RUSSIA: White Eagle

A bearded Archpriest whose rich vestments recalled the pomp of Holy Russia stood, last week, with streaming eyes beside the deathbed of Peter Nicholaie-vich, Baron Wrangel. The place was merely a retired suburban villa, near Brussels, Belgium; but, as Death came to the lanky care-worn Baron, men recalled how recently and with what high courage he and his Cossack army all but succeeded in overthrowing the Soviet regime.

To his troops Baron Wrangel was "The White Eagle," and to him they were "White Knights" pledged to fight for Holy

Russia. Even today...

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