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W. Averell Harriman Visiting Russian Stud Farm

2008-1287
Accession Number
2008-1287
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350477626
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Diplomats
Farms
Horses
HST Keywords
Russia
People Pictured
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
Matskevich, Vladimir
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Description
View of former New York governor and diplomat W. Averill Harriman, second from left, and Soviet Minister of Agriculture, Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich, on the right. Others in view not identified. Believed to have been taken at state stud farm near Moscow. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.
Date(s)
May 14, 1959