Matilda Helps Mikhail In New Alaska
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An English widow arrives in the remote Alaskan Territories soon after it was handed over to America, to meet her bear of a Russian husband and make a new life with him. She doesn’t realize how rich his past and the village history is, until something happens later that makes her wonder what on earth she’s doing there.
Joyce Melbourne
Joyce Melbourne lives in Southern California with her husband, numerous animals, and an unkempt garden, which she loves. She's been interested in romance and all of its sub genres for many years.
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Matilda Helps Mikhail In New Alaska - Joyce Melbourne
Matilda Helps Mikhail In New Alaska
By
Joyce Melbourne
Copyright 2015 Classic Western Romances Presents
Synopsis: An English widow arrives in the remote Alaskan Territories soon after it was handed over to America, to meet her bear of a Russian husband and make a new life with him. She doesn’t realize how rich his past and the village history is, until something happens later that makes her wonder what on earth she’s doing there.
The air was colder than usual in the October when Matilda Patterson arrived in New Archangel. The ship had docked that morning and the harbormaster was busy checking all the freight on it as the passengers embarked down the pier. It had been a short trip from Vancouver, but not comfortable. Matilda, known as Mattie to her friends, was feeling sick all the way up. She suspected why, but didn’t want to talk about it to anyone.
Her husband, a sea captain on a schooner, had failed to return after the last voyage to Australia. He joined the others in the royal cemetery for marines lost at sea. Friends and neighbors had done what they could to help her, but her funds were running short and a return to her native England appeared to be the only recourse. She didn’t want to burden her family in Liverpool, but it appeared she might not have any options.
One day, as she tried to figure out when her money would run out and why she was feeling sick, Mattie found a newspaper from the Alaskan colony up north. It was on the steps out in front of the house she and the captain had rented after he was sent to the Vancouver with the navy. The paper had a small matrimonial section for men seeking wives. There were few women in the former Russian colony of New Archangel and there would be less now that the Russian government was pulling out. The Empire of Russia had sold it to the yanks down south for a paltry sum.
Most of the Russian trappers and fur traders were headed back across the Pacific, but some had chosen to stay and accept the new government. The paper had a section for some of the Russian men seeking good brides with suitable Christian morals and the ability to work on a farm. Mattie had come of age in a city, but visited her relatives in the English countryside whenever her father could afford to send them. She decided to take her chances and began a correspondence with one of the men who had listed his desire for a woman of child bearing years
in the paper.
The man’s name was Mikhail Petrovko, the resident of a small community further in land than Archangel. He was a woodcutter and logger by profession. He had lived in Alaska all his live since the time it was called New Russia. He hunted in the winter and cut timber in the warmer months. A good Christian of the Russian church, he had helped fund his local parish when the money from Moscow had not arrived on time. The picture he sent was of a man wearing a Russian style blouse standing next to a settlement near a river. He had a full beard and dark piercing eyes.
It took a few months, but Mattie finally agreed to be his wife. Her money was just about gone and she used the funds he sent her to purchase a ticket on a steamer bound for the north. Her