Abkhazia is a very small country (population 245k) on the Black Sea (wedged between Russia and Georgia). Prince Nicholas of Abkhazia was living in exile in Paris in 1922 where he had fled from the Bolshevik revolution, when he met Peggy Pemberton-Carter. They spent some time together and then kept up correspondence afterwards. During WWII, Prince Nicholas joined the French army and was captured. Peggy spent the war in captivity in Shanghai. After the war they decided to get together in New York, got married and moved to Victoria where they spent the next 40 years tending the the gardens on their 1 acre property. The property was bought by the Land Cpnservatory of British Columbia in 2000 and the home is now a tea house. Of course at this time of year there isn’t much of a garden – nice lunch and tea though.
WR Foster 