THE ROMANOFF MASSACRE

Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 6

THE ROMANOFF MASSACRE

PRINCESS OLGA'S ESCAPE. SAID TO HAVE VISITED AUSTRALIA P«m Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Press Association ADELAIDE, August 22. Mrs MTntyrp, formerly Madam© Koasovskaiea, who arrived by the steamer Ballarat, stales that Princess Olga, the eldest daughter of the late Tsar of Russia, is not dead, as supposed, but was recently m Sydney. "When the rest of the Russian Royal Family were murdered a secret society, of which" Madame Kossovskaica was a member, kept track of the Princess. She first sheltered with her uncle in England, and later journeyed to Australia, her musical talents secured her a position in a conservatorium. While there she married a man named Bennett and returned to London. . , In support of this story, it is stated that some time ago tho passenger list of an incoming steamer boro tho name “ Miss Romanoff subsequently the came name appeared in the passenger list of an outgoing steamer. Madame Kossovskaioa herself had an adventurous career. At the ago of fifteen she married a famous musician, and herself became a prirna donna. She joined a secret society plotting against tho Tsar, and joined Korniloff’s White Army, opposing the Bolsheviks round the Black Sea; and she participated in a number of engagements. She received severe bullet wounds, and was sent to Salonika tor treatment, where she met and married an English soldier named MTntyro.—A. and N.Z. Cable.