TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pray,Eleanor Lord
AU  - Ingemanson,Birgitta
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Eleanor L. Pray: letters from Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930 
SN  - 9780295804804
AV  - DK781.V5 P72 2013
U1  - 957/.7B 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Pray, Eleanor Lord,
KW  - Americans
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Vladivostok
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Vladivostok (Russia)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sources
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - "The Eleanor L. Pray Collection organized and preserved by Patricia D. Silver."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780295804804/
ER  -