# Is Slavomir Rawicz's story true? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-slavomir-rawiczs-story-true/178635 "2003-05-30T21:52:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-slavomir-rawiczs-story-true/178635/41 "2016-07-03T16:57:19Z")
It’s an obviously fictional story. Its the fucking Himalayas we are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-slavomir-rawiczs-story-true/178635/42 "2016-07-04T22:11:09Z")
> [@Ben\_Leeman](#): > > I was at school in England with a student named Martin Smith (1960-1964). He said his grandfather had been an engineer building the Russian Metro and had married a Russian princess. Smith is now in charge of a theological seminary in the USA. I will write and ask him if there is any conenction. **Ben** , I think I know who your princess was. Her name was Princess Barbara Mikhailovna Cantacuzène and she was a great-granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant. From Wikipedia [Julia Grant Cantacuzène - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Dent_Cantacuz%C3%A8ne_Spiransky-Grant) “Princess Barbara Mikhailovna Cantacuzène, Countess Spiransky (b. 27 March 1904, St. Petersburg, d. 1991) married firstly Bruce Smith, secondly William Durrell Siebern. She was known as Bertha. She had a son by her first husband, named Bruce Smith, as well.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-slavomir-rawiczs-story-true/178635.md?page=2)