Doctor Russel, Bishop Vladimir, and the Russians in San Francisco, 1887-1892
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/02/1997
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. It did not take long for the bishop to clash with Dr. Nicholas Russel, a colorful Russian revolutionary exile who was one of the leaders of the Russian community. They became bitter enemies, and Bishop Vladimir's three-and-a-half-year tenure in San Francisco was punctuated by a series of remarkable scandals and lawsuits, by an excommunication, by an unconsummated duel, and by a host of lurid allegations that received extensive local publicity including charges of arson, perjury, attempts to hire potential assassins, bigamy, and, most sensationally, sodomy and child abuse.
- ISBN:
- 9780804727679
- 9780804727679
- Category:
- History of the Americas
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-02-1997
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 268
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x23mm
- Weight:
- 0.49kg
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