A Million And One Nights In Soviet Russia

December, 1970

A Million and One Nights in Soviet RussiaIt wasn't so long ago (children) that one simply didn't travel to Russia as a routine thing. Years and years ago distance was the thing--it is 1500 miles from Paris to Moscow, and historical accounts of the distance leave permanently in mind how long it took, how hard it was, and how unprofitable the journey for the most publicized 19th Century traveler from Paris to Moscow, who barely made it back, leaving most of his army behind. More recently, the casu...