Mrs. Z. M. Markhinina Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Russian Women's League, is shortly leaving for Australia. A meeting devoted to her was held at the League premises recently, in the course of which a short play written fcr the occasion by Miss Fuller, the English teacher of the League's school, was staged, Dances produced by Mrs. O, N. Malinina also formed part of the programme, which culminated in tea being served to all present and a valuable token of gratitude being presented to Mrs. Markhinina by the Leagues Chairman, Mrs. E, L. Unterberger.
A requiem service in memory of Khoren I, the recently-deceased Kalikatos of all Armenians, was held in the Russian Cathedral last week.
Many followers, of the Armenian-Georgian faith were present at this service, being met at the church portals by Mr. M. G. Melik-Nubarov, one of the leaders of the local Armenian colony.
Mr. N. N. lazikoff, a well-known journalist, left recently for permanent residence in the United States. Mr. lazikoff arrived here from Serbia over six years ago, and since then has worked on various Last week's meeting of the literary club "Monday" was something of a gala affair, being attended by various representatives of the colony Bohemian circles. During the meeting a letter received from Prague was read out to the audience, asking the local club to collect material dealing with the life of Russian emigration in the Far East, and to send it to the Russian Cultural and Historical Museum in Prague, Mr. V. N. Kostevitch, a young Russian pianist who for the last seven years, has lived in Italy, has recently arrived in Shanghai and tells of the life of Russian emigrants in that country, Small Russian colonies exist in Milan and other principal Italian cities, states Mr. Kosteviteh, composed chiefly of men and en who arrived in Italy ten or twelve years ago and who by now have opened little commercial concerns of their own, The centre of Russian emigration in Italy is the Russian Orthodox Church in Milan, with which is associated both cultural and charitable work. A major care of Russian emigrants in Italy is to conserve the national spirit in their children. The principal difficulty in this respect lies in the absence of Russian schools. Extremely friendly relations exist between the Russian colonies and Italians, The latter, a musical nation, are especially fond of Russian music, a fact evidenced by the invariable inclusion-of at least two Russian operas in. every repertoire of the famous La Sca Opera House of Milan.
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