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Maybe it wasnt the sort of tale youd tell in Belfast? That was the only thing that made any sense, when I asked my granny who the woman in the painting in her Glasgow kitchen was - the woman with the red hair and the shirt and tie.

Aunt Annie.. she lived in Russia and her mans people were in oil. That was all my granny would say at first.

But how did that happen to a Belfast seamstress whose people worked in the mills? How could a woman like that meet and marry a Canadian oil millionaire? How could a woman like that end up in Russia?

Based on a true story .To Hell or Vladivostok is the tale of an Irish woman who gave up everything for love but found out, even with a fairy tale romance, in real life stories dont just end with happy ever after at the altar.

Certainly not when your real life takes you to Poland, leads you to the Eastern Front in 1914 and finds you and yer man the enemy, now battling to escape Soviet Russia in 1917 and keep together.

Author Claire Melvin studied history at the School of Slavonic And East European Studies but it was only after taking up genealogy she uncovered this story. The story of Annie Molloy her great grandmothers sister. The story of a seamstress from the Falls Road area of Belfast who fell in love, then found herself first mixing with the Polish aristocracy, fleeing the Russian army and then desperate to escape the Bolsheviks.

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Aunt Annie.. she lived in Russia and her mans people were in oil. That was all my granny would say at first.

But how did that happen to a Belfast seamstress whose people worked in the mills? How could a woman like that meet and marry a Canadian oil millionaire? How could a woman like that end up in Russia?

Certainly not when your real life takes you to Poland, leads you to the Eastern Front in 1914 and finds you and yer man the enemy, now battling to escape Soviet Russia in 1917 and keep together.

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Claire Melvin