KERENSKY MARRIED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 46, 23 August 1939, Page 10

KERENSKY MARRIED

EX-RUSSIAN DICTATOR

BRIDE AN AUSTRALIAN

(Received August 23, 11.j a.m.) MARTIN'S CREEK (Pennsylvania), August 21. Alexander Kerensky, aged 58, the former Russian Premier and dictator. was married to an Australian, Mrs. Lydia Allen Tritton, aged 33, of Brisbane. Kerensky obtained a divorce in Paris on June 29, and Mrs. Tritton was divorced in London in 1936 from another Russian, whose name was given only as Nayadin. « The couple are going to New York next week, and will stay with Mr. Kenneth Simpson, the Republican leader. They are to sail for France at the end of September, and will make their home in Paris. The bride is a student of Russian affairs. Mr. Harry A. Stein, an estate agent and a Justice of the Peace, who performed, the marriage, said a man wearing a monocle and carrying a cane arrived. accompanied by a pretty blonde. "I was thunderstruck when I found out who he was," he said, "and would not believe it until I saw his passport and divorce papers." M. Alexander Kerensky was formerly a barrister in Saratov. In 1912 he became a deputy of the Russian Labour Party in the Duma, and in the provisional Government formed in March, 1917, he was Minister of Justice. From May to July he was Minister of War and then became Prime Minister. In September he became Generalissimo and Dictator and held these posts until October, when the Bolsheviks swept his Administration from power. He took refuge in France and was made leader of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party and manager of the Russian paper "Dni," published there.