Nuns, Princesses, Coin-Hoarders
Quiet sitters at the back of their Soviet union hall were five women whom Ogpu (Soviet secret police) pounced on last week, arrested. All were charged with falsifying their identity papers, accused of being former nuns masquerading as proletarians. Two of them, whilom Mother Superior Belayeva and Sister Danilova (both of the suppressed Convent of Ekaterinburg), were further accused of being former princesses. To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper...
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