
This is Perl Karpovskaya, Molotov's wife. In 1934 she went to the USA to study the beautician trade and perfume industry («для изучения постановки дела в институтах красоты и на заводах парфюмерии»), and also to visit her emigrant brother Sam Karp.
The Hongkew Market in the 1910s was compared with the Fulton Market, in New York, as testified by J. B. Powell in My Twenty-Five Years in China.…