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Appendix: Biographical Notes on Persons Frequently Mentioned in the Letters
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223 Appendix Biographical Notes on Persons Frequently Mentioned in the Letters Albers, Alfred (1877–1960; known as Vasilii Gustavovich in Russia). Husband of Margarethe Albers. From Hamburg. From 1910, Alfred Albers was a partner, with Adolph Dattan, in the department store Kunst and Albers (K&A), and became the sole owner after his partner ’s death (1924). Albers, Margarethe (Ita), née Lorenz-Mayer. Wife of Alfred Albers. Andersen, Ebba Rufinovna. Wife of Mats Andersen. The Andersens rented part of Dom Smith in the late 1920s. Their daughter Karin was born in Vladivostok (1928). Andersen, Marius Petrovich (Mats). Of the Danish Telegraph. Husband of Ebba Andersen. Their home address was still 5 Sodom Lane (the former Dom Smith) in 1934. Arseniev, Vladimir Klavdievich (1872–1930). Military officer, ethnographer, and explorer of the Ussuri Territory. Director of the Khabarovsk Regional Museum (1910–19, 1924–25). Lecturer in Vladivostok (1926–30). Artemieva, Anastasia (Nastia). First a seamstress at Dom Smith on a part-time basis (1907), then Dorothy Pray’s beloved nanny. In the late 1920s she moved to Shanghai, and later to Belgium. Behn, Paul (1863–1924; Pavel-German Fedorovich). Worked at K&A, including in Blagoveshchensk . Married Tina Meyer (sister of Otto) 31 December 1899. Birk, Ewelina Andreevna (d. 1925). Wife of Ludwig Birk. The Birks’ daughter Jenny (Zhenia, born in 1889) married Peter Pavlovich Unterberger on 22 December 1910. Birk, Ludwig (1855–1908). Graduated from the University of Dorpat, served in the Far East from 1880 on. Physician in Vladivostok with the rank of major general. Husband of Ewelina Birk. Borisova, Ida Fedorovna (born c. 1854). Sister of Vice Admiral Schultz; widow. Organizer of the “Admiral’s Sewing Circle” during World War I. Brandt, Viktor Teodorovich (1849–1907). Rear admiral. Assistant to the commander (from 1890), and commander of the Siberian Flotilla (1897–1903). An old friend of the Lindholms. Breck, Belle (d. 1947). Originally from Kentucky, worked at the YMCA in Vladivostok (1919–20). 224 ✴ Appendix Bryner (Russian: Briner), Iulii Ivanovich (1849–1920, originally from Switzerland). Husband of Natalia Bryner. Merchant of the First Guild. The Bryners owned shipping companies, mines, and other enterprises in Vladivostok and Primorie. Bryner (Russian: Briner), Natalia Iosifovna (1866–1926). Wife of Iulii Bryner. Their son Leonid (1884–1947) first married Therese (“Mika”) Williams, an American woman, and later Elena Mikhailovna Brotnovskaia, a Russian actress. Bushueva, Anna Ioanovna. Member of the Vladivostok Philanthropic Society. Her house was at 33 Pushkin Street. Butakova, Aina (née Lindholm, b. 1884). Married lieutenant Alexander (“Sashik”) Ivanovich Butakov (1882–1914), in 1907. Butakov served on the cruiser Bogatyr and, later, on the Tsar’s yacht, the Standart, in the Baltic Sea. Chichagova, Olga. Daughter of the military governor Nikolai Mikhailovich Chichagov (1852– 1911). Chichagova married prince Pavel Ukhtomskii in 1900. The Christensens. Of the Danish Telegraph. Mrs. Christensen was Russian, from Siberia. Clarkson, David M., Jr. (1861–1913). American businessman in Vladivostok from November 1897. Owned mines at Mikha River and at Mys Rechnoi south of Tavrichanka. Husband of Shira Clarkson. Eleanor Pray attended their wedding in 1908. Clarkson, Shira. The former amah O Hiro-san, hailed from an old Japanese samurai family. Wife of David M. Clarkson, Jr. Cornehls, Anna (known as “Tante Anna” in the family). Mrs. Dattan’s sister. Wife of Edward Cornehls. Cornehls, Edward (Eduard Fedorovich; “Onkel Eddie” in the family). Manager at K&A, merchant of the Second Guild, member of the Vladivostok Duma. Husband of Anna Cornehls. Crompton, Gladys Mary (1878–1915). The daughter of General Salis-Schwabe, vice-governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London (early 1900s). Wife of Paul Crompton. The Cromptons and their six children perished with approximately 1,190 others on the Lusitania , sunk by the German submarine U-20 on the way from New York to Liverpool, 7 May 1915. Crompton, Paul. Husband of Gladys Mary, friends with her brother Edgar Salis-Schwabe, with whom he traveled in Siberia (1898). Dattan, Adolph (1854–1924). From Naumburg. Led K&A from 1882, by 1898 owned 47.5 percent of the firm (Gustav Albers owned 52.5 percent). Husband of Marie Dattan. The Dattans were naturalized Russian subjects. Dattan, Marie (1866–1924). Wife of Adolph Dattan. They had seven children, two of whom, Alexander (1890–1916) and Adolph (1894–1915), perished in World War I. Mrs. Dattan led the tea party that gave so much joy to Eleanor Pray. Davidson, William S. (1873–1926). American businessman in Vladivostok, late 1890s. His first wife, Cecilia Genevieve (1880–1900), perished on the SS Cullenden catastrophe near Shanghai...