Russian Sailors during US Civil War identified

[John Schillinger]

	Thanks to Alina Israeli and Vadim Besprozvany for solving this  
puzzle!   Since photo images can't be
sent through SEELANGS, it took some creative sleuthing!
	It turns out that it was indeed the case that the Russian Imperial  
Fleet came to the US during the Civil War on a so-called diplomatic  
friendship visit.  Among the ships at anchor in New York were two  
whose names appear on these sailors' caps,
the corvettes  Ослябя and Варягъ.  Thus the ships of the  
three sailors pictured were in the US during the Civil War, but the  
Civil War Times incorrectly identified the men as a "Trio of Union  
Tars."

	Vadim also provided a link to an American Heritage magazine article  
about the ships' visit to New York in 1863:

	http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1960/4/1960_4_38.shtml



John Schillinger
Emeritus Prof. of Russian
American University






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