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Eleanor L. Pray : letters from Vladivostok, 1894-1930 / edited with introduction and notes by Birgitta Ingemanson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954--Correspondence.
- Pray, Eleanor Lord.
- Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954.
- Americans--Russia (Federation)--Vladivostok--Correspondence.
- Americans.
- Vladivostok (Russia)--Social life and customs--19th century--Sources.
- Vladivostok (Russia).
- Vladivostok (Russia)--Social life and customs--20th century--Sources.
- Vladivostok (Russia)--History--19th century--Sources.
- Vladivostok (Russia)--History--20th century--Sources.
- Russia (Federation)--Vladivostok.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Letters from Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction: between the two bays: Mrs. Pray's Vladivostok, 1894
- 1930 / by Birgitta Ingemanson
- Biographical sketch: the Smiths and the Prays / by Patricia D. Silver
- The people
- A victorian home in Siberia
- Eleanor Pray's new life
- Rituals and celebrations
- Women's work and leisure
- Clothes and home designs
- Charity bazaars
- Sports
- The city
- Vladivostok scenes
- Natural beauty, picnics, and excursions
- City landmarks, man-made attractions
- Street vignettes, human interaction
- Historic names
- Magnificent ships
- Nikolai and Alexandra
- Lindholm connections
- Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich
- Prince Heinrich of Prussia
- Isabella Bird Bishop
- Richard Theodore Greener
- Life at the dacha
- Early visits, 1900
- 1907
- The Novogeorgievsk estate
- The house and garden
- Dacha entertainments
- Philosophical musings
- War
- The history
- The Russo-Japanese War, 1904
- 1905
- Waiting for war
- The attack on Port Arthur, the Petropavlovsk
- The bombardment of Vladivostok
- Summer and fall 1904
- Mukden
- The Baltic fleet and the Battle of Tsushima
- Peace
- The riots of 1905
- 1906
- The November days 1905
- Vladivostok's Bloody Sunday
- Wars, revolutions, and foreign intervention
- The war afar, 1914
- 1916
- The year of two revolutions, 1917
- Allied intervention, January 1918
- April 1920
- Japanese occupation, 4
- 5 April, 1920
- 25 October 1922
- A Red Cross sampler
- A window flung open: new beginnings
- The Soviet victory
- Kunst and Albers to the rescue
- Same home, different times.
- Notes:
- "The Eleanor L. Pray Collection organized and preserved by Patricia D. Silver."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295993249
- 0295993243
- OCLC:
- 835981252
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