Epigraph
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