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Lovely adventure. A really nice and helpful example of how research on the internet can play out, and nice work tracking the photograph down! ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 12:00, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

• More of these! I've been trying to track down some Russian archival photos for years—hard stuff when you don't know the language. czar 02:48, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

  Aye. I can do fine with Latin scripts, but it gets a lot harder. One thing that you might not think to do is to go the Wikipedia article on the subject, say, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and then see what the name is in various other-language Wikipedias. Because Latin script names are consistent, but consider fr:Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski and de:Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski. And, of course, that also gets you ru:Чайковский, Пётр Ильич, the correct Cyrillic search term. And this is going to be true of many things. Consider Russian Revolution. Knowing how to search for it in Gallica as well as Russian archives is very useful. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8% of all FPs} 03:55, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Nice piece! Museums and libraries are treasure troves, and your story is awesome. Vysotsky (talk) 21:49, 4 August 2022 (UTC)