Travel writings: 'Letters from Japan Written before the Start of the Trans-Siberian Trip', 1935; and 'Letters Written and Journal Kept during Trip through Russia', n.d.
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- Title
- Travel writings: 'Letters from Japan Written before the Start of the Trans-Siberian Trip', 1935; and 'Letters Written and Journal Kept during Trip through Russia', n.d.
- Date
- 1935
- Traveller
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- Cannon, Cornelia James
- Reference
- MC 553, 12.9
- Region
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- Europe
- East Asia
- Russia
- Country
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- Russia
- Japan
- Mongolia
- Finland
- Switzerland
- Places
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- Tokyo
- Nikko
- Kobe
- Ishinokawi
- Matsushima
- Sendai
- Peiping
- Vladivostok
- Chita
- Amur River
- Khilole
- Baikal
- Kazan
- Moscow
- Gorki
- Siberia
- St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Description
- Cornelia's letters provide an account of her time spent travelling in Japan and throughout Russia. In Japan she writes of visiting the garden of Meiji, an imperial museum, hospitals and Buddhist temples. She describes in detail her experiences when attending Japanese theatre, tea ceremonies and dances. She has an illness during part of the trip. When in Russia she closely observes and comments on the Russian people's working and living conditions and general way of life, finding the country 'slovenly' compared to Japan. She writes of the experience of travelling on the Trans-Siberian railway, often finding it uncomfortable. She makes comments on socialism, communism and the Soviet Union as a whole, and visits factories, convict camps, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, a monastery, a collective farm, a district court, and a factory kitchen.
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