Alone now , Kazantzakis continues his travels across the length and breadth of Russia .
In April he departs for Berlin , where he lectures on the Soviet Union and attempts to publish articles .
In May he settles in a remote farmhouse in Czechoslovakia to write , in French , the novel first entitled " Moscou a crie " and then renamed Toda- Raba .
He also completes a novel in French called " Kapetan Elia ," one of the many precursors to Kapetan Mihalis .