GCPP Power, R 1/1
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Russia diaries: Volume 1, 1917-01-21 - 1917-08-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Power, R 1/1
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Rhoda Power travelled to Russia at the beginning of 1917 to take up a post as nanny-cum-governess to the daughter of a businessman in Rostov-on-Don. She was soon caught up in the Russian Revolution when Rostov, a Cossack town, was attacked by Bolshevik forces. These diaries were kept during this time and were later used in the writing of 'Under Cossack and Bolshevik', although the surviving diaries cover only the earlier part of her experience: approximately the first three quarters of the...
Dates:
1917-01-21 - 1917-08-21