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
The United Kingdom ,
July 1946
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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Vase. A gift from the delegation of Hungarian workers to the Stalingrad headquarters of local air defense
Hungary ,
February 1956
Vase. A gift from the delegation of Hungarian workers to the Stalingrad headquarters of local air defense
The vase is painted green and gold with a hummingbird and a butterfly among leaves and flowers; on the the bottom there is the brand mark of the porcelain factory ‘Herend’ and on top of the glaze there is a ‘PH/1955’ marking printed together with crossed artistic brushes; the numbers "7182" and " 3" were printed on the raw ceramics.
The portrait of I.V. Stalin in his marshal uniform
France ,
November – December 1950
The portrait of I.V. Stalin in his marshal uniform
A gift from the France-USSR Association of the Vienne Department presented to the Soviet Delegation during the month of Franco-Soviet Friendship, organised by the France-USSR Association in November – December of 1950. France, Vienne Department, the city of Châtellerault
