The Stalingrad hospital fund album was presented in two volumes, 280 pages each. It was made in two languages, English and Russian and has a handmade leather cover and a gilt top edge. The spine with raised bands and the front cover are decorated with a stamped golden British Lion and a hammer and sickle image (the emblem of the Joint committee for Soviet aid) as well as with a five-pointed star. Endpapers have colourful coats of arms of counties, cities and organisation in the United Kingdom that participated in the ‘Stalingrad Hospital’ project. The inscription on the title page reads: ‘Stalingrad hospital fund album’, which is then followed by a foreword written by Hewlett Johnson, the chairman of the Joint Committee for the Soviet aid, Dean of Canterbury. Each page is marked by an organization or a person, who helped the ‘Stalingrad Hospital’ fund with wards and beds for the Stalingrad hospital (This album records the donators of wards and beds to the Stalingrad hospital fund). In the end of the album there is an alphabetical index of the donators.
“Stalingrad hospital” fund albums in two volumes
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МЗСБ КП 3337/1-2 П 108, 109
46 х 34 х 7,7 cm46 х 33,6 х 7,7 cm
paper, wood, leather, typographic printing, autograph, manual binding, embossing
“Stalingrad hospital” fund albums in two volumes, in English and Russian, contain a list of people and organizations that donated ward equipment and beds to the “Stalingrad Hospital” Fund. A gift from the Joint Committee for Soviet Aid to the Union, July 1946
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Statuette of the goddess Athena
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Statuette of the goddess Athena
A gift from the Greek citizen Zoe Karayani to the panorama museum "Battle of Stalingrad". The ancient Greek goddess Athena (Ἀθηνᾶ) is depicted standing at full height. She is dressed in a chiton falling down to the soles of her feet, and has a helmet on her head. She is leaning on a spear with her right hand and holding a shield with her left. The base of the sculpture is covered with orthogonal meander ornaments and has the word ‘Athena’ written on the front side of the sculpture.
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Album “Angola: Labor and Struggle” (Angola: Trabalho e luta)
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Album “Angola: Labor and Struggle” (Angola: Trabalho e luta)
Edições DIP / Berger-Levrault-Paris, 1985. A gift from the Angolan military servicemen - students of V.I. Lenin Military-Political Academy, France, Murt and Moselle Department, Nancy
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Memorial plaque “Grateful France to Stalingrad”
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Memorial plaque “Grateful France to Stalingrad”
Memorial plaque “Grateful France to Stalingrad” (À Stalingrad hommage de la France). From the record of Ch. de Gaulle [translation]: "Famous and eternal city that made the turn. France salutes it. 30.11.1944."
Present from Charles de Gaulle, the Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, who visited Stalingrad on 30.11.1944