this wagon. On another wagon is a very jolly picture of
Stenka Razin in his boat with little old-fashioned brass
cannon, rowing up the river. Underneath is written the
words: "I attack only the rich, with the poor I divide
everything." On one side are the poor folk running from
their huts to join him, on the other the rich folk firing at him
from their castle. One wagon is treated purely decoratively,
with a broad effective characteristically South Russian
design, framing a huge inscription to the effect that the
Cossacks need not fear that the Soviet Republic will
interfere with their religion, since under its regime every
man is to be free to believe exactly what he likes.
Then there is an entertaining wagon, showing Kolchak
sitting inside a fence in Siberia with a Red soldier
on guard, Judenitch sitting in a little circle with a sign-post
to show it is Esthonia, and Denikin running at full speed
to the asylum indicated by another sign-post on which is
the crescent of the Turkish Empire. Another lively picture
shows the young Cossack girls learning to read, with a
most realistic old Cossack woman telling them they had
better not. But there is no point in describing every
wagon. There are sixteen wagons in the "Red Cossack,"
and every one is painted all over on both sides.


The internal arrangements of the train are a sufficient proof
that Russians are capable of organization if they set their
minds to it. We went through it, wagon by wagon. One
wagon contains a wireless telegraphy station capable of
receiving news from such distant stations as those of