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Russia Travels With digital objects
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View of city at night

Colour Anscochrome 35mm slide depicts a view of Moscow at night.

Note for this slide reads: "Moscow at nite [sic]. Hotel Russia in relation to Moscow River and [unreadable]."

Communist symbol statue

Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts a large scale monument of the Communist symbol, the hammer and sickle, superimposed over the world and flanked by sheaves of wheat. A red and white propaganda banner of Lenin is visible in the background.

Russian nesting dolls

Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts Russian nesting dolls.

Note for this slide reads: "Matryoshka dolls or 'one inside the other.' A favourite Russian souvenir in all sizes."

Government House Soviet Vierhovni [sic] Soviet

Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts a sign on the Grand Kremlin Palace, seat of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Title on slide reads "vierhovni" but should be spelled vrhovni (meaning Supreme).

Note for this slide reads: "These words are government buildings."
Note: slides following this one, but not scanned, is a photograph of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Novodevichy Convent

Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts the Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery, sometimes translated as the New Maidens' Monastery; today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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