| Sidorov Sergei Stepanovich. Born 1873. He was a peasant in the village of Nezhino in Nikol'sk- Ussuriisk uezda Primor'ye oblast. In Vladivostok he signed a contract with a Japanese owner of a fishing business in Kamchatka and worked there. He had to travel to Japan to see this owner to receive his salary. In Japan he lived six years as an acrobat in a circus and cinemas. In 1910 he joined a group of Russian emigrants who stopped in Kobe and came to Hawaii. He worked on plantations on all islands, but eventually became a tramp |
