Boris Artzybasheff was born in Kharkov, Russia, in 1899. In 1918, after receiving an education in Sr. Petersburg, he became a machine gunner in the White Army. Upon its defeat he worked his way to the
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himala