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...ancestor who lived in the U. S. before the Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") and Baron George Wrangel ("Billy Benedick") of Hearst's American and Journal, respectively. The Baron, 30, is a nephew of famed "White Russian" General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel. Dapper, bubbling "Cholly Knickerbocker" owns the copyright to his nom de plume, a valuable asset. His breezy column is famed for "plugging" favorites. Philadelphia society, according to Joseph Hergesheimer who likes parties and lives near there, is as dull as what the society editors write about it. Oldest...
...years ago the defeat in the Crimea of General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel left Russia's White Army stranded in a Bolshevik prison camp near Constantinople. Provisions were scarce. The troops had nothing left but the frayed uniforms on their backs. Bandsmen had lost their instruments. To raise the morale, each regiment formed a chorus...
Russia. Even today some 30,000 of these "Knights" maintain themselves by agricultural labor in Bulgaria & Jugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926); and stand ready, as a functioning, militant unit to render fealty to the Russian whom they recognize as "Tsar"-the Grand Duke Nicholai Nicholaievich, who resides in prudent retirement near Paris (TIME, April...
...explain how that regime came to exist is to recall the three principal White Russian Commanders whom the Allies had previously put in the field against Red Russia. One army struck North from Estonia under General Nikolai Nicholaievich Yudenich, who in 1919 advanced until he could see the spires of Petrograd, only to be driven back. A second White Army and Government was dominated by Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak. In 1919 he advanced from Siberia until he was within 450 miles of Moscow. Later, when he was driven back, he signed a ukase transferring the Siberian Government over which...
...cause seems lost. He is Peter Nicholaievich, Baron Wrangel, the last hope of the "White" Tsarist Russian emigrés. In 1920 the victories of his "White Knights" over portions of the "Red Army" gave hope that the Bolshevist tide might be dammed. Then France and Britain withdrew their support from General Wrangel, he was driven even from Sevastopol, fled. Until last week his refuge was Belgrade, Jugoslavia...
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