Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. April 4th.
Mr. JENNER. And by what calendar is that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. By the Gregorian Calendar.
Mr. JENNER. In any event, you are now 53 years old?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Where were you born?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. A town called Mozyr.
Mr. JENNER. What country?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Russia; Czarist Russia.
Mr. JENNER. Czarist, did you say?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, some of the reports indicate that this was Poland
rather than Russia. Would you explain this?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I don't remember the town, because I never
lived there to my memory. But it is not too far from the Polish border.
Mr. JENNER. Now, your father was Sergis Alexander Von Mohrenschildt, is
that correct? And your mother was Alexandra Zopalsky?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What nationality was your mother?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. My mother was Russian, of Polish and Hungarian
descent.
Mr. JENNER. And the nationality of your father?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. He was also of Russian, Swedish, German descent.
Mr. JENNER. Would you tell me a little bit about your father? And may
I say this. There appear in the reports that he was--or maybe your
grandfather, was Swedish, or someone in your line was Swedish, and
received some commission or grant from the Queen of Sweden at one time,
or maybe your family.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us about that, will you?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, the family is of Swedish origin. The name
is spelled M-o-h-r-e-n-s-k-u-l-d.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; I saw last night in looking over these materials the
spelling S-k-o-l-d-t, is that correct?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right, it is spelled this way. That is a
Swedish way of spelling. And the letter "o" with two dots over it is a
typical Swedish letter which cannot be translated or written down in
any language. So in probably moving to Russia, or to the Baltic States,
you see, which was an intermediary area between Russia and Sweden, they
probably changed it to S-c-h-i-l-d-t. And it can also be written in
Russian, at the same time.
Mr. JENNER. Now, what did your father do? What was he?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. He was a landowner. He was a director of the
Nobel interests for a while. He was a marshal of nobility of the Minsk
Province.
Mr. JENNER. He was what?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Marshal of nobility. He was elected
representative of the landowners to the Government.
Mr. JENNER. Of what country?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Of Czarist Russia. He was born in Russia, and
spent all his life in Russia, spoke German at home sometimes, sometimes
Russian. That was a mixed-up family, of which there were so many in
Russia.
Mr. JENNER. You, yourself, have the command of at least four, maybe
five languages. May I see if I can recall them. English?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; if you consider it a command.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; I do. German?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. German, not too well.
Mr. JENNER. Spanish?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Spanish.
Mr. JENNER. French?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Russian?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Russian; yes.
Mr. JENNER. And I suppose a smattering of a number of other languages.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You have traveled widely?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Especially in Europe?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Now you can add Creole to it.
Mr. JENNER. From your experience in Haiti?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right. And Yugoslav.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; you spent almost a year in Yugoslavia.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you pick up any Danish when you were there, or do they
speak French there?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. They speak German and French.
Mr. JENNER. Your father is deceased?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What do you know about his death?