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Amy Coles Kirby fonds
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RBSC-ARC-1304
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67 p.
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Amy Kirby (nee Coles) spent four years in Russia (1879-1883) where she taught English to the children in the Alexieff family.
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The fonds consists of typescript memoirs of Kirby's experience as an English tutor in Russia. The memoirs chronicle life in Russia from 1879 to 1883 and also the subsequent experiences of one of the Alexieff children, Princess Vera Urusov, who suffered tremendous personal hardships during the Russian Revolution.
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Call Number: VF-126
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- Urusov, Vera, Princess (Subject)