BOTCHAROV, P. VOLGAR, V. DAMAIEV, S. DRUZIAKINA, M.
ZAKREVSKAIA, V. PETROVA-ZVANTZEVA, V. TZIKOK, A. KHOKHLOV, N. SHEVELIEV,
M. SHUVANOV, and the whole orchestra and the chorus.
M. IPPOLITOV-IVANOV, Director of the Moscow Conservatory; ancient
professor, I. GRZHIMALI; professor, A. ILIINSKI.
P. KOTSCHETOV, Director of the Musical and Dramatical School of the
Philharmonic Society; A. BRANDUKOV, Inspector of same school; professor,
A. KORESHTSCHENKO.
Y. VASILIEVA, President of the Actors' Aid Society.
Russia in Literature
By British Men of Letters.
The following address, signed by a number of distinguished
writers in Great Britain, and intended for publication in
Russia, appeared in The London Times on Dec. 23, 1914.
_To Our Colleagues in Russia:_
At this moment, when your countrymen and ours are alike facing death for
the deliverance of Europe, we Englishmen of letters take the opportunity
of uttering to you feelings which have been in our hearts for many
years. You yourselves perhaps hardly realize what an inspiration
Englishmen of the last two generations have found in your literature.
Many a writer among us can still call back, from ten or twenty or thirty
years ago, the feeling of delight and almost of bewilderment with which
he read his first Russian novel. Perhaps it was "Virgin Soil" or
"Fathers and Sons," perhaps "War and Peace," or "Anna Karenina"; perhaps
"Crime and Punishment" or "The Idiot"; perhaps, again, it was the work
of some author still living.
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