Ransome, Arthur

Arthur Ransome, world famous for the hit series Swallows & Amazons, had, as a young man in 1917, gone to Russia as a foreign correspondent and journalist. He fell in love with Evgenia, Trotsky’s secretary, whom he later married. Together they owned two small yachts before commissioning the building of Racundra in 1922 at Riga in Latvia.

Further information about the life and works of Arthur Ransome can be found from the Arthur Ransome Trust (ART): https://arthur-ransome-trust.org.uk/