MARRIED AGAIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23432, 23 August 1939, Page 13

MARRIED AGAIN

EX-RUSSIAN DICTATOR AN AUSTRALIAN BRIDE M. ALEXANDER KERENSKY (Received August 22, 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 21 The former Russian Socialist Premier and dictator, Alexander Kerensky, aged 08, was married to-day at Martin's Creek, Pennsylvania, to Lydia Allen Tritton, aged 33, of Brisbane. M. Kerensky received a divorce in Paris on June 29. Mrs. Tritton was divorced in London in 1936 from another Russian, whose name was given only as Nayadin. M. Kerensky and his new wife are now motoring in Upper New York State and are coming to New York city next week to stay with Mr. Ken-

notli Simpson, Republican lender. They will sail for France at the end of September and will make their home in Paris.

The hride is a student of Russian nffairs. She went to Australia last year and returned last week for the wedding. Kerensky arrived on Thursday from France, where ho had secured a divorce from his former wife, to whom he had been married ;50 years. The wedding to-day was very secret. Tt was performed by Mr. Harry A. Stein, estate agent and Justice of the Peace, who earlier had been commissioned by a third party to secure a licence. He 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, and would not believe it until I saw his passport and divorce papers. I married them in my living room.

After tho abdication of the Tsar on March 15, 1917, Kerensky became Premier on July 23, but was deposed when the Bolshevist revolution under Lenin and Trotsky broke out on November 7. He had since been a refugee in France.