46 Crosley, 230, 231.
47 Rogers, 3:9, 203.
48 Mission, 239.
49 Bliss, ‘Philip Jordan’s Letters from Russia’, 150.
50 Beatty, 386.
51 Ibid., 387.
52 Fuller, Journal, 47.
53 Beatty, 390; Fuller, Journal, 47. Mildred Farwell, another unsung American female journalist, was based on the Eastern Front during World War I. She published articles for the Public Ledger on Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans, and on Petrograd for the Chicago Tribune.
54 Fuller, Journal, 47–8, Fuller, Letters, 52; Rogers, 3:9, 211.
55 Gerhardie letter, quoted in Pitcher, Witnesses of the Russian Revolution, 263.
56 Buchanan, Ambassador’s Daughter, 191; see also Dissolution, 273.
57 Rogers, 3:10, 213; Fuller, Journal, 48.
58 Rogers, 3:10, 214.
59 Ibid., 214–15.
60 Ibid., 215; Fuller, Letters, 54.
61 Rogers, 3:10, 218, 220. The Bolsheviks were still occupying the bank when Rogers finally left Petrograd in February 1918.
62 Stinton Jones, ‘The Czar Looked Over My Shoulder’, 106–8.
63 Buchanan, Ambassador’s Daughter, 191.
64 Ibid., 192; Dissolution, 276–7.
65 Dissolution, 275.
66 Mission, 247.
67 Oudendyk, Ways and By-ways in Diplomacy, 253–4; Bousfield Swan Lombard, letter to his wife 2 January 1918, courtesy John Carter.
68 Bliss, ‘Philip Jordan’s Letters from Russia’, 150.
69 Crosley, 264.
70 Rogers, 3:10, 223.
71 Ibid., 224.
Postscript: The Forgotten Voices of Petrograd
1 See Mission, Chapter XXXV; Ambassador’s Daughter, 201–8.
2 For their life in Rome, see Buchanan, Ambassador’s Daughter, Chapter XVII.
3 For a discussion of the Romanov asylum issue, see Helen Rappaport, Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs, London: Hutchinson, 2008, 147–51.
4 See Roy Bainton, Honoured by Strangers: Captain Cromie’s Extraordinary First War, London: Constable & Robinson, 2002, Chapter 22; Oudendyk, Ways and By-Ways of Diplomacy, Chapter XXVII.
5 Cross, ‘Corner of a Foreign Field’, 354.
6 Francis, 235.
7 Letter of 18 January 1918 (NS), quoted in Barnes, 300.
8 See Harper Barnes, ‘Russian Rhapsody: A Small City North of Moscow Opens a Museum to Honour a Former St Louis Mayor’, St Louis Post-Dispatch, 24 August 1997. Some photographs of the interior and the museum’s exhibits can be seen at http://ruspics.livejournal.com/572095.html
9 Barnes, 373. For Francis and Jordan in Russia after Petrograd, see Barnes, Chapters 19–21.
10 See Barnes, 405–7; ‘D. R. Francis Valet Dies in California, St Louis Post-Dispatch, 1941.
11 Buchanan, Ambassador’s Daughter, 166–7.
12 Crosley, 221.
13 Lindley, untitled memoirs, 96.
14 Bousfield Swan Lombard, letters to his wife 26 June, 17 March, 19 February 1918, courtesy John Carter.
15 Hawkins, ‘Through War to Revolution with Dosch-Fleurot’, Afterword, 105.
16 Marcosson, Before I Forget, 330, 340; see also ibid., Chapter 12, ‘Trotsky and the Bolsheviks’.
17 Williams, Shadow of Tyranny, 318–19.
18 Syndicated to the Topeka Capital as ‘Thompson Risks Life to Film Russian Revolution Scenes’, 30 September 1917.
19 ‘Woman Saw Revolution Begin’, Boston Sunday Globe, 30 June 1918.
20 See Rogers’s account in Rogers, 3:10, 251–61.
21 Interview with Rogers’s great-niece, Charlotte Roe, 2005, for the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project, 12–13, http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Roe,%20Charlotte.toc.pdf
22 ‘Missouri Negro in Russia is “Jes a Honin’ for Home”’, Wabash Daily Plain Dealer, 29 September 1916.
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