Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Introduction : between the two bays : Mrs. Pray's Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930 / Birgitta Ingemanson -- Biographical sketch : the Smiths and the Prays / Patricia D. Silver -- 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 -- Vladivostok scenes -- Natural beauty, picnics, and excursions -- City landmarks and 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 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 to 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 |
Summary |
In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East with her husband, a merchant apprentice. Over the next thirty-six years - from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin's rule - she wrote over 2,000 letters chronicling her family life and the tumultuous social and political events she witnessed. Vladivostok, 5,600 miles east of Moscow, was shaped by a rich intersection of European and Asian cultures, and Pray's witty and observant writing paints a vivid picture of the city and its denizens during a period of momentous social change. The book offers highlights from Pray's letters, along with illuminating historical and biographical information |
Notes |
"The Eleanor L. Pray Collection organized and preserved by Patricia D. Silver." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954 -- Correspondence
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SUBJECT |
Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954 fast |
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Americans -- Russia (Federation) -- Vladivostok -- Correspondence
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Americans
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Manners and customs
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Vladivostok (Russia) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources
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Vladivostok (Russia) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Sources
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Vladivostok (Russia) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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Vladivostok (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
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Russia (Federation) -- Vladivostok
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Genre/Form |
History
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Personal correspondence
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Sources
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Ingemanson, Birgitta, 1944- writer of added commentary
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LC no. |
2013015521 |
ISBN |
9780295804804 |
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0295804807 |
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