44 RUSSIA THEN AND NOW 



from the products of future good crops, was a 

 remote possibility. 



In addition to this the Emperor gave from his 

 private purse ten million dollars, and it is estimated 

 that the prosperous Russian people added to this 

 fund fifty millions more. 



The Society of Friends in England raised a fund 

 of two hundred thousand dollars, of which eight 

 thousand dollars was contributed by Philadelphia 

 members of the Society of Friends. This fund was 

 employed in relief work through a committee of 

 their own. 



The English in Moscow, then numbering about 

 800, had raised a distress fund with the assistance 

 of friends in England. These funds they had 

 entrusted to the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, patron- 

 ess of the Red Cross Society, and grand-daughter 

 of Queen Victoria. This lady had taken great 

 interest in the relief of the famine sufferers; a 

 bazaar, which she had arranged, had in five days 

 netted about $45,000. 



The money value of the supplies sent from 

 Philadelphia and money given directly by the 

 Philadelphia Relief Committee into the hands of 

 the Committee in Russia, for purchase of food, 



