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204:, who owned 50 hectares of land. After the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks moved into the area and their lands were seized by the government. Most of the Jankowski family moved out in 1922 to settle further south in what is now North Korea. Jankowski's daughter Anna studied some medicine in Russia and became a member of the
43:, in a region now known as the Yankovsky Peninsula where he established a horse-breeding farm, reared deer for their antlers, established ginseng plantations, and became a well-known hunter and naturalist. He collected specimens of fauna and flora for museums and collectors and many species were named after him including
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closer to the coast. The brothers continued to breed Sika and reindeer, hunt, and grow ginseng. Yuri became a famous tiger hunter and wrote several books. All the children learned to ride horses and hunt. When the
Japanese took over Korea, the family earned a living by supplying fresh meat from the
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135:(born 1879) (Anglicized as George, and Yuri in Russian). He later purchased 550 hectares on the Sidemi peninsula where the family moved to in 1880. The area is now known as the Yankovsky Peninsula. His children Anna (1884), Jan (1886), Sergei (1888) and Paweł (1890) were born there.
223:(after their clan name but also meaning new place). Yuri (now increasingly better known as George) managed this as farm and as a resort which became very successful, attracting many Russian exiles in Korea and their friends. The family later also ran a second resort called
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which were much sought after in China and Korea) apart from breeding horses. He collected natural history specimens which he sent to
Russian and European museums, earning a good income from them. In 1889 he sponsored part of the museum in Vladivostok, now named after
168:. Jankowski's horses, bred for a variety of purposes, were used in the cavalry, won races, and pulled plough-shares. He later built leather factories, began a bookstore, and moved to Vladivostok in 1905. During the
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Kurtuk family and she agreed to the marriage. The couple adopted an orphan boy Andrei
Agranat on the island of Askold and then also had their own children Elżbieta (born 1878) and
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Jankowski eventually shot the chief. Jankowski's hunting exploits and brushes with the
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Church in North Korea. Translated from Новый храм Воскресения Христова в благодатной Сев. Корее," Хлеб Небесный, ном. 10, 1937
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forests and from their farm. When the Soviets invaded northern Korea in 1945, Yuri was arrested by the
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of 1863 and was captured by the Russians, and sent to Siberia. The prisoners travelled on foot from
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