![]() ![]() But that proves difficult with her position as Trotsky’s secretary and his own murky sympathies. Reporting on the turbulent political climate for an English newspaper draws Ransome unwittingly into the middle of the conflict between White and Red Russia as he is courted to be both a spy and a double agent.Īll Arthur wants is to hide away and marry the Russian woman he loves. Over the years Russia would continue to draw Ransome back to it through the first murmurings of unrest in Tsarist Russia, into the first bloody revolution, and beyond. His love story with Russia started the moment he set foot on its snow-covered ground and continued as he compiled his first published book–a collection of Russian fairy tales. ![]() “There was never a story that was happy through and through, and this one is no different.”Īrthur Ransome left his family and his home in England to travel to Russia where he found work as a journalist. ![]()
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