X PREFACE 



St. Peter and the St. Paul. In addition he read the manuscript 

 and suggested improvements. Lieutenant Raymond Burhen, 

 U. S. N., and Captain Sam Hoyt, of Seattle, have helped in the 

 matter of nautical expressions. To all these gentlemen the 

 author is sincerely grateful. He takes this occasion also to 

 testify publicly to the courtesy and genuine good will of the 

 Russian archivists and scholars of the old regime with whom 

 he had contact in Petrograd and Moscow in his search for 

 material. They were ever ready to inconvenience themselves 

 to help him in his work. Some of these men have been forced 

 from their position and their country, and others, like Professor 

 Lappo-Danilevski, have died of starvation. They were real 

 scholars and true gentlemen, and it is with a feeling of reverence 

 and gratitude that this tribute is paid to them. 



