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Title: Trapped in 'Black Russia'
Letters June-November 1915

Author: Ruth Pierce

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Language: English

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TRAPPED IN
"BLACK RUSSIA"

_Letters_

JUNE-NOVEMBER 1915

BY RUTH PIERCE

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY RUTH PHINNEY PIERCE

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published February 1918_

TRAPPED IN "BLACK RUSSIA"

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. JUNE-JULY, 1915 1
II. JULY-AUGUST, 1915 42
III. AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, 1915 66
IV. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1915 93
V. OCTOBER, 1915 122
VI. OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1915 130

"BLACK RUSSIA"

I

_June 30, 1915._

_Dearest Mother and Dad:--_

There is no reason why this letter should ever reach you if you consider
that it's war-time and that I am in Russia. Still, the censor may be
sleeping when it comes along, or I may find a way to slip it over the
border under his very nose. I always have a blind faith that my words
will reach you somehow.

I am in Russia--without Peter. Don't be frightened, dearests. I came
with Marie, and we will go back to Bucharest together in a week. Only a
week in Russia. Oh, if the top of my head could be lifted off and let
out everything I want to tell you.

We had no difficulty in crossing the frontier. The little Roumanian
train took us over a river, and all at once we were out of the
make-believe country where the stage always seems set for _o