Natasha in Vladivostok for Rusian Navy Day

See also this post of mine: Natasha on Escaping The Russian Far East which includes the video she made of her trip to Vladivostok a year or so ago, ... See also Vladimir Putin on The Russian Far East.

For more on Eleanor Pray, see the Library of Congress' Eleanor Lord Pray papers, 1894-1975. You can see some of her photographs at: Library of Congress > Prints & Photographs Reading Room > Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: e.g. [Dacha Seyuza, with the Pray family and servants posed on the front porch, near Vladivostok, Russia]

[Japanese servants O Hero San, O Eun San, and O Sok San with tea utensils in the veranda room, Dom Smith, Vladivostok, Russia]

See also Dom Smith, Vladivostok, 1899:

I have been trying to find out where the name Dom Smith comes from. Guessing Domicile Smith, or something, I came across Emily Jane Smith, an American living in the Russian Far East around 1893. Mrs. Emily Jane Smith was born at Vladivostok , Russia , in November 1864, according to this deposition:

This poor woman's life would make an interesting story.

Also, look up Lewis Carroll's trip to Russia in the late nineteenth century in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood.

The whole thing is a great read, but the trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg is in Chaper III. I don't think they got as far as Vladivostok, but who knows?

See also загадочный.

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