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Kellogg Durland



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KELLOGG DURLAND
 presents Russia Today through American eyes.  During the past year he has visited every section of European Russia, crossed the Caucasus, and penetrated Siberia.  Mr. Durland's presentations are not the merely picturesque descriptions of a traveler, nor the merely thrilling stories of an active journalist.  His previous training has well fitted him for making accurate and authoritative observations on the Social, Economic and Political Conditions of the country.




Mr. Durland was born in New York City and during boyhood was educated in private and public schools in that city and Boston.  While a student in Harvard he became interested in Social questions and upon completing his studies there went to Europe for two years for courses of study at the University of Edinburgh and in Paris.




During the summer of 1901 he spent four months as a working coal miner in Scotland that he might study first-hand the conditions of life of British workingmen, and the fruits of this experience were published the following year in book form (Swan, Sonneschein & Co., London).  During the sessions of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission in Pennsylvania in 1902, Mr. Durland served with the Counsel for the miners, making special investigations into the home conditions of the men, and it was largely through his investigations that the startling child labor revelations were unearthed which so stimulated the era of legislative reform in child labor laws.




In connection with a study of the American Immigration question Mr. Durland, in 1905, made a voyage from New York to Naples and return in the steerage disguised as an immigrant, a disguise so perfect that the Ellis Island authorities detained him for deportation as an 
Undesirable Alien.




Since George Kennan journeyed through Russia and Siberia eighteen years ago, no American has traveled so widely nor witnessed so many different kinds of events in Russia as Mr. Durland.  At the opening session of the first Russian Douma, when the Czar made his famous speech from the throne, Mr. Durland was present representing Harper's Weekly.  He wrote of the Douma for Collier's Weekly, and other writings chronicling the things he had seen and done in different parts of the Empire were printed in letters to the New York Evening Post and Boston Transcript, as well as in The Review of Reviews, the Independent and other magazines and periodicals in America and England.



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MR. DURLAND'S ROUTES OF TRAVEL



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Tartar Types — East Russia


FROM THE PRESS



MR. DURLAND
 has written and lectured more widely on Russia than any American since Mr. Geo. Kennan.  Besides his book, The Red Reign, published by the Century Company, New York, he has contributed articles to The Review of Reviews, Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, The Independent, The New York Evening Post, the Boston Transcript, and other periodicals and newspapers in the United States and England.




During the winter of 1906–7 Mr. Durland lectured in every section of the United States from New England to California, from British Columbia to the Gulf of Mexico.  He appeared in theatres, opera houses, churches, women's clubs, political, educational, social and scientific organizations.  He spoke twice at Dartmouth College and at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern and other universities and colleges in different sections of the country.




Here are a few of the many printed comments about Mr. Durland and his work:




The Chautauquan Daily:


Mr. Durland's remarks were based on what he actually saw in Russia during a stay of about twelve months.  Added to the vividness of his eloquent word pictures of conditions in that country were a great many stereopticon views made from photographs which Mr. Durland took himself.




Statesman, Walla Walla, Wash.:


From the first word until the last picture was thrown on the screen he held the audience in breathless attention.




Daily News, Galveston, Texas:


From beginning to end the lecture was listened to attentively by the large audience.




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The Kronstadt Insurrection — Part of the Town Fired



The Tidings, Boston:


The lecture of Kellogg Durland, on the evening of February 11th, as was predicted, was a leading event of the season in Boston.  As awful as were the revelations of Russian conditions, so eloquent and discriminating were the depictions, that when the hour and forty minutes had passed it seemed but a few minutes.  Such knowledge as was brought to the hundreds present is essential to Christian citizenship and a call to study and great activity in the world struggle for the liberty from oppression which Christ came to bring.  Mr. Durland's 
World-wide Life-lessons,
 given Sunday noon, surely made impressions life long and of eternal value.




MR. KELLOGG DURLAND


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A Typical Cottage in the Famine Province of Saraton



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The Kronstadt Insurrection


FROM THE PRESS



The Harvard Crimson:


Mr. Durland gives an illustrated talk of his own experiences in Russia.  The things which he tells of were witnessed by his own eyes, and the pictures he shows are very vivid witnesses of these sights.




The American Israelite:


Mr. Kellogg Durland's illustrated lecture, Russia in Revolution, proved very instructive to a large audience.  Notwithstanding the very inclement weather every seat in the large auditorium was occupied and a large number were obliged to stand throughout the lecture.  The lecturer carries his audience through the homes of the better classes, and the hovels of the poor; through revolutions and their reactions.  He carries one through dark Siberia and the living death of thousands of political prisoners, through barricades and mutinies, and among every section of the unhappy empire.  The speaker is a past master in the art of lecturing.




Boston Evening Transcript:


Fully to appreciate the man, you should take a good look at him.  An extreme blond, with a thin, fair skin, that suggests anything but the adventurer, and features of the scholarly cast, he might easily be staged as a poet, an art critic, or a charming young curate.  It were well for us all if men of his type went in more frequently for melodramic exploits.  Mr. Kellogg Durland has precisely the sensitiveness to register impressions, precisely the genius to report them.  When he writes, you get each particular thrill that's due you — a rare experience when you come to think of it, for commonly the adventurer hasn't the art of recounting his adventures.  Let us therefore give thanks that when Providence picked out the one American to be imprisoned in Russia, the choice alighted upon a human being capable of appreciating the blessing and gifted with the eloquence to celebrate it with a sonorous and graphic realism.




The Tribune, Lewiston, Idaho:


Seldom have Lewiston people had the opportunity to listen to such a splendid lecture as that delivered last night in the Temple Theatre by Kellogg Durland.  The theatre was crowded with teachers and citizens and the evening passed too quickly.  Mr. Durland was introduced by Dr. O. J. Craig, President of Montana University and the retiring president of the Inland Empire Teachers Association.




Glen Mills Daily — 
House of Refuge,
 Glen Mills, Pennsylvania:


Mr. Durland's lecture was one of the finest we have had.  Let us hope we may have the privilege of hearing Mr. Durland again in his other lectures.




Dr. Edward Everett Hale, 
Chaplain U. S. Senate,
 Roxbury, Massachusetts:


I have heard Mr. Durland lecture with very great interest, and I commend him cordially to all who are arranging lecture courses.




Gazette-Times, Pittsburgh:


Pictures of a Russian girl, Marie Spiradonava, brought home to an audience in Carnegie Music Hall last night the horrors of famine and smouldering revolution in the land of the 
Little Father.




Chicago Daily Socialist:


For two hours last evening the Commonwealth Club listened almost spellbound to the description of Russia and its political and industrial conditions by Kellogg Durland.




MR. KELLOGG DURLAND



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Pacification 
Of course I order my soldiers to burn down the homes of these people.
 — Gen. Alikhouoff


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Cossack Patrol during Revolutionary Outbreak in Baku

FOREIGN NEW YORK




MR. DURLAND'S
 knowledge of the foreign colonies in New York City is unique.  He has lived in the heart of the lower east side for several years.  Many of his own friends are among the denizens of Little Italy, of the Hungarian quarter and the Ghetto.  In this lecture are presented a series of remarkable and picturesque views of the most important and the most typical of the twenty foreign colonies that lie within Greater New York.  Mr. Durland shows how much of Europe has been transported to our shores, and the environment in which Old World customs flourish even long years after their importation.  After giving a series of engrossing pictures of foreign conditions as they exist within our portals, Mr. Durland proceeds to describe the various influences making for Americanization, beginning with the start of the immigrants for America from Europe.



Mr. Durland himself came over from Naples in the steerage, in a disguise so perfect that the immigration authorities at Ellis Island detained him for deportation as an 
undesirable alien.
  The conditions of the steerage are vividly portrayed, and then the assimulative work of the state, and the city through the various civic and educational enterprises — public schools, public lectures for adults, recreation centers, school gardens, small parks etc. — then the work of the settlements and other social centers.  This lecture is fascinatingly interesting, and brimful of useful and instructive information of vital interest to every American.




In his introductory remarks to his lecture on Foreign New York, Mr. Kellogg Durland explained that it was not his intention to relate horrifying tales of the Old World sections of the greatest of all immigration centers, to present sordid descriptions of its slums, to give statistical and economic treatment of the problem of New York's foreign population, but to present the pleasanter aspects of the situation, to suggest some of the virtues of the foreigners and to tell what is being done to assimilate and Americanize these prospective citizens.  Mr. Durland accomplished his purpose most successfully.




The interesting stereopticon views that accompanied the lecture aided greatly in transporting the audience into the environment and spirit of the places and people which Mr. Durland described.—



The Chautauqua Daily



COMMENTS FROM THE PRESS



Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., Ernest M. Hopkins, 
Secretary




Mr. Kellogg Durland spoke before the College Club of Dartmouth, Saturday evening, February ninth, to an audience which taxed the capacity of the hall, fully a thousand men.  The following day, Sunday, the requests from those who had heard him the night before, supplemented by those who had been unable to get into the hall, were so insistent that Mr. Durland consented to speak again, and once more the accommodations were entirely insufficient for those who wished to attend.  In behalf of the college community, faculty and students, no less than for myself, I wish to express the appreciation felt for this opportunity of hearing Mr. Durland, and our pleasure in meeting him personally.




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An Expropriation — Government money was being carried across the city of St. Petersburg in this carriage.  A lighted bomb was thrown in front of the carriage, killing the horse and throwing the Cossack escort into confusion.  Revolutionists then made off with the bags of money


TOLSTOY
 AND HIS INFLUENCE



MR. DURLAND
 visited Tolstoy at his home in Tula, Great Russia, in December, 1906.  In this address Mr. Durland presents a charming and intimate picture of Russia's Grand Old Man in the environment of his own estate and then proceeds to relate the testimony of the Seer's peasants in regard to him, and finally to set forth the dual influence that Tolstoy has exerted over Russia at large.




This address is in no sense a formal lecture, but a delightful, chatty talk, full of memorable anecdotes and pleasant incidents.




THE RED REIGN



The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia
 Illustrated with sixty photographs.  Price $2.00 net, postage 16c





By

KELLOGG DURLAND



This absorbing narrative of a year's travel in Russia reads like a romance.  Mr. Durland, who has only recently returned from the Czar's domains, covered Russia more completely, perhaps, than any American since George Kennan.  All told — he traveled over 20,000 miles.  In the course of his journey he visited many noted persons, tyrannical governors who have since been assassinated, revolutionists — both men and women — working in the shadow of death — exiles in Siberia, peasants in the fields, and workmen in the cities.  He was thrown into prison, and once he came near to losing his life for more or less innocent complicity in a revolutionary plot.




Mr. Durland presents a picture of what he calls a cross-section of Russian life today, and though one is carried along through the sheer human interest of the narrative, it is none the less an important and an informing book, in its way unique, and that it will make a stir seems inevitable.  Mr. Durland makes no pretensions to being an historian, but there is no doubt that this book will be much referred to by historians in the future.  It is the most engrossing picture of Russia in revolt that has ever been written.




The following are the chapter headings:


Into the Shadow


Among Officers of the Czar


At Home with the Cossacks


Under Martial Law


In Prison


A Conspirative Meeting


Reporting the Kronstadt Uprising


Governmental Terrorism


Amid Warsaw's Contrasts


Among the Muzhiks


The Peasant Awakening


Through the Hungry Country


With the Army of 
Pacification


Courting Arrest


A Visit to Marie Spiradonova


Watching the Douma at Work


The Land of Lost Leaders


My Friends the Terrorists


A Close Call


Ten Days in Industrial Russia


Tolstoy — Odessa — Constantinople


The Trend





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