Tag: Russia

Walter Coleman and the Russian Unit of the American Relief Administration

by Thomas Schwartz, posted in Food Relief, Herbert Hoover, Museum News

By Thomas F. Schwartz Commemorative leather portfolio given to Walter Coleman. HHPLM object #2026.1.1 Darryl Byrd, great-niece of Walter Coleman, recently donated an elaborately decorated folio case presented by local officials to Coleman for his services to the Kirghiz District in the remote southeastern Russia during the 1921-1923 famine. The leather case has inscriptions in … Continue reading Walter Coleman and the Russian Unit of the American Relief Administration

The Gift of Corn: Iowan Humanitarian Aid to Russia in the Famine of 1891-1892

by US National Archives, posted in Food Relief

Guest post by Olga Ovcharskaia, PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literature, Stanford University In January 1892, the people of Iowa read an appeal by the newly established Iowa Russian Famine Relief Committee: “While our granaries are loaded to bursting and our railways are blocked with grain trains, across the ocean, hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading The Gift of Corn: Iowan Humanitarian Aid to Russia in the Famine of 1891-1892