Word: wrangel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent edition you printed an article on General Wrangel of the White Army. On account of the particular interest which will later appear, I copied the following quotation from that article...
...inquire the source of your information because I have had a charming woman whom I supposed to be the Baroness Wrangel, General Wrangel's wife, in my house twice during the past four years and have received letters from her during that time. I am of course much interested to know whether not only myself but many, many others have been imposed upon by a poseur or whether there is some explanation, which I think must be the case. She has told us the complete story, the retreat of the White Army, the escape from the Crimea, the hiding...
...genuine Baroness Wrangel she is a wonder. Incidentally she has collected considerable sums of money from various cities in the United States for the support of her tuberculosis camps...
That retreat marked the political and military eclipse of Baron Wrangel. His misfortune was made complete when Fate snatched from him his wife, her immensely valuable jewels, and his personal fortune which he had converted into cash. These three most valued possessions were lost when the yacht Lucullus sank in collision with the British steamer Adria off Constantinople harbor. After that triple misfortune Baron Wrangel gradually became little more than a lanky, itinerant White Hope...
Died. General Baron Peter Nicolaie-vich Wrangel, 49, onetime commander-in-chief of the Russian White Army; of intestinal trouble; at Brussels...