Paul T. Sbroueff Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - April 7, 1934
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Krasnic Baki Gorkovski Krai USSR April 7, 1934. My dear friend: I must first apologize for not writing to you for so long a time, but due to the stress of our especial live my writing has become irregular. I do not know how I must thank you for your kindness that you are sending so interesting magazine as the Saturday Evening Post. Receiving every week one now nomber I have not time to read it through and although I meet with some difficulty by reading any articles but great lot of it I understood very well. It is for me enjoale and profitable. This magazine is also here the object of a common talk of my friends. I deeply appreciate your
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wishes to help me in my English. It is a pleasure to know you have such a nice family. It is sure that your children give you a great deal of pleasure. I send here photos of my family: myself, my wife, my wife's mother, boy of # ten and girl of five. The boy attends the elementary scholl, he is in third groupp, the girl goes in the kindergarten. I often think you and wonder how you are getting along and hope that is very well with you and with your family. Let me tell you something about myself. We both I and my wife are working in the schools. I am in the secondary school and teach algebra, geometry and trigonometry. Above this I work as correspondent in one of institute My wife teaches in the elementary school We both have too much work not only in our schools but also we must
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do every public duties. It falls also upon our shoulder all domestical work. We are very seldom visiting our friends, moving pictures. Perhaps you would be interesting in knowing how money earn we both I and my wife. I earn about 350 rubles per month and my wife about 140. But the necessary articles are now very dear. By intence the sugar cost 15 rubles per kilo, but not always one can buy it. In all papers is much talk of war What kind of leaders are they who favor a repetition of the recent horror of 1914? Each country seems suspicious of each of the others. The new war, if it only would be, will disrupt civilization to one irreparable degree. I am glad that your country and mine have made diplomatic relation more close to each other. I believe that both America and USSR wish to carry on informational commerce, promote
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amicable political relation and develop an understanding between the people of each nation. It seems that Japan is growing out her bound like wishes to make of herself one of the greatest empire on the Pacific. I think that our countries can make a stop to Japan's pride which drive her to be "second to none" Let me heare from you. I shall look forward with pleasure to hearing from you at an early date. Wit best regards to you and your family from me and mine, I am Very truly yours P Sbroueff
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| Title | Paul T. Sbroueff Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - April 7, 1934 |
| Creator | Sbroueff, Paul T. |
| Source | Sbroueff, Paul T. Letter to John Franklin Hardesty. 07 April 1934. 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 wrote Hardesty about his life in Russia. Sbroueff was a fellow prisoner at 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 | April 7, 1934 |
| Language | English |