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Description: *Russia. A group of approximately 90 gelatin silver print snapshot photographs of Russia, circa 1912-18, including military interest, people and scenes, many with pencil captions to verso in English and some with the name of the presumed photographer of many or all of these photographs F[lorence] Farmborough, many also numbered to versos in red felt tip, mostly approximately 8.5 x 11 cm but some smaller and larger, together with an assorted collection of approximately 200 postcards, many postally used and some addressed to Florence Farmborough Florence Farmborough (1887-1978) was an author, photographer, nurse, teacher and university lecturer. After growing up in Buckinghamshire she originally went to live in Russia in 1908, and worked as a governess for a family in Kiev. Two years later she moved to Moscow, where she was employed as English tutor. On the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, she qualified and worked as a Red Cross nurse with the Imperial Russian Army, and saw service at both the Galician and the Romanian fronts. During her time as a nurse she kept a diary and habitually took a large plate camera around with her, though the photographs here would mostly be using a small portable camera. Extracts from the diaries were eventually used as the source material for her book, 'Nurse at the Russian Front', published in 1974. She also worked as a reporter for The Times and for BBC Radio. Following the October Revolution and the disbandment of her Red Cross unit, she returned to England in 1918. (a small carton)