W. Averell Harriman Visiting With Nikita Khrushchev During 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union
Interior view, believed to have been taken in a room in the Kremlin in Moscow as W. Averell Harriman is meeting Nikita Khrushchev before formal talks begin. The men in the photograph are left to right: Yuri Zhukov, W. Averell Harriman, and Nikita Khrushchev. Harriman's account of the visit can be found in Life Magazine, July 13, 1959, p. 33-36. 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).