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W. Averell Harriman With Nikita Khrushchev During 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

2008-1401-10
Accession Number
2008-1401-10
1x1.5
Black & White
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NAID 350477878
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Diplomats
Gardens
Heads of state
HST Keywords
Animals - Hedgehog; Soviet Union; Russia; Zhukov, Mr.
People Pictured
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
Kozlov, Frol Romanovich, 1908-1965
Zhukov, Yuri, 1908-1991
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Credit:
Charles W. Thayer

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Exterior view believed to have been taken in the gardens of the government's guest dacha Ogarevo located west of Moscow, Russia. Nikita Khrushchev is on the left holding a hedgehog found along the path. W. Averell Harriman is on the right and Frol Kozlov and Yuri Zhukov are in the center looking at the hedgehog. Photograph appeared with Harriman article published in Life Magazine, July 13, 1959. 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. There is a 2x2 original negative.
Date(s)
June 23, 1959