CHAPTER IX

ENGLAND AND THE GREAT FAMINE IN RUSSIA

My Russian Home--The Horrors of Famine--The Peasants' Heroism--Starving yet Patient--The Society of Friends--I am Invited to Meeting--Magnificent Munificence--Among the Starving--Terrible Hardships--Some Illustrations--Living in Dug-outs--The Stoical Russian--Cinder Bread

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