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Gerhard Priess family fonds Chortitza Colony (Russia)
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Portrait of three Priess sisters

Portrait of three Priess sisters

This photograph of three Priess sisters was taken in 1910 as is impressed on the picture in the bottom right corner. The sisters (l-r) are Aganetha, Katharina, and Anna. All three girls are wearing necklaces, Katharina is wearing two. Anna on the right is wearing a lightly patterned dress and a contrasting coloured belt. The the two are wearing white blouses and dark skirts. Aganetha is holding a notebook. All three have their hair pinned up indicating they no longer are little girls but young ladies.
Alexandrovsk if printed in bottom right corner.
This photograph on grey cardboard is identical to 733-3 which has the date 1911 imprinted on it.

Kogan, Ber (Alexandrovsk)

Priess family correspondence

The letters are mostly concerned with the day-to-day activities of the writers, as well as events that might hold personal significance for them or for Peter; they mention everything from daily work and birthdays or funerals, to mass travel to Moscow for passports and the arrests of male family members by Russian authorities. Also included are a number of postcards that were sent to Peter in the 1930s, and a songbook belonging to Anna Janzen (1889-1977), Peter’s maternal aunt. The main letter writers include Brother Gerhard Priess (1898-1935), sister Katharina Priess (1903-1981) who moved to Nowo-Sibirsk, sister Maria Glasner (1911-1987) who moved to Nowo-Sibirsk, and cousin Käthe Dyck (1910-) who moved to Nowo-Sibirsk.

Glasner, Maria (Priess), 1911-1987