Show RUSS NOBLEWOMAN FINDS REFUGE IN INUS US U.S. Talented Countess Arrives in New York With Young S n NEW YORK CITY NOV 6 One one o othe oi of the thousands of ot that unhappy class the tile aristocracy of ot Russia those terrIfied terrified terri torn fied fled refugees who fled if the they could in iii stricken panic disarray before the hate crazed bolshevik Mme Marie Mari de Gradowsky born the Countess Devier Devler portrait and miniature painter has sought refuge In America Stripped ol ot nearly all her worldly goods no longer young oung and after making a disheartening dishearten dishearten- ing journey over a n long and devious road load beset by fear and want by danger danger danger dan dan- ger of torture and death Mme Ime do de Gradowsky has i reached cached our shores with three great treasures left teft to her with which to face ace the future her future her young son a great talent and a noble courage FRIEND OF CZAR Perhaps the thing which lends most interest to Mme de Gradowsky's personality personality personality per per- just now is the fact that in happier times she was closely associated ed with the members of the late former former for for- mer czars czar's family and painted in miniature minIature min mitt from life lire virtually every member member member mem mem- ber of that pathetic group so cruelly slain and so horribly destroyed Living in Moscow with her lien son son Alexis then a boy of 12 when the red revolution against the Kerensky regime broke out Mme de do Gradowsky was or ordered ordered or- or dered from her apartments on an hours hour's notice and with only such personal be belongings belongings belongings be- be longings as the tho two could carry carr In their hands was bundled into a crowded crowded crowd crowd- crowd ed ran railway way carria carriage e ani and sent to Petro Petro- grad The deported ones ones were sub- sub to countless insolences by the red soldiers at every stop were al allowed at- at lowed owed but the scantiest portions of or tood food and water and twice was threatened threat- threat med ened with the death of her son S TERRIBLE REDS Finding shelter sheller for a time time with her sister in the capital the thc terribly crowded conditions with their ther result- result ant int nt evils e of famine and sickness forced her to flee on to Finland and thence to Copenhagen Here King Kingi I II I i Christian and his who did all allin alII In in their power to alleviate late the misery I of the Russian exiles edles showed Mme do de Gradowsky many kindnesses and let lether lether her material aid She painted miniatures miniatures minia minia- tures of the king and of the Princess Princes Marguerite of Sweden The Tile mother of the former Russian czar then living living liv liv- ing In Copenhagen with her daughter the Grand Duchess Olga came often onen I to see the artists artist's work worl and many other other othor oth oth- oth- oth er or Swedish and Danish titled persons persona were ore her models I Born at the ancient seat scat of ot the Deviers Deviere In the province of nige in South Russia Mme de I Gradowsky Gradowsky Gradowsky Gra Gra- dowsky sky was taken to Paris at the thc age of 5 by her mother where she studied under Robert Fleuri Oliver Merson and II Raphael Collin and later was associated associated associated with and other noted painters of the tise day day- Her first work was portraiture in full size first shown II at the Paris salon In where she ho won two medals Later she was awarded award award- ed the order of de Academic of ot France Her portrait of Alexander Dumas the younger is one of her best I The Princess Bonaparte and her mother moth moth- er or the thc Countess de la Ia Tour la Ia Charce and many other French Frencis notables and titled folk we were e among her patrons I MANY TREASURES On her return to Russie Russle the then Countess Devier Dewier was admitted to the household of the Grand Duke Serge and the Grand Duchess Elizabeth sister sister sister sis sis- sis sis- ter of the czarina both of ot whom sat at to her for miniatures Mme de Gradowsky Gradowsky Gradowsky Gradow Gradow- sky has little e anecdotes to relate of the tho kindness and simplicity of this unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate un un- fortunate pair After the grand duke was assassinated by a bomb and tho the grand duchess had become the abbess I of a convent Mme dc do Gradows ky painted the duchess in her simple white robes She was forced to destroy the tho photographs of her Russian minIatures miniatures minia minla- tures but still retains a little holy image image im im- im- im age given to her I h by the tho grand duch duch- ess em She also managed to secret and retain a photograph of a miniature she abc made from a portrait of Queen Alexandria Alexandria Alexandria Alex Alex- andria of England and the tho Empress Dagmar of Russia as young oung girls The miniature is now in the thc possession of or orthe the Llio Empress of or Denmark Mme de Gradowsky also does very beautiful enamels and has several se which she did not fear to have found In her possession Some are copies of Famous paintings many of which were destroyed by the bolshevik |