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Breshkovsky had a great influence on American thinking. She opened up the idea that things were not as they ought to be in Russia.

These young men - Poole and Bullard - wanted to go see Russia. They went - Ernest Poole, Arthur Bullard, Scott and I'm not sure who else went with them, but I know they went. They had an interpreter known as Maximov, whom they swore by. He saw them through everything. I think he had been recommended to them by Madame Breshkovsky. He was an interpreter and a courier. They had had a pre-introduction to him and they had newspaper credentials. They'd all gotten themselves newspaper or magazine credentials as writers.

They saw something of Russia - more than most people had ever seen. They met some revolutionaries. They met people as revolutionary as Pavel Milyukov who became the first head of the Duma after the revolution of 1918 in the Kerensky government. They met Alexander Kerensky. Maximov, their guide and courier, was of that Kerensky-Milyukov group, I take it. That was what they naturally saw. They didn't know the rest of the revolution.

They used to meet regularly at a little saloon at the corner of 11th Street and Sixth Avenue called the Grapevine. It was a famous place. It was a very ancient building on the