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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20493, 11 March 1932, Page 15

The sad fate of a Russian ijoble family ia reported from Jassy, Rumania. Six years ago Count Wladi--niir Turkow went from Kiew to live in tlie neighbourhood pf Jassy with his family, which consisted of his wife, his 19-year-old son Wladimjr and his 17-year-old daughter Tamara. As the family was living in ■ very reduced circumstances, the son travelled to Paris and obtained a position there as a shop assistant; but privation and an unhappy love affair caused him to commit suicide by shooting hilhself on Christmas Eve, 1930. By a strange coincidence, though unaware of the tragedy, Count Turkow died of heart failure on the sarno day in Jassy, and in a fit' of despair at her husband's death Countess Turkow took poison and died within a few hours. Left alone in the world, Tamara Turkow continued to: write letters to Paris, in the belief that her brother was alive, although he did not answer them. When she received news of his death a short time ago she closed the story of the tragic family hjr banging herself in her room.