A friend found this little model in a junk sale, and asked me to identify it.
I know that the first two words are “house museum,” but the last two are unknown to me.
Can anyone shed light on the words, or better yet, recognise the building? It may be in Canada, or in the former Soviet Union. No other writing on the thing (including the bottom). I suspect it was a bring-back souvenir in the '60s, but no firm information.
“spasiba” in advance!
The final word appears to be “RSDRP”, which is an acronym for the Russian Social-Democratic Party. I can’t really speak Russian and the other word has letters I don’t recognize, so I’m still working on it.
I read it as “House-Museum of the Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party” (of which party the Bolsheviks and the Menshiviks were factions). I would guess the model is of a building where the RSDLP had some historically important meeting.
Oho!
We have a winner!
http://www.travel-images.com/photo-belarus50.html
There is a rubber bladder of borscht on it way, Dunawake!
(and on preview, an Honarable Mention personal tubette of sour cream for BrainGlutton)
Looks like a souvenir of someone’s visit to Belarus.
The power of the Dope, indeed!
Thank you!
Heh. An obscure building, identified within 14 minutes…the NSA and CIA wish they had this calibre of field operatives at their beck and call!
Thanks again–my friend will be quite astonished at the speed, accuracy and obscurity of the nailing-down power of the Dope!
If you can understand it, what is the first letter of the second word, that looks like an “I-”? I was thinking “F”, but that doesn’t seem to make an intelligible word.
Basically, the more obscure it is, the faster and harder Dopers will work to figure it out
My guess would be the Roman numeral 1 as in the first congress of the RSDRP.
