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Newspaper Writers and
Authors' Association.
V. ANZIMIROV, Chairman of the Board.
JULIUS BUNIN, President of the Literary Circle "Sreda" and the Vice
President of the Moscow Society for Aid to Authors and Newspaper
Writers.
N. TELESHEV, Chairman of the Moscow Board of the Mutual Aid
Fund for Authors and Scientists.
A. BAKHRUSHIN, Chairman of the Board of the Literary-Theatrical
Museum of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
JOANN BRUSSOV, Member of the Committee of the Society of Free
Esthetics.
P. STRUVE, editor of the magazine, Russkaia Mysl.
N. MIKHAILOV, editor of the magazine, Vestnik Vospitania,
(Educational Messenger.)
D. TIKHOMIROV, editor of the magazine, Yunaia Rossiia, (Young
Russia.)
S. MAKHALOV RAZUMOVSKI, and D. GOLUBEV. TH. ARNOLD,
Prof. N. BAZHENOV, Y. BALTRUSHAITIS, A. BIBIKOV,
BOGDANOVITSCH, I. BELORUSSOV, Lecturer D. GENKIN,
SERGIUS GLAGOL, MAXIME GORKY, V. YERMILOV, V.
KALLASH, Prof. A. KIESEVETTER, E. KURTSCH-EK, V.
LADYSHENSKI, A. LEDNITZKI, SERGIUS NAIDENOV, Prof. M.
ROZANOV, Prof. M. ROSTOVTZEV, A. SERAFIMOVICH,
SKITALETS, (S. PETROV,) I. SURGUTSCHEV, Lecturer K.
USPENSKI, L. KHITROVO, A. TZATURIAN, Prof. A. TZINGER, I.
TSHEKHOV, Lecturer S. SHAMBINAGO, N. SHKLIAR, and I.
SHMELEV, the representatives of the Publishing House of the Authors
in Moscow.

RUSSIAN PAINTERS.--A. ARKHIPOV, Member of Academy; A.
ALADZHALOV, V. BKSHEIEV, V. BYTSCHKOV, A.
VASNETZOV, Member of Academy; VICTOR VASNETZOV, S.
VINOGRADOV, Member of Academy; S. ZHUKOVSKI, M.
ZAITZEV, P. KELIN, A. KORIN, K. KOROVIN, S. KONENKOV, K.
LEBEDEV, S. MALIUTIN, S. MERKULOV, sculptor; S.
MILORADOVITCH, Y. MINTSCHENKO, L. PASTERNAK, V.
PEREPLETTSCHIKOV, K. PERVUKHIN, A. STEPANOV, Member
of Academy; A. SREDIN, E. SHANKS, and M. SHEMIAKIN.
F.O. SHEICHTEL, the President of the Association of the Moscow
Architects, Member of the Academy.
REPRESENTING THE GREAT IMPERIAL THEATRE.--U.
AVRANEK, Ancient Artist; K. ANTAROVA, L. BALANOVSKAIA,
A. BOGDANOVICH, A. BONATCHITCH, N. BAKALEINIKOV, K.
VALTZ, R. VASILEVSKI, P. VASILIEV, S. GARDENIN, A.
GERASIMENKO, E. GREMINA, E. DAVYDOVA, A.
DOBROVOLSKAIA, N. DOCTOR, E. KUPER, M. KUZHIAMSKI, A.
LABINSKI, V. LOSSKI, E. LUTSCHEZARSKAIA, N. MAMONTOV,
S. MIGDI, A. NEZHDANOVA, S. OLSHANSKI, V. OSIPOV, N.
OSTROGRADSKAIA, V. OBTSCHINIKOV, F. ORESHKEVITCH,
O. PABLOVA, TH. PAVLOVSKI, A. PRAVDINA, V. PETROV, G.
PIROGOV, E. PODOLSKAIA, L. SAVRANSKI, M. SEMENOVA, S.
SINITZYNA, LEONID SOBINOV, E. STEPANOVA, V. SUK,
TOLKATCHEV, TRIANDOPHILION, P. TIKHONOV, A.
USPENSKI, N. THEODOROV, P. FIGUROV, R. FIDELMAN, L.
FILSHIN, TH. SHALIAPIN, V. SHKAFER, and F. ZRIST.
SMALL IMPERIAL THEATRE.--S. AIDAROV, &c., altogether the
signatures of forty artists.
ARTISTIC THEATRE.--N. ALEXANDROV, &c., altogether the
signatures of forty-nine artists.
THEATRE OF KORSCH.--Director, Mr. TH. KORSH; regisseur, A.
LIAROV; representatives of the artists, A. TSCHARIN and G.
MARTYNOVA.

THEATRE OF NEZLOBIN.--A. ALIABIEVA-NEZLOBINA;
regisseur, N. ZVANTZEV; representatives of the artists, V.
NERONOV, E. LILINA, and A. TRETIAKOVA.
MOSCOW DRAMATIC THEATRE.--Director, I. DUVAN; the
regisseurs, A. SANIN and I. SCHMIDT; artists, B. BORISOV and M.
BLUMENTHAL-TAMARINA.
THEATRE OF MR. P. STRUISKI.--Director, P. STRUISKI; regisseur,
V. VISKOVSKI; M. MORAVSKAIA.
CHAMBER THEATRE.--A. KOONEN, N. ASLANOV, A. ZONOV,
and A. TAIROV.
OPERA OF S.I. ZIMIN.--Director, S. ZIMIN; the regisseurs, PETER
OLENIN and A. IVANOVSKI; conductor, E. PLOTNIKOV;
representatives of the artists, M. 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. But many of us then felt, as our
poet Keats felt on first reading Homer,
"like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his
ken."
It was a strange world that opened before us, a world full of foreign
names which we could neither pronounce nor remember, of foreign
customs and articles of daily life which we could not understand. Yet
beneath all the strangeness there was