RUSSIAN EMIGRES
IMPOVERISHED ARISTOCRATS,
[From Our London Correspondent.]
August 19.
Events and' circumstances in Russia are now making it somewhat easier for Russians to get away from the Bolshevik Utopia, and we may shortly got more circumstantial accounts of life under the Soviets. Apart from the fact that large numbers of Russians have been tied up in Russia, notwithstanding their eager desire to escape, both by official regulations and tho impossibility of paying their (ares out, the railways have not been adequate to_ demands. But restrictions are now n littlo relaxed, and, with improved train services, many impoverished Russian aristocrats and destitute bourgeoisie, having received funds from relatives or friends abroad, are emigrating as fast as they can. There are some desperately hard cases in the tamo category as Count Metteruicu, whoso former income of about £1,400 a week enabled him to entertain lavishly during his regular London visits, but whose yearly income to-day, in our currency, la barely £3.
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Evening Star, Issue 18393, 29 September 1923, Page 17
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