Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930 by Eleanor L. Pray Birgitta Ingemanson

Author:Eleanor L. Pray, Birgitta Ingemanson [Eleanor L. Pray, Birgitta Ingemanson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Travel, United States, West, History, Asian, Russia
ISBN: 9780295804804
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2013-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

29 September 1905 to Aunt Anna

It is so nice to see the ships putting on the white garment of peace again—Bogatyr is painted a light gray, and Gromoboi and Russia are being painted white. The war color, dark gray, makes a ship look as grim and terrible as possible.

5 April 1916 to Home

Day before yesterday I stood in the window and watched a sight that simply made me boil and I cried in spite of myself though it is not my own Country that is concerned—the shame of the thing was too much for even a resident to bear—about ten o’clock there was a cannonade and in came five Japanese men-of-war, three of them being the Poltava, Peresvet and Variag, captured by the Japs in the late war and, now that they are fit only for junk, sold back to the Russians. Were I the latter I would take them out in the Japan Sea and send them to the bottom, rather than disgrace the St. Andrew’s cross by letting it fly where a Japanese flag has flown. . . . [The Variag] has never been here before, but I thought of that beautiful September day, now almost thirteen years ago, when Poltava, Peresvet and the rest of that magnificent Port Arthur Squadron sailed out of here for the last time—and this is the way they came back!28

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