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ALBUM COMMEMORATINGWEDDING OFTERESHKOVAAND NIKOLAYEV
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(ASTRONAUTS.) TERESHKOVA, VALENTINA; AND ANDRIYAN NIKO-
LAYEV. Album of 24 photographs showing their wedding ceremony and honeymoon,
Signed by both on the front pastedown,“Tereshkova” and “ANikolayev,” in Russian. Signed
after a dated inscription, in an unknown hand, in Russian: “For comrade, / Nikolaev,Yurii
Vasil’evitch /With gratitude for help in / ‘space’ /With respect / [signatures] / 12/29/63.”
The first 10 photographs show the ceremony and banquet, a few of which include Nikita
Khrushchev, the others show visits to Cuba—one including Fidel Castro—and to India—
one including Jawaharlal Nehru. Each photograph 8
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x6 inches, mounted alone to a recto
page. Oblong 4to, original green cloth, soiling and abrasions to rear cover. (TFC)
Np, 29 December 1963
[6,000/9,000]