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Illustrations

^{The old jail (L) and the old Coahoma County Courthouse, Friars Point, Mississippi, where Lewis Thomas successfully bid on a farm in 1869, and where he and his wife, India, pursued numerous legal actions in subsequent years. (Courtesy Flo Larson, North Delta Museum, Friars Point)}

^{The Auditorium Hotel, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, where Frederick Thomas first worked as a waiter, c. 1892, now Roosevelt University. (Auditorium)}

^{Frederick Bruce Thomas, c. 1896, probably in Paris. (L, NARA II. R, courtesy Bruce Thomass)}

^{The Kremlin and Saint Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square, Moscow, as Frederick Thomas saw them, c. 1900. (Library of Congress)}

^{View of Tverskaya Street, Moscow, c. 1900, one of the main streets in the center, showing the preponderance of low buildings and horse-drawn transportation.}

^{Yar Restaurant in Moscow, one of the most famous in Russia, where Frederick Thomas worked as a maître d’hôtel and assistant to the owner, after its reconstruction in 1910.}

^{Grand Entrance to Aquarium Garden, Moscow, c. 1912, when “Thomas & Co.” took it over. (author’s collection)}

^{Frederick Thomas shortly after his marriage on January 5, 1913, to his second wife, “Valli,” with his children by his first wife, Hedwig—Irma, 4 years old, Olga, 11, and Mikhail, 6½. The other men may be his new wife’s relatives. (NARA II)}

^{Frederick Thomas (1st row, 2nd from R) with actors in Moscow’s Aquarium Garden. (Stsena i arena, May 29, 1914)}

^{“F. F. Tomas” on the eve of opening Maxim in Moscow, October 1912. (Var’ete i tsirk, October 1, 1912)}

^{Elvira Jungmann, c. 1910, a German performer who became Frederick Thomas’s mistress in Moscow and later his wife. (author’s collection)}

^{Advertisement for Maxim with “Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas” as part of the attraction, and a list of domestic and foreign variety acts, including an “Original American Negro Trio Philadelphy [sic].” (Stsena i arena, November 4, 1915)}

^{Advertisement for American heavy-weight boxing champion Jack Johnson’s exhibition fights in Moscow two weeks before the start of World War I: “‘Aquarium’ Directors F. F. Tomas and M. P. Tsarev, Appearances Beginning July 15 [O. S., July 28 N. S.], The World’s Invincible Boxer, JOHNSON.” (Stsena i arena, July 15, 1914)}

^{View of the historic Stambul quarter of Constantinople, much as Frederick Thomas saw it when he arrived in 1919.}

^{Galata Bridge, Constantinople, view from Stambul toward Galata and Pera, the European quarters of the city. (Library of Congress)}

^{Illustration of what Frederick Thomas’s first venture in Constantinople in 1919—the Anglo-American Villa, also known as the Stella Club—looked like: an open air stage with a dancer, a bandstand to the left, and civilian and Allied military clients at tables. (Al’manakh nashi dni/Almanach nos jours, no. 10, c. 1920.)}

^{Advertisement for the famous nightclub Maxim in Constantinople in the British military newspaper Orient News (April 2, 1922), announcing an American jazz band and the special status that the establishment had been granted by the British occupational forces. Frederick Thomas temporarily included the name of his older entertainment garden to ensure that his former clients would make the connection with Maxim.}