The Anglican Bishop for Northern and Central Europe, who travelled widely in Russia and Siberia, sets out to describe ordinary Russian life for British readers in the first year of the Great War. He covers the country’s vast spaces, social life, the peasantry, the Orthodox Church and figures such as the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, who turned to religious work after her husband’s assassination.
A sympathetic snapshot of Tsarist Russia taken just before it vanished, for readers interested in the world of 1914. Download the free EPUB.