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Kellogg Durland (1881-1911) was an American social worker and writer born in New York City. In1901 he worked for four months as a coal miner in Scotland to study mining conditions at first-hand, publishing Among the Fife Miners in 1904. From 1904-05 he became an assistant at University Settlement, New York, and went on to give lectures on events and conditions in Russia after spending a year in that country gathering information. His book The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia was published in 1908. In 1907 he had been commissioned by the Woman's Home Companion to write the story of the early days, courtship and marriage of Alexandra, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, and the same journal went on to request similar accounts relating to Queen Elena of Italy and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. He was given access to the royal courts in each of these three countries and this book published in 1911 expands on the original magazine articles. Illustrated with photographs. In November 1911 Durland committed suicide by taking cyanide of potassium.

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