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...aspect of a religious teacher, not a theologian not a didacticism, but one who used as his text the Gospel story of the raising of Lazarus. He becomes rather the man who, having passed through a life of suffering and deprivation and a decade of hell in the Siberian katorga, returned without losing faith in humanity and with boundless pity for the insulted and injured. A man like that must look at life from more angles than one, and it is primarily the task of calling forth Dostoevsky's human philosophy that Mr. Meler-Graefe has set himself, a task...
...Imperial Family, then setting out for Siberian exile, chanced to drive through the village of Pokrovskoie, where Rasputin was born, and as they clattered past the murdered Monk's house, the Tsaritsa Alexandra waved to his daughter, Mme. Soloviev, who was standing in the doorway. Boris Soloviev, was serving at this time as a secret emissary between the Tsar and his White Russian adherents. Some historians maintain that he betrayed a project for the rescue of the Imperial Family to the Bolsheviki, thus precipitating the mass murder of the Romanovs, at Ekaterinburg, on July...
Fish. A new method has been developed whereby Norwegian herrings, Siberian sturgeon, faraway fish of every kind may be served in inland U. S. cities in the same luscious, savory, juicy state that they enjoyed when caught. The method consists of freezing so quickly and at so low a temperature that the flesh cells are not injured by ice crystals. The chemical composition remains the same; there is no opportunity for bacterial development or decomposition...
Seasoned travelers who remember the Trans-Siberian trip from before the War, could not detect, last week, anything changed or unfamiliar in the following description, released by Cooks, of the journey as it is today...
...days it was the privilege and habit of the Tsars to stop their Imperial Train on the single track Trans-Siberian line at any point which fancy might dictate, while they picnicked, strolled in the woods, or received the homage of peasants. Meanwhile, for scores of miles up and down the line, local traffic would be suspended and of course all through express trains stopped...