Alleged Sex and Threatened Violence: Doctor Russel, Bishop Vladimir, and the Russians in San Francisco, 1887-1892

by Terence Emmons

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727678
• ISBN13: 9780804727679
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"