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The chapter is dedicated to studying how “West met East” on the example of Helena Jansen and Jane Wilhelmina Greaves, the German wives of the consuls of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Great Britain in the port city of Berdyansk, situated on Ukrainian lands of the Russian Empire, in the nineteenth to early twentieth century. The role of women behind and in the official diplomatic arena has been shown. The two cases show questions about the stereotypes, representations, and identities of people of Western Europe and people of Eastern Europe; the case studies indicate the entanglement of different factors that make up identities: religion, language, culture, clothes, food, etc.

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West Meets East: The Migration Experiences of the German Wives of Western European Consuls in the Port City of Berdyansk During the Russian Empire

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    2025年

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  • Igor Lyman,
  • Victoria Konstantinova

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The chapter is dedicated to studying how “West met East” on the example of Helena Jansen and Jane Wilhelmina Greaves, the German wives of the consuls of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Great Britain in the port city of Berdyansk, situated on Ukrainian lands of the Russian Empire, in the nineteenth to early twentieth century. The role of women behind and in the official diplomatic arena has been shown. The two cases show questions about the stereotypes, representations, and identities of people of Western Europe and people of Eastern Europe; the case studies indicate the entanglement of different factors that make up identities: religion, language, culture, clothes, food, etc.