Caption on reverse [translation]: "Gorky Hearing About the True Situation at the Time of the Revolution - From Women Who Served in the Red Guards - (Moscow) Rengo. The Russian Soviet government is currently assembling a massive 15 volume history to commemorate the Russian Revolution of 1918 with the greatest Russian novelist Maxim Gorky serving as …

Caption on front: "Soviet Russia's leading writer, Maxim Gorki [sic], who was recalled from exile in Italy to reutrn in triumph to his native land and is now ranked as one of the immortals of the new regime. From a new candid-camera portrait. (Sovfoto.)"

Caption on front [translation]: "Domei Overseas Photographic News July 7. Giant Oak of Red Russian Literature Withers and Falls. (Moscow) Domei. The great literary figure Maxim Gorky, who played an active part in communist Russia for many years and left a great mark in the international literary world, has finally died, passing like a falling great …

Caption on front: "Editors: This picture is intended to replace the one previously serviced for Sketch No. 213."

Writing on front: "Dredge"