Esperanto — A Nest of Spies?

So much for holding the UK in Moscow

Such was the contention of the Russian government in 1911 after convicting the president (and founder) of the Russian Esperanto League[1] of treason. An article appeared in various papers[2] in early September 1911 of the September 8 trial. It was clearly big news out of Russia.

Other reading I’ve done has made it clear that the Russian government was suspicious of Esperanto from the start. There were reports that the Czarist censors were learning Esperanto, and at other times that sending Esperanto materials into Russia was forbidden. It’s one of the oft-told Esperanto tales that Marcus Zamenhof, Ludovik’s father, worried what the official response to his son’s language would be, and if it would have an effect on Marcus’s job as a censor.

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