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Author Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954, author.

Title Eleanor L. Pray : Letters from Vladivostok, 1894-1930 / edited with introduction and notes by Birgitta Ingemanson
Published Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2013]

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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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Subject Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954 fast
Subject Americans -- Russia (Federation) -- Vladivostok -- Correspondence
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Americans
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Vladivostok (Russia) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources
Vladivostok (Russia) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Sources
Vladivostok (Russia) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Vladivostok (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Subject Russia (Federation) -- Vladivostok
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Ingemanson, Birgitta, 1944- writer of added commentary
LC no. 2013015521
ISBN 9780295804804
0295804807
Other Titles Letters from Vladivostok, 1894-1930
Letters from Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930