Friend of Russian Freedom
Foulke was interested in Russia and Russian history since 1880s. He was scared by the encroachments of Russian Empire in Central Asia and in the Far East. He supposed that Russian ambitious foreign politics would be a great menace to "free Institutions". In 1887 he published a pamphlet "Slav or Saxon", showing aggressive intentions of Tzarist regime. In that time he also protested against the ratification of Russian-American Extradion treaty, but all efforts were in vain. In 1893 the treaty was ratified.
In 1903 Foulke became the president of the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom. The society was reestablished in Boston by Alice Stone Blackwell. As Foulke recalled, "this association had no very definite organisation, but acted as occasion offered". Foulke and other notable Americans (Blackwell, Wald, Howe, Addams), who endorsed Russian revolutionists and liberals in their fighting against the autocracy, encouraged Russian emigre Breshko-Breskovskaya in 1904-1905, when she arrived in the USA for tapping moral support and some money.
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