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narrow escapes from leopards and tigers. In the fall of 1920 Yuri recorded that many bears from
Manchuria entered the Sidemi area. Yuri wrote about his hunting in his 1940 book and had hoped to write more but the manuscripts which he kept while in labour camp which weighed two pounds are thought to have been burned after his death. His son Valery also wrote about his father's hunting.
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to his father. They had to put out sheets and lights to trap insects and one of the brothers had to stand on guard with a gun at the ready. His first tiger hunt was on their
Yankovsky Peninsula with his brother and one of their workers Plato was injured when the wounded tiger attacked. He wrote of
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George's first experience with tigers was when he was taken by his father at the age of 11 to track a tiger that had killed one of their horses. In 1894 he went on a collecting expedition for butterflies to northern Korea along with his brother
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spent his summers at the resort. They also earned a living raising deer and horses as they had done before. When the
Japanese moved into the Korean region, the family supplied meat to the army. His wife died in 1936 and he married again in 1941 to Olga Petrovna Archegova from
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to his father's estate in Sidemi. Like the rest of the family, he was a keen hunter and became famous for shooting tigers that often came to prey on their horses. The
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in 1907 and they had three sons and two daughters. All the children learned to ride horses and George helped establish a race track in
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