RE: [Cz-L] The Revolution Comes to Czernowitz!

Berti...

Thank you so much for your mail and your well-founded comment. Let me take this opportunity to release Yvonne's comment on this subject(s) as follows:

"Hallo, this is Yvonne Hirdman writing - interesting remarks! As far as I know, my grandfather, the third man in the first line of the sitting soliders from the right,  (hope you got that right!) was a german solider - that is all I know and my assumption was that he fought for the Central powers - he was accused of cooperationg with the enemy (the russians), as I write in my book, but was released because there was no proof - it is dramatically described by my grandmother - I don´t know anything about any support though, Edgar must have missunderstood me on that point best regards. Yvonne Hirdman"

Of course, Yvonne and Cornel, both of you are right, that are Russian soldiers on that photo and in fact, Yvonne, I have misunderstood your preliminary posting. Sorry for confusion!

As you know, I've posted the four "revolutionary" photos at my Edgar Hauster Blog

http://hauster.blogspot.de/2012/11/october-revolution-in-czernowitz.html

but in addition at Livejournal:

http://gr-czernowitz.livejournal.com/3245970.html
http://gr-czernowitz.livejournal.com/3245676.html
http://gr-czernowitz.livejournal.com/3245549.html
http://gr-czernowitz.livejournal.com/3244951.html

http://gr-czernowitz.livejournal.com/3244638.html

The photos raised a huge number of - without exception - positive comments, as they are real treasures; once again thank you so much Yvonne. As far as I understand (GoogleTranslate) alexgrein's last comment on the first photo (23.11.2012 10:52:09 Local), at least this one is dated 15.03.1917.

Warmest wishes to all of you, thank you for the excellent teamwork and sorry again for confusion!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

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> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:05:47 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] The Revolution Comes to Czernowitz!
> From: berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com
> To: bconcept_at_hotmail.com
> CC: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu; yvonne.hirdman_at_historia.su.se
>
> Czernowitz was liberated from the "Third Russian Invasion" on the
> 03/08/1917 so the picture of the revolution - it was mainly the
> Menshevik one - can't be dated November 1917.
> Reading the "Allgemeine Zeitung" from 28/08/1917 that reappeared in
> Czernowitz the article about Russian times under first Czarist and
> from March/April 1917 Kerenski government it was on the 23/4 1917 that
> the local Russian army regiment officially rebelled (on the
> Austriaplatz) and decided to adhere to the revolution. So probably the
> photo is from that day or near it in time.
>
> In the Vama picture most are Russians. Prisoners? Probably decided not
> to fight the Czarist war any more.
>
> To anyone who reads German best information about that period - go to
> the "Allgemeine Zeitung" through Edgar's site and get a good picture
> of Cz. during WWI.
>
> Berti.
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Czernowitzers...
> >
> > I'd like to share with you six more outstanding photos, brought to you by courtesy of Prof. Yvonne Hirdman, the renowned Swedish historian at Stockholm University and author of the book "Meine Mutter, die Gräfin - Ein Jahrhundertleben zwischen Kommunismus und Bohème" [My Mother, the Countess - A Centenary Life Between Communism and Bohemianism].
> >
> > The first four photos are showing the "homemade" October Revolution in Czernowitz. It could be spring or November 1917. Yvonne's guess is spring 1917, do you know better? You are discovering the Magen David while looking for the revolutionary red star? It's Czernowitz, not Moscow or St. Petersburg!
> >
> > http://hauster.blogspot.de/2012/11/october-revolution-in-czernowitz.html
> >
> > Just a few miles/kilometres away, we find the Austro-Hungarian troops at Marmonita, posing for a group photo, among them Yvonne's grandfather.
> >
> > http://gr-czernowitz.livejournal.com/3244638.html
> >
> > Finally, I've updated the posting "The Oldest Bookstore in Radautz"
> >
> > http://ehpes.com/blog1/2012/11/15/the-oldest-bookstore-in-radautz/
> >
> > by adding a wonderful, poetic, pictorial photo of Yvonne's grandmother Emilie Schledt. Thank you so much, Yvonne!
> >
> >
> > Edgar Hauster
> > Lent - The Netherlands
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