- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: University Press of the Pacific; illustrated edition edition (20 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0898755549
- ISBN-13: 978-0898755541
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
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The author, a leading New York physician, was with the American Red Cross Mission to Russia in between July and November of 1917. He landed in Vladivostok and proceeded across Siberia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, then journeyed from Petrograd to Moscow to the Ukraine, through the country of the Volga into Roumania, thence once more to Vladivostok, on a tour of inspection. His official duties took him into every circle of life and provided him with exceptional advantages.
He investigated thoroughly the famous Regiment of Women – the Battalion of Death – and has given us both in photographs and words a memorable picture of that unique organization. He visited the country estate of the Romanoffs immediately after the Czar’s hasty disappearance and describes with a tragic touch the nursery of the Crown Prince Alexis and the copybook in which the pathetic royal fledgling had scrawled in his own handwriting, "The French lesson is very hard today."
He lived in hotels and hovels, in cities and in peasant villages; he was the companion of princes, soldiers, rogues, spies and numbers of simple anonymous souls that prompted him to write so warmly and sympathetically of the most enigmatical of nations. Out of such materials Dr. Wightman has fashioned a human document of exceptional charm, and a valuable historical record of the swift transitional days in the life of contemporary Russia.
He investigated thoroughly the famous Regiment of Women – the Battalion of Death – and has given us both in photographs and words a memorable picture of that unique organization. He visited the country estate of the Romanoffs immediately after the Czar’s hasty disappearance and describes with a tragic touch the nursery of the Crown Prince Alexis and the copybook in which the pathetic royal fledgling had scrawled in his own handwriting, "The French lesson is very hard today."
He lived in hotels and hovels, in cities and in peasant villages; he was the companion of princes, soldiers, rogues, spies and numbers of simple anonymous souls that prompted him to write so warmly and sympathetically of the most enigmatical of nations. Out of such materials Dr. Wightman has fashioned a human document of exceptional charm, and a valuable historical record of the swift transitional days in the life of contemporary Russia.
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