21 June 1913

Summer Begins

In the history of the labour movement, holidays is associated with struggle and collective organization. The intellectual elite preferred to travel individually, however. Those who were able to afford it followed the major tourist route of the bourgeoisie during the nineteenth  century: down the Rhine towards Italy, culminating in places of classical antiquity. The photo shows the Russian theoretician Georgij V. Plechanov (1856-1918) and his wife Rozalija Markovna (1856-1949) in front of the Vesuvius (Italy), 1913.

See also:

•  Summer holidays cards

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