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Women in Kiev Monastery

2008-1306-09
Accession Number
2008-1306-09
1x1.5
Black & White
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NAID 350477910
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Women
Monasteries
HST Keywords
Russia
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Description
Exterior view which contains 4 unidentified Russian women taken in Kiev during Harriman's 1959 Russian trip. Believed to have been taken at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery. The Thayer account reads: "the courtyard was filled with old women collecting holy water in bottles..." 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. Original 35mm negative.
Date(s)
May 24, 1959