Paul T. Sbroueff Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - August 4, 1933
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Krasnie Baki Gorkovsky Krai. P.T. Sbroueff August 4th 1933 My dear Friend: I received the letter you sent me dated 14th July on 31th July 1933. I thank you very much for your good wishes and for your kindness to send me "Saturday Evening Post" wich I received 4 numbers of July. It is a very interesting reading for me. I read it with great pleasure particularly the short stories and articles. Just now I and my wife both have our two months holidays and we have few time for reading. It is true that we must a great deal to work during our vacation - to grow the vegetables, to cut fuel- wood for resale cold winter etc. I am very glad to hear that you and
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your family are well and that conditions are improving somewhat there, I hope it will be and further. I have done order to be sent to you our newspapers in English "Moscow Daily News" but sorry till now I could not receive any reply from office I send to you a little cutting from this paper On publishes this paper here for English-speaking of workers and specialists who entered in USSR for work in many branches of industry I stop here and will hear from you soon. Were you not at "Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago"? They write that too much people visite it everyday. With best regards to you and and your family from me and mine, I am very thankful P. Sbroueff
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| Title | Paul T. Sbroueff Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - August 4, 1933 |
| Creator | Sbroueff, Paul T. |
| Source | Sbroueff, Paul T. Letter to John Franklin Hardesty. 04 August 1933. 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; Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2239 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | August 4, 1933 |
| Language | English |