A square double-sided straw fan with interwoven green silk threads. The weave is backed with red and grey foil with floral ornaments. The edges are covered with black satin, 2 cm each. Coloured fabric fragments are sewn along the edge of the fan. The fan was presented together with a letter from P. Mukherjee, a member of the Democratic Youth Federation of India to the Stalingrad Komsomol, dated September 11, 1953: “I give this fan, made by a peasant girl who wanted this gift to be given to the fighting Stalingrad youth, about whom peasants sing songs during the harvest”.
Hand fan
India ,
10.09.1953
МЗСБ КП 4908/1 П 161
33 х 33 cm
Stroh, Stoff, Folie, Weben, Nähen
A gift from the Indian delegation at the IV World Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest, which visited Stalingrad on 10.09.1953, Bihar State, Patna
See also
A napkin
The United Kingdom ,
15.11.1951
A napkin
A gift from a group of communist women from the Association of the 8th of March in the city of Coventry given to the people from Stalingrad during their visit to the UK, November 15 – December 7, 1951.
The gift was handed over to the museum in 1951 by T.S. Murashkina, the chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Yermansky district.
The UK, The West Midlands, the city of Coventry
