Among the diners were two young Americans, Anna Strunsky and William English Walling. Having first met in the United States, they had crossed paths again in Russia, where they were each gathering material for magazine articles. The shock of seeing the student killed brought them closer. As the melodramatic Anna wrote to her brother, "Our love which has been filling our hearts from the hour of our first meeting suddenly burst into speech. It was was baptized in blood.
-Adam Hochschild
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