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I wonder if Violetta Bovt ever trained for the ballet under a US emigree to the USSR?Jessica apparently spoke Russian, and might've had a Jewish ancestry. Did the Harkness family adopt her as a refugee child?
Has anyone read Brother Fish, by Bryce Courtney?
If so, you might have some idea of the large number of white Russians that migrated to Australia in the 30's. These were people that once fled to Harbin in China during the Russian civil war. In the 1930s many fled China for Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Australia. Indeed, some of my school classmates were grandchildren of Tsarist Army officers, other White Russian refugees and Russian Jews, originating from Harbin.
Many of the White Russian refugees had contracted malaria in China
Remembering the White Russians - Australian National Maritime Museum
The October Revolution in Russia, which occurred 100 years ago today on 7 November 1917 (or 25 October in the old Julian calendar), would lead to the exodus of the refugees known as White Russians or white émigrés.www.sea.museum
How White Russian refugee crisis unfolded in China a century ago
Spring 1917 saw the start of the tsarist elite’s flight from the Bolsheviks, a journey which for some ended in Hong Kong as late as the 1980s; descendants recall parents’ suffering and the flowering of city’s White Russian communitywww.scmp.com
Chinese City of Harbin Still Home for Russians, Poles : Few Emigres Left in Paris of the Far East
It was a Polish holiday, and Edward Stokalski, 68, had invited a few of his Russian friends over for dinner.www.latimes.com
Ghost town: searching for remnants of Russia in the Chinese city of Harbin
The city of Harbin in north-eastern China was once a thriving, cosmopolitan centre for Russian culture. Jacob Dreyer went there in search of this…www.calvertjournal.com
As for the deceased found upon Somerton Beach in Adelaide, he had American clothes and a link to America in a hair DNA sample. Yet a witness said he spoke with an eastern European accent? Maybe part or all of this evidence is unreliable, but for the shake of it, I'll go down this rabbit hole.
So was he of mixed descent?
Russian communities in Alaska, California, and Hawaii in the 1800's》
Tracing Alaska's Russian Heritage
From onion domes to tsarist-era Russian dialects, evidence of the Russian colonialism remainswww.smithsonianmag.com
Russian colonization of North America - Wikipedia
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American communities in Soviet Union 1930's
Inequality in the U.S. was so bad, thousands of American women moved to Soviet Russia
They went looking for the ‘the freedom their souls craved’timeline.com
The Forsaken: Americans in Stalin's gulags
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Americans baseball team in Gorky Park, Moscow, 1934
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Violetta Bovt - Wikipedia
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