Alberto Vimina (17th c). "Relatione della Moscouia di Alberto Vimina secretario" [n.p., 1657?]
Manuscript, 76 pp., included in the author's Historia delle guerre civili di Polonia (Venice, 1671). (Phillipps MS 5554)
Ardis Records (1971-2002, bulk 1980-1989)
22 linear feet. Carl R. Proffer (1938-1984) and Ellendea Proffer (1944- ) co-founded Ardis in 1971 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ardis (1971-2002) was the foremost Western publisher of Russian and Soviet literature during this period. Principal categories of work published by Ardis included reprints of unavailable classics, translations into English of previously untranslated 20th century literature, translations of literary criticism, works in English and Russian on literary figures or movements, and original works of Russian literature. The greatest contribution of Ardis was the publication of Russian and English translations of classics by such writers as Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva. The Ardis Records have been arranged into seven series: Author/Name Files, Anthologies/Collected Works, Business Records, Media, Non-Ardis Material, Personal, and Publicity. Finding aid available: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/umich-scl-ardis
Armenian Manuscripts
5 items, 12th–17th c. Calendrical tables, A.D. 1661, vellum, with ornamentation (Mich. MS 91), 1 1.; Gospels, A.D. 1161, vellum, 276 ff., colophon: Copied at Edessa by the scribe (priest) Vasil for the patron Christopher and his wife Aygots, with portraits of Mark and John (Mich. MS 141); Gospels, 17th–18th c., 286 ff. including 4 blank flyleaves, paper, vellum leaves from Armenian Gospel used as endsheets, with fullpage portrait of Matthew, small portraits of Mark and John (Mich. MS 142); Gospels (fragments), 13th c. 5 11., vellum, from Luke 19–21, with ornamentation (Mich, MS 143); and Hymnal, A.D. 1679, 341 ff., vellum, musical notations and ornamentation (Mich. MS 156). Unpublished brief listing. (Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts)
Charles Ellet, Jr. (1810–1862)
Papers, 1827–1926,20.0 Linear feet (33 manuscript boxes 11 flat oversized boxes). American civil engineer. He corresponded with representatives of foreign governments about military affairs, mainly his plans for the use of naval steam battering rams. One draft of a letter dated 16 January 1855 is to the Grand Duke Constantine, vice-admiral of the Russian navy; in it Ellet offers a plan to destroy the Allied fleet in the harbor of Sevastopol with his battering rams. A letter of 4 February 1855 to Count Karl Robert Nesselrode, the Russian foreign minister, concerns "the national defenses of Sevastopol and Odessa." The same month Ellet sent copies of a paper entitled "How to Destroy Sevastopol" to Lord Palmerston, Sir James Graham, and Lord Panmure in Great Britain. All items are in folders 184–185. Contact the library prior to a visit. (NUCMC 62–2071). Finding aid available: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/umich-scl-ellet
Dimitrii, Saint, Metropolitan of Rostov (1651-1709)
Lietopis' keleinyi... ot nachala mirobytie do r[o]zh [desjtva Khr[is]tova (Velikii Ustiug, 1708), in Church Slavonic. The author was Ukrainian. Provenance note on pastedown dated 1754. Published in 1784. (Mich. MS 205). Unpublished brief listing. (Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts)
Joseph A. Labadie (1848-1933)
Collection, 19th–20th c., social protest materials. This huge and varied collection includes printed materials (books, pamphlets, and vertical file material) and a manuscript and archival collection in which Russian-related materials exist. Among the books and pamphlets are serials and pamphlets of the Social Democratic Labor Party (Rossiiskaia sotsial-demokraticheskaia rabochaia partiia), Socialist-Revolutionary Party (Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov), as well as books and pamphlets of the British Columbia community of Doukhobors, 9 titles, and the Russian anarchist movement; various call numbers, some uncatalogued, retrievable by author. The manuscripts and archives include papers of Russian immigrants, among them Alexander Berkman (1870–1936)—correspondence, 1907–36, ca. 25 items; Mark Clevans (also known as Klavansky and Mratchny)—correspondence, 1922–38, ca. 150 items, of which a quarter are in Russian; Emma Goldman (1869–1940)—correspondence, 1909–40, ca, 180 items; and Isadore Wisotsky (ca. 1895–1970)—Such a Life [1968?], manuscript autobiography by Russian immigrant labor union leader (early life in Russia, association later with Russian radical exiles in the U.S. and abroad); American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born archives, 1933–61, ca. 70 ft., with the Committee's additions as active files are retired, comprising business correspondence, reports, office files, and court and administrative records of individual deportation cases; uncatalogued, retrieval by name of person for court cases which make up about half of the total amount (inquire about restrictions). In various stages of cataloguing. Finding aids available: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead?sort=author;size=60;start=1;type=simple;rgn=Repository;q1=Joseph+A+Labadie;view=reslist
Sergei Ivanovich Zimin (1876-1942)
Collection, 1911–20, 3 vols. Theater owner. Bound original, printed, programs from operas performed at the Zimin Opera in Moscow, 16 September 1911–17 January 1917, and from selected performances at the Teatr Soveta rabochikh deputatov, the subsequent name of the Zimin Opera, 3 September 1917–1920. All performances with the orchestra conducted by Eugene Plotnikoff (1877–1951). Plotnikoff's bookstamp on flyleaf of vol. 3.
Wladimir S. Woytinsky (1885-1960)
Collection, 1905–67, 2 ft., 350 items. Russian-American economist. Collection of Woytinsky and his wife, Emma (Shadkhan) Woytinsky (1893–1968). Woytinsky was imprisoned for radical activities and exiled to Siberia, 1908–17; he was a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Imprisoned in 1917 for anti-Bolshevik activity, he escaped to Georgia in 1918, went to western Europe, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1935. Prolific writer, chiefly on economics, in several languages, from 1905; Mrs. Woytinsky was co-author, editor, and translator. Includes a photocopy of his "Pravda ob Orlovskom Tsentrale," 1912, original in the George Kennan papers at the New York Public Library, published only in Dutch; a typescript entitled "The Soviet of the Unemployed in Petersburg, 1906–1907," 342 pp., a translation by Mrs. Woytinsky of his "Peterburgskiy Soviet Bezrabotnykh, 1906–1907" (never published in any language); and "Lost in the Siberian Wilderness," 123 pp., her translation of his V Taige (Petrograd, 1916), never published in English. Most of the writings have been published, but some of the Michigan materials are rare or unique; some of these works are on 36 reels of microfilm. Also includes reports and correspondence. Several folders of correspondence related to consulting work for an automobile company and correspondence related to his work for government agencies are currently marked "Confidential" and access will be restricted until their status can be clarified. Emma S. Woytinskyfs Bibliography of the Writings of W. S. Woytinsky (Washington, D.C., 1961) lists 425 items, 27 pp., but excludes manuscript material and posthumous publications.
Zakhariia Kopystensfkyi (d. 1627)
Palinodiia [n.p., 19th c.?], dated 1621 on title page, provenance note on flyleaf dated 1855, in Church Slavonic (Ukrainian), Ukrainian author; published in 1878 in Russkaia istoricheskaia biblioteka. (Mich. MS 206). Unpublished finding aid. (Medieval and Renaissance Manuscipts)
