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HOW RASPUTIN DIED Looking at these exiles, these wrecks of humanity done to death in the name of the state, and reflecting that their number was so great that months had to elapse before they could a…
ANNA VIRUBOVA SPEAKS “Let any American mother imagine that her only son, who came into the world a weakling, and whose life had always hung on a thread, had been miraculously restored to health. Supp…
MORE LEAVES IN THE CURRENT In an even, passionless voice Anna Virubova went on to tell me the story of the murder in the Yussupoff palace, as it had appeared to the slain man’s devotees in Tsarskoe S…
THE PASSING OF THE ROMANOFFS I asked Mme. Virubova to tell me what happened at the palace during the revolution and how the royal family received the news of its overthrow. “I can tell you only what …
THE HOUSE OF MARY AND MARTHA On the afternoon of the day when Nicholas II., deposed emperor and autocrat of all the Russias, with his wife and children left Tsarskoe Selo and began the long journey t…
THE TAVARISHI FACE FAMINE The Romanoffs gone, the soviets apparently yielding to Kerensky’s demand for a coalition government, and finally voting to give him almost supreme power, what then stood in …
GENERAL JANUARY, THE CONQUEROR After Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeated legions had fled from Russia to freeze and starve and die by thousands in a frenzied attempt to get back to France, the victorious c…
WHEN THE WORKERS OWN THEIR TOOLS John Stevens, head of the railroad commission sent to Russia from the United States, has shown the Russian government how to increase its transportation facilities si…
WHY COTTON CLOTH IS SCARCE When I got on the train to leave Russia for the United States the first familiar face I saw was that of Mr. Daniel Cheshire, mill owner and operator of Petrograd. “I’m goin…
MRS. PANKHURST IN RUSSIA Emmeline Pankhurst, the English militant suffrage leader, known to thousands in this country, went to Russia in late June of this year to organize the women of the country an…
