Russia and the World a Study of the War and a Statement, of the World-Problems That, Now Confront Russia, and Great Britain (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Russia and the World a Study of the War and a Statement, of the World-Problems That, Now Confront Russia, and Great Britain

In December, 1913, when I was just returning to Russia after my tramp in America, The London Times came forward and put its columns at my disposal, and I was able to record my impressions there throughout the whole of the year. During the winter I was seeking words and stories and impressions that would convey better the idea of Russia as the great religious force of Europe: Russia the sanctuary from Westernism. My first articles dealt with the religion of Russia, the meeting of old friends, the idea of sanctuary. I visited many old friends of whom I have written in my books before - Pereplotchikof, the Russian painter, with whom I spent a summer in the forests of Archangel; Loosha, whom I met at Batum; Varvara Ilinitchna, of the cottage with the Chinese wall at Gelendzhik, on the Black Sea shore; the old grandmother at Vladikavkaz, to whom I brought a crown of thorns and a cross after my pilgrimage to Jerusalem. My first letters home were from Moscow, Kief, Vladikavkaz, and other towns.

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