Helen Rappaport - Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917—A World on the Edge

HELEN RAPPAPORT

CAUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION

Petrograd, Russia, 1917
A World on the Edge

St. Martins Press
New York

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For Caroline Michel

Anet, Claude (pseudonym of Jean Schopfer) (18681931). Swiss-born French tennis champion, antiquities collector, journalist and writer reporting for Le Petit Parisien.

Arbenina, Stella (Baroness Meyendorff; ne Whishaw) (18851976). British actress from a long-standing family in the Anglo-Russian colony in St Petersburg; she married Russian aristocrat Baron Meyendorff. Arrested after the revolution; released in 1918, she settled in Estonia.

Armour, Norman (18871982). American career diplomat; Second Secretary at US embassy in Petrograd 191618. Returned to Russia not long after he left, to rescue stranded Princess Mariya Kudasheva, whom he married in 1919. Later served as diplomat in Paris, Haiti, Canada, Chile, Argentina and Spain.

Azabal, Lilie Bouton de Fernandez see Countess Nostitz

Beatty, Bessie (18861947). American journalist, worked in California for the San Francisco Bulletin before travelling to Russia. Continued in journalism after the revolution; during the 1940s based in New York City, became a popular radio broadcaster.

Berlin, Isaiah (190997). Russian-born British scholar and historian of ideas; grew up in Riga and St Petersburg; his family moved to Great Britain in 1921.

Bowerman, Elsie (18891973). English suffragette; orderly with a Russian hospital unit of the Scottish Womens Hospitals; later the first woman barrister at the Old Bailey.

Bruce, Henry James (18801951). Head of the British Chancery in Petrograd; in 1915 he had married the Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina.

Bryant, Louise (18851936). American journalist and socialist from the Greenwich Village set; travelled to Petrograd with her husband, John Reed, in 1917; married again after Reeds death in 1920 and lived in Paris.

Buchanan, Meriel (18861959). Daughter of British ambassador Sir George Buchanan; volunteer nurse at British Colony Hospital in Petrograd run by her mother, Lady Georgina Buchanan, during World War I. After leaving Russia wrote numerous books and articles about her time there.

Bury, George (18651958). Canadian shipper and Vice President of the Canadian Pacific Railway; in Russia during World War I to report on the railway system for the British government. Knighted in 1917.

(Lady) Buchanan, Georgina (18631922). Scion of the influential Bathurst family, wife of British ambassador in Petrograd, Sir George Buchanan, and mother of Meriel Buchanan; active in relief work in Petrograd during World War I and patron of British Colony Hospital.

(Sir) Buchanan, George (18541924). Distinguished British diplomat and son of an ambassador. Served in many locations, beginning with Berlin in 1901; British ambassador to Russia from 1910.

Cantacuzne-Speransky, Princess (18761975). Born Julia Dent Grant, American socialite, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant. Fled to USA after the revolution and was doyenne of White Russian community in Washington; divorced her Russian husband in 1934.

Chadbourn, Philip (who wrote his account of Petrograd under the pseudonym of Paul Wharton) (18891970). American relief worker in France and Belgium during World War I; sent to Petrograd to inspect and report on camps for internees in Russia.

Chambrun, Charles de (18751952). French diplomat and writer; First Secretary at Petrograd embassy from 1914.

Chandler Whipple, George (18661924). American engineer and sanitation expert who travelled to Petrograd with the American Red Cross Mission as Deputy Commissioner for Russia.

Clare, (Rev.) Joseph (1885?). English Congregational preacher and bachelor of divinity; pastor of the American Church in Petrograd from 1913. Settled in Illinois after he left Russia and took US citizenship.

Cotton, Dorothy (18861977). Montreal-trained nursing sister with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, who served at the Anglo-Russian Hospital November 1915June 1916 and January August 1917.

Crosley, Pauline (18671955). wife of US Naval attach, Captain Walter Selwyn Crosley; in Petrograd March 1917March 1918, the Crosleys had a hair-raising escape out of Russia during the Civil War.

Dearing, Fred (18791963). American diplomat, worked at Peking legation 19089; in Russia in 191617 oversaw the transition from ambassador George F. Marye to David R. Francis.

Dorr, Rheta Childe (18681948). American journalist, feminist and political activist; friend of Emmeline Pankhurst. Went to Petrograd as correspondent of the New York Evening Mail, and published one of the earliest American accounts of the July Days. A motor accident after her return to the USA seriously impaired her professional life thereafter.

Dosch-Fleurot, Arno (18791951). American journalist; remained in Europe as foreign correspondent after 1917 and became special correspondent for International News Service in Berlin. As an outspoken critic of Nazis, was arrested and interned; in 1941 settled in Spain.

Farson, Negley (18901960). Born in New York, he settled in the UK. In Petrograd during World War I, as agent for an Anglo-American export business trying to secure orders for motorbikes from the Russian government. Later turned to travel writing and journalism; sometime foreign correspondent of Chicago Daily News.

Francis, David R. (18501927). US ambassador to Russia 191618; formerly mayor of St Louis (1885) and governor of Missouri (188993).

Fuller, John Louis (18941962). Indianapolis businessman and insurance executive; trainee with National City Bank in Petrograd 191718. Colleague of Leighton Rogers, Fred Sikes and Chester Swinnerton.

Garstin, Denis (18901918). English cavalry captain seconded as intelligence officer in the British Propaganda Unit in Petrograd; killed during the Allied Intervention at Arkhangelsk.

Gibson, William J. (dates unknown) Born in Canada, he grew up in St Petersburg and served in the Russian army in 1914; newspaper correspondent in Petrograd 1917; left Russia in 1918.

Grant, Julia see Princess Cantacuzne-Speransky

Grant, Lilias (18781975). Hospital orderly from Inverness, serving with the Scottish Womens Hospitals on the Eastern Front; visited Petrograd with her fellow orderly Ethel Moir.

(Lady) Grey, Sybil (18821966). British VAD, who assisted Lady Muriel Paget in the running of the Anglo-Russian Hospital; daughter of former Governor-General of Canada and cousin to British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey.

Hall, Bert (18851948). American combat aviator who flew with the French Lafayette Escadrille prior to US entry into World War I.

Harper, Florence (1886?). Canadian staff reporter for Leslies Weekly, who worked in tandem with war photographer Donald Thompson in Petrograd.

Harper, Samuel (18821943). American Slavicist; made numerous trips to Russia with official delegations as interpreter and guide, including the 1917 Root Mission to Petrograd. An unofficial adviser to