<p><span class="deck"> An Imperial colony on our West Coast was their aim; Fort Ross was their military outpost; and the stakes—higher than they realized</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Flags flew and champagne flowed when the Czar’s ships anchored in New York Harbor. Fifty years later we learned the reason for their surprise visit</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">An American journalist, George Kennan, was the first to reveal the full horrors of Siberian exile and the brutal, studied inhumanity of czarist “justice”</span></p>
<p>In the 1880s, the daring American journalist George Kennan first revealed the horrors of the tsar’s system of Siberian prisons, where the regime sent dissidents who favored democratic reform in Russia.</p>
