Denlsow worked successively as an experimental gardener. proprietor of a grocery store and then of a laundry. "We were prospering. but there was too much racial tension in San Francisco. We came here in search of peace and quiet. and have found it in this beautiful State of Maine." Although both of the Denisows speak heavilyaccented English. they strive constantly to improve it. and Mr. Dentsow proudly displays a framed copy of the Declaration of Independence. presented him in Portland when he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. "Our language and religion set us apart." Mrs. Denisow said. "yet I am Russian only because I was born there. I was only three years old when the revolution caused my parents to leave our home in Kiev and go to Siberia." There the White Russians under Admiral Kolchak were defeated by the communists. and many fled across the Siberian boundary Into China. "I grew up in China from the age of eight." Mrs.
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