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11-29-2007, 07:57 PM | #1 |
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An Email I received from a visitor, Khruschev awarded Order of Lenin
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I received this email a few days ago. I didn't edit for spelling.. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "david xxxxxxx" <xxxx@hotmail.co.uk> > To: "Webmaster" <xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 6:22 PM > Subject: Message from the Feedback Form: order of lenin 1936 awarderd to my wifes grandfather > > > > dear sir i am sorry to bother you my wifes grandfather was awarded the order of lenin in 1936 by nakita crushchev in moscow his name was shnitco nicolai grigoievich, my wifes father donated the medal and documents to the lenin musem in moscow many years ago i understand that this musuem is now closed .would their be any way you thinck that i could find what happend to his medal as i would like a photocopy of the papers just to show to his grate granddaughters could you please advise what course my wife and i should take my wife still speas russuan i wonder if you could help us best regards and respects elwyn &svietlana Jxxxxx I did not have any ideas how to help. After trying to explain as sympathetically as possible, he replied: dear sir the medal was awarded to him for saving some treasures from the german army in a library some ware and kruscheves wife nominated him herself i would be grateful if you could post on your web site a request for information my wife was told that here father only sent the certificate to the lenin museum in red square 16 years ago . so! some ware i have yet to ascertain were in my wife's family is a 1936 order of lenin she stated today that she remembers playing with them as a toddler as her grandmother was very poor and didn't have any toys just these medals witch she used to play with . i would be most grateful for photocopies of any newspaper clippings or anything really ?is it possible to get replicas of these orders of lenin ? i would be grateful for any advice that you could give to me the truly sad thing is that his son sold the document for the price of a bottle of vodka ! yours faithfully David Elwyn Jxxxxxx So fellow members, anything we can do for this gentleman? Please either post here or PM me. I told him I could post this for him and we might get a few ideas. Art
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