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Eleanor L. Pray : letters from Vladivostok, 1894-1930 / edited with introduction and notes by Birgitta Ingemanson.

Van Pelt Library DK781.V5 P72 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954.
Contributor:
Ingemanson, Birgitta, 1944- writer of added commentary.
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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