The Way of the Cross

"The Way of the Cross" is the work of author and journalist Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevitch. He records the plight of the fugitives of the German invasion of Russia in August and September of 1915. Doroshevitch went from Moscow to meet the on- coming flood of refugees, and he went through to the rear of the Russian army, and came back with this extra- ordinary picture. He tells how they camped in the forests, how they died by the way, how they put up their crosses by the side of the road, how they sold their horses and abandoned their carts, how they starved, how they suffered. The book is one of the first Russian war literature pieces translated into the English language.