Photo of 3 Red Army Officers Including Boris Polevoy, famous war correspondent and book writer, late 1941 - early 1942.
Measures 4" x 3", printed on cardboard textured matte photo paper. The photo presents three Red Army officers posing for the camera outside of a peasant's house. The officer on the right is Boris Kampov, known to every Soviet citizen under his pseudonym Boris Polevoy. In this photo Polevoy is wearing the insignia of a battalion commissar, the rank equal to major. The handwritten inscription on the verso identifies the person on the left as M. Kuklin, but leaves a question mark regarding the officer in the center.
In good condition. The photo is a bit underdeveloped, and there is a
Measures 4" x 3", printed on cardboard textured matte photo paper. The photo presents three Red Army officers posing for the camera outside of a peasant's house. The officer on the right is Boris Kampov, known to every Soviet citizen under his pseudonym Boris Polevoy. In this photo Polevoy is wearing the insignia of a battalion commissar, the rank equal to major. The handwritten inscription on the verso identifies the person on the left as M. Kuklin, but leaves a question mark regarding the officer in the center.
In good condition. The photo is a bit underdeveloped, and there is a vertical crease in the middle. However, the image is reasonably focused and provides a nice opportunity to put a face to the name known to millions of Soviet citizens since their childhood.
Boris Polevoy entered WW2 as a correspondent of the Pravda newspaper. In 1943, he met with Alexey Maresyev, a fighter pilot whose story Polevoy immortalized in his 1946 novella "Story About A Real Man", recording the incredible heroism of Maresyev. Downed by enemy fire, Maresyev's plane crashed in the woods. With both legs severely damaged, Maresyev stumbled, then crawled, and then rolled in the snow towards the frontlines for eighteen days. Some villagers along the way sheltered him and provided elementary first aid. Eventually, he returned to the Red Army positions and was hospitalized. Both his feet had to be amputated, lost to wounds and frostbite. But Maresyev firmly believed that he would fly again. After long months of convalescence and rehabilitation, walking on specially made prostheses, he passed the medical commission and was allowed to fly again and to return to combat duty as a fighter pilot.
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