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Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Mamaroneck, NY: Midatlantic Review, 1975. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 72pp. Crease to top fore-edge corner of front cover and first few leaves, else Very Good or better. Scarce inaugural issue of this poetry journal co-edited by future Poet Laureate Billy Collins, preceding his first published collection by two years.…

Five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, mount sizes 101 x 63 mm (1) and 105 x 63 mm (4); one with the back mark of H. H. Baily, Hobart and four with the back mark of S. Spurling, Hobart; the versos have fully contemporary inscriptions written in ink or pencil, identifying the sitters (one is inscribed by Captain Balck, and the others possibly by Florence Gresley - see below); in addition, four of the cartes are accompanied by a section cut from their original album window mount, also bearing contemporary captions (these are written in the hand of the original owner of the album); the prints are all in good condition, some with light mottling in the negative or slight loss of contrast; the mounts are clean and stable. Provenance: From an album associated with the Lempriere and Gresley families of Hobart. In 1870, the Russian naval corvette Boyarin (or Boiarin) became the first Russian naval vessel to visit Tasmania since the frigate Kreiserand sloopLadogahad called at Hobart Town in May-June 1823. TheBoyarin, like its much earlier predecessors, spent more than two weeks in port. The ship's officers treated their sojourn in Hobart as an opportunity to improve diplomatic relations between Russia and the colonies. In scenes that echoed the generally enthusiastic reception given to the officers and crew of the CSS Shenandoah during its surprise appearance at Melbourne in 1865, they were warmly received by the Tasmanian public, and numerous public engagements - including a ball at Government House and a concert at the Town Hall - were staged in their honour. The citizens of Hobart were invited to take conducted tours of the ship. As a result of the officers' cordial demeanour and willingness to socialise, much of the fear and mistrust that had surrounded the question of Russian imperial ambitions in the Pacific - tensions which had lingered since the Crimean War era - was rapidly dispelled. Conversely, the Russian visitors were able to observe at first hand the workings and attitudes of this British colonial society on the edge of the Southern Ocean, and to attempt to interpret the murkier aspects of its young history - namely, the treatment of the island's indigenous people, and of its convict population. Four of these portraits of officers from the Boyarin were taken in the Murray Street studio of Stephen Spurling. The sitters are: Commander Balck; Lieutenants Linden and Kochukoff; and paymaster Birileff. The most significant of these men - although not the highest in rank - is Lieutenant Vilgelm Andreevich Linden, who had two accounts of his time in Hobart published in Russia shortly after his return there (see below). The fifth portrait is of Midshipman Baron Stackelberg, and was taken in Henry Hall Baily's Liverpool Street studio. Captain Balck inscribed his own name in both Cyrillic and Roman script, along with the year, on the back of his portrait, while the other inscriptions on the backs were possibly written by Florence Gresley (1852-1940), daughter of Hobart J.P. Nigel Gresley, Esq., as three also bear the name 'Florry' in the same handwriting as the officer's name. The person to whom these cartes were presented (or someone closely associated with them, who was almost certainly a member of the well-connected Lempriere or Gresley families), added his or her own captions to four of the window mounts, and thankfully these have been preserved. In these captions, the somewhat exotic title Monsieur is given to both Lieutenants Linden and Kochukoff, while Balck and Stackleberg (sic) are Captain and Baron, respectively. We believe that these portraits were private photographs presented personally to the album's owner by the Russian officers as souvenirs of the Boyarin's visit to Hobart, and that they were not commercial cartes de visite marketed by either Spurling or Baily. Perhaps Florence Gresley met the officers at the ball in Hobart, where she obtained these portraits? Tasmanian Archives (Libraries Tasmania) holds the only copies of four of these cartes de visite which we have been able to trace in Australian collections: the portraits of Linden, Birileff and Balck (by Spurling), and Stackelberg (by Baily). We have not been able to trace any other surviving copy of the carte de visite portrait of Lieutenant Kochukoff, or of any other photographic portraits of the Boyarin's crew taken while the ship was in Hobart in 1870, although it may be the case that, while other examples do exist, the sitters have never been properly identified. The following is an extract from Elena Govor's essay,Tasmania through Russian eyes, published in Tasmanian Historical Research Association. Papers and Proceedings, vol. 37, no. 4, 1990, pp. 150-164: 'In 1870, after a long interval, a Russian ship appeared once more in Tasmanian waters. This was the corvetteBoyarin, commanded by Vasily Fedorovich Serkov, en route from Adelaide to Sydney. The captain's report contained nothing of interest about the ship's stay in Hobart. However, three crew members ? Lieutenants Vilgelm Andreevich Linden, Alexander Egorovich Konkevich and Cadet llya Andreevich Boratynski ? left recollections of their visit. Their writings are not of equal interest, but together give a valuable picture of life in Hobart in 1870. Most interesting is Linden's account, which is in two parts: a description of their stay in the port, their reception and meeting with local residents; and a general survey of Tasmania, based on information he was able to gather during his stay [see V.V. Linden, 'In the Pacific Ocean (from the circumnavigation of the Boyariri),Vestnik Evropy, 1871, no.7, pp. 121-71. Even earlier was his short description 'Hobart-town, Tasmania', inKronstadtskii vestnik, 1870, no. 100]. The townspeople gave the Russian ship a very warm and friendly welcome. The ship stayed in Hobart nearly three weeks, from 13 (25) May to 31 May (12 June). On the very first day, when theBoyarinwas open to the public, there were some 200.…