I am reading with interest the search for Victor. He was my grandfather. My mother, Stephanie (Stella), was born in 1898 to Victor and Terezia. She used to tell me about Grandpa Victor. According to her, Kwiecienski wasnot his real name. He was born in Georgia, Russia, and as a young man was arrested for his part in a plot against the Czar and sentenced to exile in Siberia. In escaping from Siberia, he killed a guard - which haunted him for the rest of his life. A friend smuggled him aboard a ship headed for America. He may have landed on either the East Coast or possibly a Great Lakes port. There was probably no official record of this. According to my mother, he took the nanme of Kwiecienski. Noone, possibly even my grandmother knew his real name.He eventually settled in NE Mpls. married my Grandmother in 1895, and became a tailor. He often hinted at a link with nobility - telling his children,"If you knew who I am, you would come to me on your knees." He always believed that the Russian authorities were still looking for him, becoming agitated whenever a stranger came to the door. After a house fire in which he burned his hands, he became despondent and finally drowned himself in the bathtub. My sister was just a little girl, but she remembers that everyone was pounding on the bathroom door - so that he woulod stop. I grew up believing this picture of my grandfather and I have no reason to disbelieve one of his children.