Were men somewhat younger in coats that disclosed Russian shirts. It was just such clothes that prerevolutionary Russian workers wore on a holiday. But the strongest impression of all was made by the women. We wanted to rub our eyes just to make sure that such women could exist in the year 1935 and not only somewhere in some old forsaken Russian hole but in the petrol and electric San Francisco at the other end of the world. Among them we saw Russian peasant women white-faced and pink-cheeked in... read more
