LEADER 03863oam 22007094a 450 001 9910956515603321 005 20221024203155.0 010 $a9781602232655 010 $a1602232652 035 $a(CKB)3710000000491534 035 $a(EBL)4312508 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001570727 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16219798 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570727 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12562301 035 $a(PQKB)11537534 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4312508 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11139007 035 $a(OCoLC)925338412 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98424 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4312508 035 $a(DE-B1597)716233 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781602232655 035 $a(Perlego)3022790 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000491534 100 $a20160118h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMarried to the Empire$eThree Governors' Wives in Russian America 1829-1864 /$fSusanna Rabow-Edling 210 1$d2015.$cUniversity of Alaska Press,$aFairbanks, Alaska : 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781602232648 311 08$a1602232644 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMaps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Elisabeth von Wrangell; Chapter One -- The Journey across Siberia to Russian America; Chapter Two -- The Encounter With the New World; Part II: Margaretha Etholen; Chapter Three -- From Helsinki to Sitka; Chapter Four -- The Inner Life of a Governor's Wife; Part III: Anna Furuhjelm; Chapter Five -- The Perfect Wife in the Wilderness; Chapter Six -- A Woman's Mission and Sphere; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the Russian-America Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst of all, they were terrible role models for the Natives, whom the empire saw as in desperate need of moral enlightenment. The empire?s solution? Send in women. In 1829, the Company decreed that any governor appointed after that date had to have a wife, in the hopes that these more pious women would serve as glowing examples of domesticity and bring charm to a brutish territory. Elisabeth von Wrangell, Margaretha Etholén, and Anna Furuhjelm were three of eight governors' wives who took up this domestic mantle. Married to the Empire tells their stories using their own words and though extraordinary research by Susanna Rabow-Edling. All three were young and newly wed when they left Russia for the furthest outpost of the empire, and all three went through personal and cultural struggles as they worked to adjust to life in the colony. Their trials offer a little-heard female history of Russian Alaska, while illuminating the issues that arose while trying to reconcile expectations of womanhood with the realities of frontier life. 606 $aRussians$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01102429 606 $aGovernors' spouses$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00945746 606 $aRussians$zAlaska$vBiography 606 $aGovernors' spouses$zAlaska$vBiography 607 $aAlaska$zSitka$2fast 607 $aAlaska$2fast 607 $aSitka (Alaska)$vBiography 607 $aAlaska$xHistory$yTo 1867 608 $aHistory 608 $aBiographies 615 7$aRussians. 615 7$aGovernors' spouses. 615 7$aRussians 615 7$aGovernors' spouses 676 $a979.8/010922 700 $aRabow-Edling$b Susanna$01123059 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956515603321 996 $aMarried to the Empire$94359913 997 $aUNINA