Review of the Personal Provenance Photo Document Archive of Warrant Medical Officer M.A. Latyshev of the Period of World War I from the Fonds of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents
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Chertilina M.A.,
Krasnogorsk, Russian Federation
Review of the Personal Provenance Photo Document Archive of Warrant Medical Officer M.A. Latyshev of the Period of World War I from the Fonds of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents
Annotation
Even as the interest to history of World War I grows worldwide and new audiovisual sources are being introduction into scientific use, the issue using these documents not only as supporting data, but, first and foremost, as a research subject is still relevant. This article reviews the personal provenance photo document fond of warrant medical officer M.A. Latyshev, dating from the period World War I and archived in the Russian State Archive for Film and Photographic Documents. Photo documents are divided into topical units, which are to be analyzed separately: portrait photographs of the Red Cross vanguard military members; group photos of the nurses with the Red Cross vanguard military members and the wounded; medical activities of the Red Cross vanguard; life of military men of the Red Cross vanguard; the war. This review aims to analyze the content of these photo sources and to discover a new outlook on the war to see the history of war from the view point of its participant – a man, to uncover new research subjects.
Keywords
Russian State Archive for Film and Photographic Documents (RGAKFD), World War I, photo documents.
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About author
Chertilina Marina Anatolevna, Russian State Archives of Film and Photographic Documents (RGAKFD), chief specialist, Krasnogorsk, Russian Federation, 8-495-564-27-26; 8-905-534-35-72, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it