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Letters from the governor's wife : a view of Russian Alaska 1859-1862 / edited by Annie Constance Christensen ; with an introduction and an epilogue by Annie Constance Christensen and Peter Ulf Møller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Beringiana ; v. 3.
- Beringiana ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Furuhjelm, Anna, 1836-1894--Correspondence.
- Furuhjelm, Anna.
- Furuhjelm, Johan Hampus, 1821-1909.
- Furuhjelm, Johan Hampus.
- Furuhjelm, Anna, 1836-1894.
- Alaska--History--To 1867.
- Alaska.
- History.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Århus : Aarhus University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- "The wind is howling and I feel cold and sleepy, still I must finish this before I go to bed". Anna Furuhjelm's letters to her Scottish mother Ann von Schoultz form a diary of her first years in Alaska as the Russian Governor's wife. A few hours after their wedding on February 2, 1859 in Helsinki, Finland, she departs for Alaska on a sledge with her husband Hampus Furuhjelm and writes the first letter to her mother on the evening of that very same day. When news of her mother's death reaches Alaska on October 17, 1862, her last letter was set aside, unfinished.
- Sitting by her writing case in Government House in Sitka, Anna shared her thoughts and impressions of the New World - or, more precisely, of her new world that had two unknown continents to be explored: married life and Russian America. She had only known her husband for five weeks before the wedding. Even her cosmopolitan background could not possibly have prepared her for the uniqueness of the Russian overseas colonies on the very edge of the American wilderness.
- Anna Furuhjelm's letters make up a lively and moving account of everyday life in Alaska as seen from Government House just a few years before Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867. An introduction provides the biographical and historical background.
- Contents:
- An arranged marriage 9
- Russians in the New World 12
- The penultimate governor 17
- Anna Furuhjelm's Letters 23
- No 1 Henriksdal February 2nd 1859 23
- No 2 Fredrichshamn February 4th 1859 26
- No 3 St. Petersburg February 6th 1859 27
- No 4 St. Petersburg February 9th 1859 30
- No 5 St. Petersburg February 11th 1859 31
- No 6 St. Petersburg February 13th 1859 32
- No 7 St. Petersburg February 16th 1859 34
- No 8 St. Petersburg February 19th 1859 34
- No 9 St. Petersburg February 21st 1859 37
- No 10 St. Petersburg February 23rd 1859 38
- No 11 St. Petersburg February 25th 1859 39
- No 12 Dunaburg February 27th 1859 40
- No 13 Warsaw March 4th 1859 41
- No 14 Dresden March 7th 1859 42
- No 15 Dresden March 13th 1859 45
- No 16 London March 19th 1859 46
- No 17 Cheltenham March 21st 1859 48
- No 18 London March 27th 1859 50
- No 19 Woodside April 1st 1859 53
- No 20 On board "Magdalena" Atlantic April 13th 1859 55
- No 21 On board HM Ship "Trent" April 25th 1859 61
- No 22 Panama April 29th 1859 64
- No 23 San Francisco May 18th 1859 69
- No 24 San Francisco May 29th 1859 74
- No 26 Sitka July 3rd 1859 79
- No 25 Sitka 5th 1859 89
- No 27 Sitka August 6th 1859 92
- No 28 Sitka September 21st 1859 96
- No 29 Sitka October 20th 1859 101
- No 30 Sitka December 4th 1859 110
- No 31 Sitka February 2nd 1860 117
- No 33 Sitka April 6th 1860 125
- No 34 Sitka April 26th 1860 129
- No 35 Sitka May 5th 1860 133
- No 36 Kodiak June 20th 1860 141
- No 37 Kodiak July 24th 1860 154
- No 38 Sitka September 18th 1860 162
- No 39 Sitka October 16th 1860 165
- No 40 Sitka December 7th 1860 176
- No 41 Sitka New Year's day 1861 188
- No 42 Sitka May 3rd 1861 206
- No 43 Sitka May 22nd 1861 210
- No 44 Sitka May 26 1861 212
- No 45 Sitka July 7th 1861 212
- No 46 Sitka September 25th 1861 217
- No 47 Sitka December 29th 1861 225
- No 48 San Francisco February 2nd 1862 232
- No 49 Sitka March 26th 1862 235
- No 50 Sitka April 28th 1862 243
- No 52 Sitka September 21st 1862 247.
- Notes:
- Letters.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-261).
- ISBN:
- 8779341594
- OCLC:
- 62554264
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