A rare original WWII Soviet military invitation, handwritten in Russian 

and addressed to Lieutenant-General MacFarlane — 

British Lieutenant-General Noel Mason-MacFarlane, Military Attaché 

and Head of the British Military Mission in Moscow 

during the critical Anglo-Soviet alliance period of 1941–42. 

Issued in the name of General Vladimir Romanovsky, 

Commander in Chief of the Arkhangelsk Military District in the 1941–42 period,

this is a superb piece of wartime Soviet / British liaison history, 

dated Saturday 21 March 1942, at the height of the Second World War on the Eastern Front.

Translation: The document states that the Commander of the Arkhangelsk Military District, 

Lieutenant-General Romanovsky, requests the pleasure of seeing Lieutenant-General MacFarlane at dinner.

The dinner to take place on Saturday, 21 March 1942, at 17:00, in the General’s official office.

Original period paper item with light handling marks and minor edge wear as shown. 19 x 16 cm.

A very attractive and historically charged WWII Soviet document — ideal for framing, research, 

or adding to a serious collection of wartime Russian, British, or Allied military ephemera.