ILLUSTRATIONS
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Peter Kropotkin Frontispiece FACING PAGE
The Scaffold's Bride 32
Nicholas Chaykovsky 44
Sophia Perovskaya 52
Before the Search 66
The Cossacks 112
TO GEORGE KENNAN I dedicate this work. I need not say why. He will know— Everyone will know. With tears, during the night, I have read your book, thou earnest truth-seeker. O compassionate traveler, what a man you must have been! For the weary Siberian exiles called you 'Dear George Ivanovich!' With a heart Full of thankfulness for the work you have done, I lay my bitter and bloody pages at your feet. Victor Robinson