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various cities and lines of work
Members of Bard’s family and his wife’s family worked at various times at many trade including as jewelers, watch-makers, opticians, furriers, musicians and music teachers, doctors, pharmacists, bookkeepers, dance instructors, and timber merchants: members lived at various points in Warsaw, Moscow, Sebastopol, Chita, Beirut, Aleppo, Berlin, Harbin, Shanghai, Riga, Nice, London, New York, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Sydney, and of course Hong Kong.
Chita, an important railroad junction
Here’s a simple map showing where Chita is and its position on the Trans-Siberian RR, going in one direction back to Moscow and St. Petersburg, and in the other at the junction of two lines, one going across the rest of Russia to Vladivostok and one going southeast to Harbin, where it connected to the Chinese railway system.
(Source: Trans-Siberian Express)
Chinese Eastern Railway
Here’s a map showing the Chinese Eastern Railway as it existed in the early 20th century showing the crucial position of Harbin, the links to Russia, and the links to southern Manchuria, Beijing, etc. (The one thing that does not look the way it would have in that period is that whoever drew the map has put in the names of North Korea and South Korea, along with border between them. Until 1945 the peninsula was the Japanese colony of Korea, with non N/S border)
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(Source: Wikimedia Commons)
