Interior view of a group identified as American students seated at a table. Inscription on back of photograph reads: "U.S. students at Moscow University." Taken while W. Averell Harriman was visiting the Soviet Union in 1959. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.