These Russian women of Poltova are enjoying the fete which followed by the liberation of their city from Bolshevik rule. They are quite overcome with merriment at the idea of being photographed by the Americans. They much more selfconscious than the men. Gay as these women may be, three hundred yards from where they stand is a garden where officials of the Denikine Governement are excavating the pits which a fortnight ago were filled with the victims of the Bolshevik reign of terror
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Group title: General, Russia.
On caption card: (10332)
Used in: Major Dexter Slides.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 11
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
Poltava
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html