Rusudana Nikolaevna Nikoladze Journal, 1914

RNN page nos. 17, 34, 46This is an incomplete volume entitled "Summer 1914 Notebook I" (Leto 1914 g. Tetrad I)describing Rusudana's journey back to Russia from Switzerland with her husband M. A. Polievktov in the summer of 1914 due to the outbreak of the Great War. It appears that some pages (RNN page nos. 49-63) from this journal describing the first days of the war and the bombing of Paris were later inserted into the Travel Memoir entitled "My France" (see folder 18). Rusudana bought six notebooks in Librarie Garin, Geneva. She completed four between August and October, 1914. Her intention was to describe the events and encounters with other Russians, who joined the Polievktov-Nikoladze couple in their return journey to the homeland. Rusudana's journey back to Didi Dzhikhaishi, was made on a steamboat to Odessa from Marseille via Istanbul. From Odessa she traveled to Poti through Iuzovka in the Ukraine. Her husband, M. A. Polievktov, parted with Rusudana in Odessa and returned to St. Petersburg via Kiev.