Lillian Alling by Susan Smith-Josephy

Author:Susan Smith-Josephy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography
ISBN: 9781927575369
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Published: 2014-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Stories of a Russian Countess

Dietger Hollmann, an amateur historian who followed Lillian Alling’s trail to the Atlin area in the late autumn of 1970, met with Jim Grant, owner of the Highland Glen Muncho Lodge. Grant told Hollmann that he believed Lillian had been a Russian countess. Hollmann also met old-timer Andy Bailey who, in 1928, had been working the Ruby Creek mine, and Bailey gave Lillian an even loftier title: he was convinced that she was the Russian tsar’s last daughter. Hollmann said that on another of his trips to Atlin he met some prospectors and trappers in their eighties and nineties who spent their summer days sitting in front of their small houses and talking to visitors. Yes, they said, they knew the Russian princess. One of the men even claimed to have exchanged a few words with the petite young woman. “A tough one,” he said.4

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