Alleged Sex and Threatened Violence: Doctor Russel, Bishop Vladimir, and the Russians in San Francisco, 1887-1892

This book deals with a sequence of lively and often bizarre episodes within San Francisco's Russian community set in motion in early 1888 by the arrival in San Francisco of a new Russian Orthodox bishop-and his entourage, which included some twenty clergymen and eleven boys.

Author: Terence Emmons
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 02/01/1997
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780804727679

About the Author
Terence Emmons is Professor of History at Stanford University. He has written extensively on Russian history and on the Russian-American connection, most recently (with Bertrand M. Patenaude) War, Revolution, and Peace: The Passages of Frank Golder, 1914-1927.

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