Paul T. Sbroueff Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - 1923
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1910/IV 23. My Dear Mister Hardesty! I beg your pardon, that I dare write to you. Perhaps my letter is bad written, perhaps I am forgotten by you, but I should like to know - where you reside now, and when did you return from the captives of Germany? Will you remember for me? (Perhaps it is righter to write so: Will you recollect for me - I do not know how I must write this). I am sorry that I lerned English in captivis so badly. There was a time when I could do it. And here I have nobody who can speak English. Do you remember that you and I we both lived at the town "Villingen". I was Armed friend of you. You were there my teacher in English, but we lived there a little time only during six months. You were there highly
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esteemed by me, and you are now. I have not forgotten you and thank you with all pleasure. If my letter will come to you then I shall be content for it and have much I shall be glad and grateful to receive from you the letter! Will you have the goodness do it? Let me have this pleasure - give me the informations of your Say me, please, how are you living there? Do you not know that by us America was always the world full celebrity, full dignity, full all wonders? I ought to serve you all, but it is too difficult in English for me. In seconde time I will you write in French or in German as these languages I know better. Yes, mister Hardesty - write me, but only in English as I shall be capapable to understand it. As for me I am quite well now. I was returned
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from captivitis in [December] of 1918. When I saw our capitel Moscow I did not know it. It were there not woods and in the appartaments temperature was of bitter cold. The cold, the hunger, the dirst and all suckness. I departured in town Nizhniy – Novgorod but there was not better. The new government did not know what to make of it. From all misfortunes I left the town and came in the village. After this I was mobilized in the "rouge" army. The hynger and all privations produced under
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this money I can buy not more as 3 "pounds" bread (50 kilogramm) or 5 mettres of bad clothes. The teachers live in Russia now very poorly. What do the people of America think for Russia? Do you know all true? Mister Hardesty, I shall be very glad to make your aquaitance and hope that you will write me. I wish you may prosper! I present you my kind compliments Your Paul Sbroueff
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| Title | Paul T. Sbroueff Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - 1923 |
| Creator | Sbroueff, Paul T. |
| Source | Sbroueff, Paul T. Letter to John Franklin Hardesty. 1923. John Franklin Hardesty Papers, 1867-2007. A2293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | John Franklin Hardesty entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps and volunteered to serve as a surgeon with the British Army during WWI. In March of 1918, he was captured by Germans in Amiens, France. Hardesty was imprisoned at Ratstatt and Villingen Prisoner of War Camps for eight months. Hardesty corresponded with the men he was imprisoned with for many years after their release from prison. In this letter, Paul T. Sbroueff of Russia wrote Hardesty about his experiences since his release from Villingen Prisoner of War Camp. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--Germany; World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2239 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | 1923 |
| Language | English |