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The 2140 exiles from Tiflis guberniia departed on board the first ship from Batum on December 10, 1898. Delayed by a severe storm, the trip took 32 days. The ship arrived in Saint John on January 11, 1899. Ten people died on board during the trip. L. Sulerzhitsky accompanied the passengers of this ship.
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Tiflis is the old name of modern Tbilisi, the capital of the country of Georgia. In the nineteenth century, it was the capital of Tiflis guberniia, which was a part of the Russian Empire.
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Batum (modern name Batumi) is a port city on the Black sea coast. It is the second largest city of the country of Georgia, which at the time of the narrative, was a part of the Russian Empire.
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Leopold Sulerzhitsky (1872–1916) was a theatre director, artist, a man of letters and a Tolstoyan who accompanied Doukhobors on their way to Canada and wrote a book “To America with the Doukhobors” documenting this experience. Sulerzhitsky was born in the Ukraine in a family of Polish descent. He studied and worked mostly in Moscow. The author uses the Russian version of his name “Sulerzhitskiǐ.”
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Elizavetpol’ (later Kirovabad, since 1989, Ganja) was the capital of Elizavetpol’ guberniia in the Russian Empire. Since the separation of Azerbaijan from the Soviet Union, it is one of the largest cities in Azerbaijan.
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Kars is a town in Turkey. With its surrounding area, at the time of the narrative, it belonged to the Russian Empire. It was one of the areas of the Transcaucasian exile of the Doukhobors. Since 1921, it has been a part of Turkey.
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Sergeǐ L’vovich Tolstoǐ (Tolstoy), a Russian musicologist and composer, was the oldest son of Leo Tolstoy and a Tolstoyan. He accompanied the Doukhobors during their resettlement to Canada and wrote memoirs about the experience (Sergej Tolstoy and the Doukhobors: A Journey to Canada (Diary and Correspondence) / Trans. J. Woodsworth; Ed. by A. Donskov // Slavic and East European Journal. 2001. Vol. 45).
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Bonch-Bruevich, Vladimir Dmitrievich (1873–1955) was a Russian anthropologist who was actively involved with the Bolshevik party and became a member of the Soviet government. He accompanied Doukhobors during their resettlement to Canada, and compiled Doukhobor psalms in “The Living book of the Doukhobors” published in St. Petersburg in 1909. He also wrote some memoirs and archival materials about the Doukhobors.
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Khilkov, Dmitriǐ Aleksandrovich (1857–1914) was a Russian Duke and a military officer who became a Tolstoyan and a revolutionary. He assisted in organizing the resettlement of Doukhobors to Canada.
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Verigin, G.V. (2019). The Relocation. In: Makarova, V., Ewashen, L. (eds) The Chronicles of Spirit Wrestlers' Immigration to Canada. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18525-1_27
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