Russian Portraits

RUSSIAN PORTRAITS



Bertram Park.
CLARE SHERIDAN IN THE RUSSIAN SHEEPSKIN HAT GIVEN TO HER BY KAMENEFF IN MOSCOW.

By CLARE SHERIDAN
J O N A T H A N C A P E 11 GOWER STREET, LONDON, W.C.1 MCMXXI

IT is with deep apology that I venture to swell the ranks of those people who write their little books after their little visits to Russia.
In defence I can only say that this was not written for publication. I have always kept a diary, in monotonous as in eventful days. In publishing a record of my stay in Moscow I am submitting to pressure without which I would not venture upon such a line. Mine is not the business of writing, nor are politics my concern: I went to Moscow where some portrait work was offered me.