![]() Highly-respected angling columnist for the Manchester Guardian. ![]() He bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District in the late 1920s and worked as a foreign correspondent and Ransome married Evgenia and returned to England in 1924. These contacts led to persistent but unproven accusations that he ‘spied’ for both the Bolsheviks and Britain. Of the leading Bolshevik figures, including Lenin, Trotsky and the latter’s secretary, Evgenia Shvelpina. ![]() In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian newspaper. He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News. ![]() He had an adventurous life – as a baby in he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276ft high! Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884. ![]()
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