Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 57 | Romanoffs Turn to Variety of Activity

ROMANOFFS TURN TO VARIETY OF ACTIVITY Some Are Farming, Others Studying and Still Others Are Writing Family Memoirs, (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) PETROGHAU, Oct. 6. Some of the Romanoffs have turned to farming, astronomy, as-tronomy, aeronautics, viniculture and the writing of memoirs and history as a means of occupying their time wnlie in semi-imprisonment in the Crimea. The former Dowager Empress M.iric. mother of Nicholas II, resides at Ai-'io-dor, near Yalta, and there engages in tilling the soil. With her are. her son-in-law, the former Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, and Ills wife, t he former Grand Duchess Xenla, and their children. The duke studies t lie sta.rs a ud aeronautical aero-nautical science and grows grapes for v. ine. For a time be pursut - ,j j?r( baeo-lomcal baeo-lomcal research, for whb h Crimea is a fertile field, bui the authorities later forbade for-bade ibis, supectin i s.!:ie untoward, but unexplained, purpose in his explorations and excavations. Tin- loriiH-r Grand Duke Nicholas Nich-olaie Nich-olaie itcii. who was once coin n i;. ud er in - b U-i nt the ar.ry on the southern front, I-.', c.s on bis wife's estat e at 'jvi.n pri. rti.-o near alta. He is writing memoirs intended to be preserved in the Academy 'of Sciences and published after bis death. H i engaged also on a monoc ra ph. "Who Js Kealiy Responsible fur the "World War?" which will appear 'in a historical review. None of the Romanoffs in Crimea le allowed al-lowed to go outside, h .'o-calb'd neutral zone, which is Kuanb-d by military pa-tiols. pa-tiols. Their cor: ..-pnd' nc is exiimini r y a cenyyr. TMir !-i rations arc jiii I Z"ii.:, witii their rt-'t :cs;s den;- d v:hi i i Ib.'-y a-k for lmnc lii.n the j:d ;v:-u fi". p-' -in it!--. As an inu.-iratioa. lhe dow ;j r j . n i pres.-? unable hi ob:;iin j J' pounds j of si;'-'..r for n. ft king of .in rn. R'-.c-,,;-,- the dowager cmpr--: uu.s per-mltt-.d to go a-s far as Dn;ci:a. wnere Nicholas's forr;-.T r-Mcn-e is r.ow !--ir: used as a military J.MNp::M. This building contains dnzens of s'-crct y:-y-?;i--cs anl masked wr--Cirr-boai-.-i. All of1 t sr have bf-n seai-d. The visitor was! j.ifTV.ed ;'dn-.;-'?!on to the roorr.p whi-h were ; :.t-r son's pn ate quarters.