He visits Egypt and Sinai, again as a newspaper correspondent. In May he isolates himself on Aegina in order to complete the Odyssey. Immediately afterwards he hastily composes scores of encyclopedia articles to earn a living, then collects his travel articles for the first volume of Taksidevondas( Journeying). Dimitrios Glinos‘ s periodical Anayennisi( Renaissance) publishes Askitiki.
In late October Kazantzakis travels to Russia once again, this time as the guest of the Soviet government on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Revolution. In November he meets Panait Istrat, a Greek-Romanian writer then very much in vogue in France. With Istrati and others he tours the Caucasus. The two friends vow to share a life of political and intellectual action in the Soviet Union. In December Kazantzakis brings Istrati to Athens and introduces him to the Greek public via a newspaper article.