Papers, 1905-1941. 1 collection (1 box (.5 linear ft.). Contains manuscripts of Remizov's poetry in Russian, French, and German, illustrated with his ink and watercolor drawings, collages, and photographs. Collection includes letters, 1905-1917, of Vasilii Vasilevich Rosanov to various persons, with commentary, transcriptions, and illustrations by Remizov. Finding aid available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00824
Grigorii Aleksinskii
Papers, 1895-1913. Description: 1 box (.3 linear feet). Papers relating to pre-revolutionary Russian Socialist activities, especially pertaining to Russian Social Democrat Gregorii Aleksinskii and his associates. Aleksinskii (1879-1967) was an author, a pre-revolutionary Russian Social Democrat, an Otzovist after the 1905 revolution, and a one-time member of the 2nd Duma of 1907 from Petrograd. During the 1917 revolution, he joined Plekhanov's Yedinstvo Group, and after July, was a counter-revolutionary opposing the Bolsheviks. He was also an author of forgeries against Lenin. In April 1918 he emigrated to France and joined the counter-revolutionary organization of General Wrangel. 12 items including materials by: A. Bogdanov (Malinovskii), S. Semkovskii (Bronshtein), A.I. Chuprov, P.B. Struve, and S.IU. Vitte; materials relating to the Russian Social Democratic Schools on Capri and Bologna, possible V.I. Lenin letter forgery, V.I. Lenin typescripts with manuscript corrections, proofs of work by G.V. Plekhanov, letter to the "Vpered" group of Social Democrats, and other items. Finding aid available: https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/1393
I͡Uriĭ Nikiforovich Danilov
Papers, 1920-1980 (inclusive), 1920-1934 (bulk). Description: 7 cartons (7.25 linear ft.); Organized into four series: I. Correspondence; II. Compositions; III. Research files; and IV. Biographical material. -- History Notes: IUrii Nikiforovich Danilov (1866-1937) was a Russian career officer who rose to the rank of infantry general, and at the start of the World War I was appointed deputy chief of staff to Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, the commander in chief of the Russian army in 1914, and later served as chief of staff to the commander of the Northern Front. Danilov left Russia in 1920 and settled in France. He spent the remaining years of his life writing on World War I, teaching at the French military academy and Russian-French military institute, and coordinating efforts to assist other Russian compatriots. He died in France in 1937. -- Summary: Includes correspondence with former officers and commanders of the Russian White Army, French military officials, Russian emigrants in France and Yugoslavia, publishers, translators, and friends (alphabetical list of over 118 correspondents online). Also includes manuscripts, typescripts and printed books and essays by IUrii Danilov (e.g., the unfinished "On the Road to Bolshevism"); notebooks with drafts and research notes; lecture drafts; clippings from Russian, French, German, and English newspapers, and maps. -- In Russian, French, German, and English. -- Cite as: I͡Uriĭ Nikiforovich Danilov Papers, 1920-1980 (MS Russ 125). Houghton Library, Harvard University. -- Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02439
Leon Trotsky additional papers, 1930-1938.
Description: 1 collection (2 linear feet (4 boxes)-- Scope and Contents: These papers were isolated from the main body of Trotsky's papers in Europe during the war, and were recovered and added to the collection in 1958. They consist mainly of works of the Exile period. A Harvard Guide is available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou01835
Leon Trotsky Dewey Commission Exhibits, 1904-1938
Description: 1 collection (3.5 linear feet (7 boxes)-- Scope and Contents:Unpublished exhibits of the Mexico, New York, and Paris hearings of the John Dewey Commission of Inquiry into charges made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow trials. A Harvard Guide is available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou01849
Leon Trotsky exile papers, 1929-1941
Description: 1 collection (197 boxes (65 linear ft.) -- Exile papers, 1929-1940, contain correspondence, compositions, a small amount of Dewey Commission (Commission of inquiry into the charges made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow trials) exhibit papers, and related ephemera. Correspondence includes letters to and from Trotsky, his wife Natalia, his son Lev Sedov, and his secretaries. Other correspondence is chiefly between members of the Fourth International Secretariat, other groups, and Soviet deportees. Writings include Trotsky's articles, reviews, statements, minutes of meetings, memoranda and notes, and printer's copy of the diary he kept in France and Norway in 1935; and similar writings of members of the Fourth International. Household papers contain secretarial notes, records of correspondence, photographs, and other items pertaining to the Trotsky household, particularly in Coyoacán, Mexico. Travel and legal documents, contracts, royalty reports and miscellaneous receipts are also included in the collection. A Harvard guide to the collection is available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00301
Leon Trotsky letters to Cass Canfield and other papers, 1938-1950
Description: 1 collection (1 box (.5 linear ft.) -- Scope and Contents: Includes seven letters from Trotsky to Cass Canfield and correspondence between Archibald Macleish and Cass Canfield written after Trotsky's assasination. Includes correspondence between Trotsky, Archibald Macleish, and Cass Canfield, as well as other publishers, concerning Trotsky's works Stalin: an appraisal of the man and his influence, and Lenin; the translation of Stalin by Charles Malamuth; financial statements concerning the publishing of these works; and the transfer of Trotsky's archives to Harvard University after his death. Includes a sample chapter of Stalin translated by Max Eastman. A Harvard Guide is available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou00840
Leon Trotsky letters to Sara Weber, 1933-1940
Description: 1 collection (1 volume (.16 linear ft.) -- Scope and Contents: Manuscript and typescript letters, signed, concerning Trotsky's books on Lenin and Stalin, and his dealings with the publishers Doubleday Doran. Letters also concerning the book publication of L'histoire in English translation with Simon and Schuster and contract issues, and discussions with Doubleday about his book, "The revolution betrayed." Letters also discuss articles by Trotsky and by Louis Weber, Trotsky's problems of finding a typist skilled in Russian, and personal matters. Letters also refer to the political situation of the Communist party in the U.S. Includes a reader's report on Wolf Weiss's novel, I confess. A Harvard Guide is available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou01038
Leon Trotsky soviet papers, 1904-1959
Description: 1 collection (28.5 linear feet (94 boxes)-- Scope and Contents: Soviet Union correspondence, 1917-1929, consists of original letters and some copies and transcripts written by Trotsky and other Soviet officials, with copies of telegrams exchanged between Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin from 1917 to 1921. Writings of Trotsky from the Soviet period include manuscripts, typed excerpts and clippings, pronouncements, and unpublished statements, in addition to documents written during the Left Opposition's fight against Joseph Stalin from 1923 to 1927. A Harvard Guide is available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00302
Leon Trotsky's Stalin: material concerning English translation, 1940
Description: 1 collection (2 linear feet (4 boxes)-- Scope and Contents: Typescripts of the first draft and final manuscript of Charles Malamuth's English edition and translation of Trotsky's "Stalin", including notes and other material not used in the final edition. "Stalin", an appraisal of the man and his influence was published by Harper & Brothers (London) in 1941. A Harvard Guide is available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou01848
Marina Tsvetaeva letters to Boris Ottokar Unbegaun (1935-1938)
1 collection (.8 linear feet (1 box)). Letters of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva to her friend Russian linguist Boris Ottokar Unbegaun and his wife Elena Unbegaun. Personal letters from Marina Tsvetaeva to Boris and Elena Unbegaun. Also includes photographs and drawings by Tsvetaeva's children. Collection Identifier: MS Russ 107. Finding aid available: https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/3231
Nicholas Daniloff
Papers, ca. 1972-1988. Description: 9 boxes (6 linear ft.); Unprocessed, but open for research. Bulk of material stored offsite, requires advance notice. -- History notes: Nicholas Daniloff is an American journalist and 1956 Harvard graduate who was most prominent in the 1980s for his reporting on the Soviet Union. He became known internationally when, on September 2, 1986, he was arrested in Moscow by the KGB and accused of espionage (the "Daniloff Affair"). On September 23 Daniloff was allowed to leave the Soviet Union without charges. Daniloff contends in his autobiography, Two Lives, One Russia, that the KGB had created false information. He became an instructor at Northeastern University's School of Journalism and, in 1992, was named director of the school. -- Summary: The bulk of the collection concerns the "Daniloff Affair" of 1986, including clippings, editorials, and correspondence; also with research file for Two Lives, One Russia (1988). Includes material by Daniloff's wife, Ruth Daniloff. -- Includes audiovisual and/or digital media: 2 audiocassettes. -- In English. -- Electronic PRELIMINARY box list available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02459
Parmenia Migel
Papers, 1945-1990. 1 collection (12 boxes (4 linear ft.). This collection includes typescripts and galley proofs of Parmenia Migel Ekstrom's compositions, private and business correspondence with dancers, choreographers, composers, writers and students of dance, scrapbooks of dance illustration material and of press reviews of her books, and a few personal items. Correspondents include Alexandra Danilova, Felia Doubrovska, Anton Dolin, Allegra Kent, Millicent Hodson, and Carla Fracci. Biographical Note: Parmenia Migel Ekstrom (1908-1989) was a ballet historian and author, and founder and president of the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation. Although she started her career as a writer under her maiden name, Parmenia Migel, in her subsequent career as a dance scholar and collector, she used her married name, Mrs. Parmenia Ekstrom, sometimes abbreviated PME in this finding aid. In the late 1930s she founded and headed the executive committee of the Ballet Guild (New York, N.Y.). From 1946 to 1955, she lived in France where she directed a gallery and organized exhibitions and concerts. On her return to New York, she founded and directed the Dance Department of the New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.), where she also lectured. She became Honorary Curator of Ballet at the Harvard Theatre Collection and was a long standing member of the Committee for the Dance Collection for the New York Public Library. As a writer, Ekstrom contributed to many scholarly dance journals and published a number of books on ballet history. She also published a biography of the Danish author Isak Dinesen . In the late 1950s, she established and directed the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation which collected material related to Igor Stravinsky's and Serge Diaghilev's careers, organized exhibitions on dance, promoted dance research and supported a great number of writers, researchers and students of dance by giving them access to the Foundation's collection of dance material. She was also involved in the operation of her husband Arne Horlin Ekstrom 's gallery, Cordier & Ekstrom, in New York. Finding aid available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou01893
Serge Daniloff
Papers, ca. 1921-1925. Description: 1 box (.33 linear ft.); Unprocessed, but open for research. -- Includes Daniloff's 1925 autobiography, with correspondence and other writings; and his 1921 Harvard University diploma, other certificates, and driver's license. -- In English.
Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation collection (1912-1989)
17 linear feet (31 boxes and 3 pf drawers). This collection came as part of a larger donation of papers of Parmenia Migel Ekstrom. The papers consist of three major sections: original material related to Ballet Russes, collected by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev foundation; research files, assembled by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation; and personal papers of Parmenia Migel Ekstrom. A separate finding aid was created for each section of the donation. This collection includes typescripts and manuscripts of memoirs of members of Ballets Russes, and compositions on ballet history by others; collected correspondence of members of Ballets Russes, Serge Diaghilev's contracts with dancers and companies; Ballets Russes financial records, primarily for the 1913 ballet and opera season in Paris, photographs from private collections of Ballets Russes dancers, picture files, original costume and stage designs for Ballets Russes productions and productions of Stravinsky's operas, and other material related to Igor Stravinsky, Serge Diaghilev, and Ballets Russes. Material in this collection represents a smaller part of the entire Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation collection related to Ballets Russes. The majority of the material is at the Theatre Museum in London . Finding aid available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou01892
Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation research files (1920-1989)
1 collection (18 linear feet (26 boxes). Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation was established in New York in the late 1950s by the dance scholar and writer Parmenia Migel Ekstrom. The foundation remained in operation until the passing of Parmenia Migel Ekstrom in 1989. The foundation collected material related to careers of Igor Stravinsky and Serge Diaghilev, organized exhibitions on dance, promoted dance research, and supported a great number of writers, researchers and students of dance by providing reference information and giving them access to the collection. This collection came as part of a larger donation of papers of Parmenia Migel Ekstrom. The papers consist of three major sections: original material related to Ballets Russes, collected by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev foundation; research files, assembled by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation; and personal papers of Parmenia Migel Ekstrom. A separate finding aid was created for each section of the donation. This collection includes research files arranged by the foundation on artists, designers, dancers, choreographers, musicians, composers, and administrators related to Ballets Russes and other companies, and picture files with originals, reproductions, slides and negatives of dance images. It also includes notes and some correspondence on loans of artwork from the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation collection, exhibitions, and other projects organized by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation, as well as some information on its employees. Finding aid available: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou01894
Theodore Roosevelt addresses and articles (bound), 1899-1921
1 collection (4 linear feet (38 volumes). Drafts of addresses, book chapters, and periodical articles, with related correspondence. Includes "Liberal Russia" (1917), a handwritten essay describing Russia's position on being a part of a league of Allies. Includes typescript (c.c.) of speech delivered 4 September 1915 by Baron Rosen. Published in Metropolitan magazine, June 1917. Digitized copy of the essay is available: http://theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o277272 Finding aid for the full collection is available as well: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/primo?id=trc00020
