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Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 3/18/2026 2:48 PM
Family Surname: Friedman?
Country: Ukraine
Town: Kopaigorod

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I suspect these are some sort of family document, perhaps related to them leaving Ukraine, via Romania and traveling to America...

but I could have the family wrong

Source???? in my files

Russian letter 7 page 1

Response

3/18/2026 3:47 PM

На память дорогой Гени от Баси. 29 мая 1920 года. В Пасхальные праздники.
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Шлю тебе ещё одну фотографию , дабы (чтобы) было меньше разочарований, хотя ни одна, ни другая неудачны. Тут две женщины, узнаешь какая я?
Ведь ты меня совсем не помнишь.
Друг твой Бася.
=
Штамп: «Фотографiя Розвада» к 1920 году уже был историческим пережитком.
Фотоателье Семена Михайловича Розвада в Брянске к этому времени могло быть национализировано, но фотографы часто продолжали использовать старые запасы фирменных бланков и паспарту с дореволюционными клише из-за дефицита новых материалов в годы Гражданской войны.

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= In memory of dear Genia from Basia. May 29, 1920. On Easter holidays.

= I am sending you another photo so that there will be fewer disappointments, although neither one nor the other is unsuccessful. There are two women here, do you recognize who I am? You don't remember me at all. Your friend Basia.

= Stamp: "Fotografiya Rozvada" was already a historical relic by 1920.

By this time, Semyon Mikhailovich Rozvad's photo studio in Bryansk may have been nationalized, but photographers often continued to use old stocks of letterhead forms and pastels with pre-revolutionary clichés due to the shortage of new materials during the Civil War.
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Submitted by Deborah S Friedman

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