[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 57, Issue 4

[Richard Benert]

If anyone is interested in knowing a little of the shenanigans in the 
emigrant transportation industry in Russia in the early 20th century, you 
can look in the first chapter of "The Foe Within" by Wm. C. Fuller, Jr. 
This book is mostly about the spy hysteria in Russia during WW I, but the 
most famous spy executed (though really innocent), Sergei Miasoyedov, had 
been chairman of a newly founded (1908) company (Northwest Russian Steamship 
Co.) that shipped emigrants to Hull, then Liverpool, then America.  The 
company was owned by some Jewish brothers, and the connections Miasoyedov 
made and scuffles he got into with competing firms (a Russian East Asiastic 
Co. sailed directly from Libava to New York) helped to get him convicted as 
a spy in 1915 (along with other things, of course).  It's a fascinating 
read, if anyone's interested.

The only English source he cites for information on the shipping business in 
that time is N.R.P. Bonsor, "North Atlantic Seaway", vol. 3.  There's a 
French book called "Les Grandes Lignes de Paquebots Nord-Atlantique" by Rene 
Fabre also.

Dick Benert

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From: "Don Puffalt" <dpkipling at europe.com>
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> Hello,
>
> It seems that many emigrants took the route via Liepaya (which in those
> days was called Libava in Russian and Libau in German).  My
> great-grandmother travelled that way with her four children in 1904, and
> many others did the same. There was even a special train station in
> Liepaya for the emigrants.
>
> The specific journey from there to the destination in Canada could be
> paid for as a package, as you can see from the following site:
> http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/fares/costofpassage.htm
>
> http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conJmrArticle.28/viewPage/2  tells
> about the journey across to Liverpool
>
> Don Puffalt
>
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