Story 28: Exclusive photos #6

Another set of exclusive sailor suit photos showing 7 boys in sailor suits. I think the 3 youngest boys in dark sailor suits are the same from my previous exclusive post (small pic below). I didn't recognize this earlier as the oldest of the 3 has much shorter hair. The 3 in the light striped sailor suits are the same as the big pic below.

I don't know the exact date, location and all names, but on the big pic below there's a handwritten Christmas greeting. It's written in old German, maybe Kurrent. I can't read it properly, but the names are of Russian origin, not sure if they were Russians. One is Paschenka or Saschenka, one other Kolinka or similar and the 3rd could be Malachenka. There's one additional word which I also cannot read properly. Starting with a W..h.. Could be an abbreviation of Christmas Weihn. and the rest could be the year, maybe 23 (1923), but it might also be the name of a city or else. Maybe it's also taken in 1940, but probably not later. The sailor collar of the boy in the middle is very little seen at the front, so might be a very long flap on his back. Also note that their dickeys cannot been seen in contrary to the pic on top.

Also not sure if this is all one big family and why the 7th boy isn't on the other pic. At least some quite interesting pics. The pic #4 (Dresden, backside had many hits (448) , the pics #5 just 131 each, but I hadn't embed and linked them properly from Picasa.