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Eleanor L. Pray letters from Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930
Uniform Title
Correspondence. 2013
Title
Eleanor L. Pray [electronic resource] : letters from Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930 / edited with introduction and notes by Birgitta Ingemanson.
ISBN
0295804807
9780295804804
0295993243
9780295993249 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Seattle ;London : University of Washington Press, 2013 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages )
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"The Eleanor L. Pray Collection organized and preserved by Patricia D. Silver."
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 History.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Russian and East European Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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