Manuscript Division

Resources (207)

• The following groups of documents have or may have materials pertaining to Russia or Russian-American relations:

  (a) The papers of U.S. presidents, including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, James Monroe, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. All these papers are on microfilm and have name indexes.

  (b) The papers of U.S. secretaries of state, including Henry Clay, Bainbridge Colby, Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, Robert Lansing, and Henry Alfred Kissinger (restricted).

  (c) The papers of Frederick Lewis Allen, Vannevar Bush, William E. Dodd, John William Draper, Tom Terry Connally, James John Davis, Henry P. Fletcher, Theodore Francis Green, Nelson Trusler Johnson, Jesse Holmes Jones, Peyton C. March, George Fort Milton, Charles Linza McNary, George Foster Peabody, Key Pittman, Donald Randall Richberg, Frances Bowes Sayre, Eric Arnold Sevareid, William Boyce Thompson, and Henry Agard Wallace.

• Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

  Records, 1812–1925. 38 reels of microfilm contain references to several Russian organizations, including the Academy of Sciences (Leningrad) and the Legation imperiale de Russie aux Etats-Unis. Finding aid.

• Adam Hrabia Gurowski (1805-1866)

  Papers, 1848–98. 4 containers. Author, panslavist, scholar; emigrated to U.S., where he wrote Russia as it is (1854). Contains a biography of Gurowski by Julius Bing, manuscript, ca. 200 pp.; notes taken by Gurowski, evidently for his book on Russia; and letters to Gurowski regarding his Russia as it is from American readers. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0141)

• Adams Family

  Collection, 1776–1914. 2 containers, 225 items. Includes copies of letters of John Quincy Adams to A. H. Everett that touch on Adams's activities in Russia, where he was U.S. minister from 1809 to 1814. Also included are copies of some of Adams's dispatches to the secretary of State. Finding aid. (NUCMC 69–2025)

• Adams Family

  Papers, 1639–1889. 608 reels of microfilm (originals at the Massachusetts Historical Society). Contains numerous references to Russia. (NUCMC 62–1621)

• Alan Goodrich Kirk (1888-1963)

  Papers, 1919–61. 1 container, 125 items. U.S. ambassador to the USSR, 1949–52. A few items pertaining to Kirk's service in Moscow. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1369)

• Albert Gleaves (1858-1937)

  Papers, 1803–1946. 21 containers. Commander of the U.S. Asiatic fleet, 1919–21. References to the Japanese army in Russia after World War I, the evacuation of Czechoslovak troops from Russia, and conditions in Russia after the Revolution.

• Alexis Vasilevich Babine (1866-1930)

  Papers, 1901–30. 6 containers. Born in Russia and educated in the U.S., Babine was—after the Revolution—superintendent of schools in the Vologda area, instructor at the University of Saratov, and assistant to the American embassy in Moscow. He eventually emigrated to the U.S. 5 boxes and 1 large folder of materials (including correspondence, journals, lecture articles, notes, notebooks, diplomas, certificates, passports) pertain to Babine's life in post-revolutionary Russia, to the Bolsheviks, and to Russian universities. Also included is Babine's journal, typescript, in English, on day-to-day living in Saratov, 1917–20. (NUCMC 62–4591)

• Alfred Mordecai (1804-1887)

  Papers, 1790–1946. 17 containers. Army officer and engineer; served on the U.S. military mission to the Crimea, 1855–57. Some of Mordecai's correspondence, ca. 1 letter album, addressed to his wife from St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Sevastopol, deals with the Crimean War and with his stay in Russia.

• Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914)

  Papers, 1824–1914. 23 containers. 1 folder of notes on the Russo-Japanese War by Mahan, the author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783. Finding aid. (NUCMC 67–0618)

• American Council of Learned Societies

  Records 1919–46. 548 containers. 15 boxes of correspondence, reports, office files, literary manuscripts, and financial reports pertaining to Russian studies in secondary schools; Slavic grants; U.S.-USSR exchanges of scholars in the humanities and social sciences; the Russian national character; Russian art, music, and painting; Soviet patriotism. Finding aid (NUCMC 71–1329) Restricted.

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

  Papers. 271 containers. 2 boxes of reports and (especially) printed materials and newspaper clippings pertaining to Russian engineers and aviators, including Alexander P. de Seversky, Igor Sikorsky, Stephen Timoshenko, and A. Toupeleff. The Sikorsky material includes photographs of the first helicopter he designed (1909) and of planes he built in Russia in the 1910s. Finding aid.

• American Peace Commission to Versailles

  Papers, 1917–19. 79 containers. Includes 10 reports on conditions in Russia in the 1910s. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0061)

• American Psychological Association

  Records, 1912–72. 262 boxes. 3 boxes of material reflect the Association's contacts with Russia and interest in Russian scientific developments. Included are reports by a group of U.S. psychologists who visited the Soviet Union in May-June 1960, as well as 4 folders of correspondence documenting the reactions to Senator Thomas J. Dodd's criticisms of a report by Ralph A. White on Soviet public opinion. Finding aid. (NUCMC 69–2027)

• American-Russian Literary Agency

  Records, 1927-1990 [the bulk from 1945-90]
  

• Amos Richard Eno Pinchot (1873-1944).

  Papers, 1863–1943. 273 containers. Lawyer and publicist. 1 folder of printed matter pertaining to Russia (1919). Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0142)

• Anson Burlingame (1820-1870) and Edward L. Burlingame (1848-1922)

  Papers, 1810–1937. 6 containers. Includes Anson Burlingame's correspondence with the empress of Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0149)

• Armenia-America Society

  See Montgomery Family.

• Arthur Huntington Gleason (1878-1923)

  Papers, 1863–1931. 13 containers. Editor, war correspondent, and socialist. Several folders of materials pertaining to Count Ilya Tolstoi [Tolstoy]. Finding aid.

• Arthur Sweetser (1888-1968)

  Papers, 1913–63. 118 containers. Member of the Information Section, League of Nations Secretariat, 1919–42. 1 folder of correspondence, memoranda, and printed materials pertaining to the Russo-Finnish dispute, 1939. Finding aid. (NUCMC 69–2053)

• Austria Staatskanzlei

  40 containers. Contains copies of diplomatic materials pertaining to Russia, 1750–63. (NUCMC 67–0150)

• Bayard Family

  Papers, 1797–1885. 7 containers. Lawyers and diplomats. Includes correspondence, diplomatic documents, and a diary of James A. Bayard (1767–1815) documenting his mission to St. Petersburg as a member of a U.S. delegation to end the War of 1812 under Russian mediation. Finding aid. (NUCMC 74–1065)

• Becker Family

  Collection, 1826–40. 1 container, 52 items. Some letters between members of the Becker family relating to business matters in Russia.

• Bertram David Wolfe

  Papers, 2 containers. Author. Drafts of Wolfe's book, Three Who Made a Revolution. Finding aid.

• Blackwell Family

  Papers, 1830–1959. 96 containers. 3 boxes of materials (correspondence, photographs, postcards, printed matter) reflecting the interest of Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950), a reformer, author, and editor, in Russia and Russian poetry, which she translated. Included is Blackwell's correspondence with the "grandmother of the revolution," Catherine Breshkovskaia, which spans the years 1904–38. Finding aid. (NUCMC 69–2029)

• Bollingen Foundation

  Records, 1939–73. 249 containers. 2 folders of correspondence relate to Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Eugene Onegin. There are also letters on the publication of scholarly monographs in Slavic studies between 1957 and 1962. Finding aid. (NUCMC 77–1494) Restricted.

• Boris Leo Brasol

  Papers, 1919–52. 64 containers. Prosecuting attorney under the Imperial Russian government, 1910–16, second lieutenant in the Imperial Russian guard, 1914–16, and lawyer in New York specializing in Russian law, 1918–53. Included are 6 boxes of "political correspondence," 1922–46; 4 boxes of "anti-Soviet correspondence," 1919–48; 6 boxes on the "Russian situation"; 3 boxes of correspondence and other papers concerning mainly the case of Herman Bernstein vs. Henry Ford, ca. 1925–27; and 10 boxes of Brasol's works on Russian literature and drama. Finding aid.

• Boris Weinberg

  Educator. 1 item: "A Scheme of Itinerary of an Expedition for Studying the Aborigines of the North Siberia between Obi and Yenisei." Typed, 3 pp., in English, Tomsk, 17 June 1922.

• Breckinridge Long (1881-1958)

  Papers, 1740–1948. 250 containers. Third assistant secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, 1917–20. Includes correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and a diary, typewritten, 1918–21, pertaining to the Allied intervention in Siberia, the American Red Cross in Russia, and the Russian railway system. There is also a mimeographed account of a conference of the members of the Russian Constituent Assembly, 8–21 January 1921. Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–4958)

• Browning Family

  Papers, 1824–1917. 3 containers, 900 items. Contains diagrams and studies of the bombardment of Odessa, 1854, evidently not by an eyewitness. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1341)

• Burton Harrison Family

  Papers, 1812–1926. 62 containers. 6 folders of correspondence, notes, and literary manuscripts pertain to the visit to Russia of Mrs. Burton N. (Constance Gary) Harrison (1843–1920), a writer, in 1896. Articles on her Russian visit appeared in The Smart Set, March and April 1900. Finding aid. (NUCMC 70–0954)

• Carl Andrew Spaatz (1891-1974)

  Papers, 1915–53. 352 containers. U.S. general. Some materials pertaining to Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 68–2075) Restricted.

• Carl William Ackerman (1890-1970)

  Papers, 1933–70. 228 containers. Journalist, educator, public relations consultant. 2 boxes of notes, memoranda, and telegrams on Ackerman's journey to Russia in 1918–19, when he traveled to Ekaterinburg and interviewed eyewitnesses to the execution of Nicholas II. There is also material on Ackerman's visit to Stalingrad, Moscow, and Baku in 1945. Finding aid. (NUCMC 72–1693)

• Chandler Parsons Anderson (1866-1936)

  Papers, 1894–1953. 65 containers. 1 box of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, and contracts documenting Chandler's activities as legal adviser for the International Harvester Company claims against Russia, 1925–36. Includes correspondence between Anderson and Alexander Legge, Harvester president. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0243)

• Charles Edward Russell (1860-1941)

  Papers, 1914–18. 71 containers. Served on the Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1917; wrote Unchained Russia (1918). Included are Russell's "Diaries of an Amateur Diplomat," which cover his Russian journey in 1917. There are also 10 folders of materials (including correspondence, reports, drafts of articles, notes, and postcards) dealing with Russia in the late 1910s. Finding aid.

• Charles Eustis Bohlen (1904-1974)

  Papers, 1940–70, 28 boxes. U.S. ambassador to the USSR, 1953–57. Research notes, drafts of Witness to History, and correspondence pertaining to the Soviet Union and to Bohlen's views on Soviet aims and intentions in the post-World War II era. Finding aid.

• Charles Ross Parke

  A microfilm diary, 1855–56, of Dr. Parke, a U.S. medical doctor, who served the Russian government during the Crimean War.

• Clara Harlowe Barton (1821-1912)

  Papers, 1834–1918. 194 containers. Philanthropist and founder of the American Red Cross, Barton was concerned with the Russian famine of 1894 and participated in a Red Cross conference held in St. Petersburg in 1902. Several folders of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertain to these contacts with Russia. Finding aid.

• Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938)

  Papers, 1894–1940. 36 containers. Lawyer, author, lecturer, and social reformer. 2 folders of printed materials on Leo Tolstoi [Tolstoy]. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1350)

• Cleveland Abbe (1838-1916)

  Papers, 1850–1916. 34 containers. Astronomer and meteorologist. Includes correspondence with Otto Struve, director of the Pulkovo Observatory, as well as Abbe's letters to his family when he was guest astronomer at the Pulkovo Observatory, 1865–66. The letters deal not only with scientific matters, but also with Russian social and cultural life, and include descriptions of St. Petersburg and its outskirts. There is ca. 1 ft. of Russian-related materials. Finding aid. (NUCMC 64–1556)

• Columbia University Oral History Collection

  16 containers, on microfilm. Microfilm of the oral history transcripts at Columbia University, many of which pertain to Russia.

• Commerce (ship)

  Collection. 1 item: a Frenchlanguage document, 21 pp., entitled "Lettre ecrite en forme de Memoire aux Interresses du Commerce de la Mer Baltique, envoyee a Londres et a Amsterdam au Mois de fevrier 1717."

• Communist Party of the United States of America

  Records,1914-1944. 326 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Many of the documents in this collection are unique; the records are very detailed regarding the history of the CPUSA, particularly for its origins in the 1920s and the early and middle 1930s. There are fewer records for the 1937-1944 period than for the earlier years, probably due to the difficulties of shipping large quantities of records once war started in 1939. The CPUSA collection at the Russian Archives has no material later than 1944. Catalog record:
  https://lccn.loc.gov/99230690

• Confederate States of America

  Records, 1861–65. 125 containers, on microfilm. Materials on Lucius Q. C. Lamar's mission to Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 67–0593)

• Denmark. Danske Kaniellis Udenrigske Afdeling; Tygke Kancelliets Udenrigs Afdeling, 1558-1720

  16 reels of microfilm. Includes papers from the German desk, including selections from Russian dispatches. Finding aid. (NUCMC 67–161)

• Dimitry Tuneeff

  Tuneeff's master's thesis, "Russian Libraries" (1932) and a biographical sketch, 1931, of G. V. Yudin.

• Dmitri Aleksandrovich Rovinsky

  Undated ALS, in French, requesting catalogues of gravures.

• Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov

  Papers, 1887-1995. 10,170 items ; 30 containers plus 2 oversize ; 14 linear feet ; 20 microfilm reels. Military historian, member of the Russian parliament, and advisor to the president of the Russian Federation. Copies of correspondence, memoranda, articles, texts of speeches, interviews, personal testimonies, investigative and other reports, official protocols, directives, resolutions, schedules, logs, inventories of archival material, printed material, film scenarios, and photographs reproduced from records in thirteen Russian archives as well as the originals of some of Volkogonov's personal papers reflecting his study of significant events and individuals of modern Russian history. Overview available: http://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.mss.eadmss.ms009065&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=did&_dmdid=

• Edmond Charles Genet (1763-1834)

  Papers, 1756–1795, 53 containers. Includes materials pertaining to Genet's diplomatic service in Russia (1787–89) as secretary to Comte de Segur, French minister at the court of Catherine II. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0224) For a detailed description of the Russianrelated materials in these papers, see Marc Bouloiseau, "Edmond C, Genet a Saint-Petersbourg," Bulletin d'histoire economique et sociale de la Revolution francaise (1968), pp. 15–51.

• Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856-1931)

  Papers, 1866–1936. 50 containers. Electrochemist, inventor, scientist, and businessman; travelled to Russia in 1913, when he discussed his company's product, Oildrag, with Russian government officials. 2 folders of correspondance, telegrams, calling cards, and other materials pertain to this visit. Included is an ALS from Count Witte, thanking Acheson for a photograph. Finding aid. (NUCMC 76–0140)

• Edward L. Bernays (b. 1891)

  Papers, 1897–1965. 745 containers. Public relations counsel. Materials (including correspondence and 6 scrapbooks) dealing with Diaghilev's Ballet Russe and with the Russian exposition of 1929 in the U.S. Finding aid. (NUCMC 67–0588) Restricted.

• Elena and Leontovich Miranova

  1 playscript, "Dark Eyes," written by Elena Miranova in collaboration with Eugenie Leontovich that contains Russian themes and characters.

• Elihu Root (1845-1937)

  Papers, 1863–1937. 262 containers. U.S. secretary of state, 1905–1909; ambassador extraordinary at the head of the Special U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1917. Several folders of materials pertain to Root's mission to Russia, including correspondence, maps, invitations, telegrams, calendars, and appointment books. There are also reports on Rear Admiral Glennon's movements in Russia, on the activities of John R. Mott with the Mission, and on the requirements of the Russian government in dollars according to the Russian minister of finance. Finding aid. (NUCMC 64–0778)

• Elijah Walker Halford (1843-1938)

  Papers, 1867–1928. 2 containers. 400 items. Newspaper editor, soldier. Contains a letter from Emory Smith, U.S. minister to Russia, to Elijah Halford, 1892, with a description of famine relief.

• Elisha Francis Riggs Jr.

  Papers (Part of Riggs Family papers), 1763-1945. Extent of entire collection: 100,000 items, 359 containers; 145.6 linear feet; 3 microfilm reels. ID No.: MSS 73803. Elisha Francis Riggs, Jr. (1887-1936) was a military attache in Russia, 1916-1918.
  The Riggs were a merchant and banking family of New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Washington D. C. Family and business correspondence, diaries, account books, writings, financial records, biographical and genealogical papers, printed materials, and other papers of Riggs family members. Finding aid is available on-site and online at:
  http://tinyurl.com/RiggsPapers

• Elmer Holmes Davis (1890-1958)

  Papers, 1893–1957. 25 containers. News analyst of the Office of War Information, 1942–45. Russianrelated materials include 1 folder of newspaper and magazine clippings on Russia, 1940–50. Finding aid. (NUCMC 64–1560)

• Eugene Schuyler (1840-1890)

  1 letterbook, 300 items, 1873–78. Diplomat, author, and scholar. Letterpress copies of correspondence and writings pertaining to Schuyler's service as secretary of the American legation in St. Petersburg, 1873–76, and to his book, Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja (1876). There is also material relating to the advance of Russians into Central Asia, the Balkan question, and the Treaty of Berlin, 1878. On microfilm. (NUCMC 77–1570)

• Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870-1964)

  Papers, 1912–50. 30 containers. Author and diplomat. 1 folder of materials pertaining to the Russian Relief Fund, in which Harriman was involved in the 1940s. Finding aid. (NUCMC 61–1514)

• Ford Peace Plan

  Papers, 1915–18. 14 containers. The Ford Peace Plan was an expedition undertaken by Henry Ford and other Americans to bring peace to Europe during World War I. Its papers contain 4 folders of German translations of Russian press reports (1916). Finding aid. (NUCMC 60–0574)

• France Ministere des affaires etrangeres

  Records. 288 containers. Some materials on Russia. (NUCMC 67–964)

• Francis le Jau Parker (1873-1966)

  Papers, 1916–34. 11 containers. U.S. army officer; attache in Petrograd, 1917, and observer with the Russian army. 5 folders of correspondence, reports, telegrams, newspaper clippings, and maps pertain to the Russian army in the 1910s, Parker's view on Russia's political future, and to other Russian-related subjects. Finding aid. (NUCMC 67–0625)

• Frank Lester Greene (1870-1930)

  Papers, 1895–1930. 79 containers. U.S. congressman; involved in hearing, 1922, on providing an honorable discharge to members of the U.S. Railway Service Corps who were in Russia, 1917–18. 1 folder of materials (including correspondence, reports, and printed matter) document this hearing. Finding aid.

• Frederick II of Prussia (1712-1786)

  2 items. A facsimile letter, 1 February 1773, of Catherine II to Frederick II, in Russian. [In German Royalty and Nobility Collection]

• Garfield Bromley Oxnam (1891-1963)

  Papers, 1823–1963. 137 containers. 2 folders of correspondence, pamphlets, and mimeographed materials documenting Bishop Oxnam's contacts with the Massachusetts Council of American-Soviet Friendship and the magazine Soviet Russia Today between 1942 and 1954. Finding aid. (NUCMC 64–0775)

• Gennadii Vasil'ievitch Yudin Russian-American Company

  Records, 1876–1930. Correspondence, reports, tariffs, cargo registers, ships' logs, and other materials dealing with the exploration and colonization of Alaska by the Russian-American Company. Gregorii Ivanovich Shelikov, Fyodor Ivanov Shemelin, Lieutenant-General Ivan Pil', Matthew Lapatin N. P. Rezanov, Mikhailo Buldakov, and Alexander I are mentioned in these records. Finding aid. See "Documents Relative to the History of Alaska," Vol. 3, pp. 143–312, available at the Manuscript Division. (NUCMC 63–0410)

• George Albert Converse (1844-1909)

  Papers, 1895–1908. 2 containers (250 items). U.S. naval officer. A few items pertaining to the Russo-Japanese War, including diagrams of Russian Imperial Navy ships. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1347)

• George Fielding Eliot (1894-1971)

  Papers, 1939–71. 23 containers. Author, journalist, and military analyst. 1 folder of newspaper clippings on the Soviet fleet in the Mediterranean, 1960–1970s. Finding aid. (NUCMC 76–0157)

• George Frederick Kunz (1856-1932)

  Papers, 1783–1928. 4 containers. 2 boxes of materials, including correspondence, notes, typescript of articles, and printed matter, pertaining to Kunz's trip to Russia in 1892–93 to carry out mineralogical studies. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1373)

• George Gamow (1904-1968)

  Papers, 1915–75. 43 containers. Born in Odessa, Gamow was professor at the University of Leningrad, 1931–33, and, after his emigration to the U.S., professor at George Washington University. Included is an annotated typescript, "Getaway from Russia," and correspondence relating to Natasha Dobzhansky, Alexander Dorozynski, and T. Turkevich. Finding aid. (NUCMC 68–2034) 2034)

• George Kennan (1845-1924)

  Papers, 1840–1937. 136 containers. Siberian explorer, author, and journalist; cousin of George F. Kennan's grandfather. These papers can be divided into 3 parts:

  (a) 110 boxes of notes, published articles, lecture materials, newspaper clippings, and autobiographical materials, much of which pertains to Russia. Among the subjects dealt with are the Black Sea, bureaucracy, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Czargrad, Dukhobors, education, Finland, Friends of Russian Freedom, Georgia, civil service, Constitutional Democrats, courts, the Crimea, Irkutsk, Jews, Kalmucks, Kazan', labor unions, liberals, the Lena river strike, Moscow, nationalism, the nobility, nihilism, the Octobrists, Novgorod, Odessa, Petropavlosk fortress, prisons, religion, revolution, St. Petersburg, Siberia, the Social Democrats, socialism, terrorism, Tomsk, the Union of the Russian People, and the Y.M.C.A.

  (b) 7 boxes of diaries, journals, and notebooks, 1865–1924.

  (c) 18 boxes of correspondence, 1895–1937. Correspondents include Stepan Paderin (chief of Cossacks at Gizhiga), M. Vol'man (Wollman), Felix Vadimovich Volkhovsky, A. Bialoveskii, Vladimir Tchertkoff, Ivan Petrovich Beloveskii, T. Tsingovatov, Leo Pasvolsky, A. A. Bublikov, Serge Novosseloff, S. M. Oberoutcheff, S. A. Korf, Catherine Breshkovskaia, S. Kravchinskii-Stepniak, Robert Lansing, Alice Stone Blackwell, and numerous other government, cultural, and business figures from both Russia and the United States. Organizations from which Kennan received letters include the Iowa Russian Famine Relief Committee, the Russian Students' Society, the Friends of Russian Freedom, the Russkoye slovo, and the Fund for the Relief of Men of Letters and Scientists in Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0212)

• George Vernon Denny (1899-1959)

  Papers, 1934–60. 30 containers. Educator, radio personality, and executive. 1 folder of materials (mostly newspaper clippings) reflecting Denny's interest in Russia in 1959, when he was president, International Seminar and Town Meetings, Inc. Finding Aid. (NUCMC 68–2019)

• George von Lengerke Meyer (1858-1918)

  Papers, 1901–17. 5 containers. U.S. ambassador to Russia, 1905–1907, Includes correspondence and a diary documenting Meyer's diplomatic service in Russia, Nicholas II, the Duma, social life in St. Petersburg, and the negotiations leading to the termination of the Russo-Japanese War. Finding aid. (NUCMC 65–0917)

• George Washington Campbell (1769-1848)

  Papers, 1793–1886. 6 containers. U.S. minister to Russia, 1819–20. A few items pertaining to Campbell's diplomatic service in St. Petersburg. (NUCMC 62–4616)

• George William Norris (1861-1944)

  Papers, 1864–1944. 571 containers. U.S. senator from Nebraska; visited Russia in 1923, favored U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union. Among the Russian-related materials are several folders of documents on American prisoners in Russia, 1920, the Anna Lerner case, 1924, the Captain Paxton Hibben case, and American recognition of the Soviet regime. Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–2698)

• Georgii Gustavovich Telberg

  Papers, 1915–40. 5 containers. Russian-born author, lecturer, and government official; participated in the Kerensky government. 2 ft. of materials (primarily Telberg's autobiography, and also newspaper clippings and lecture notes) relate to life in Russia, the Russian Revolution, and emigration. (NUCMC 61–1649)

• German Captured Materials

  Records. 858 containers. Ca. 20 boxes of materials pertaining to Russia, 1938–44. Subjects covered include Germans in Russia, Russian literature in the libraries of Russian towns occupied by Germans, 1942, Soviet agriculture, religion in Russia, and other matters. See the Guide to Captured German Documents (1952) prepared by Gerhard L. Weinberg and the WDP staff under the direction of Fritz T. Epstein.

• Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946)

  Papers, 1830–1947. 3,235 containers. Agriculturalist, governor, and conservationist. Includes notes on a trip to Russia in 1902 and materials on Bolshevism, communism, foreign forests, and Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0059)

• Great Britain Foreign Office

  Records. 871 containers, partially on microfilm. Contains photostats of documents that pertain to Russia.

• Green Haywood Hackworth (1883-1973)

  Papers, 1919–73. 19 containers. Judge, lawyer, public official. Accompanied Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the Moscow Conference, 1943. Materials on Soviet interests, 1944–45, United Nations Conference delegates in San Francisco from the USSR, April-May 1945, the Yalta Voting Formula, and the Teheran Conference. Finding aid.

• Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967)

  Papers, 1920–67. 175 containers. Biologist and developer of the oral contraceptive. Includes a translation of a Russian scientific work, 25 pp. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1398)

• Gregory Ignatius Zatkovitch

  Collection, 1918-ca. 1961. Lawyer, first governor of Carpathian Ruthenia, 1919–21. Includes a typescript of the Declaration of Common Aims of the Independent Mid-European Nations, 26 October 1918, adopted by their representatives, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, and signed by T. G. Masaryk, Zatkovitch, and others. There is also a document entitled "The Tragic Tale of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia" and a picture postcard of the bust of Zatkovitch.

• Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin (ca. 1871-1916)

  A negative photostat of a short note addressed to Chapin [?].

• Hale Family

  Papers, 1698–1916. 34 containers, Includes comments by Alexander Hill Everett on Russia and an ALS, 2 pp., from James Ingerson, St. Petersburg, to James Savage, Boston, on the verdict on the Decembrists, 16 July O.S., 1826. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0139)

• Hamilton (ship)

  A clearance pass, 27 May 1801, signed by an unidentified Russian official at St. Petersburg for the ship Hamilton.

• Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

  Papers, 1935–75. 74 containers. Author, political scientist, educator. Correspondence pertaining to the Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry, to the conference on the Status of Soviet Jews, 1967–70, and to Hungarian refugee organizations, 1959–62. There are also notes on Bolshevism. Finding aid. (NUCMC 65–0891) Restricted.

• Harold Hitz Burton (1888-1964)

  Papers, 1918–63. 448 containers. U.S. senator and congressman. 1 folder of materials on Russia, including printed matter and a typescript of 1 of Burton's speeches on the Soviet Union. Finding aid.

• Harold L. Ickes (1874-1952)

  Papers, 1906–52. 466 containers. Secretary of the Interior, 1933–46. Includes Ickes' diary, which has references to Russia, 1933–51. There are also 2 folders of correspondence between Ickes and ordinary citizens regarding his views on U.S. Soviet relations after World War II. Finding aid. (NUCMC 60–0145)

• Harry Augustus Garfield (1863-1942)

  Papers, 1855–1961. 207 containers. Lawyer, educator, and college president. Materials on the activities of the Russian Famine Relief Committee in Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1890s. Also included is a confidential letter from J. M. Crawford, consul general of the U.S. in St. Petersburg, to James A. Garfield on the situation in Russia during the 1892 famine and on Russian reactions to famine relief, 26 March 1893, 4 pp., and an ALS from Leo Tolstoi [Tolstoy], thanking the Cleveland Famine Committee for its help during the 1892 famine, 2/14 April 1892, 1 p. Finding aid.

• Henry Harley Arnold (1886-1950)

  Papers, 1907–50. 307 containers. U.S. general. Papers contain a considerable amount of material pertaining to Russian-American relations during World War II. Finding aid. (NUCMC 64–1557)

• Henry Justin Allen (1868-1950)

  Papers, 1896–1942. 214 containers. Governor of Kansas and U.S. senator; favored U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union. 2 folders of correspondence and printed materials dealing mostly with Allen's trip to the USSR and with the reactions of readers to his articles on Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 70–0936)

• Henry Tureman Allen (1859-1930)

  Papers, 1806–1933. 78 containers. U.S. military attache in St. Petersburg, 1890–95, and commander of the American forces of occupation on the Rhine until 1923. Correspondence, journals, military reports, Russian government decrees, and photographs (including of Russian army grand maneuvers, 1891), 1 ft. Subjects include U.S.-Russian relations, the Russo-Japanese War, and Soviet policy toward Rumania and Poland after World War I. There is also a letter from Theodore Roosevelt, 24 March 1894, asking Allen for an article on "your Russian hunting." Finding aid. (NUCMC 52–0260)

• Herbert Feis (1893-1972)

  120 containers. Economist and historian. 5 boxes of materials used by Feis for his books on Russia. Finding aid.

• Hindus, Maurice Gerschon, 1891-1969

  "Mother Russia" typescript, 1943. 2 items. 1 container. Catalogue record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81026013

• Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (1899-1954)

  Papers, 1923–53. 97 containers. Chief of staff of the Air Force (1948–53). Materials on the USSR and on Soviet aircraft. Finding aid. (NUCMC 70–0984)

• Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934)

  Papers, 1845–1934. 104 containers. Army officer and public official. Correspondence and reports by Scott during his membership, 1917–19, on the Root mission to Russia. Also, some newspaper clippings on Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–4964)

• Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky

  3 containers, 50 items. Russian-born aircraft designer. Printed matter (mostly), notes, photographs, correspondence, dating back to 1913, and the original manuscript (1936) of Sikorsky's "The Story of the Winged-S."

• Ira Clarence Eaker (b. 1896)

  Papers, 1918–60. 80 containers. U.S. general. Material on a U.S. military mission to Moscow on 5 May 1944, and on 20 March 1945. Finding aid. (NUCMC 66–1402) Restricted.

• Irvine Luther Lenroot (1869-1949) and Family.

  Papers, 1890–1964. 20 containers. U.S. senator from Wisconsin. Contains 1 folder of materials (mostly business correspondence) pertaining to the affairs of V. L. Bobroff, a consulting efficiency engineer from Milwaukee who was involved in an unsuccessful business deal, 1920, with the All-Russian Central Union of Consumers Society (Centrosoyus or Tsentrosoius). Finding aid. (NUCMC 65–0913)

• Ivan Alekseevich Korzhukhin (1871-1931)

  Papers, 1900–31. 2 boxes (1 item). A manuscipt book, "Materialy po istorii Chukhotskogo predpriatiia," which deals with the several unsuccessful efforts made by Korzhukhin, a geologist, and others to exploit mineral resources, particularly gold, in the Chukhotsk peninsula and surrounding area. The volume is illustrated with photos and a map.

• J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)

  Papers, 1927–67. 293 containers. Physicist. 3 folders of materials (including letters from George F. Kennan) pertaining to Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1392)

• James Bryce

  Papers, 1838–1922. Diplomat, historian, jurist. A newsletter, in French and English, regarding Russia.

• James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

  Papers, 1835–1948. 279 containers. Psychologist and publisher of scientific journals. 1 item: a typescript list of names of foreign psychologists, including several from Russia (1890–1917). Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–4684)

• James Murray Mason (1798-1871)

  Papers, 1798–1871. 9 containers. Diplomatic agent of the Confederacy in London. A small amount of correspondence between Mason and Lucius Q. C. Lamar, appointed special commissioner of the Confederacy in Russia in 1862. (NUCMC 66–0234)

• James Patrick McGranery (1895-1963)

  Papers, 1938–72. 92.5 ft. Lawyer, attorney general. Office files on Russian property claims and on the Rosenberg case. Finding aid.

• Janet Flanner and Sollta Solano (Flanner-Solano)

  Papers, 1925–67. 26 containers. Journalists and editors. Serveral items, including notes, typescript lectures, and photo negatives, pertain to George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. Finding aid. (NUCMC 70–0948)

• Jesse Robinson

  A negative microfilm of 2 diaries, 1867, pertaining to Siberia. Robinson was a member of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to Siberia in 1866–67.

• John Adams Kingsbury (1876-1956)

  Papers, 1840–1960. 117 containers. Medical doctor and social worker; visited Russia, took part in Russian-related organizations in the U.S., appeared before the Subversive Activities Control Board to explain the activities of the National Council of Soviet-American Friendship, and wrote about Soviet medicine. 4 boxes of materials, including correspondence, diaries, and literary manuscripts, reflect Kingsbury's interest in the Soviet Union and Soviet medicine. The American Russian Institute, 1933–34, and the American Council on Soviet Relations, 1938–39, are mentioned in these papers. Finding aid. (NUCMC 64–1572)

• John Bassett Moore (1860-1947)

  Papers, 1866–1949. 294 containers. International lawyer, diplomat. 1 scrapbook of newspaper clippings on Jewish emigration from Russia, 1811, and on other matters pertaining to Russian politics, trade, etc. in the 1910s. Finding aid. (NUCMC 61–328)

• John Callan O'Laughlin (1873-1949)

  Papers, 1895–1949. 109 boxes. Journalist, publisher, statesman; reported on the Russo-Japanese War from Moscow and St. Petersburg. 1 box of materials contains drafts of articles on Russia and Japan, 1904–1905, and typed extracts from Russian newspapers, 1904. Finding aid.

• John Davis Batchelder

  Autograph Collection, 1400–1960. 12 containers. Includes documents signed by Maksim Gorki, Peter I, A. S. Pushkin, G. A. Potemkin, Alexander I, Fedor Rostopchin, Leo Tolstoi [Tolstoy], Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, and other prominent Russian-born personalities. Finding aid. (NUCMC 61–2074)

• John Frank Stevens (1853-1943)

  1914–42. 1 container (80 items). Chairman of the American Railway Advisory Commission in Russia; president of the Inter-Allied Technical Board in charge of Russian railways. Included are correspondence, clippings, reprints, and biographical materials.

• John Haynes Holmes (1879-1964)

  Papers, 1906–67. 243 containers. Materials on communist organizations and Russia, as well as an autograph letter by Catherine Breshkovskaia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1364) Restricted.

• John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948)

  Papers, 1882–1949. 417 containers. Albums containing a detailed survey of the equipment and operations of the Japanese army at the time of the Russo-Japanese War. Pershing was U.S. military attache in Tokyo 1905–1906. Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–2729)

• John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911)

  Family papers, 1810–1917. 53 containers. Lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court justice. Contains materials on Russia's role in the Bering Sea arbitration, 1892–93, in which Harlan took part as a U.S. representative. Finding aid. (NUCMC 76–0162)

• John Paul Jones (1747-1792)

  Papers (part of the Force collection). U.S. naval officer. Materials pertaining to Jones's service in Russia in the 1780s. Finding aid.

• John Philip Frey (1871-1957)

  Papers, 1891–1951. 35 containers. Labor leader and editor. 1 folder of correspondence reflects Frey's concern for the fate of American mechanics who left the U.S. to work in Russia in the 1930s. Finding aid.

• John Randolph Clay (1808–1885).

  Papers, 1 container (6 items). Contains the photostat negative of a draft of a report, 1824, by Clay, then secretary of U.S. Legation, Russia, to William Wilkins, U.S. minister at St. Petersburg.

• John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833)

  Papers, 1806–32. 5 containers. U.S. minister to Russia, 1830–31. Included are a diary and letterbook by John Randolph Clay, a nephew of Henry Clay who held diplomatic posts in Russia in the 1830s. Finding aid.

• John Watson Foster (1836-1917)

  Papers, 1872–1917. 1 container, 175 items. Includes 2 instructions from the U.S. Secretary of State William M. Evarts pertaining to Foster's service as U.S. minister to Russia, 1880–82. Finding aid. (NUCMC 68–2031)

• John Willard Toland (b. 1912)

  Papers, 1941–66. 110 containers. Includes transcribed interviews with Russians involved in the destruction of Germany and the fall of Berlin. These interviews were used as source materials in Toland's The Last Hundred Days (New York, 1966). Finding aid. (NUCMC 68–2079)

• Joseph (1857-1926) and Elizabeth (1855-1936) Pennell

  Papers, 1835–1945. 377 containers. Materials on the stay in Russia of Anna Whistler and her son James McNeill Whistler; they were there with George Washington Whistler when he helped build the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad. There is also correspondence between George Baker, U.S. minister to Russia, and Charles G. Leland. Finding aid. (NUCMC 66–1446)

• Joseph Edward Davies (1876-1958)

  Papers, 1860–1957. 163 containers. U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1936–38, special envoy to confer with Stalin in May and June 1943, and special adviser to President Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes at the Potsdam conference, July-August 1945. Over 10 boxes of material (including correspondence, diaries, and memoranda) contain references to Soviet personalities in the 1930s, lend-lease to Russia, and international conferences in the World War II era. Also included are materials used by Davies for his book, Mission to Moscow, and its sequel. Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–4609)

• Joseph Pulitzer (1885-1955)

  Papers, 1910–58. 193 containers. 4 folders of memoranda by Pulitzer, a journalist and editor, to his staff asking questions on Russia and speculating on what policies should be adopted toward it by the U.S. Trotskii is mentioned in these papers. Finding aid. (NUCMC 77–1566)

• Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)

  A photograph of a published handwritten note praising Lenin, 1925, with a typewritten English translation. The note appeared in Rabochaia gazeta, January 1925, No. 17.

• Joseph Wright Alsop

  Papers, 1699–1970. 127 containers. Journalist. Some typescript articles pertaining to Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1327)

• Josephus Daniels (1862-1948)

  Papers, 1806–1948. 931 containers. Secretary of the Navy, 1912–21. 1 folder of materials (correspondence, reports, photographs, memoranda, and charts) pertaining to conditions in Russia, 1917–21, as seen by Americans both inside and outside the country. Finding aid.

• Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943)

  Papers, 1885–1964. 174 containers. Explorer and businessman. Business correspondence dealing with the reentry of U.S. ships into Russian ports after the 1917 Revolution, as well as 1 folder of material relating to a trip taken by Roosevelt in the Soviet Union. Finding aid. (NUCMC 77–1569)

• Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev (1827-1907)

  Papers. 6 rolls of microfilm. Correspondence of Pobedonostsev. The original material is located in the Lenin Library, Moscow. Finding aid.

• L. K. Artamonov

  Papers, 1897–1929. 70 items. Russian army officer. Reports, photographs, memoirs, and other materials pertaining to the Special Russian Mission to Emperor Meneleke, Abyssinia, 1897–99, in which Colonel Artamonov took part. Finding aid.

• Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (1892-1950)

  Papers, 1929–50. 89 containers. U.S. ambassador to Russia, 1931–41; handled the arrangements of the first lend-lease shipments to the Soviet Union. Some material on Russia and on Russian-Turkish relations. Finding aid. (NUCMC 65–0932)

• Lavinia L. Dock

  1 container. 5 items pertaining to Dock's efforts to have Soviet nurses represented at international nurses' meetings. Finding aid.

• Lawrence Edmund Spivak (b. 1900)

  Papers, 1927–73. 117 containers. Television commentator. 10 folders of correspondence from viewers of Spivak's T.V. show, "Meet the Press." Persons discussed in these letters include A. Mikoyan, Nikita S. Khrushchev, George K. Kennan, and Mikhail Menshikov (Soviet ambassador to the U.S.). Finding aid. (NUCMC 74–1074)

• Leland Harrison (1883-1951)

  Papers, 1915–47. 125 containers. Diplomatic secretary, American Commission to Negotiate Peace. 6 folders with correspondence and reports pertaining to Bolshevik Russia, to the activities of the Japanese and Germans in post-revolutionary Russia (1 thick folder, containing reports marked secret), and to a tentative plan for a Russian relief mission for the American Commission to Negotiate the Peace. Alexander Gumberg and Raymond Robins are mentioned pejoratively in the correspondence between Harrison and J. Butler. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0020)

• Leo Pasvolsky (1893-1953)

  Papers, 1937–53. 12 containers. Born in Pavlograd, Pasvolsky was the editor of the Russkoe slovo, 1917–20, and of the Amerikanskii ezhegodnik, 1917–18, and later a State Department official and economist. Included is some material pertaining to foreign policy and to conferences after and during World War II, including the Crimea Conference, 1945. Finding aid. (NUCMC 68–2062)

• Levi (1789-1851) and Charles Levi (1820-1898) Woodbury

  Papers, 1638–1899. 105 containers. Contains the diary of Mrs. Gustavus Vasa Fox (Virginia Woodbury) when her husband was in Russia in 1866. Finding aid. (NUCMC 66–0235)

• Louis Freeland Post (1849-1928)

  Papers, 1864–1939. 7 containers. Lawyer and newspaperman. 1 folder of materials (probably research documentation) containing information on "Russian loan data," 1917–20. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1399)

• Maksim Gorki (1868-1936)

  Papers, 1922–38. 1 container. Correspondence (original and copies) between Gorki, the Soviet author, and Khodasevich (1922–25); 5 letters from Gorki to Nina Berberova Khodasevich (1923–25); a lecture, in Russian, 33 pp., by Khodasevich, delivered in Paris in 1934. (NUCMC 62–4817)

• Maria Moransky

  A typed letter signed 16 June 1937 to Miss Marie Trommer, editor, American Russian Review.

• Mark Lambert Bristol (1868-1939)

  Papers, 1887–1939. 98 containers. Naval officer. 6 folders of materials pertaining to Russia, including dispatches sent by Newton Alexander McCully regarding the Denikin campaign, January-April 1920, and the Wrangel campaign, April-October 1920. Other subjects include Russian relief work, 2 folders, 1922–23, and Russian refugees, 1934–35. Finding aid.

• Mary Edith Powel (1846-1931)

  Papers, 1747–1922. 63 containers. Collector of materials pertaining to naval affairs. 3 folders of clippings (from newspapers, magazines, and other sources) pertaining to the Russian navy, primarily during the late 19th c. Finding aid. (NUCMC 69–2047)

• McCook Family

  Papers, 1827–1963. 28 containers. 1 folder of materials (mostly correspondence) on Alexander McCook's visit to Russia in 1896 as a U.S. representative to the coronation of the tsar. The letters describe official functions and a visit to Moscow. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0049)

• Michael Wolf Straus (1897-1970)

  Papers, 1929–65. 22 containers. Consultant to the Senate Interior Committee, 1955–60. 1 folder of photographs, charts, drafts of articles, and notebooks pertaining to Soviet electricity and to Straus's trip to Russia in 1959.

• Ministerstvo Iustitsii, Russia

  Records, 1732-1733. 2 items. 1 container. A selection from the papers of the Ruling Senate of the Ministry of Justice of instructions to scientists accompanying the Vitus Bering expedition. Catalogue record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81071555
  

• Montgomery Family

  Papers, 1771–1974. 33 containers. Boxes 21, 22, and 23 contain materials (primarily correspondence) pertaining to the activities of the Armenia-America Society, 1919–23, of which George Redington Montgomery (1870–1945) was director 1920–23. The Society aimed to bring peace in both Turkish and Russian Armenia and to assist Armenians in establishing a self-supporting nation. Finding aid.

• National American Woman Suffrage Association

  Records, 1850–1960. 98 containers. 5 items pertaining to Soviet bonds, the Russian famine, 1922, and Russian women. Finding aid. (NUCMC 71–1387)

• Nazimova collection, 1877-1988

  1,400 items, 4 containers plus 1 oversize (1.8 linear feet). Correspondence, programs, press clippings, and scrapbooks documenting the American stage and film career of the Russian-born actress Nazimova, particularly during the silent film era. Includes letters (1903-1943) from Nazimova to her sister, Nina Lewton; many early letters are in Russian but most have English translations. Other letters (1927-1940) are written to her friend, Leona Scott. Also includes a memoir by her niece, Lucy Olga Lewton. Finding aid available: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm95081203

• Newton Alexander McCully (1867-1951)

  Papers, 1917–27. 1 container, 4 items. U.S. naval officer. Includes McCully's diaries in 1918, when he commanded U.S. naval forces in north Russia, and in 1920, when he was special agent of the State Department in south Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 76–0167)

• Newton Diehl Baker (1871-1937)

  Papers, 1898–1962. 276 containers. Secretary of War during the Wilson administration, 1916–21, and author of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Capitalism (1932). Among the Russian-related materials are memoranda on John Cadahy's book, Archangel: The American War with Russia, and on the North Russian and Siberian expeditions. Both memoranda are dated 1924. Finding aid. (NUCMC 66–1384)

• Nicholas Low (1739-1826)

  Papers, 1783–1865. 160 containers. Merchant. A few business letters from St. Petersburg, 1803–1807. Finding aid.

• Norman H. Davis (1878-1944)

  Papers, 1918–42. 93 containers. Economist and diplomat. 1 box of materials (primarily correspondence) pertaining to Davis's involvement in the Russian Student Fund, 1920–1930s. There are also progress reports on the work of Russianborn students in U.S. universities. Alexis von Viren is frequently mentioned in these papers. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0207)

• Ogden Livingston Mills (1884-1937)

  Papers, 1920–39. 206 containers. U.S. congressman and secretary of the treasury. 1 folder of printed and/or mimeographed materials on Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0035)

• Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926)

  Papers, 1856–1954. 53 containers. Businessman, diplomat, secretary of commerce. Some material reflects Straus's concern with the welfare and persecution of Jews in Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 60–0157)

• Palmer-Loper Families

  Papers, 1767–1900. 13 containers. Sea-captains and merchants. An ALS from Nathaniel Palmer to F. T. Bush, 13 March 1876, explaining how Krusenstern, the Russian sea-captain, named the Antarctic continent Palmer's Land in honor of the American discoverer of this continent. Finding aid. (NUCMC 64–1578)

• Peter A. Demens (P. A. Tverskoi) (1850-1919)

  Papers, 1893–1911. 42 items. Russian-born writer and entrepreneur; wrote about the U.S. for Russian publications. Newspaper clippings, drafts of articles and letters, and other materials illustrating Demens's interests and career. Mostly in Russian. The papers are not yet fully processed.

• Philander Chase (1798-1824)

  Transcript of a journal (1818–19) with descriptions of St. Petersburg in the 1810s, when Chase served as U.S. navy chaplain on the U.S.S. Guerriere. The original of the journal is in the Kenyon College Library. (NUCMC 76–0148)

• Philip Caryl Jessup (b. 1897)

  Papers, 1902–55. 277 containers. Jurist, biographer, educator. Russian-related materials include documentation on the Russian Institute, Columbia University, 1946–47, and Russian studies, 1943. Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–4576) Restricted.

• Poushkin Society of America

  Minutes, 1834–1955. 7 containers. Minutes, programs, correspondence, literary contest essays, postcards, newspaper clippings, and a card index to the words of Boris Godunov. Much of the material documents the activities of the Society and Russian emigre life and literatures. Among the individuals mentioned are Andrey Avinoff, Boris Brasol, Prince Serge Obolensky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Michael Ivanovich Rostovstzeff, Igor Sikorsky, Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin, George Vernadsky, and other prominent Russians in emigration. Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–4882)

• Raymond Clapper (1892-1944)

  Papers, 1913–44. 256 containers. Author, journalist, and radio commentator. Among the Russian-related materials are 2 boxes of newspaper clippings on Russia, 1930–40. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0052)

• Raymond Swing (1887-1968)

  Papers, 1935–63. 39 containers. Political commentator for the Voice of America, 1951–53, 1959–63. Some materials pertaining to Russia. Finding aid, (NUCMC 70–0977)

• Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

  Papers, 1913–66. 33 containers. Theologian, philosopher, author. Included are articles on Khrushchev and the Cold War, Russia and America, and other Russianrelated topics. Finding aid. (NUCMC 67–0622)

• Robert Porter Patterson (1891-1952)

  Papers, 1940–51. 107 containers. Under secretary of war and secretary of war, 1940–47. Some materials pertaining to Russia, including a report by Averell Harriman on developments in the Soviet Union as reflected in the Soviet press. Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–4624)

• Roland Slettor Morris (1874-1945)

  Papers, 1910–43. 15 containers. U.S. ambassador to Japan, 1917–20; went on a special mission to Siberia, 1918. 3 boxes of correspondence, reports, memoranda, and maps pertaining to Russia and the Far East, conditions in Siberia during the Russian Civil War, the Japanese intervention in Siberia, and the Third Communist International. Finding aid. (NUCMC 60–0127)

• Russia Miscellany

  Ca. 1759–1917. 4 containers. Included are the following items: "Zapiska ob ustanovke Finbersbar i komnasov"; letters patent conferring the order of St. Alexander Nevsky on George Thomas Marye, U.S. ambassador to Russia, 24 February 1916, signed by Nicholas II; incomplete monthly lists of officers attending lectures at the Nikolaevskii (Nicolaevsky) Academy of the General Staff, St. Petersburg, 1881; a thanksgiving manuscript book for the victory of Russian troops over the King of Prussia at Frankfurt, 1 August 1759; a printed copy of the land decree of 26 October 1917; other materials.

• Russia Petrograd

  12 containers. Includes copies of materials made by Frank A. Golder in Petrograd archives in 1914. Most of the materials deals with Bering's Expeditions, the activities of the Russian-American Company and of Russians in Alaska, and with the sale of Alaska to the United States. Included are: report of the academician G. F. Muller on the discovery of new islands by Captain Shmalev, 1770, 4 pp.; a document on Francis Dana's mission to the court of Catherine II, ca. 1784, in French; documents containing data on Shelikhov, Baranov, and others; a refutation, in French, that American independence will be harmful to Russian trade, n.d., 6 pp.; documentation on the activities of Shelikhov, Golikov, and the first missionaries in Alaska, 1783–96, 44 pp.; report of the committee appointed to study interpretation of Article I of the Treaty of Ghent, 20 pp.; a life and scientific observations of Georg Wilhelm Steller; selections from a book of drawings of Alaskan scenes by Lieutenant M. Levashov; drawings of the port of Petropavlosk and other places by Ivan Elagin; historical calendar of the Russian-American Company for 1816; dispatches from Baron Stoeckl to State Chancellor Prince Gorchakov, 1860–64, ca. 2,000 pp. See U.S. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Handbook of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918), pp. 456–57. See also "Documents Relative to the History of Alaska," Volume III, pp. 322–39, available in the Manuscript Division.

• Russia Philanthropic Societies

  Papers, 1865–76. 1 container. Reports, account books, and photographs relating to charitable and philanthropic organizations in Russia. The material, in Russian, German, and English, was collected in connection with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of American independence in Philadelphia. Organizations mentioned include the Bratoliubovnoe obshchestvo, the Benevolent Society for Governesses and French Teachers in Russia, and the Community for the Sisters of Charity at Pskov.

• Russia Valaam

  1 container, 4 items. Photographs of original drawings from Valaam monastery of the Elevoi, Kodiak, and Lesnoi Islands during 1819 made by the monk Kanowsky from memory in 1866. The materials were collected by Frank A. Golder.

• Russia. Akademii Nauk. Arkhiv (Leningrad).

  Collection, 1741-1912. 100 items. 2 containers. Journals, maps, lists, and descriptions from the Academy of Sciences relating to Georg Wilhelm Steller's travels to America, a voyage of the St. Peter, activities of the Russian American Company (Rossiĭsko-amerikanskaia kompaniia), and autobiographical notes and associated material of Genadīĭ Vasil'evich Yudin (G. V. Iudin).

• Russia. Gosudarstvennyĭ Arkhiv Rossīĭskoĭ Imperīi.

  Collection, 1732-1789. 450 items. 2 containers. Consists of selections from the State Archive of the Russian Empire (Gosarkhiv) relating to Kamchatka expeditions, land bridges between Asia and America, trade with North America, and Vitus Bering's explorations.
  

• Russia. Imperatorskaia Publichnaia Biblioteka.

  Collection, 1745-1912. 2 items. 1 container. Selections from the Imperial Public Library collection relating to the Russian American Company.

• Russia-Moscow

  3 containers. Includes copies of the following materials: Instructions to Count Pahlen from Alexander I, 1809; "Projet de depeche a M. de Stoeckl" (1854); Instructions to Baron Tuyll from Alexander I, 1817; papers of the Ruling Senate Instructions to scientists of the Bering Expedition, 1732–33, 54 pp.; materials, 1868, from the archives of the Russian legation in Washington with translations by Hunter Miller; photostat negatives of ADS, 62 sheets, various sizes, pertaining to treaty negotiations leading up to the treaty of 1832 between the United States and Russia, in French. See "Documents Relative to the History of Alaska," Volume III, pp. 322–39, available in the Manuscript Division.

• Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska

  Typescript, 15 vols. "Documents Relative to the History of Alaska," made by the staff of the Alaska History Research Project at the University of Alaska, 1936–38. Included are calendars, indexes, transcripts of documents, and excerpts and translations of some of the records of the Russian-American Company (at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) and of the following documents at the Manuscript Division: Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church records, the Yudin Collection, Russia-Petrograd, Russia-Moscow, Russia-Miscellany, and Russia-Valaam.

• Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in Alaska

  Records, 1772–1936. 1,015 containers. Donated to the Library of Congress by Russian Church officials in 1928 and 1964, these records consist primarily of ecclesiastical documents dealing with the administration of Alaskan parishes, including those in Atka, Belkovsky, Ikogmut, Juneau, Kenai, Kalesnoo, Kodiak, Kuskakwim, Nushagak, Nutchek, St. George Island, St. Michael Island, Sitka, Taitlek, Unalaska, and Unga. Documents include registers of births, marriages, and deaths; records of confession and communion; reports about churches and lists of clergy; records of divine services; records of income and expenditures of church funds; registers of converts to orthodoxy. There are also 23 diaries and travel journals spanning the years 1828–97; Imperial decrees beginning with Catherine the Great; letters, 1870, on the proposed union of the Russian Orthodox Church with the American Episcopal Church; private correspondence to clerics in Alaska from V. K. Sabler, Professor I. Glubokovskii (St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Seminary), Professor N. Dobrov (Moscow Theological Seminary), and many others. Finally, there are documents pertaining to the Church and to the Russian-American Company before the purchase of Alaska. An unpublished register at the Library describes these records. The documents received in 1928 are described in the Alaska History Research Project, "Documents Relative to the History of Alaska" (1936–38). See also the article used extensively in writing this entry, John T. Dorosh, "The Alaskan Russian Church Archive," The Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, Vol. 18, No. 4 (August 1961), pp. 192–203. Note: A detailed guide to the Records is being prepared; the Records will be microfilmed in the near future.

• S. E. Burrows

  Collection, 1855-56. 8 items. Handwritten transcripts and facsimile letters, 15 March-14 November 1856, between Burrows and Count Nesselrode concerning the destruction of the Russian frigate Diana and the fate of its crew.

• Simon Cameron (1799-1889)

  Papers, 1824–92. 10 containers. U.S. minister to Russia, January-November 1862. The general correspondence covers the months Cameron was in Russia. The papers also include 10 reels of microfilm reproducing the Cameron Papers in the Historical Society of Dauphin County, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

• Simon Newcomb (1835-1909)

  Papers, 1854–1936. 156 containers. Astonomer and mathematician. 2 folders of correspondence, in German and English, between Newcomb, astronomer and mathematician, and Otto and Herman Struve, Russian astronomers, ca. 1870–1900. Finding aid. (NUCMC 63–0384)

• Smirnov Archive

  Collection. 1 container. Photostats of typewritten copies of P. Lavrov addressed to Rozalia Khristoforovna in the 1850s and 1880s. The originals are at the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam.

• Stanley Washburn (1878-1950)

  Papers, 1912–45. 4 containers. Journalist and author; was in Russia with the John P. Stevens Railroad Commission to rehabilitate Russian railroads and participated in the Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1917. Some materials pertaining to Russia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 60–0146)

• Stephen Timoshenko (1878-1965)

  Papers, 1928–57. 4 containers. Educator and engineer. Lecture notes and other materials on Russian science. (NUCMC 64–1581)

• Stevenson Family

  Papers, 1756–1882. 51 containers. Contains correspondence from the Russian minister in London to Andrew Stevenson (1785–1857) when he was U.S. minister to England, 1836–41. Finding aid. (NUCMC 76–0174)

• Stewart Alsop

  See Joseph Wright Alsop.

• Sviateĭshiĭ Pravitel'stvuiushchiĭ Sinod

  Collection, 1795-1807. 10 items. 1 container. Reports, charges, and a tabulation of goods from the Archive of the Holy Synod relating to affairs on Kodiak Island.

• Tasker Howard Bliss (1853-1930)

  Papers, 1870–1930. 496 containers. Army officer, scholar, diplomat; active in World War I. Several boxes of material, business correspondence, intelligence reports from the U.S. military attache in Petrograd, maps, memoranda, pertaining to Russia, especially 1918–19. Subjects include the Allied intervention in Russia, the murder of Nicholas II and his family, Russian POWs in Germany, political conditions in Russia, antiBolshevik forces, and the situation in the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia around the time of the Revolution. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0259)

• Thomas Capek (1861-1950)

  Collection. 19 containers. 1 folder of materials on a group of U.S. Czechs who set forth to establish a Utopian colony in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Finding Aid. (NUCMC 59–0044)

• Thomas de Witt Talmage (1832-1902)

  Papers, 1843–1902. 33 containers. U.S. clergyman. Some materials (correspondence, scrapbook, notes) describing Talmage's visit to Russia in 1892, when he met Alexander III. Finding aid. (NUCMC 62–4819)

• Thomas James Walsh (1859-1933)

  Papers, 1910–34. 524 containers. U.S. senator from Montana. 1 folder of correspondence between Walsh and his constituents on Turkish atrocities in Armenia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0261)

• Truman Capote (b. 1924)

  Papers, 1947–59. 17 containers. Writer. Includes an unpublished, unfinished article entitled "Moscow." Restricted.

• Turpin C. Bannister

  Collection. 1 container (5 items). Includes a letter, 1944, from Bannister to August Eccard, enclosing 4 photographs of St. Isaac's Cathedral in Leningrad.

• Ukrainian Congress Committee of America

  A bound petition to President Gerald Ford on behalf of human rights in the Ukraine, 1976, 450 pp.

• Viacheslav Konstantinovich Pleve (1846-1904)

  18 items. Commander of the Petrograd military district for civil affairs. Thank-you notes, greetings, and a handwritten copy of "Gramota na prav, vol'nosti i preimushchestva blagorodnogo Rossiiskago dvorianstva" (1785).

• Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858-1943)

  Playwright, director, and writer. Nemirovich-Danchenko's poem, in Russian, "Iorodiada" (Prague, undated).

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977)

  Collection, 1923–58. 15 containers. Russianborn author. Manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs, and corrected copies of Nabokov's novels, poems, articles, translations, book reviews, and other writings. Works in English include Pale Fire (on index cards), the screenplay of Lolita (on index cards), Invitation to a Beheading, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Conclusive Evidence, and other works. Works in Russian include Drygie berega, Dar, Tragediia Gospodina Morna, and Izobrazhenie Val'sa. There is also a translation of Eugene Onegin and notes in regard to The Song of Igor' s Campaign. Finally, there are several folders of general and special correspondence with Nabokov's agent, with Aldanov, Khodasevich, and Lukash, and with other writers and poets. Finding aid. (NUCMC 65–0921) Restricted.

• Volga Province Russia

  Records. 1 container (54 items). Spanning the late 18th and early 19th c., these 54 items, which include official documents and service records, pertain to the service and family history of the Ivanovs, a noble Russian family that lived in the Volga region.

• Vozdushnye puti

  Records, 1902–67. 6 containers. Contains 3 boxes of correspondence (1941–67) to R. N. Grynberg, the editor and publisher of Vozdushnye puti. Correspondents include Nina Berberova, Roman Goul, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Vladimir Markov, Aleksandr Efimovich Parnis, Edmund Wilson, Joseph Brodsky, Max Hayward, Iurii Ivask, Michael Karpovich, Dmitri von Mohrenschildt, Temira Pachmuss, Aleksis Rannit, Gleb Petrovich Struve, Roman Jakobson, Vladimir Vasil'evich Weidle, Aleksei Mikhailovich Remizov, Natalie Baranoff, and others. In addition, there are 3 boxes of literary manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and photos (of Vladimir Nabokov, Khodasevich, Mayakovskii, and others).

• W. Averell Harriman

  Papers, 1869-1988. 344,250 items; 1,108 containers plus 11 classified; 54 microfilm reels (526.3 linear feet). Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, statements and writings, business records, political files, diplomatic accounts, family papers, architectural and mechanical drawings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting Harriman's career in business, finance, politics, and public service, particularly during the Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter presidential administrations. Major topics include the defeat of Germany in World War II, Soviet-American relations, Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Korean and Vietnamese wars, African independence movements, U.S. intervention in Latin America, arms negotiations, and the antinuclear movement. Finding aid available: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm85061911

• Wharton Barker (1846-1921)

  Papers, 1870–1920. 29 containers. Philadelphia financier and publicist; participated in various business ventures in Russia in the late 19th c. Materials reflect Barker's interest in Russia trade, Russian railway concessions, the Russian navy, Ukrainian coal fields, and Russian-American relations. Among his principal correspondents were Captain L. P. Semetschkin and Constantine P. Pobedonostsev. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0148)

• Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright

  Papers, 1881–1948. 120 containers. Some materials on the contacts of the Wright Brothers with the Russian government in the early 20th c. Finding aid. (NUCMC 60–0588)

• William Alexander Marshall (1849-1926)

  Papers, 1876–1906. 1 container, 100 items. U.S. naval officer. Material on the Russo-Japanese War, when Marshall was commander of the U.S.S. Vicksburg, then stationed in Korean waters. (NUCMC 72–1735)

• William Allen White (1868-1944)

  Papers, 1859–1944. 452 containers. Author, editor, politician. Correspondents include Carl W. Ackerman, William E. Borah, and Raymond Robins. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0041)

• William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920)

  Papers, 1857–1919. 39 containers. U.S. military officer and doctor. 1 folder of materials (correspondence, maps, photos) on the medical and sanitary conditions of the U.S. Expeditionary Forces in Vladivostok. Finding aid (NUCMC 62–4578)

• William Daniel Leahy (1875-1959)

  Papers, 1893–1959. 23 containers and 4 reels of microfilm. U.S. naval officer. Copies of letters written by Joseph Edward Davies in 1945 to F. D. Roosevelt that discuss in part Soviet aims and intentions. Finding aids. (NUCMC 60–1787)

• William Edgar Borah

  Papers, 1905–40. 881 containers. U.S. senator from Idaho, 1907–40; favored U.S. recognition of Soviet Russia. Included are letters between Borah and American business leaders on Russia, as well as correspondence with Raymond Robins. Finding aid.

• William F. Megee and Samuel Nightingale

  Papers. 1 container, 47 items. Includes a letter, 9 September 1811, from the Brothers Cramer in St. Petersburg to John Rodgers, dealing with commercial matters.

• William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941)

  Papers, 1876–1941. 665 containers. Secretary of the treasury and U.S. senator from California, 1933–38. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0229)

• William Harrison Standley (1872-1963)

  Papers, 1895–1963. 14 containers. U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1942–43. Includes drafts of Standley's book, Admiral Ambassador to Russia. There is also correspondence pertaining to the anti-communist causes with which Standley was associated in the 1950s. Finding Aid. (NUCMC 71–1418)

• William Mitchell (1879-1936)

  Papers, 1907–46. 66 containers. Some items document General Mitchell's interest in Soviet aviation and Russia, which he visited in 1927. Finding aid. (NUCMC 59–0154)

• William Orr (1860-1939)

  Papers, 1890–1939. 6 containers. Educator and author. 3 folders of draft articles on Latvia and Estonia. Finding aid. (NUCMC 65–0923)

• William Sowden Sims (1858-1936)

  Papers, 1856–1951. 149 containers. Some family letters pertaining to Sims's service in Russia, where he was U.S. naval attache in the late 1890s. Finding aid. (NUCMC 77–1573)