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| 1845 |
Born in Norwalk, Ohio |
| 1857 |
Drops out of school to work in his father's telegraph office |
| 1861-65 |
Serves as telegrapher in the Civil War
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| 1865-68 |
Participates in Western Union Telegraph Company's Russo-American telegraph project; helps survey sixteen-hundred-mile route from Anadyr Bay to the mouth of the Amur River |
| 1870 |
Publishes memoir of his experience in Siberia, Tent Life in Siberia |
| 1885-86 |
Returns to Russia to investigate the Siberian exile system for Century Magazine |
| 1888-89 |
Serializes account of exile system in Century Magazine |
| 1898 |
Correspondent in Spanish-American War |
| 1890s |
Lectures across America about the brutality of Siberian exile |
| 1891 |
Publishes Siberia and the Exile System; barred from Russia by government |
| 1903 |
Visits Russia and is expelled by the government |
| 1904-5 |
Correspondent on the Japanese side during the Russo-Japanese War |
| 1924
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Dies at the age of seventy-nine |
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George Kennan's Book I,
LC George Kennan Papers.
Kennan's copious notes from his first trip to Siberia formed the basis for his book, Tent Life in
Siberia.
Книга 1
БК Документы Джорджа Кеннана.
Многочисленные записи Кеннана о его первом путешествии по Сибири стали
основой его книги "Палаточная жизнь в Сибири".
Tent Life in Siberia, George Kennan, 1910.
LC Rare Book Collection.
Notice the inscription to fellow adventurer Teddy Roosevelt in this "revised and enlarged
narrative of subarctic exploration and adventure" from Roosevelt's library.
"Палаточная жизнь в Сибири". Джордж Кеннан. 1910 г.
БК Собрание редких книг.
Обратите внимание на надпись, адресованную такому же любителю
приключений Тедди Рузвельту, в этом "исправленном и дополненном повествовании о субарктических исследованиях и
приключениях" из библиотеки Рузвельта.
George Kennan, half-length portrait, facing left, 1865.
LC Kennan Photograph Collection. George Kennan in Siberia in 1865.
Джордж Кеннан, поясной портрет, взгляд устремлен влево. 1865 г.
БК Коллекция фотографий Кеннана.
Джордж Кеннан в Сибири в 1865 г.
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