Hugh Lupton Master storyteller In the “Homing Stone”

BERGH APTON CHURCH

SAT 27th NOVEMBER 2010 7.30pm

Arthur Ransome’s Journey Home from Revolutionary Russia

Hugh Lupton, Arthur Ransome’s  great-nephew, tells the epic tale of a perilous and extraordinary journey.

Ransome is well known as the author of the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ books. As a young man he went to Russia to collect folk-tales and was swept into the maelstrom of the Russian Revolution. Lived in Moscow for 6 years: the only British journalist trusted by the Bolsheviks: played chess with Lenin: fell in love with Trotsky’s secretary, Evgenia Shelapina. In 1919 with Moscow surrounded by counter-revolutionaries he and Evgenia escaped, travelling through Estonia by horse and cart knowing they would be shot if recognised.

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