An Essay on why some East Slavs from Galicia and Upper Hungary became Russians in the USA

Abstrakt

An e-mail in Spring 2018 about a commemoration regarding the Russian Imperial Family promoted some speculation on this writer’s part about where the “Russians” of the USA had come from. This article is essay format because the topic, as this writer approaches it, is based on personal observations over a 60-year period. While there are citations to several major sources, this story is not amenable to classical footnoting