1917 Photo Postcard - Comments, Please

[checkit]

A friend in Kiev sent me this wonderful photo. If anyone has comments, I would like to know more about it.

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[leibermuster]

That is a great photo, the gentleman on the right should be a model!
It looks like this was taken in Rostov. The mix of Tsarist and civilian outfit makes me think it is an early white army pic or possibly a wartime unit that is out of the line.

[Gordon Craig]

Don,

Interesting picture. Obviously wartime as it is dated 1 November 1917. The writing on the back indicates three brothers in the photo and a Russian friend. Only the Russian's names is written in Cyrillic. The other three come from a country that writes their last names first. Now to figure out what country would have three brothers in Russia during the first world war.

Regards,

Gordon

[Komandir RKKA]

The picture is not war related.
These men are not brothers (all have different sernames)- just friends stadied in same institute or technical school (because of students uniform)