Lillie Wallich could not have introduced Christian Science to Russia at a more portentous time than in 1907.
Straight from the gentility of Edwardian England, the Christian Science practitioner landed in the roil of social and political upheaval that would ultimately topple the Romanov dynasty and launch the communist era.
Though she accompanied her husband, who had been transferred on business to St. Petersburg, Mrs. Wallich had had to borrow the money for her train ticket, and she had nothing extra to buy a thick overcoat and boots for her arrival in the Russian January cold. But she was determined to carry on her work in Russia to spread the healing message of Christian Science. And she did.
