Louise Bryant at husband John Reed’s funeral. Original caption: “Nothing Louise Bryant ever wrote matches in poignancy the moving description of her last minutes at John Reed’s deathbed in Moscow in October of 1920, a victim of typhus, at the age of thirty-three. “Have you ever stared into the white eyes of death,” she asks Max Eastman in a long letter detailing their last days together and the dreadful realization she had been clinging to Reed’s hand long after he had passed away. Here she is at Reed’s funeral. Photo: Unknown, Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Forside John Reed (1887-1920) Louise Bryant at husband John Reed's funeral. Original caption: "Nothing Louise Bryant ever wrote matches in poignancy the moving description of her last minutes at John Reed’s deathbed in Moscow in October of 1920, a victim of typhus, at the age of thirty-three. “Have you ever stared into the white eyes of death,” she asks Max Eastman in a long letter detailing their last days together and the dreadful realization she had been clinging to Reed’s hand long after he had passed away. Here she is at Reed’s funeral. Photo: Unknown, Public Domain.
Louise Bryant at husband John Reed’s funeral. Original caption: “Nothing Louise Bryant ever wrote matches in poignancy the moving description of her last minutes at John Reed’s deathbed in Moscow in October of 1920, a victim of typhus, at the age of thirty-three. “Have you ever stared into the white eyes of death,” she asks Max Eastman in a long letter detailing their last days together and the dreadful realization she had been clinging to Reed’s hand long after he had passed away. Here she is at Reed’s funeral. Photo: Unknown, Public Domain.
