LITTLE RUSSIA IN PARIS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 4

LITTLE RUSSIA IN PARIS

Some 200,00,0 Russian .exiles living in the environs.bfiParis,have built up a little makc-beliovo State of their own for the preservation of Soviet culture and; ideals,- and education of their children. 'Schools, churches, military societies,' and social welfaro groups' have been organisiy. Russia in Paris is a little'cross-section of Tsarist Russian population, including aristocrats, trades-1 meni'soldiers, and workers displaced by the' political upheaval. There are kindergartens, primary, schools, high schools, and-craft schools, where exiled Russian.children of all classes may learn their; native language and culture. Although" he has no official status, the former'ambassador continues to act as legal adviser to the Russian colony witii'iofftces where the embassy archives prior to 1916 are kept. Russians in Paris: have three churches and a cathedral, besidesl a theological school, something-; 'not to be found within Russia itself (says the Paris correspondent of. the."Christian Science Monitor"). Most ■'• influential of all the colony's institutions, perhaps, is tho1 Gallipoli Union, formed of veterans of the "Wrangel army, .the- last '"White Russian array unit. 'General Koutiepoff,.military leader, Who mysteriously disappeared .several months ago, was the acknowledged leader of the Gallipoli Union, and po'scd head, of the anti-Communist inilijKß3^organisation in Paris.