"Olga and the girls
in my room dressed
me in an Artek
uniform and tied my
hair up with the
white chiffon bows
that the Soviet
girls like to wear.
I wore the
blue-and-white
visitor's scarf
because the red one
is only for regular
members."
Samantha's
"Artek"
uniform and her
collection of pins
"Samantha flew home with
scrapbooks of photographs of
her visit and seventeen
suitcases filled with
gifts," says Gale Warner in
her book "Citizen Diplomats."
These photographs show
Samantha with her friends
during the closing
ceremonies at camp "Artek"
(left) and with some of the
toys she received from the
Soviet children.
These dolls in
Russian national costumes,
as well as dolls
representing other republics
of the former USSR were
among the gifts Samantha
took home to Maine.
