RUSSIA IN 1916 BY STEPHEN GRAHAM

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<p style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;

text-align:justify""><span style=""font-size:14.0pt""> Returned </span><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt;"">to Russia last summer, visited as many of

my old friends there as I could, arranged for the publication of some of my

books in the Russian language, and incidentally travelled a great deal and saw

a great many sides of Russian contemporary life, talked also with all manner of

Russians.<p></p></span></p>



<p style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;

text-align:justify""><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt;"">I travelled to

Bergen in Norway, from Bergen obtained a passage round the North Cape to Vardö,

the last port of Norway, transhipped there to a Russian boat and sailed for

Ekaterina, the first port in Russia in the North, the new Russian harbour which

never freezes. From Ekaterina I went on to Archangel, where I stayed a week,

and from Archangel went to Moscow. I visited some estates in Central Russia and

stayed with various acquaintances and friends, visited Rostof-on-the-Don, the

Caucasus, Orel, Petrograd, and finally came back to England on a returning

ammunition ship.<p></p></span></p>



<p style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;

text-align:justify""><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt;"">In going to

Russia I certainly did not intend to publish my impressions in book form, but I

have been asked to do so, and I recognise the value of keeping in contact with

our Ally from day to day. The requirement of the moment seems to be not so much

books on Russia, of which there are now a great many, but diaries or volumes of

impressions, keeping the peoples of the two countries in touch during the war.

I returned to London at the beginning of October, 1916, and I should be glad to

think that some one returning at the beginning of January, 1917, would follow

on with another small volume of this type. Again for April, 1917. We need such

volumes of personal impressions, and there would not be the need to apologise

for them. They are letters between friends both engaged in the same vital task.

It is extremely difficult to keep in touch with Russia by reading newspapers

only. The newspapers are, on the whole, difficult to follow. They are concerned

with the news-aspect of events and the scope for sensational appeals. Good

quiet correspondence t