Russia Then and Now 



Russia's Famine of 1891-1892 

 Great Relief from U. S. A., 1892 



FOLLOWING authenticated reports that the 

 agricultural districts of European Russia had suf- 

 fered an awful failure of their crops of food 

 supplies (1891), there appeared in many of the 

 newspapers of the United States telegraphic re- 

 ports of an impending famine in a large portion 

 of the Empire. As days went by, despatches, re- 

 affirming and emphasizing these first outgivings 

 of the dreadful news multiplied, and the story of 

 famine-stricken Russia was being discussed by 

 humanitarians all over our favoured land. The 

 Philadelphia Permanent Relief Committee, having 

 received confirmation of these reports, through 

 private and semi-official agencies, and particularly 



