Through Russian Central Asia

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Stephen Graham (1884 - 15 March 1975) was a British journalist, travel-writer, essayist and novelist. His best-known books recount his travels around pre-revolutionary Russia and his journey to Jerusalem with a group of Russian Christian pilgrims. Most of his works express his sympathy for the poor, for agricultural labourers and for tramps, and his distaste for industrialisation.
Graham was born in Edinburgh, the son of P. Anderson Graham, the essayist and editor of the periodical, Country Life. Shortly after his birth his family moved to Cheltenham. At the age of fourteen Graham left school and worked in London as a clerk in the law courts and the civil service. He began to study Russian under Nicolai Lebedev, with whom he spent a holiday at Lisichansk near the Sea of Azov - an experience which began a lifelong interest in Russia. Shortly after returning to Britain he gave up his job and returned to Russia to hike around the Caucasus and the Urals. Thereafter he supported himself by his journalism and his books.

In the early 20th century Graham was commissioned by Lord Northcliffe to write reports from Russia for his newspaper, The Times. Not long after his arrival in Russia he met Rosa Savory, whom he married in Russia in 1909. He was twenty-five; she, forty years old. During World War I Graham found himself in the Altai mountains, from where he sent accounts of the war as seen from a Russian point-of-view, which were published in The Times and republished as Russia and the World (1915) and Through Russian Central Asia (1916).

Graham returned to Britain and enlisted in the Scots Guards. He reached the Western Front in April 1918; and the following year published his account of his wartime experiences in A Private in the Guards (1919), in which he speaks of the degrading effects of military discipline. In 1921 Graham revisited the western battle-fields and published his observations in The Challenge of the Dead (1921). Graham later spent some time in the United States of America. He published accounts of immigrants in the States; and after becoming a friend of the poet Vachel Lindsay published Tramping with a Poet (1922), which was illustrated by Vernon Hill. In 1964 he published his autobiography, "Part of the Wonderful Scene".

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A Vagabond in the Caucasus (1911)
Undiscovered Russia (1912)
A Tramp's Sketches (1912)
Changing Russia (1913)
With the Russian Pilgrims To Jerusalem (1913)
With Poor Immigrants to America (1914)
The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary (1915)
Russia and the World (1915)
Through Russian Central Asia (1916)
Russia in 1916 (1917)
Priest of the Ideal (1917)
The Quest of the Face (1918)
A Private in the Guards (1919)
Children of the Slaves (1920)
The Challenge of the Dead (1921)
Europe - Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921
Tramping with a Poet in the Rockies (1922)
Russia in Division (1925) (Which detailed his unhappiness over the communist takeover of Russia)
London Nights (1925)
The Gentle Art of Tramping (1926)
New York Nights (1927)
Peter the Great: A Life of Peter I of Russia Called the Great (1929)
Ivan the Terrible of Russia (1932)
A Life of Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1935)
Summing Up on Russia (1951)
Part of the wonderful scene: an autobiography (1964)
In Quest of El Dorado
Life and last Words of Wilfred Ewart
Under London
Midsummer Music
The Lay Confessor
Boris Godunof

With photogravure and many black-and-white illustrations from original photographs.

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