Imperial Russia Old Russian photos

[Carol I]

I would appreciate your help with translating the text on these old photographs, as well as any other details you could provide. Thank you in advance.

[Carol I]

What kind of uniforms are these? High school? Civil service?

[Carol I]

[Carol I]

[JapanX]

Post #2

High -school/student uniforms

Text reads

Chronicle of 1915

In times of "great European war"

In memory of sad separation in this bright and warm May we decided to take a picture of ourselves;

before long this short-term friendship died away.

Ivan Vasilievich Roshko, Peter Timofeevich Vishievsky and M.M.Golovetz

Edited September 27, 2014 by JapanX

[JapanX]

Post #1

1912 (naturally )

M.M. Golovetz (or Glovetz)

[JapanX]

Post #3

May of 1915

m. Uf??? Kop. (name of the place, but I can`t read it)

Peter Timofeevich Vishievsky and M.M.Golovez

[JapanX]

Post #4

Horizontally

To Michail Michailovich

Elovazkiy

+

Adress

Vertically

Brother friend until

you will remember me as friend, and when ...

then tear it.

Peter

[Carol I]

Thank you for the translation. Too bad you could not read the town or the addresses. M. M. Glovetz lived in Romania after the 1918 union of Bessarabia and Bukovina with the country and used the name Mihail Glavatzchi. It would have been interesting to see whether he was a native of Bessarabia or of another place.

[JapanX]

Too bad you could not read the town or the addresses.

Name of the location in post #3 reads

Хот. г.

I think it stands for Khotinskiy county (Хотинский уезд)

Khotinskiy county was in Bessarabia province (Бессарабская губерния)

Some small place Efshtsy (Ефшцы) in Khotinskiy county.

[JapanX]

Map of Khotinskiy county in 1904

[Carol I]

Name of the location in post #3 reads

Хот. г.

I think it stands for Khotinskiy county (Хотинский уезд)

Khotinskiy county was in Bessarabia province (Бессарабская губерния)

Some small place Efshtsy (Ефшцы) in Khotinskiy county.

Thanks. I know where Khotyn is. In Romanian is known as Hotin and it has an old fortress of the Principality of Moldavia.

[Carol I]

Two more photos surfaced from the Bessarabian branch of the family. I would appreciate if you can help with a translation of the written legend on the back of one of them.

P.S. I am a rather disconcerted by how quickly the time passes. I thought I posted the previous pictures only a couple of years ago, only to discover that almost 5 years have passed.

[Egorka]

Inscription: 

I present this photo card to dear Klavusya for good memory of my little sister Liza.

Devoted to you Mishunya. 

Signature

28 June 1915

village Ryshkovka.

Klavusya = Klavdiya ; Mishunya = Mikhail

[Carol I]

Thanks a lot Egorka! It seems that Mihail Glavatzchi's sister, Liza, worked as a nurse in the Ryshkovka (army?) hospital during the war.

[Bayern]

Hello, the man seated on the first photo wears the typical russian doctors hospital robe with short or rolledup sleeves