In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to

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Contains geographical, political, and economic assessments for the British delegates to the 1919-1920 Paris Peace Conference.

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