ABSTRACT
American surgeons and nurses provided treatment and care, and members of the American colony organized field trips to the islands in the Neva Delta and outings on steamers. Financial statements available to contributors and analyzed the Christian Advocate. Mrs. Mary Alice Doyle Marye, and later presided over by Helen Fessenden Meserve, the spouse of the director of the National City Bank of New York. Finally, Simons paid homage to the American Hospital in Petrograd, which was allied other city infirmaries. The American Hospital operated almost entirely on donations from American residents of the capital, becoming known as the City Hospital of the American Colony. The American Methodist Episcopal Chapel in Petrograd provided funds for medical supplies and donated book-binding equipment. The outbreak of World War I marked a perceptible rapprochement between the two countries, generating increasing interest in Russia within all strata of American society, including business interests, journalists, missionaries, philanthropists, and academics.
