Russian wife f the write Arthur Ransome. She was born in the small town of Gatchina situated close to St Petersburg. Her father was the curator of the Csar's Imperial Hospital and Charity Institute. This was quite an important position and the family could afford a good education for Evgenia and her sister. When Evgenia moved to St Petersburg, just before the revolution, she worked for the Ministry of Trade and Industry as a clerk, the job she still had after the revolution. When Bolsheviks moved the Government to Moscow, she moved there too. She was soon employed as Trotsky's secretary. At this time she met Arthur Ransome, who worked as a foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian in Russia. They fell in love and Ransome managed to bring her to England with the help, according to different sources, either of British ambassador to Russia, or Lenin himself. In 1924 she married Ransome and they settled in the Lake District where he started writing the books that made him famous.
Russian wife f the write Arthur Ransome. She was born in the small town of Gatchina situated close to St Petersburg. Her father was the curator of the Csar's Imperial Hospital and Charity Institute. This was quite an important position and the family could afford a good education for Evgenia and her sister. When Evgenia moved to St Petersburg, just before the revolution, she worked for the Ministry of Trade and Industry as a clerk, the job she still had after the revolution. When Bolsheviks moved the Government to Moscow, she moved there too. She was soon employed as Trotsky's secretary. At this time she met Arthur Ransome, who worked as a foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian in Russia. They fell in love and Ransome managed to bring her to England with the help, according to different sources, either of British ambassador to Russia, or Lenin himself. In 1924 she married Ransome and they settled in the Lake District where he started writing the books that made him famous.
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