Re: VMs: Cat and Mouse or Tiger and Sable

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Well, yes, I does seem strange, but I wouldn't be surprised in the least if 
there were a connection here. We really don't know much about the extent of 
his "imprisonment". I believe he attempted to escape twice, being only 
successful on the third attempt. There was a large contingent of Polish 
exiles in Irkutsk at the time. They even built a Catholic Polish church 
there. Voynich befriended at least one family there, and I am beginning to 
think that he may have also had distant relatives there. There true reasons 
for the connection, if there is one, are unknown. Perhaps he was poking fun 
back to the Russians? Who knows?

Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Pelling" <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Cat and Mouse or Tiger and Sable


> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks Dana for the Irkutsk connection - all the same, perhaps I've got it
> wrong but surely it would be just a little strange for a revolutionary to
> want to deliberately associate himself with civic heraldry of the Russian
> empire? Something to think about... :-)
>
> At 22:53 08/08/2004 +0200, Jean-Yves Artero wrote:
> >This is interesting, perhaps Sessa s family was originating from Irkutsk?
> >Many thanks for this.
>
> All the pages put the earliest known date for the Irkutsk heraldry as 
> 1790,
> which is some 300 years too late for IBS. OK, it's possible but... not 
> very
> probable. :-/
>
> I suspect the real answers may lie with WMV's lost partner, Mr Edgell...
> but that's another story. :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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