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Title: Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Reeves, Francis B. (Francis Brewster), 1836-1922
Subjects: Famines -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Social conditions Soviet Union -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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8 THE WINTER PALACE, PETROGRAD . . 50 ST. BASILS CATHEDRAL, Moscow . . 52 Moscow. KREMLIN. BELL-TOWER OF IVAN THE GREAT ...... 54 CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, PETROGRAD . 56A HAPPY PEASANT FAMILY . . . .58 RUSSIAN PEASANTS MAKING HAY ... 60 COUNT LEO TOLSTOY ..... 64 FACSIMILE OF A LETTER FROM COUNT TOLSTOY TO THE AUTHOR ..... 70 MAI AND SOPHIE PETERSON .... 74 THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, Moscow . . 82 POOR PEASANTS ...... 94 UNDER THEIR ROOF 102 ILLUSTRATIONS xiii PAGE GOLD-PLATED PUNCH SET PRESENTED TO THE AUTHOR 106 Moscow RESTAURANT, ONE OF THE MOST NOTED IN RUSSIA 112 KALMUCK HUTS ON THE VOLGA, NEAR ASTRACHAN 122 PHILARET 128 PEASANT GIRLS . . . . . .130 THE FIRST OF THE HARVEST . . .134 TOYS MADE BY THE INSTRUCTION TOY SHOP OFTHE PROVINCIAL ZEMSTVO OF THE MoscowGOVERNMENT, IN SERGIEV POSAD (HAMLET) 142 BUFFET MADE BY THE KOUSTARS OF SERGIEV POSAD (HAMLET) . . . . .146 Miss FLORENCE FAIR GIVING HER AID TO MAKE THE RUSSIAN BAZAAR A SUCCESS . .172 THE LAST CZAR OF RUSSIA AND His FAMILY 180
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Grand Duke Nicholas—1892; Czar of Russia, 1894 to 1917. He Married Princess Alix of Hesse, a State of the German Empire, a Granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Russia Then and Now Russias Famine of 1891-1892Great Relief from U. S. A., 1892 FOLLOWING authenticated reports that theagricultural districts of European Russia had suf-fered an awful failure of their crops of foodsupplies (1891), there appeared in many of thenewspapers of the United States telegraphic re-ports of an impending famine in a large portionof the Empire. As days went by, despatches, re-affirming and emphasizing these first outgivingsof the dreadful news multiplied, and the story offamine-stricken Russia was being discussed byhumanitarians all over our favoured land. ThePhiladelphia Permanent Relief Committee, havingreceived confirmation of these reports, throughprivate and semi-official agencies, and particularly RUSSIA THEN AND NOW through telegraphic and written communicationwith the United States Legation at Russi

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