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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
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ose, and beard, and is in theUnited States to expound the ideas of the greatRussian novelist, says that the answer his fatherwould give for the solution of the burning problemsthat vex the world today is in a word of four letters. The failure to comprehend this word is responsiblefor the form patriotism takes and the European war.It is a word carved on a green little stick, which is saidto be buried in the Yasnaya Polyana, and aboutwhich the Count talked in an interview today. Count Tolstoy, moved by this word and a growingunderstanding of America, spoke out in a way thatwas unusual for a European on American soil for thefirst time. That very popular question, What do youthink of New York? was not put to the Count in thatform. His comment in answer to another questionas to the similarity between America and Russia wasgentle and sympathetic. America, he said, is young, as young as Russiaand equally unsophisticated. Your people are veryimpressionable, readily moved. It is in marked con-
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Copyright Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. Miss Florence Fair Giving her Aid to Alake the Russian Bazaar a Success. APPENDIX 173 trast with the terrible moral decline of old Europein all domains of spiritual endeavour, art, music, litera-ture, which was so prophetic of the present war. Inmany ways I feel that Russia and America are veryclose. A RUSSIAN FAIRY STORY Count Tolstoy has written a fairy story about thegreen little stick, a story which his father heard, onewhich concerns the woods where his father is buried.The story is all about the one all-important word—love. My story has no setting in time or space, saidthe Count today. It was long ago when mills wereon the spot and men dug ore from the depths of theearth. Ages passed. The soil became black, mixedwith slag. Two boys roamed through the woods tell-ing each other stories. They were talking of love,how all men will some day become brothers. Niko-lenka wrote a word on a green little stick, and saidthat before men could beco

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