_Triumphant Return from Forty-four Years in Siberian Exile_
_Told by Catherine Breshkovskaya, the Russian Revolutionist_
This life story of the "Grandmother of the Revolution," Catherine
Breshkovskaya, is the living symbol of the Russian people's
long and hard struggle for freedom. Of her seventy-three years
forty-four have been spent in prison and Siberian exile. But
neither the wilderness of Siberia nor the severity of convict labor
has broken the spirit of this little woman. Entering the struggle
against Czarism while still in its infancy, she lived to see its
complete overthrow, and the Russian people remembered their loving
"Babushka." They made her journey from Siberia to Petrograd after
the revolution a continuous triumphal procession, such as no Czar
or King has ever been accorded. Mme. Breshkovskaya, upon her
arrival home, began touring Russia in the interests of Kerensky's
policies. Her love for the common people, her influence on the
peasantry, her faith in the stability of the New Russia, made her
a great power. She has told the story of her life in the Petrograd
weekly, "_Niva_," which has been translated by Isaac Don Levine
for the _New York Tribune_. Here she tells for the first time how
she journeyed afoot over Russia to preach "freedom from ignorance
and political tyranny" to the peasants; how she was sentenced to
Siberia; how she escaped, was captured, reimprisoned and flogged;
and how on the news of the Czar's downfall she began her journey
home on a sledge over the snow and ice to join her people in the
establishment of the republic.