Eleanor L. Pray letters from Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930 / edited with introduction and notes by Birgitta Ingemanson.
| Author/creator | Pray, Eleanor Lord |
| Other author | Ingemanson, Birgitta, 1944- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2013. |
| Description | xxxi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Correspondence. 2013 |
| Portion of title | Letters from Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930 |
| 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. |
| General note | "The Eleanor L. Pray Collection organized and preserved by Patricia D. Silver." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013015521 |
| ISBN | 9780295993249 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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