26 RUSSIA THEN AND NOW 



So few foreigners have been able to understand 

 Russians; so very few have admitted that we are not 

 the savage barbarians we are generally made out to 

 be; and it is a great relief to read truth and nothing 

 but truth in a foreign paper. I hope you will keep 

 your promise of coming over to St. Petersburg with 

 Mrs. and Miss Reeves and that I shall have the pleas- 

 ure of welcoming them and you at Moshkoff Person- 

 lok. With many thanks and kind regards, believe 

 me, yours sincerely, 



OLGA DE WOEHRMANN. 

 June, 1892. 



We have misunderstood Russians because we 

 have not known them. We have not known them 

 because the opportunity has not come to many of 

 us at first-hand, but often from unreliable sources. 

 Since my return from that country I have nailed a 

 number of falsehoods about the Russians that 

 have been going the rounds of our newspapers. 



Our Government may go along for another 

 century before claiming perfection. This applies 

 not only to National but also to our State, 

 County, and Municipal affairs. 'Let him that 

 is without sin among you, first cast a stone at" 

 Russia. 



Russia loves America and America loves Russia, 



