Figure 1.--Here we see some of the older students at a school for German and Austrian imigrants to Russia located on "Kropotkin-Strasse" (Kropotkin Street) in Moscow. Notice the Communist salute.

We have some idea about what The children were wearing from available photographs. One photograph shows a class of children about 8 to 9 years old in 1936. Notice that they wear a variety of clothing. Some boys wear long trousers (notice the boy in the back row at the extreme right who wears a white shirt with rolled up sleeves. One boy sitting in the front row wears a sailor suit with short pants. Two boys sitting near him wear short pants with long dark stockings. None of the boys wears a conventional tie which, in most cases, the dark neckerchief replaces. The photograph here perhaps taken a few years before the image here shows some of the older students. They are also wearing a Pioneer group type of neckerchief instead of a tie. Some of the teenage boys are wearing caps.

Created: May 22, 2004
Last updated: May 22, 2004