The famous Bolshevik slogan “Peace, Land, and Bread” has little historical connection to “A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.” The two come from different periods, and in the slogan, peace was representative of soldiers, land of peasants, and bread of the workers. These connections are contrasted as Radishchev’s piece focuses specifically on the plights of serfs working to show the cruelty of serfdom. However, I found distinct connections between these two, which I believe shows the pre-existing historical basis of the populist appeals that were prevalent in Lenin’s pushes in 1917. The want for more equality in hunger, military service period, and the land is something produced from Russia’s fascinating geographic nature, the constant state of civil and external wars due to a weak government, and nobles’ dominance in Russian history. I saw connections to these issues with respect to the serfs in “A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” primarily in the provinces of Lyubani and Torzhok and the story of Vyshny Volochok. In the example of Torzhok, we can see the outrageous demands of military service that tears families apart, specifically in the case of the mother, son, and girlfriend. This demonstration of the cruelty of forced military services applies to the desire for peace. In the story of Vyshny Volochok, the frustration over food is expressed in the irony that the peasants fill granaries, but lack any food in their stomachs. The hunger of peasants in this story appeals to the desire for bread. In the town of Lyubani, a religious serf is seen tending to his own land on a Sunday because that is the only time he has available to tend to his own land because of the cruel and lasting demands of his master. This section is mostly a commentary on the cruelty of owners, but the parasitic nature in which the master depends on his serfs affects the productivity of serfs on their own land. This, combined with the mention of manorial villages in the text, show the desire for land. Overall, the story, through the particular lens of the cruelty of serfdom, reveals several prevailing issues with Russian society. These issues were the unequal distribution of land, the constant waring state, and hunger. These common issues would continue in Russian culture and would be the central problems that were addressed by Lennin in 1917.