[WWI] Report from Russia.1

[Douglas Anderson]

Welcome back KAren.
  Thanks for the insites

Karen Rychlewski <krychski at earthlink.net> wrote:
  Hi All

Am recently returned from two weeks in Ukraine, plus two weeks in 
Russia, sailing down the waterways from St. Petersburg to Rostov-on- 
Don. Interesting trip, being one of only seven people having English 
as their native language amongst 25 Russians, 25 or 30 French, and 
100 or so Germans. In between all the churches, monasteries, left- 
over statues of Lenin, and monuments to the Great Patriotic War (now 
more commonly called World War II), I managed to stumble over a few 
items of OT interest. At some point in the future, all the photos 
from the trip will eventually appear on my website, but I thought 
y'all might be interested in these few.
Seems that an early Russian aviator, Petr Nikolaevich Nesterov, was 
born in Nizhny Novgorod and there is a rather weather-worn monument 
to him in a park in the city. He was a fearless, some would say 
reckless, flyer and designer of aircraft; he was killed when he fell 
out of a Morane-Saulnier G after ramming it into a pesky German 
Albatros on August 26, 1914--history's first Kamikaze pilot, perhaps. 
Attached are two photos of the monument for your viewing pleasure, 
and a second message will have two more photos.

Karen Ivanova



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