NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Breshkovsky - 1915 [*Jan 30 1915*] Letter from Catherine Breshkovsky to Helena Dudley. [*To Miss Dudley 17-30*] 17/30 January, 1915. Helena, my friend: Your letter has reached me and I hope that now our correspondence, thanks to "via Japan", will be able to exist without interruption. Ah, how fortunate one is to have friends! There is a Russian proverb (very old) which says: "Don't have [one] a hundred rubles, but have [one] a hundred friends." In Russian [that] it is in rhyme [and then] that was said in times when rubles were very rare and every ruble was considered a fortune. Now friends are looked upon as an [inappreciable] gift, for each [one] of them takes the place of thousands of rubles for an intelligent being. I always realize the truth of this proverb, for, having nothing of my own, nothing that belongs to me, I am provided with all necessities, even with luxuries. Thanks to the incessant watchfulness and care of my friends[, I have would good food, warm clothes, interesting books, letters which bring me joy, filling my heart with happiness and gratitude, thanks to which I preserve my health, my benevolent (kindly) spirit, indeed,my hopes. What should I have become without all these kindnesses that the good Lord sends me! But what is the cause of this intense illness of our Euphamie? It is more than two years that she has been suffering. I embrace her closely without hurting her, this friend worthy of all esteem and affection. I am happy to know that Mr. Herreshoff is in good health, and I wish to add that he will have of an opportunity to make me a gift, in view of the fact that] so in four months I think I shall be sent to the the North, surely. [I have just received the announcement of Harpers Weekly (251 Fourth Avenue, New York City, Subscription Department) with inducements to read it, promising to give correct and detailed information, widely illustrated, on the events of this year. (The journal "Travel" is also superb.) During preceding years it was our dear Lillian who overwhelmed me with a fine choice of journals and magazines. The half of Siberia profited from it and thanked fate, for, lost as we are in the snows, all news coming from the great world makes us feel the tie that unites us to the universe. I add here a picture card which serves as a symbol of nomadic life, our bundles on our shoulders, our children at our side, and always moving, walking ahead, nonwithstanding the rigors of the temperature. Apropos of weather, last December the cold reached 40 to 45 degrees, but this month we only have from 20 to 30 degrees. (Today the cold is atrocious and the wind makes it insupportable.) During three months or more I did not risk leaving my cell, but during the last few days I have taken three walks (fifteen minutes each) without taking cold. I have received a letter from the charming Ellen and I acknowledge it by a card. Tell her that she lives always in my heart and will remain there forever, as well as my friend] Arthur Bullard [who] is doubly close to me, for having seen Russia, the Russian peasant, and [in] for having carried away with him a souvenir which will make him always a friend of our country, entirely disorganized [as] though it may be. I do not like to assure the world of the strength [(force)] comprised in [by] our people; it ought to be proved before speaking of it, but for myself, I believe in it with all the fervor of a soul that feels itself close to the soul of its people. Already the last ten years show[s] the gigantic progress that is being made in the very entrails of our country. May the good God bless us all! And He will do it, since our spirit [desires (]aspires to[)] the good of all ([every one)]. [Helena, my friend, I see you before me saying "Good-bye" to me in the Pullman car where you put me to bed so sumptuously. Well, you speak to Lillian of my friendship for her, and to Bullard, to Ellen, to all the pupils of Hull House whom I love tenderly. Always devotedly, (signed) Cat. Breshkovsky.] Letter from Catherine Breshkovsky to Helena Dudley. 17/ 30 January, 1915. Helena, my friend: Your letter has reached me and I hope that now our correspondence, thanks to "via Japan", will be able to exist without interruption. Ah, how fortunate one is to have friends! There is a Russian proverb (very old) which says: "Don't have one hundred rubles, but have one hundred friends." In Russian that is in rhyme and then that was said in times when rubles were very rare and every ruble was considered a fortune. Now friends are looked upon as an inappreciable gift, for each one of them takes the place of thousands of rubles for an intelligent bring. I always realize the truth of this proverb, for having nothing of my own, nothing that belongs to me, I am provided with all necessities, even with luxuries. Thanks to the incessant watchfulness and care of my friends, I have good food, warm clothes, interesting books, letters which bring me joy, filling my heart with happiness and gratitude, thanks to which I preserve my health, my benevolent (kindly) spirit, indeed, my hopes. What should I have become without all these kindnesses that the good Lord sends me! But what is the cause of this intense illness of our Euphemie? It is more than two years that she has been suffering. I embrace her closely without hurting her, this friend worthy of all esteem and affection. I am happy to know that Mr. Herreshoff is in good health, and I wish to add that he will have an opportunity to make me a gift, in view of the fact that in four months I think I shall be sent to the North, surely. I have just received the announcement of Harpers Weekly (251 Fourth Avenue, New York City, Subscription Department) with inducements to read it, promising to give correct and detailed information, widely illustrated, on the events of this year. (The journal "Travel" is also superb. ) During preceding years it was our dear Lillian who overwhelmed me with a fine choice of journals and magazines. The half of Siberia profited from it and thanked fate, for, lost as we are in the snows, all news coming from the great world makes us feel the tie that unites us to the universe. I add here a picture card which serves as a symbol of our nomadic life, our bundles on our shoulders, our children at our side, and always moving, walking ahead, notwithstanding the rigors of the temperature. Apropos of weather, last December the cold reached 40 to 45 degrees, but this month we only have from 20 to 30 degrees. (Today the cold is atrocious and the wind makes it insupportable.) During three months or more I did not risk leaving my cell, but during the last few days I have taken three walks (fifteen minutes each) without taking cold. I have received a letter from the charming Ellen and I acknowledge it by a card. Tell her that she lives always in my heart and will remain there forever, as well as my friend Arthur Bullard, who is doubly close to me, having seen Russia, the Russian peasant, and in having carried away with him a souvenir which will make him always a friend of our country, entirely disorganized as it may be. I do not like to assure the world of the strength (force) comprised by our people; it ought to be proved before speaking of it, but for myself, I believe in it with all the fervor of a soul that feels itself close to the soul of its people. Already the last ten years shows the gigantic progress that is being made in the very entrails of our country. May the good God bless us all! and He will do it, since our spirit desires (aspires to ) the good of all (every one). Helena, my friend, I see you before me saying "Good-bye" to me in the Pullman car where you put me to bed so sumptuously. Well, you will speak to Lillian of my friendship for her, and to Bullard, to Ellen, to all the pupils of Hull House whom I love tenderly. Always devotedly, (signed) Cat. Breshkovsky. [Mrs. Catherine Breshkovsky wrote to Mrs. Mabel Barrows Mussey, April 19. May 2, 1915: Mabel, daughter of my never-to-be-forgotten sister Isabel Barrows! You are already fortunate, since you are the daughter of your parents, who are heaven's benediction to the world. It is your turn to act in the meaning and spirit of their faith, and to come to the help of those who need it. And you are doing it. You are already the grandmother of a being who, being flung out into the world, will be grateful to fate for having been put under your protection. (This refers to Mrs. Yarros's baby. Mrs. Mussey affectionately calls herself its grandmother). The happiness of others will be your reward; and your son will grow up with the example of Christian humanity before him. I have received three photographs of him, and I cherish them with tenderness. I received also your dear New Year greeting. Two months hence, when I am again at Kirensk, I shall expect the book that you have promised me. I do not expect (compte) to leave this world; I hope even to live until June is able to write me a few words himself about his pastimes. (June is Mrs. Mussey's little boy). Meanwhile it is my Alice (Blackwell) who keeps me informed about all those who are dear to me, in whom I am greatly interested. I think also of your good husband, always devoted to study; so that your family is before my eyes as if I saw you all together. You will be always kind, always charitable, and always beloved by old Catherine Breshkovsky. A letter received about the same time from Mrs. Breshkovsky's friend, Mr. George Lazareff, Baugy sur Clarens, Switzerland, says that she writes to him, "well, and in a good spirit as ever, though [*omit*] 220 On Picture of post card to June Barrows Mussey. Nov. 5-18 1911. June, my boy! We are now grown up people. I see you walking on your own feet, with mamma, with grandma. I am sure you ride on your papa's back. Sorry I cannot take you on my own back which is strong enough to carry a grandson of your age. If such medium-sized dogs can pull big men, the large grandmother can do it well, if not so quickly. " I bless you, my boy and wish to know that you are well and reasonable. 3378 (?) She went (?) the Lena [by] on the last boat until the floating ice 338 stopped transportation . 2 vessels where they [settled] (?) like cattle and subject to all sorts of inconveniences and to the rigor of the weather. Yet I do not fear for myself, for during a journey I never suffer from any illness, being excited and delighted to breathe the fresh air. Sept 17-30 Steamer Gromoff. [It] This is the third day I have been traveling on a nice steamer, in good company, having permission to make the voyage along, without a convoy. There are spies, but I don't car, for they [survey] watch from [afore (sic)] a distance, and leave me alone. I feel much better, and hope to be healthy all the time, for everything is done to make me comfortable. The weather is very cold, and some walk. I sleep well and much, I eat often, and good meals. This voyage will [be] take longer than than the voyage I made in summer. We are going up the river now. We may very soon encounter ice that will impede our course, or stop it altogether. Then some other mode of moving will be found [out]. "My eyes are no[t] worse. All the summer I did nothing to fatigue them, and now too I am always lazy, watching the river and its shores." Pray print in your journal that while in prison I received a big, thick woolen shawl, and did now know from whom. Only in Yakutak the letter from Mary Allen, written in 1914, was sent to sent to me. Now I am not sure of her address, and yet I wish to thank her and her excellent mother for such a beautiful and useful present, and kiss her with all my heart. I am sure there is a quantity of your and other "friends" letters lost, but being sure of your everlasting friendship, I feel quiet and happy. 14/ 27 October 1915 Witirn I Copy To H. C Dudley "Our dear Helena has joined the socialist party which to her means a closer fellowship." - I do not think like our dear Lillian, that this Party does hamper its members in any falls, for its way is so large and manifold, that everyone can choose for himself the path leading to the common end. The happiness of the mankind the development of all the capasities of its nature and we ought not only to struggle, but to teach and to learn too. We ought to elevate the sycology of the people by our own example and to give him the notion of a purer life by making him acquainted wit better and higher ideals; to exort from him his best feelings and strongest principles. We ought to say the truth fearing not to displease our hearers II and be always ready to confirm our word by our own deeds. The members are not subject by the prejudices of any other party. "Good by" my beloved sister, God bless you. Catherine. Contributing Editors Mary Johnston Stephen S. Wise Josephine Peabody Marks Zona Gale Florence Kelley Witter Bynner The Woman's Journal and Suffrage News 585 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts Telephone: Back Bay 4717 Contributing Editors Ben B. Lindsey Caroline Bartlett Crane Ellis Meredith Mabel Craft Deering Eliza Calvert Hall Reginald Wright Kauffman Assistant Editor Henry Bailey Stevens Editor-in-Chief Alice Stone Blackwell Managing Editor Agnes E. Ryan 'It is impossible to imagine the suffrage movement without the Woman's Journal." -- Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. (1915) To His Majesty Nicholas Alexandrovitch Emperor of All the Russias 90 in 1933 In view of the fact the Mrs Catherine Breshkovska is now seventy-two years of age, is in feeble health, and is losing her sight by the growth of cataracts on both eyes, we, the undersigned, citizens of the Unite States of America, respectfully beg that s she may be granted a full pardon and be allowed to leave Siberia. Such an act of Imperial clemency to the aged exile would be received with joy and gratitude in America. Edwin K. Edgett Thomas N. James. Margaret W. Kettell Helen A. Clarke Mary R. P. Hatch James H. Wright. John L Ames T. W. Woodell G. T. Page Frederic A. Turner Jr Walter Falls Robert Shaw Barlow Wm Lyman Johnson [???tter] L. Howard [Wa????] W. Smith William Atkinson [?] Kelley Paul Burrage J. Russell Abbott. Walker L. Chamberlin. C. Bertrand Thompson Joseph Emmett Chandler Charles Fonteyn Manney Richard Platt [Sa???] [?] Margaret Palmer Isabelle [Fr??????] Jack Casler Grahame Gardner Elizabeth Wolcott George E. Tebbeta Alice Louise White Arthur H. Eaton L. V. Miller Ruth Collingbourne Myra E. Hassall Some of these are rather well known and prominent people -- mostly members of the Harvard Musical Association, the Lit. Ed. of the Transcript, &c&c. Nathan H. Dole N. H. Dole March 18, 1915 Copy of a letter to Miss Helena Dudley from Mr. George Lazareff. Clarents, Switzerland, 18, III-15. My dear friend, Miss Helen:- I was so glad to receive your kind favor of 7 March. No one word of reproach for my silence! I feel so guilty before you, and especially before my dear friend, Miss Alice. I got some short letters from Baboushka, and yesterday I got a long one. She says she is happy to get safely some letters from Alice. All of her postal cards sent to me are of American origin, thus the intercommunication is going all right. She stepped into her 72nd year of her life and decided to make a "truck" with the Parcae ancient Greek deities, who spin the thread of human life. To become younger, she decided to throw off the 70 years of her life, and to commence her new era from her 70 years' jubilee. She is now to be about two years old. She continue to spin her thread of life. Only three months she has to spend in imprisonment. She does not know what lot is assigned her the nearest future. In spite of the terrible war, the Russian government continues its grievous reaction. Dear friends of America! cry out loudly, Down with the war! It is the most awful of all crimes in the human history. Long life with the peace, everlasting peace! Not temporally to stop bloodshed, but to inaugurate a new, really peaceful era, -under the conditions: 1. The liberty and independence of all peoples and nationalities; 2. No annexation without consent of the annexed population themselves; 3. The obligatory Arbitration, having compulsory force; 4. The abolition of secret diplomacy, and the parliamentary control over the foreign policy. The privilege to declare the war and to make the peace must be taken off from all governments. The lack of Democracy is in the real and most essential cause of the present war; the ambitious Wilhelm II and his yunkers, the military band of brigands--that is, they who are responsible for this awful war! Down with the war! But this cry is the cry in the desert from the part of the public opinion. This war is going under the leadership of the old ruling class governments. It cannot be stopped but by the consent of both sides and internationally. No one of the involved peoples, with their best wishes, can stop it isolately. If the French., Belgian or English people stop her defence, the German Keiser--not the German people--and militarism system will triumph all over the world. All democratic elements in all countries must yield their protest against war and to prepare the peoples of the whole world to the moment of conclusion of the Peace. All the peoples, all Democracy of the world must not lose the opportunity to join their efforts and struggle conjointly for their own interests at the conclusion of the Peace. It is time to discuss openly the just conditions of the peace. The governments of belligerent countries do not allow at present moment to discuss the condition of Peace. But it is time and duty for neutral countries to discuss these conditions and to put them before the eyes of the official governments of the fighting countries. At the end of April at the Hague (Holland) there proposed to gather a Women's International Congress against war. I hope Miss Alice Blackwell and Alice Henry, of Chicago, (Life and Labor) will take part in it, or in some other way respond to it. Now, thanks to kind attention of Miss Alice Henry, I began regularly to receive her interesting periodical, "Life and Labor." I have no other paper from America to follow the movement of the public opinion in your country. I should be very glad to receive regularly the paper of Miss Alice Blackwell. Please ask her excuse for my long silence. Since long time I hear nothing from little June and his unforgettable family. I have no force more to keep my farming. My business is in a process of liquidation. I have already sold my cows and since the Mar 18, 1915 2 1st of April I am free. I am so tired. My wife and I --we are sole; no children, no relatives in Switzerland. The workman, my horse-- all are taken for military service. The war is terrible business. In my age it is very hard to pass over such a hardship. After the 1st of April I shall be free and shall write more regularly to my friends. Let Miss Alice pardon me for my long silence. I do not forget my friends. The sending of money for Russia by post is is so difficult and expensive that the exchange of money between Europe and Russia became impossible. We take all opportunities to send money in Russia only with personal occasion. My friend, Mrs. Vera Figner, who about 7 years lived in Europe after her liberation from 20 years of solitary confinement in the Schlisselbourg fortress,- two weeks ago started for Russia, to live among and to help her suffering people. I am sorry to say she was arrested at the Russian frontier, near Unguena (Bessarabie). Her last letter I have received from Yassy. Up to now I cannot get farther news of her. She lived in Europe and by me, in Switzerland, with legal and regular passport. And she has legal right to return to Russia. Her brother, the Celebrity in Russia, as a prominent opera singer, asked permission for the sister to enter in Russia. The Minister of the Interior had nothing against, but added: Very probably she will not be allowed to live in the Capitals, and in the cities with University. So, I believe, this arrest at the Russian frontier is not serious. Probably she was retained for some days for taking arrangement with the Ministry of the Interior, to which town she would be forwarded. Any how, I am in trouble. Her health is very delicate, and the way of travelling through Italy, Saloniki, Sophia, Yassy, through [this] the agitated countries of the Balkan Peninsula, made her tired awfully. All the time she could hardly sleep one night quietly. But here, around me what a hell of misery and destitution! Now, I believe that you, Alice, Mabel, Henry and June, will pardon me for my long silence. I remember you - all, and never will forget. Though the Baboushka write me that she has enough of money, arrested by her and given in her disposal in the prison, I should like you would try to send her small sum of money by post order, if possible, for sake of experiment;-three or five dollars, for instance. If it turned to be impossible, please let me know it. In case of necessity, I shall try to send money to her by some personal occasion. Yours forever, Geo. Lazareff. Send my heart to Miss Alice. [*Part of letter from Goerge Lazareff to Miss Dudley Nov. 15, 1915.*] 3 is great. I have no warm clothes, no money, and I am indebted to my friends of the colony. They are so kind, and touchingly attentive to me. A young man, after [the] his work in some office, comes daily to [us, to] me and Mrs. Lydia Yezersky, an old friend of mine, and spends the rest of the day in taking care of us both [of us]. In her youth Mrs. Yezersky was [had been] a good pianist. After so many long and hard [emergencies and] adventures, she found herself in Yakutsk, and somehow procured a piano, and now I really enjoy her playing..... After the nasty solitary cell of the Irkutsk prison, with great joy I inhale the pure, cold air of this lonely place......The touvhing care of my [colony] comrades gives me great concern [trouble]; they are so poor, trying to earn [gain] their livelihood by all sorts of hard work. The war has an awful effect, living is dear, the products are rare; communication with Russia is long and difficult. Many of the exiles have lost their friends and relatives, who can no longer support the poor exiles. Everything is disorganized in Russia. At the first opportunity send me all the help you possibly can." [This letter was dated Sept. 15. In the letter I received yesterday, dated Sept. 20, she says: "Now everything is clear to me. I am going South. I do not know where I am going, but I am on the eve of starting." Please do all in your power to help Baboushka materially. I ask all her American friends to organize a regular supply of money for her support, as formerly. No matter how small it is, but let it be regular, so that she may be sure of a certain sum regularly. The friends in Russia are too busy with the awful and complicated situation, with the general misery of the population, and it is often very difficult to find them. As long as I am alive] Nov 15, 1915 4 [I shall not abandon Baboushka, but I frankly and brotherly ask our American friends to facilitate to fulfill my duty. Terrible Time! I feel myself that my physical powers are failing. What shall we think about those of Baboushka? She is ten years older than I am.] "One of my friends in Irkutsk wrote me that he had a chance to see Baboushka and to talk with her at the moment of her setting off for Yakutsk: "She has become a little deaf, her shaggy hair is snow-white; but spiritually she is as strong as ever. On seeing her, at the first moment, I could not keep from weeping, hiding my face on her breast. "Look up, let me see what is the matter with you, rascal!" she said. "I don't like to see sad faces of my little children. Cheer up, my boy, and speak loud, like a good officer at the front. I am a little deaf." I looked at her; her motherly mild eyes were [filled with] full of tears; she was smiling. I was not able to utter a word. The other boys and girls were awaiting [awaited] their turn." [Mr. Lazareff (who does not wish to have his name mentioned in public, in anything that is said or written about Mrs. Breshkovsky), sends special messages to Mr. Lewis Herreshoff, Miss Julia Drury, Miss Lucy Pratt, and others. He is himself in the depths of poverty, his little business having been ruined by the war; and he ought not to be left to continue to help Mrs. Breshkovsky out of his own slender means. I earnestly hope that her American friends will arrange to send her a certain amount of money every month; and also that they will place a few hundred dollars in his hands, to be ready against an] Nov 15 1915 5 [emergency call from her. For when she is in any trouble she writes to him. Mails are now so irregular that a letter written by Mr. Lazareff to me after this one to Miss Dudley arrived a few days before it. He said that he had received from Mrs. Breshkovsky at Vitim a card saying that she had urgent need of 200 roubles; that horse hire was very high, and that others as well as herself were obliged to live "des bienfaits." She was expecting to stay at Vitim for a month, but her card had taken two months to reach him. He was about to send her the 200 roubles, in care of the Governor of Irkutsk, since he did not know whereabouts she would be. And he again urged that her American friends should take up the care of supporting her, since her friends in Europe were too much impoverished by the war. Alice Stone Blackwell. 3 Monadnock St., Dorchester, Mass. Copy of a letter to Miss Helena Dudley from Mr. George Lazareff. Clarens, Switzerland, 18, III-15. My dear friend, Miss Helen:- I was so glad to receive your kind favor of 7 March. No oneword of reproach for my silence! I feel so guilty before you, and especially before my dear friend, Miss Alice. I got some short letters from Baboushka, and yesterday I got a long one. She says she is happy to get safely some letters from Alice. All of her postal cards sent to me are of American origin, thus the intercommunication is going all right. She stepped into her 72d year of her life and decided to make a "truck" with the Parcae ancient Greek deities, who spin the thread of human life. To become younger, she decided to throw off the 70 years of her life, and to commence her new era from her 70 years' jubilee. She is now to be about two years old. She says: the Parcae perhaps will not perceive this "truck" and will continue to spin her thread of life. Only three months she has to spend in imprisonment. She does not knowwhat lot is assigned her the nearest future. In spite of the terrible war, the Russian government continues its grievous reaction. Dear friends of America! cry out loudly, Down with the war! It is the most awful of all crimes in the human history. Long life with the peace, everlasting peace! Not temporally to stop bloodshed, but to inaugurate a new, really peaceful era,-under the conditions: 1. The liberty and independence of all peoples and nationalities; 2. No annexation without consent of the annexed population themselves; 3. The obligatory Arbitration, having compulsory force; 4. The abolition of secret diplomacy, and the parliamentary control over the foreign policy. The privilege to declare the war and to make the peace must be taken off from all governments. The lack of Democracy is the real and most essential cause of the present war; the ambitious Wilhelm II and his yunkers, the military band of brigands--that is, they who are responsible for this awful war! Down with the war! But this cry is the cry in the desert from the part of the public opinion. This war is going under the leadership of the old ruling class governments. It cannot be stopped but by the consent of both sides and internationally. No one of the involved peoples,with their best wishes, can stop it isolately. If the French, Belgian or English people stop her defence, the German Keiser--not the German people--and militarism system will triumph all over the world. All democratic elements in all countries must yield their protest against war and to prepare the peoples of the whole world to the moment of conclusion of the Peace. All the peoples, all Democracy of the world must not lose the opportunity to join their efforts and struggle conjointly for their own interests at the conclusion of the Peace. It is time to discuss openly the just conditions of the peace. The governments of belligerent countries do not allow at present moment to discuss the condition of Peace. But it is time and duty for neutral countries to discuss these conditions and to put them before the eyes of the official governments of the fighting countries. At the end of April at the Hague (Holland) there proposed to gather a Women's International Congress against war. I hope Miss Alice Blackwell and Alice Henry, of Chicago, (Life and Labor) will take part in it, or in some other way respond to it. Now, thanks to kind attention of Miss Alice Henry, I began regularly to receive her interesting periodical, "Life and Labor." I have no other paper from America to follow the movement of the public opinion in your country. I should be very glad to receive regularly the paper of Miss Alice Blackwell. Please ask her excuse for my long silence. Since long time I hear nothing from little June and his unforgettable family. I have no force more to keep my farming. My business is in a process of liquidation. I have already sold my cows and since the 2 1st of April I am free. I am so tired. My wife and I--we are sole; no children, no relatives in Switzerland. The workman, my horse-- all are taken for military service. The war is terrible business. In my age it is very hard to pass over such a hardship. After the 1st of April I shall be free and shall write more regularly to my friends. Let Miss Alice pardon me for my long silence. I do not forget my friends. The sending of money for Russia by post is stopped in Europe. The sending by the banks or diplomatic mission is so difficult and expensive that the exchange of money between Europe and Russia became impossible. We take all opportunities to send money in Russia only with personal occasion. My friend, Mrs. Vera Figner, who about 7 years lived in Europe after her liberation from 20 years of solitary confinement in the Schlisselbourg fortress,- two weeks ago started for Russia, to live among and to help her suffering people. I am sorry to say she was arrested at the Russian frontier, near Uguena (Bessarabie). Her last letter I have received from Yassy. Up to now I cannot get farther news of her. She lived in Europe and by me, in Switzerland, with legal and regular passport. And she has legal right to return to Russia. Her brother, the Celebrity in Russia, as a prominent opera sing, asked permission for the sister to enter in Russia. The Minister of the Interior had nothing against, but added: Very probably she will not be allowed to live in the Capitals, and in the cities with University. So, I believe, this arrest at the Russian frontier is not serious. Probably she was retained for some days for taking arrangement with the Ministry of the Interior, to which town she would be forwarded. Any travelling through Italy, Saloniki, Sophia, Yassy, through this the agitated countries of the Balkan Peninsula, made her tired awfully. All the time she could hardly sleep one night quietly. But here, around me what a hell of misery and destitution! Wow, I believe that you, Alice, Mabel, Henry and June, will pardon me for my long silence. I remember you - all, and never will forget. Though the Baboushka write me that she has enough of money, arrested by her and given in her disposal in the prison, I should like you would try to send her small sum of money by post order, if possible, for sake of experiment;-three of five dollars, for instance. If it turned to be impossible, please let me know it. In case of necessity, I shall try to send money to her by some personal occasion. Yours forever, Geo. Lazareff. Send my heart to Miss Alice. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.