JNOTHER'WNTER, JfNOTHEfi SPRING This page intentionally left blank JNOTHER'MNTR, ANOTHER SPRINGANOTHER SPRING A Love Remembered LOUISE DE KIRILINE LAWRENCE NATURAL HERITAGE to Elva Another Winter, Another Spring By Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Published by Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc. P.O. Box 69, Postal Station H Toronto, Ontario M4C 5H7 Copyright © 1987 No portion of this book, with the exception of brief extracts for the purpose of literary review, may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the publishers. Printed and bound in Canada by T.H. Best Printing Company Limited. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Lawrence, Louise de Kiriline, 1894- Another winter, another spring ISBN 0-920474-42-X 1. Lawrence, Louise de Kiriline, 1894- 2. Russia-History-Revolution, 1917-1921- Personal narratives. I. Title. DK265.7.L39 1987 947.084T0924 C87-094387-1 Previously published by McGraw-Hill Book Company cowravrrs FOREWORD vii PART 1 Chapter 1 The Villa on the hill 5 Chapter 2 The Big House 15 Chapter 3 Social life and a vocation 25 Chapter 4 /4» unbidden meeting 33 Chapter 5 Revolution 43 Chapter 6 Within range of the possible 51 Chapter 7 The decision 63 Chapter 8 The journey 77 Chapter 9 The stowaway 87 PART 2 Chapter 10 Archangel 99 Chapter 11 Natalia Ivanovna speaks 111 Chapter 12 Journey to the front 117 Chapter 13 Pinega 123 Chapter 14 In no man's land 137 Chapter 15 Archangel once again 145 v Chapter 16 The retreat 161 Chapter 17 The issue of surrender 173 Chapter 18 In a Soviet prison 185 Chapter 19 The Essence of Liberty 193 Chapter 20 On the way to Moscow 203 Chapter 21 Moscow 219 Chapter 22 A desperate scheme 237 Chapter 23 In search of evidence 247 Chapter 24 Petrograd-Leningrad 259 Epilogue 265 vi fOWWOKD ^ip^HE first draft of this book, spanning some twenty-five years I of my life altogether separate from later goals and circum- JL stances, was written when the events described in it were still fresh in memory. Much of it is based on my letters to my mother. For various reasons the manuscript was allowed to rest for more than thirty years. During this time it remained constantly in the back of my mind, ripening, as it were, toward the form it could finally take when I had gained in experience and in vision. It is not only an account of the life in which I grew up and of which I was a part as a young girl, but an effort to present a his- torical episode as it is now perceived from a greater distance in time and possibly in a truer perspective. I wanted too to extract from the impact of politics a more faithful image of a complex, highly emotional, intuitive, and gifted people who inhabit a vast part of the earth. And in so doing, I have en- deavored to isolate from the distortions created by political trends and events the essence of the Russian character as it appeared to me in its many phases, altogether devoid of the bias contrived by the preconceived notions of archenemy and communist. Only thus, it is my strong conviction, shall we know and understand each other. With the exception of the historical figures, some of the Russians in this book appear under fictitious names, either because their real names have slipped my mind or because they are better left unknown. £. de X. £. vii This page intentionally left blank Jhe beauty of life is nothing but this, that each should act in conformity with his nature and business. Fray Luis de Leon