| EVERSOLE RESEARCH COLLECTION THE LIFE OF JIMMIE ANGEL ANGEL IN CHINA AND RUSSIA, 1919-1920 |
| Revolutionary Russia in bedlam, frozen bodies roasting on spits, warehouses raided by vigilant and starving peasant brigades, Angel was accused of spying, imprisoned, and tortured in the same town where one day earlier Csar Nicholas II and family were brutally executed..Although none of the Angel researchers were able to verify whether or not Angel served the Chinese Warlord, Feng, in Kansu, 1920, he was, in fact, there, operating his own private air force against fierce Gobi Desert bandits. Evidence further corroborates that Angel visited the new Bolshevik Republic. The ERC retains photos of Novei, the extravagant White Russian countess who was Angel's fiance in 1920, a tragic love story, as well as the warlords caravan and bodyguard, and mysterious Major Huang, who originally hired Angel in Capetown, South Africa. Angel had just completed a stint in the great War flying reconnaissance over Nancy, France, where he was shot down behind enemy lines, and where he scored his first kill of a Fokker D-VII. He arrived in Capetown after a detached mission for T.E. Lawrence and Prince Fiesel near Herat. |
Discussions of Angel's China and Russia experience are integral to many related
aspects of our story, for it was in the Asian theater, 1919-1920, that both of those
lifetime obsessions, one colored red and one colored gold, originated. One obsession
manifested in Kansu Province, China, and the other, his obsession for gold, originated in
The Forbidden Land, Tibet. His inordinate passion for "fire-haired" women, or redheads,
we attribute to an extravagant White Russian countess, Novei, presumably his fiancé at
one time. Then, it was as if the ceaseless, loess-infested Gobi winds swept away both
seeds and left only a heavy conscience and the broken heart of a broken man.
Skepticism regarding Angel's presence in these early accounts, namely China and
Russia, is likely the consequence of the young American's tormented conscience, for
little did he speak of The Great War, Red Russia, or Warlord China.
aspects of our story, for it was in the Asian theater, 1919-1920, that both of those
lifetime obsessions, one colored red and one colored gold, originated. One obsession
manifested in Kansu Province, China, and the other, his obsession for gold, originated in
The Forbidden Land, Tibet. His inordinate passion for "fire-haired" women, or redheads,
we attribute to an extravagant White Russian countess, Novei, presumably his fiancé at
one time. Then, it was as if the ceaseless, loess-infested Gobi winds swept away both
seeds and left only a heavy conscience and the broken heart of a broken man.
Skepticism regarding Angel's presence in these early accounts, namely China and
Russia, is likely the consequence of the young American's tormented conscience, for
little did he speak of The Great War, Red Russia, or Warlord China.
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courtesy of Wellington Warlords