The 1906 caption reads SAINT ANDREW PREACHING CHRISTIANITY TO The RUSSIANS.While historically we have no evidence that the Russians learned Christianity before the ninth century, they have a legend that Saint Andrew, one of the seventy-two apostles of Christ, visited their land in the first Christian century and was gladly welcomed by the natives. He taught them the rudiments of the faith, and although most of these were gradually forgotten, the natives always continued to use the sign of the cross and to look upon the symbol with deep reverence. Oddly enough, their ancient crucifix had, as we see it in the picture, a double cross-bar..