is en will city reside p permanently She Sho still firmly believes and his family are alive her brother 1 h n tn to th is cIt y from The grana grand due U ess came A v j steamer with her husband hus refugee refugeo k on a N No b band and and two young sons and won and won a admiration by her democratic attitude She refused refuse d to to acce accept P t any s special P privileges and at the a ct ion stas station station sta sta- tion tier at the refugee ca camp nt p in iii the P Pt o islands she sa sat t on her luggage holding her two children wait waiting ng for her turn She could have claimed exemption from this this' trou troublesome process which has been rendered needs necessary sar Y b by Y tho the spread of typhus but refused to do so 50 I According to the official statement issued by the Bolshevist military authorities the Czar and Czarina and their family were killed in the Chateau Chateau Chateen Cha Cha- teen in on July 16 1918 The Grand Duchess Olga is 38 years old Sh Shand Shy Sha I and her lier sister the tho Grand Duchess Zenia who resides resides resides re re- sides in London and the Dowager Empress who now lives t os in in C Copenhagen o p g en are the tho only Y survivors survivor I of the roya royal 1 Romanoff famil family Y y 3 1 |