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Unidentified Building and Grounds in Russia

2008-1789
Accession Number
2008-1789
2.75x4
Black & White
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NAID 350476066
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Statues
Construction projects
HST Keywords
Russia; Soviet Union
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Description
Partial view of a portico or entrance area to an unidentified building. Includes two statues on the top and a portion of the grounds in front. Location not given, but it may be the Rus Sanitoria located in Sochi, Russia. According to Charles Thayer's curriculum vitae: "In 1955 I made an extended tour of European and Asiatic Russia and wrote a series for the Saturday Evening Post on post-Stalinist Soviet Union." Although not identified, this photograph is believed to have been taken during that trip. Thayer visited two sanitariums while in Sochi and described them "as sumptuous as anything one could as[k] for in gaudy decoration and as tasteless. They are like immense deluxe hotels without the atmosphere."
Date(s)
ca.
1955