Hegan, Edith (1881–1973). Canadian nurse from St John, New Brunswick, who served with Canadian Army Medical Corps in France before being posted to the Anglo-Russian Hospital in May 1916.
Houghteling, James (1883–1962). Chicago-born diplomat and newspaperman; special attaché at US Petrograd embassy; Vice President of Chicago Daily News 1926–31, later became a commissioner for US Bureau of Immigration & Naturalization.
Jefferson, Geoffrey (1886–1961). English surgeon at the Anglo-Russian Hospital; when it closed he transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps on the Western Front. In later life he became an eminent neurosurgeon and FRCS.
Jones, James Stinton (1884–1979). South African-born mechanical engineer; worked in Russia 1905–17 for Westinghouse on the electrification of the Petrograd tramways; also oversaw installation of generator at Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo.
Jordan, Phil(ip) (1868–1941). Black valet, cook and chauffeur from Jefferson City, Missouri, in service to David R. Francis and his family from 1889; accompanied Francis to Russia in 1916.
Judson, William J. (1865–1923). US army engineer; military attaché at Petrograd embassy June 1917–January 1918, responsible for security of US citizens in Russia.
Kenney, Jessie (1887–1985). Yorkshire-born cotton mill worker who joined the suffragette movement; worked closely with Emmeline Pankhurst Muriel (1876–1938) in the WSPU. After 1920 gave up political campaigning; later pursued a writing career, but remained unpublished.
Knox, General (Major-General Sir Alfred Knox) (1870–1964). British army officer; military attaché in Petrograd from 1911, observer on the Eastern Front; in 1924 became a Tory MP.
Lampson, Oliver Locker (1880–1954). British MP; in 1914 appointed a commander in the Royal Naval Air Service’s Armoured Car Division, which was sent to assist the Russian army on the Eastern Front; returned to UK to continue serving as an MP after the war.
Lindley, Francis (1872–1950). Counsellor at the British embassy 1915–17; consul-general in Petrograd 1919; later served as British ambassador to Japan (1931–4).
Lockhart, Robert Bruce (1887–1970). British diplomat and spy, vice consul at Moscow 1914–17, but made frequent visits to Petrograd. Acting British consul-general after February Revolution; left Russia before the October Revolution, but was back in Moscow in January 1918.
Lombard, (Rev.) Bousfield Swan (1866–1951). English chaplain attached to the British embassy and the English Church in Petrograd from 1908, much respected in the British colony. Arrested and interned by Bolsheviks in 1918.
Long, Robert Crozier (1872–1938). Anglo-Irish journalist and author; Petrograd correspondent for Associated Press. From 1923 to his death, Berlin correspondent for New York Times.
Marcosson, Isaac (1876–1961). American journalist and writer from Kentucky; reported from Petrograd for the Saturday Evening Post.
Maugham, Somerset (1874–1965). English novelist and short-story writer; sometime spy with the British Secret Intelligence Service during World War I. These experiences formed the basis for his Ashenden collection of short stories published in 1928.
Moir, Ethel (1884–1973). Nursing orderly with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals on the Eastern Front; in Petrograd with fellow nurse Lilias Grant.
Naudeau, Ludovic (1872–1949). French war correspondent for Le Temps; arrested by the Bolsheviks in 1918, he spent five months in prison in Moscow.
Néry, Amélie de (dates unknown). French essayist and journalist, active 1900s–20s, who wrote under the pseudonym Marylie Markovitch.
Nostitz, Countess (Lilie Bouton de Fernandez Azabal) (1875–1967). French-American adventuress and socialite from Iowa; originally a repertory company actress in New York, as Madeleine Bouton. Fled to Biarritz after the revolution; after Nostitz’s death there in 1926 she married a third time and settled in Spain.
Noulens, Joseph (1864–1944). French government minister sent to replace ambassador Maurice Paléologue. In Petrograd from July 1917. Back in France, he remained an anti-Bolshevik campaigner, as leader of the Society of French Interests in Russia.
Oudendijk, Willem (later William Oudendyk) (1874–1953). Distinguished Dutch diplomat, in service 1874–1931 in China, Persia and Russia. Ambassador to Petrograd 1917–18. Awarded an honorary knighthood (KCMG) for his efforts on behalf of British subjects stranded in Russia after the revolution.
(Lady) Paget, Muriel (1876–1938). British philanthropist; set up soup kitchen for the poor in Southwark 1905; engaged in medical relief work in Russia during World War I. With Sybil Grey founded the Anglo-Russian Hospital in Petrograd.
Paléologue, Maurice (1859–1944). French career diplomat, contemporary of Sir George Buchanan. French ambassador to Petrograd 1914–17; elected to the Académie française in 1928.
Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858–1928). English suffragette leader, founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903; lifelong political activist and campaigner for women’s rights.
Patouillet, Louise (?–?). Nothing is known of the life of this French resident, in Petrograd from 1912, beyond the fact that she was married to Dr Jules Patouillet, director of the French Institute in Petrograd, but she left an extremely valuable diary of her time in the city, now in the Hoover Institute at Stanford University in California.
Pax, Paulette (stage name of Paulette Ménard) (1887–1942). Born in Russia, Pax returned there in December 1916 as a member of the resident French troupe at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. She left Russia in September 1918, and in 1929 became co-director of the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre in Paris.
Poole, Ernest (1880–1950). American novelist, sent to report on the Russian Revolution for the New Republic and Saturday Evening Post; Pulitzer Prize Winner in 1918.
Ransome, Arthur (1884–1967). British journalist, correspondent of the Daily News. Briefly returned to Russia in 1919 for Manchester Guardian. Later a successful novelist, famous for his children’s series Swallows and Amazons.
Reed, John (1887–1920). American rebel, writer and poet, famous among the bohemian set of Greenwich Village for his social campaigning and outspoken left-wing views. Arrived in Petrograd September 1917 with his wife Louise Bryant.
Rhys Williams, Albert (1883–1962). American Congregational minister, labour organiser and ardent communist. Close friend of John Reed.
Robien, Louis de (1888–1958). French count, military attaché at French embassy in Petrograd from 1914 to November 1918.
Rogers, Leighton (1893–1962). Clerk with National City Bank of New York’s Petrograd branch 1916–18; volunteered for military intelligence 1918. On his return to USA worked in aeronautics for US Department of Commerce. Friend and colleague of Fred Sikes and Chester Swinnerton.
Seymour, Dorothy (1882–1953). English Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse (VAD) at the Anglo-Russian Hospital; daughter of a general, granddaughter of an admiral, she had a position at court as a Woman of the Bedchamber to Princess Christian.
Sikes, Fred (1893–1958). Princeton graduate who worked at the Petrograd branch of the National City Bank of New York 1916–18; retired as Assistant Vice President of the bank in New York. Colleague of Leighton Rogers and Chester Swinnerton.
Stebbing, Edward (1872–1960). English professor of forestry; sent on assignment to Russia during World War I to investigate wood supplies for British army trenches and light railways.
Stoker, Enid (1893–1961). English VAD at the Anglo-Russian Hospital; met Negley Farson while in Petrograd and married him in London in 1920. Their son was the writer and broadcaster Daniel Farson.
Stopford, Bertie (Albert) (1860–1939). English art dealer, specialist on Fabergé, socialite and friend of Prince Felix Yusupov.
Swinnerton, Chester (1894–1960). Massachusetts-born Harvard graduate; trainee clerk with the National City Bank’s Petrograd branch. Worked for the bank for many years in South America after he left Russia. Friend and colleague of Leighton Rogers and Fred Sikes.