RASPUTIN’S DAUGHTE

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19459, 26 December 1934, Page 9

RASPUTIN’S DAUGHTE

A TAMER OF LiONS. A CHEQUERED CAREER. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. RUGDY, Dec. 24. The Chronicle says that Maria Rasputin, tiie daughter of Russia's mad monk, has arrived in London from Liverpool, where she has spent a week acclimatising 15 tigers, with which she will appear at the Christmas circus in the Agricultural Hall. She became a tiger tamer in Paris in " 1932, In order to support herself and daughters aged 12 and 14. She married a Royal Russian Guardsman when 15*. He died ill a paupers’ hospital In>Parls in 1924. Her mother and only brother were exiled i to Siberia, and have not communicated with her since' 1931. Her only sister was poisoned at a •banquet two years after the death of Rasputin, whose memory .Marla honours because he "was generous to the poor, laughed, danced, sang and played, despite parental strictness. They say lam very like my father. lam ' glad.”