Tatler feature - Return to Armenia by Ida Kar

Spread from The Tatler, 1958, by Armenian born photographer Ida Kar, depicting the people of her birth country. Photographs show a game of backgammon on the street in Erevan, a russian uniform reminding people that Armenia is part of the USSR, clock industry, G. Aghabian, chief architect of Erevan standing before the decorated cast-iron door of the new market he designed. Opposite page shows a girl in Armenian costume with very long pigtails, His Holiness Vazgen the First, Nigogos Nigogosian, sculptor, and a young girl carrying her lunchtime loaves to the local brandy factory

Armenia Armenian Aug25 Backgammon Clocks Holiness Loaves Pigtails Plaits Tatler Vazgen

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