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Sunday, April 28, 1957

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PROFESSOR & PRINCE
Lobanov-Rostovsky Lived the Revolution
By BARTON HUTHWAITE rowly missed being captured by ment of professor of history here
pROF. A. Lobanov-Rostovsky of the Bolsheviks, at the University in 1945,
the History department might I The ahort, wiry professor lean- Widely recognized as one of the
ed back in hia chair and continued,
be properly addressed as either "In 1919, the Reds entered Odessa outstanding men in his field, the
"prince" or "professor." where the remnants of the White professor has contributed hun-
Born Prince Andrei Anatolievich Army were stationed. We barely dreds of articles to numerous per- I
Lobanov-Rostovsky in 1892, Prof. managed to escape in time. iodicals and has written several
Lobanov was the younger of two "Capture by the Communists books.
sons. His father was a distinguish- would have 1),obably meant cer- His latest volumes are "The
ed diplomat in the Imperial Rus- tain death for a man with my Grinding Mill" (Reminiscences of
sian Service. name," he added. War and Revolution in Russia,
Lobanov, the man, is a very im- The telephone interrupted his 1913-20), published in 1935, "Rus-
pressive person. His perfect man- thought. It was a well known sia and Europe 1789-1829" pub-
ners and stately bearing reflect his periodical calling about one of his lished in 1947 and "Russia and
r o y a I breeding. Gold - rimmed ,- Europe 1725-28" published in 1954.
glasses and a mustache add to his The little time that he has left
cultured appearance, to himself is well occupied. "I en-
joy music and reading very much.
FATE HAS guided Prof. Lobanov At one time I even had aspirations
all his life. "In World War I, of following a musical career, but
I served as an officer in the these were interrupted by the!
Guards batallion, a crack unit of World War."

the Russian Army," he reminisced.
"When the Russian revolution
broke out in 1917, our division was
fighting in Poland after which we
went to Macedonia. At the time,
our division was fighting along-'
side the French," the unassuming
professor related.
"After the Communist uprising,,
the French fearing revolutionary
activity among some of the Reds'
is our ranks, offered us one of two
alternatives."
Flicking the ash off his cigar-,
ette, the professorcontinued in
his flawless English, "We could.
either enlist in the French Army'
and continue fighting on the front
or we could work for the Allied
cause and receive good wages be-
hind the safety of the lines."
'Those who did not choose one
of these two alternatives and still
persisted in their revolutionary ac-
tivity would be sent to work in the
Algerian mines.
"I, along with most of the offi-
cers," the ex-soldier stated, "de-
cided to continue fighting. This I
did until the Armistice."
PROF. LOBANOV returned to his
native land to fight the Com-
munists. He fought as an officer
under General Denicin in South
Russia, Three times during the
course of the Civil War he nar-

PROF. LOBANOV does not con-
fine his interests to music and
reading. He frequently attends the
various plays and movies that ap-
pear on campus. The film "Anas-
tasia" interested him very much.
"I was present at Anastasia's
baptism and I also had the oppor-
tunity of being presented the Em-
press Mother."
Is the Anastasia now living in
Germany the real Anastasia she
claims to be? Prof. Lobanov is not
quite certain.
He lit another cigarette and con-
tinued, "It is very hard to arrive
at any decision on the matter.
The woman did reveal many
things that only a member of the
royal inner circle would know.
"Of course," he added quickly,
"this knowledge could have been
the result of coaching by other
members of the royal family " Prof.
Lobanov stopped for a moment
and then added, "It also is very
unlikely that she could have es-
caped the Communist purge."
Very few men in the world to-
day can claim that they are au-
thorities in the field of Russian
history. Fewer still can say they
had a part in the formation of it.
P r o f. Lobanov - Rostovsky can
rightfully lay claim to both of
these honors,

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LOBANOV-ROSTOVSKY
.. the man is impressive
many artictes on Russia and its
history. He quickly concluded his
business and returned to the con-
versation.
Continuing, Prof. Lobanov said,
"I fled to Paris where I enrolled
at the Ecole Libres des Sciences
Politiques, now part of the Univer-
sity of Paris. I graduated from
there In 1923."
IN 1930, PROF. Lobanov came to
America and Joined the history
faculty at the University of Call-
fornis. He accepted the appoint-

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