Article.Published in "Journal of European Studies"2005,35(3):315-
337.Hugh Walpole,among the most popular and profilic of English authors in the first decades of the twentieth century,is now largely forgotten and unread.There are,however,many aspects of his life and work that retain considerable interest and invite re-visiting.This article is essentially devoted to the period of some three years between september 1914 and november1917 that brought Walpole's his first- hand knowledge of Russia torn by war and revolution and provided the material for two of his important novels:"The Dark Forest"(1916) and "The Secret City"(1919).
