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W. Averell Harriman and Charles W. Thayer Visiting Moscow University During 1959 Trip to Soviet Union

2008-1342
Accession Number
2008-1342
4.75x7
Black & White
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NAID 350477710
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Diplomats
Journalists
Students
Universities and colleges
HST Keywords
Russia; Soviet Union
People Pictured
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
Thayer, Charles Wheeler, 1910-1969
Petrovsky, Ivan Georgievich, 1901-1973
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Description
Interior view with a group of men and students seated around a circular table. W. Averell Harriman is seated just to the left of the vase on the table. Ivan Petrovsky, Rector of Moscow University, is to the right of Harriman and Charles Thayer is on the left. Inscription of back of photograph reads: "Gov. Harriman, Rector Petrovski and other members of university faculty talking to U.S. students currently studying at Moscow University." Photograph taken during Harriman's 1959 trip to the Soviet Union. Charles W. Thayer accompanied 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 18, 1959