MAURICE BARING (1874-1946)

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MAURICE BARING (1874-1946)
A collection of fifty-three black and white photographs taken by the journalist, Maurice Baring, depicting life with the Russian army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905, including pictures of the landscape and its people, the Viceroy Alexeieff, Imperial tombs and soldiers at camp and on manoeuvres, pencil annotations in his hand on the reverse of each with titles such as 'Stragglers', 'The look out', 'Mud', 'An evening bivouac', 'With the temperature at 105°', 'Chinese under fire', 'Fording the Tai-tse-ho' and 'Lama priests'.
With a black and white portrait photograph, head and shoulders, of Maurice Baring in uniform and a book review cut from Vanity Fair, June 25th 1905, 'Mr. Baring's excellent book is full of things that are interesting and things that are amusing. It will enable the reader to understand Russian character, and see as much as one man can show of the great war in its actuality'.
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Provenance

Given by Maurice Baring to his friend, Countess Alexander Benckendorff (Sofia Petrovna), and thence by descent.

Lot Essay

Maurice Baring was war correspondent for the Morning Post when these pictures were taken. The letters he wrote from the front were published in the newspaper and subsequently formed the basis of his book With the Russians in Manchuria, published in 1905.

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