Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European Culture

Resources (773)

• A. A. Govorov

  2 notebooks, handwritten, and a typescript on the Russian military in Turkestan ca. 1890–1919.

• A. A. Krants

  Handwritten memoirs describing life in Petrograd under War Communism, 1918–20.

• A. A. Lampe

  Papers, ca. 56 boxes, 21,000 items. The general's papers contain correspondence with ROVS, earlier emigre military groups, and members of the Romanov family after 1917; materials on the Vlasov movement and displaced persons in post-World War II Germany; his diary for 1945–61. A small amount of material in this collection concerns the Volunteer Army and the Civil War. Restrictions.

• A. A. Levitskii

  Handwritten reminiscences by this lieutenant about the Russo-Japanese War and his life to 1913.

• A. A. Sollogub-Dovoino

  Manuscript about the Russian emigration in Poland, 1920–26, 175 pp.

• A. A. Venovskii

  Memoirs, entitled "Vospominaniia uchastnika revoliutsii 1905 goda," typed, 23 pp.; and essays on Shakespeare, mythology, and ancient history, handwritten and typed.

• A. A. Volzhanin

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes, 325 items. Lengthy typed memoirs—"Grozy i buri moria zhiteiskogo," 500 pp., covering his military service as an officer in World War I, participation in the White movement in Siberia, arrest and imprisonment by the Soviet regime (to 1937), life in Soviet society before World War II, desertion to the Germans, and anti-Soviet military activities during the war. Restrictions.

• A. Bekhteev

  Manuscripts on rural life in Russia before the Revolution.

• A. Dneprovets

  A typescript on the purges in Dnepropetrovsk in 1936–37, based on personal experiences, and a second typed manuscript entitled "Kak sozdaiutsia 'Sputniki'"—on the NKVD supervision of classified scientific research, 1938–40, again drawing on his own experience.

• A. Efremov

  A typed and mimeographed manuscript on the agrarian problem ca. 1906–14, 19 pp.

• A. K. Moskalenko

  Materials on his acquaintance with the Chekhov-Knipper family.

• A. M. Ivanov

  A typescript describing his experiences in the Civil War in the region of Astrakhan, 1918–20, based on diaries, written as day-by-day accounts, 170 pp.

• A. M. Nikolaev

  Papers, ca. 15 boxes. A military agent at the tsarist embassy in the U.S. Telegrams, 1916–19; arms supply data, reports, historical data in 1917; correspondence of tsarist agents in the U.S., 1917–20, and with emigre military organizations, 1920s; 2 notebooks with handwritten reminiscences of N. K. Borshchevskii, Nikolaev's father-in-law, an estate manager, and on the Revolution, 1917–18; petitions of American citizens to join the Russian army in World War I; a diary for the year 1915 (at the London embassy); memoirs for 1921–23 in the U.S. emigration; typed transcripts of V. O. Kliuchevskii's 1899 history lectures on the llth-18th c.; manuscripts on Napoleon in 1812, A. Suvorov, World War I, and the Civil War; correspondence 1944–45. Restrictions.

• A. M. Volzhenskii

  Papers, ca. 35 items. Typed copies of telegrams and documents relating to Red Cross work in the Soviet Union, 1920; photocopy of a Karl Bohm letter to Volzhenskii in 1913; and a photo of Konstantin S. Ermolaev, 1912.

• A. Malinovskii

  Russian manuscript edition of a history of the administration of the Empire under the Secret State Council, 1726–30.

• A. N. Kalishevskii

  "Prisiazhnaya advokature dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii advokatura SSSR," ca. 1860–1941, 1955, typed 43 pp.

• A. N. Lenkov

  "Rol' chekhoslovakov"—a typescript about the Civil War in 1919, and a pamphlet.

• A. N. Radishchev

  1 vol., bound, handwritten copy of the Puteshestvie, retitled Kniga prichinivshaia neschastii, n.d.

• A. N. Rozenshil'd-Paulin

  Memoirs of this general, who commanded the 29th Infantry Division, concern military operations of the Russian army in Eastern Prussia, 1914–15.

• A. N. Serebrennikova

  Worked in the Siberian Provisional Government, emigrated to China. Biography and autobiography, 1882–1953.

• A. P. Arkhangel'skii

  Papers, 5 boxes, ca. 2,500 items. General, former head of the Russkil Obshchevoinskii Soiuz (ROVS). Primarily relates to ROVS and particularly to its fifth section (Belgium). Correspondence, memoranda, orders, reports, notes, photos, membership lists, mimeographed circulars, and publications, 1920s-1950s.

• A. P. Balk

  Last mayor of Petrograd. Typed diary for February 1917, with handwritten additions.

• A. P. Bogaevskii

  Papers, 17 folders. Don Cossack ataman. Correspondence, documents, and writings, 1920–34. Correspondents include the Generals P. N. Krasnov, P. Wrangel, F. F. Abramov, P. N. Shatilov, E. Miller, and A. P. Kutepov. Other information is on the Cossack Congress in Paris, 1933–34, Ataman A. M. Kaledin, and the Russian Historical Union (Russkii Istoricheskii Soiuz).

• A. P. Brailovskii

  Papers, ca. 50 items. Papers, photos, correspondence, and printed matter relating to the Civil War and the emigration in New York, 1919–1920s. Includes an appeal from the American Communist Party after the murder of S. Kirov.

• A. P. Kutepov

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, ca. 3,000 items. The general's archive, ca. 1918–28, contains his personal and professional correspondence with such figures as A. I. Denikin, P. Wrangel, P. N. Shatilov; orders of the Black Sea military governor, 1918, and of the Volunteer Army, 1920; materials on the Far East, Ataman G. M. Semenov, the Japanese intervention in 1921, the monarchist movement in the emigration, ROVS, and the Eurasian movement. Restrictions.

• A. Rakhalov

  "Zhemchuzhina zapoliariia"—a typescript about Soviet camps in the Polar region, 1930s.

• A. Repin

  Photocopies of chapters of a work on the organization of the NKVD ca. 1930–40, typed.

• A. Zherbl (Louis-Alexis Gerby)

  Typescripts in German about his activities for the SD Party in the 1905 Revolution as well as meetings with P. Miliukov in 1906 and after.

• A. Zhukovskii

  Typed and handwritten essays on such subjects as the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, the Caucasian front in World War I, military discipline, and gymnastics in the army, ca. World War I.

• Abbess Evgeniia

  A carbon copy of the typed diary of Oleg Pavlovich Mitrofanov, the abbess's son, for January-4 July 1917, when he was a lieutenant in the Russian army. He discusses the Revolution.

• Adol'f Lazarev

  His Zhizn' i Poznanie, a collection of reviews and articles on philosophical and theological subjects, written between 1905 and 1938, most published in journals, with an introduction by N. A. Berdiaev, and copies of correspondence between Lazarev and L. Shestov; issued in 1964 in 4 copies, including a bibliography of his works and a biographical note.

• Adrion Ksenofontovich Kharkevich

  2 typed poems, a book review, and a typed diary about the Orthodox Church in Florence, 1930–45.

• Aleksandr A. and Anastaziia P. Kolchinskii

  Papers, ca. 40 items. Include the lieutenant's typed poems, personal documents, a copy of a 1913 military manual, diaries for 1952 and 1954, text of L. Kornilov speech in August 1917, a typed essay about the Pavlovsk military academy, plus notes and a book on the same.

• Aleksandr A. and Maria N. Bashmakov (Baschmakoff)

  Papers, 25 boxes, ca. 8,000 items. Bashmakov was an ethnographer in Russia and France. The collection holds information on his life and works, and many of his manuscripts. In addition, the archive contains materials of A. K. Bentkovskii, with documents on the Russo-Japanese War, and papers of the Grand Duke Kiril Vladimirovich and his Imperial Chancery. Also, the manuscript (and French published text) of Maria Bashmakova's Memoires, 1958. The collection also includes correspondence, materials on her husband's life and works.

• Aleksandr A. Bol'to (Boltho-Hohenbach)

  Papers, ca. 10 items. Passports and family documents; typed reminiscences—"Puti i pereput'ia, polveka emigratsii"—concerning his childhood, the Revolution, and Africa, ca. 1890–1940.

• Aleksandr A. Titov

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes. Member of the Moscow city duma and of the central committee of the All-Russian Zemstvo and City Union (in charge of hospital supplies). After emigrating, he was a professor of chemistry in Russian courses organized by the Institut d'Etudes Slaves at the University of Paris. Correspondence, 1921–58, some official, with such people as Metropolitan Evlogii, V. I. Kokovtsov, A. I. Denikin, V. A. Maklakov, E. Kuskova, A. Kerenskii, V. Chernov, S. I. Bulgakov, I. Bunin, B. K. Zaitsev, I. S. Shmelev, A. M. Remizov, M. M. Karpovich, Lidia Dan, and P. N. Miliukov; diary of S. Tolstoi [Tolstoy]; correspondence and other papers of the publishing house "Russkaia zemlia," 1922–24; financial records of the Soveshchanie byvshikh russkikh poslov; and the archives of Tikhon Ivanovich Polner, an intimate of G. E. L'vov. Restrictions.

• Aleksandr Abramovich Poliakov

  Papers, ca. 100 items. Correspondence, 1930s-1950s, with P. Miliukov, Don Aminado, M. Aldanov, I. Bunin, A. Kuprin, and M. Tsvetaeva. Poliakov worked for Miliukov's Poslednie novosti and then Novoe Russkoye Slovo.

• Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Gubarev

  Papers, 11 items. Short typed reminiscences/essays of childhood before 1917, diary excerpts about social history and the Civil War in the South, poems, and a typescript on the Civil War.

• Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vetlits

  Papers, ca. 30 items. Horse breeder and racer of horses, with large estates in Novgorod and Tver provinces. Reminiscences concern horsebreeding and racing, social relations in the countryside before 1917, the Revolution, and life in the emigration in Yugoslavia (including the role of White emigres in King Zog's conquest of Albania); and reminiscences of service in the Russian Corps in Yugoslavia in World War II—"Kak partizany veli menia na razstrel." Restrictions.

• Aleksandr Alekseevich Pleshcheev

  Papers, ca. 30 items. Essays and correspondence on the theater and ballet and clippings of Pleshcheev's articles, 1908–1940s.

• Aleksandr Borisovich Zharkovskii

  Photograph of a delegation of Russian scientists (including Ivan Pavlov) to the International Physiological Congress in Boston, August 1929; typed letters of D. I. Abrikosov while in the Pekin embassy, 1910; typescript biography, 266 pp., of I. Pavlov by Boris Petrovich Babkin.

• Aleksandr Dmitrevich Golitsin

  "Vospominaniia kniazia A. D. Golitsina," 450 pp., covering the zemstvos, the Revolution, and other aspects of Russian history, 1880–1917; and handwritten memoirs in 2 notebooks: "2-oi god Russkoi Revoliutsii (1918). Bolshevizm na Ukraine. Khetmanskii perevorot. Petliurovshchina."

• Aleksandr Efimovich Kotomkin

  Papers, ca. 4 boxes, ca. 1,600 items. Songs, verse, correspondence, personal documents, notes, and books, 1885–1964.

• Aleksandr Il'ich Terskii

  "Bat'ke Makhno"—a typescript based on his personal recollections of his experiences in a region where Makhnovtsy were active in the Civil War; included is a copy of a message to the Makhnovtsy from General P. N. Shatilov, 18 July 1920.

• Aleksandr Ivanovich Makhonin

  Memoirs of childhood, youth (the family was Cossack), education at the naval engineering academy in St. Petersburg, service as a naval officer in World War I, time with the Volunteer Army in the south during the Civil War.

• Aleksandr K. Svitich

  Papers, ca. 380 items. Materials, including typed memoirs, about the Russian Orthodox Church in Poland, France, and Russia ca. 1920–50, and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church in exile; Svitich's memoirs of World War II; a German World War II circular to Orthodox Lithuanians ordering their help; and a telegram of Metropolitan Sergei to a Lithuanian diocese ordering compliance with the German circular, 1943.

• Aleksandr Kuksin

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 800 items. Kuksin served in the P. P. Skoropadsky government in the Ukraine, was later active in emigre anti-Bolshevik politics. The archive includes correspondence (e.g., family letters from the USSR ca. 1935); diaries for roughly 1941–59; memoirs and memoir material; a signed copy of a 1921 treaty among anti-Bolshevik groups in Turkey and the Ukrainian rada.

• Aleksandr Leonidovich Nosovich

  Papers, ca. 13 items. 3 essays with reminiscences of military life and photos of Nosovich in uniform, ca. 1900–20.

• Aleksandr L'vovich Urusov

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 550 items. Papers of the prince's father, Prince Lev Pavlovich Urusov, Russian ambassador or diplomat in Paris, Rome, Vienna, and Romania; correspondence; zapiski of the Budapest Consul-General A. L'vov about Hungary and events of 1905. Restrictions.

• Aleksandr M. Brofel'dt

  His typed "Moi vospominaniia o sluzhbe v stavke verkhovnogo glavnokomanduiushchego 1916–1917."

• Aleksandr N. Lodygin

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, ca. 2,025 items. Papers of this Russian inventor of the incandescent light bulb, ca. 1872, engineer, and chemist, include: family documents; his personal documents; biographical material and a biographical sketch of Lodygin by Alma Lodygina, his wife; papers of two of his daughters—Vera (photos, notes, reminiscences of childhood, correspondence) and Rita (Faust); printed matter, including items apparently gathered for a law suit against Edison's patents, and material relating to his invention of the incandescent light.

• Aleksandr Naumovich Zak

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes. Documents and clippings concerning the Soviet-Estonian peace conference at Iurev in 1920; printed legal materials about the case of the Equitable Life Insurance Company (U.S.) vs. Russia, and the case of Lehigh Valley Railroad Company vs. Russia, 1927–1930s; and Soviet financial policies.

• Aleksandr Nikolaevich Gasler

  Papers, ca, 23 items. Handwritten reminiscences/memoirs concerning family life on a Finnish estate and local affairs from 1877 to the turn of the century; military education and service, 1904 through the Civil War; and the emigration and Orthodox Church in France ca, 1930–60. The colonel also discusses his trip to Japan in 1912, plus his trips to France and the Russian Expeditionary Force and Technical Supply Division in France.

• Aleksandr Nikolaevich Polianskii

  Papers, 12 items. Handwritten memoirs of his service in the Russian Corps in Yugoslavia (founded by the Germans) and of World War II; a photo and 8 typed letters from General A. P. Kutepov, 1920s, about the Bolshevik threat and the emigration; and a manuscript in Russian concerning life in Nizhnii Novgorod and the Volga steamers ca. 1900.

• Aleksandr Nikolaevich Rozhdestvenskii

  Papers, ca. 130 items. Information on A. N. Silin; Rozhdestvenskii's memoirs about his service in the Ministry of Justice in the Caucasus before and during the Revolution, World War I (especially in the Caucasus) and the emigration; an account of his research in Venezuela on General Francisco de Miranda, a Latin American revolutionary who went to Russia for aid in the reign of Catherine II; photos; correspondence; a typescript about Rozhdestvenskii's 10 years in the Caucasus procurator's office.

• Aleksandr O. Chekan

  Papers, ca. 4 boxes. Includes the archives of the Union of Russian Graduates of VUZy (Paris), also known as OROVUZ, its correspondence, and a 1929 questionnaire survey of its members; and the typed and handwritten memoirs of Grigorii Lomaka, also a father in the Russian Orthodox Church in France, for 1920–22, 206 pp. 104 Chekhov Publishing House. Papers, 1 box, ca. 500 items. Correspondence, arranged in alphabetical order, with such figures as M. Aldanov, I. Bunin, V. Maklakov, V. Nabokov, A. Remizov, N. Teffi, and G. Struve.

• Aleksandr P. Bragin

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 90 items. Typed memoirs about military service in Siberia before the Revolution, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Russo-Japanese War; personal documents of Bragin; correspondence concerning his mission to northern Persia in 1920.

• Aleksandr Pavlovich Iordanov

  Papers, ca. 1 box, 28 items. Typed minutes of a Paris meeting of the Russkoe Obshchestvo Literaturnykh Rabotnikov, December 1914, with a speech by A. Lunacharskii; photocopies of an ukaz of 1707 and another of 1756 (by Elizaveta Petrovna), documents on military history, 1799–1813, gramoty of Alexander I, documents of Paul I, 39 letters of General A. Suvorov, 1788, 2 proclamations of Count F. V. Rostopchin (governor general of Moscow in 1812), an 1808 letter of Alexander I, and a 1744 map of St. Petersburg.

• Aleksandr Petrovich Lukin

  Papers, 4 boxes, ca. 2,000 items. The archive of Lukin, a former tsarist naval officer, contains clippings and unpublished manuscripts of memoirs and reminiscences about the Black Sea fleet ca. 1900, World War I, the Revolution, and Civil War; also, materials on Russo-Turkish relations.

• Aleksandr Popov

  Papers, 1 box. Paris antique dealer. Accounts, bills, and correspondence plus photos of Russian icons and old furniture, 1924–39.

• Aleksandr Sergeevich Gershel'man

  Papers, ca. 43 items. Typed memoirs concerning the Civil War and the emigration; memoirs, notes and essays by various persons on the Imperial court, World War I, and emigration, late 19th and early 20th c.

• Aleksandr V. Zenkovskii

  Papers, ca. 26 items. Zemstvo member. Handwritten "Vospominaniia o moei rabote v 1918 g. v soveshchanii zemskikh deiatelei"; similar writings about "visitations" ("poseshchaniia") of provincial and district zemstvos, 1903–15, 90 pp.; materials relating to P. A. Stolypin and the zemstvos; handwritten manuscript on service in the Kiev zemstvo, 1911–17; and memoirs dealing with a broad range of Russian political figures in the early 20th c.

• Aleksandr Vasil'evich Bessel'

  Papers, ca. 8 boxes, 500 items. Includes the papers of Sergei Efimovich Kryzhanovskii, last state secretary of Imperial Russia and editor of the emigre journal Russkaia letopis'. Kryzhanovskii's memoirs are entitled "Zapiski chinovnika Imperatorskoi Rossii" (1862–1920). There are also copies of memoirs by A. V. Gerasimov and V. I. Gurko. The rest of the collection includes memoirs, manuscripts, documents, and correspondence. Restrictions.

• Aleksandr Vasil'evich Krivoshein

  Minister of agriculture under the tsars and in the White governments of A. I. Denikin and P. Wrangel. Photocopies of 7 letters, ca. 1920, concerning the fall of the White government in the South and Russian refugees in Europe. Among the correspondents were Denikin, Wrangel, V. A. Maklakov, and Maurice Paleologue. Handwritten and mimeographed essay on his life and career, the Stolypin reform, Revolution, and the Civil War by his son, Kirill Aleksandrovich Krivoshein, published in Paris, 1973.

• Aleksandr Vasil'evich Miakin

  Handwritten and typed memoirs of a Russian journalist associated with A. S. Suvorin and his Novoe vremia; 3 typed essays on the Union of Russian Journalists in Yugoslavia, and 2 journalists connected with Novoe vremia and Russkoe slovo, A. Ksiunin and E. Zhukov, ca. 1910–30.

• Aleksandr Vasil'evich Serapinin

  Papers, ca. 40 items. Writings about religion and the Orthodox Church in Australia; a memoir-history ("Vozdushnaia gvardiia") about early Russian aviation history and his service as a military aviator in World War I and the Civil War.

• Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Stakhovich

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes. Typed reminiscences of the Civil War, 1918–20; printed proclamations and clippings on the Siberian Civil War, 1919–20; and the archives of the Russian Lawn Tennis Association, founded in Paris in 1929 (correspondence, programs, documents from the 1930s). 641 Simeon Starikov. Manuscript, in Russian, on Russian public opinion about the Boer War, ca. 1900, 10 pp.

• Aleksandra Gagarina

  Papers, ca. 53 items. Family papers (including dinner invitations from the Romanovs); material dating from 1827–36, when Prince A. A. Gagarin was Russian ambassador to Rome; plus other letters and documents.

• Aleksandra Nikolaevna Belli

  Handwritten reminiscences on rural landowning families in the late 19th and early 20th c. Restrictions.

• Aleksandra Vil'gelmovna Linden

  Memoirs about the family's flight from Petrograd in 1918, life in a dacha in the Crimea under the Whites and Allies, and the establishment of the Bolshevik administration there, 1917–25.

• Aleksei A. Brusilov

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Handwritten and carbon copies of Brusilov's memoirs (vol. 3), about the Bolshevik Revolution and the early Soviet regime; letters to his wife, 1914–18; memoirs and letters of his wife, Nadezhda Vladimirovna Brusilova (nee Zhelikhovskaia). Restrictions.

• Aleksei A. Varzukevich

  Typed memoirs about his early military career, the 16th Strelkovyi Polk, the Russo-Japanese War, and revolutionary agitation among students in 1905 (1904–10); 30 pp.

• Aleksei A. Ziablov

  Papers, ca. 150 items. Graduate of the Imperial Technical School, made a career in the Russian railway system and in the heavy machinery industry. His autobiography, handwritten and transcribed, 39 pp., discusses his technical education and later career (he taught in a provincial technical school after 1888). The autobiography also speaks of working conditions and labor unrest at the Kolomna heavy machinery plant ca. 1905, Russian personnel and investment in railroading, and the same in heavy industry. Other holdings include photos; official documents relating to his career; lecture notes about railroad mechanics; and a handwritten diary from an 1886 summer trip to the Caucasus. Restrictions.

• Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gol'denweiser

  Papers, ca, 83 boxes, over 11,000 items. A prominent lawyer. His legal correspondence, Russian refugees after World War II, compensation claims from the Revolution and for war damages, the Union of Russian Jews, citizenship questions, and the Kruzhok Russkikh Advokatov v Niu-Iorke. Other holdings: 2 letters of Dmitrii Bogrov, Stolypin's assassin, to his parents, 1 and 10 September 1911; portions of the memoirs of V. M. Bogrova ("Moe rannee detstvo") about Kiev ca. 1900, her work in the revolutionary movement, and relations with her brother-in-law, Dmitrii Bogrov; documents and a will of the Bogrov family. Restrictions.

• Aleksei Aleksandrovich Spasskii-Odynets

  Employee of the southwestern railways and protege of S. Iu. Witte, who helped create the semi-official newspaper Russkoe gosudarstvo, 1905–1906, and later joined the staff of Strana. Typed memoirs. Restrictions. 636 V. E. Sproge. Mimeographed copy of the autobiographical "Zapiski inzhenera" (Zurich, 1963), about World War I, the Civil War, and World War II in the USSR, 1913–41.

• Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskoi

  Papers, ca. 50 items. Includes reminiscences, manuscripts, documents, and photographs on a range of topics.

• Aleksei Alekseevich Gering

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes, 380 items. Mimeograph copy of his report as chairman of the Obshche-Kadetskoi Ob"edinenie vo Frantsii at the organization's ninth annual assembly in April 1960; Gering's correspondence; and manuscripts about Russian military history.

• Aleksei Alekseevich Litvinov

  Papers, 30 items. A typed family history to the 15th c.; handwritten essays by family members about military history; and official documents to the 1920s.

• Aleksei E. Chichibabin

  His "Avtobiografiia," 62 typed pp., concerns his education and youth. Chichibabin became a chemist in Russia.

• Aleksei Fedorovich and Liubov Aleksandrovna Girs

  Papers, ca..5 box. The archive contains his memoirs, reminiscences, and family history materials; official documents, including a general report and a typed annual report on the nationalities problem in Minsk province, 1913. The diaries of L. A. Girs discuss Odessa 1905–1906; the assassination of P. A. Stolypin in 1911 (which she witnessed); her husband's administration of Minsk, 1914–15, and of Nizhnii Novgorod, early 1917; the Revolution and her husband's arrest; also, her handwritten memoirs, ca. 1900–1911.

• Aleksei Ivanovich Pliushkov

  Papers, ca, 1 box. His stories, verse, and novels; essay and photo of his father, a doctor who treated Maksim Gorkii; memoirs of A. A. Blok, E. P. Ivanov, and their circle; typed essays on S. Esenin, Soviet lawyers, L. Andreev, St. Petersburg, music, and the Revolution.

• Aleksei Ivanovich Skrylov (Skrilov

  Information on his and his sons' careers in the U.S., ca. 1950; a note on the Kuban campaign of General L. Kornilov; other Kornilov items, including a copy of a photo of the general in Austrian captivity and data on his escape from Austria in 1916.

• Aleksei Mikhailovich Iuzefovich

  Papers, ca. 1,600 items. 3 albums containing personal documents, letters, clippings, and photographs relating to this general's military career in Russia and emigre life in the U.S.; his service record, 1922, and related items; material on the Iuzefovich family; material on the siege of Port Arthur.

• Aleksei Mikhailovich Remizov

  Papers, 2 boxes. Writer. Literary manuscripts in various stages of preparation (Podstrizhennymi glazami [reminiscences], Pliashushchii demon, Kochevnik, Iveren', Shurum-burum, and others), dating from the 1930s to the 1950s; notebooks with ideas, lists of foreign authors, bibliographic references, etc.; 3 letters of Gorkii to Remizov, 1922–23; and miscellanea, including a letter draft to B. K. Zaitsev about his literary activity. Helene Sinany has published an excellent guide to this (and 5 related collections): "Archives de l'Universite de Columbia (New York) relatives a Aleksej Remizov," Cahiers du Monde russe et sovietique, XVII (I), Jan.-Mar. 1976, pp. 113–23.

• Aleksis V. Laptev (Lapteff)

  Papers, ca. 10 items. Typed memoirs, photos, and documents about the American Relief Administration in Ufa and the Urals, 1922–23.

• Alexander Dallin

  Papers, 1 box, ca. 110 items. A typed manuscript on Soviet judicial institutions in the 1930s—"Femida bez poviaski"; materials on both the USSR and Germany in World War II; and 5 lectures, typed, 1924–27, given at the Baptist seminary in Leningrad. Restrictions.

• Alexander Feliksovich Meiendorf

  Papers, 1 box. A zemstvo and duma member (an Octobrist). The collection contains: a manuscript entitled "A brief appreciation of P. Stolypin's tenure of office," typed, 150 pp., plus notes and correspondence relating to this work, including a letter of 7 December 1938 from Olga Borisovna Stolypin, the premier's widow, comments of Count V. N. Kokovtsov, and a letter of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams dated 5 June 1947.

• Alexander Herzen [Gerzen, Gertsen]

  Papers, ca. 1 box, 325 items. About 300 letters from Herzen and his wife Natalie to the family of T. A. and N. I. Astrakov, from the Herzen children to the Astrakovs, and from the Astrakovs; letters of M. Bakunin, 1837–77.

• Alexander II (1818-1881)

  Handwritten copies of Alexander's letters to A. I. Bariatinskii, vice-regent of the Caucasus, bound, in French, with typed transcriptions. The correspondence has been published by Alfred J. Rieber in The Politics of Autocracy. Letters of Alexander II to Prince A. I. Bariatinskii. 1857–1864 (Paris, 1966).

• Alexander Lvovich Bertier-Delagarde

  Papers, ca. 10 items. Includes typed history of the family, which emigrated to Russia after the French Revolution.

• Alexandra A. Ivanova-Soboleva

  Typescript about a 1927 excursion of Russian emigre highschool students from Finland to Estonia.

• Alexandra Konstantinovna Korostovets

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, 1,100 items. Correspondence of George Lukomskii, Sir Philip Gibbs, Maksim Gorkii, Alexander II, Rudyard Kipling, Marie Curie, and Nicholas II; writings of Vladimir Korostovets (including Russia Past and Present with Reginald Hoare, Seed and Harvest), articles 1940s-1950s, essays on Soviet domestic and foreign policy, 1930s-1950s.

• Alexandra Smugge

  Notebooks with handwritten memoirs of her grandfather and other ancestors in Irkutsk and Eastern Siberia and of her husband in Turkestan, ca. 1890–1917. Restrictions.

• Alexei Koriakov

  Typed copies of his novel "Za Rossiiu i svobodu."

• Allen Wardwell

  Papers, ca. 8 boxes. Red Cross worker in Russia. 2 notebooks with typed diary excerpts—"American Red Cross Mission to Russia, 1917–1918"; diary of a trip to the USSR in 1922 in connection with a famine; 2 photo albums with almost 500 photos taken during 1917 Red Cross mission; typed account of the ARC in Russia, 1918; official correspondence and documents; materials on ARC relief distribution and on the Russian Famine Fund, 1921–23; correspondence and other items concerning Soviet-American trade in 1920; typed reports on the Russian internal situation and news summaries, 1918; and Wardwell's typed diary, with carbon, of his trip to the USSR in October 1941 with the Beaverbrook-Harriman Mission. Restrictions.

• American Relief Administration

  Records, ca. 1921-1939. ca. 400 items. Manuscripts, photographs, drawings, watercolors, and printed materials relating to the mission of the American Relief Administration in Soviet Russia in the early 1920s, during the famine of those years. There are manuscripts by William N. Haskell (chief of the mission) and Alvin E. Blomquist based on their experiences. There are many photographs concerning the mission's work, and the famine; there are also photographs of Communist Party leaders Lev Kamenev, Maksim Litvinov, and Nikolaĭ Semashko. The drawings and watercolors, which are by an undentified artist, are of Simbirsk. Finding aid available: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078307/
  

• Anatoli Petrovich Vel'min

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes. Correspondence, 1925–60, mostly with the emigre community worldwide, including B. Nikolaevskii (Nicolaevskii) and M. Karpovich; a biography of V. Maklakov by G. Adamovich (Paris, 1959); a German manuscript on the Smolny Institute, 4 pp., 1943; typescript on American famine aid and the emigration in Poland and Germany, 1920s–1940s; and a report and diary on the emigration in Latin America. Restrictions.

• Anatolii L. Markov

  A bound, typed manuscript: "Zapiski o proshlom," vol. 1 being the "Istoriia roda dvorian Markovykh," 1473–1930; and a typescript entitled "Krepostnoi teatr v Rossii," on serfdom and the theater, ca. 1750–1861.

• Anatolii Petrovich Beklemishev

  Papers, 3 boxes, ca. 700 items. Includes typed "Vospominaniia," ca. 500 pp., about pre-1917 life, the Revolution, Civil War, and emigration by this engineer and journalist. His pseudonym was Kas'ian Proshin. Restrictions.

• Anatolii Vasilevich Baikalov

  Papers, 25 boxes, ca. 6,200 items. Member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party before 1917 and active in the Siberian cooperative movement. Sent to England in 1919 to study cooperatives there, he decided to remain in the West. The collection includes Baikalov's manuscripts, correspondence with A. I. Guchkov, the duchess of Atholl, Bernard Pares, the Labor Party of the United Kingdom, M. Muggeridge, the American Slavic Colonization Trust, W. M. Citrine and the TUC General Council, Russian emigres, British authors and politicians, including Sidney Webb, and Boris Nikolaevskii. Restrictions.

• Andrea-Aleksandra Stegman

  Carbon copy of memoirs of childhood, education, her Baltic German family (the father, Baron Armin Foelkersam, was curator of the Hermitage Museum before 1917), her service as a nurse in Petrograd in World War I, the family's life in Finland after the February Revolution, and a Red Cross mission for POWs in Moscow and Kiev during the Civil War; additional memoirs about arrest and imprisonment by the Cheka in 1919–20 and about her brother's experiences in Lubianka prison as a German POW after World War II; reprints of articles, 1966–67, by her husband Helmuth, including his memoirs on the Baltic states and the German population there, ca. 1919–39; a translation of a statement by P. A. Valuev about the Baltic Question in Alexander II's reign: and a publication of the Union of Baltic Nobility, 1968. Restrictions.

• Andrei Fedorovich Berladnik-Pukovskii

  Papers, ca, 1 box. Colonel and engineer in the Imperial army, emigrated to Constantinople and then France after 1917. Material on the Caucasus, the emigration in Constantinople, and military history.

• Andrei Fedorovich Ponomarev

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes. Materials on the history and emigre activities of the Don Cossacks; correspondence and serial publications relating to the Tersk Cossack army and the Tiflis Kadets Corps, 1920s-1930s, plus more information about the Tiflis Corps 1890–1960.

• Andrei Gennadevich Nevzorov

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 410 items. Handwritten essays on the 1905 Revolution and World War I; typed "Vospominaniya, 1918 g." by D. M. Mikhailov on the Siberian Civil War; materials relating to World War I and the Leib gvardii 3-ii strelkovyi polk; items concerning Russian emigre veterans' organizations; and Nevzorov's manuscript "O staroi russkoi armii," about his own military education and the tsarist army in World War I.

• Andrei Grigorevich Blok

  3 letters from Ivan Bunin to Blok, 1935–43, 2 letters to him from A. Grechaninov, 1931–33, and a poem by Bunin in French.

• Andrei Iakovlevich Romankevich

  Short reminiscences of a childhood in rural Russia, student life in Moscow in the Revolution, the Ukraine during the Civil War, the Polish emigration, arrest and imprisonment by the Soviet regime in World War II, and exit from the USSR as part of General Anders's Polish army.

• Andrei Kazimirovich Savitskii

  Papers, ca. 180 items. Engineer. Mimeographed and handwritten materials of the Obshchestvo liubitelei russkoi voennoi stariny (Paris), 1944–1960s, about Russian military history; his writings, typed, on military history and Alexander I; his memoirs: "isskustvo v moei zhizni"; documents and other items of K. A. Savitskii, his father, who was chairman of the Northern Donets Railroad, ca. 1907–20, concerning the Revolution and Civil War.

• Andrei Mitronovich Rennikov

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Correspondence, 1914–1950s. Journalist. Restrictions.

• Angelika Balabanova

  13 tape reels. Tape recordings of 1958 interviews with Balabanova, in which she discusses V. I. Lenin, the Communist International, B. Mussolini, G. Zinoviev, I. Stalin, Giacinto Serrati, John Reed.

• Anna Matveevna Sukhanina

  Papers, ca. 210 items. "Teni proshlogo"—handwritten memoirs of Bessarabia ca. 1887–1917 and later life, to 1945; plus newspapers and clippings on world affairs, 1939–53.

• Anton Ciliga (b. 1898)

  Carbon copy of the typescript "Le communisme yougoslave de son debut jusqu'a la revolte de Tito (1919–1951)." Ciliga was the former chief editor of the Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper Borba. Restrictions.

• Anton I. Denikin (1872-1947)

  Papers of Anton and Ksenia Denikin combined, ca. 45 boxes. Denikin was one of the organizers and commanders of the White Army in the Civil War of 1918–20. His papers include correspondence, speeches, clippings, and other materials on World War I, the 1917 Revolution, Civil War, Provisional Government, Kadet Party, General L. Kornilov, the Ukraine, and the emigration, 1920–40. Restrictions.

• Anton Vladimirovich Kartashev

  Papers, ca. 40 boxes, ca. 16,300 items. Kartashev chaired the Russkii Natsional'nyi Komitet. There are financial records, accounts, correspondence, contributors' lists, and more for the RNK, ca. 1921–35, and for their international conferences and other activities. The holdings also include materials on the 1921 S"ezd Russkogo Natsional'nogo ob"edineniia in Paris; reports, correspondence, etc. of the Vserossiiskii soiuz gorodov and the Vserossiiskii zemskii soiuz; much information on refugee aid; letters from Ivan Bunin, B. Zaitsev, and other writers; Kartashev's personal papers and correspondence from the 1930s; the diary of V. D. Kuzmin-Karavaev. Restrictions.

• Antoni Antonovich Kersnovskii

  Papers, ca. 21 items. Parts of a manuscript on Russian history 863–1942; plus typed and mimeographed essays on Soviet military history and the emigration in France.

• Antonina Vasil'evna Shvarts

  Papers, ca. 200 items. Wife of General A. V. Shvarts. Contains memoirs of her husband's military career in World War I (the Baltic, Byelorussia, Caucasus, and Petrograd), 1914–16; telegrams, letters, and orders of the general, 1915–16; memoir excerpts and documents about the childhood and youth of Alexander III (some Ministry of the Court archival documents), ca. 1845–78.

• Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams

  Papers, ca. 23 boxes. Political leader and writer. Memoirs, largely unpublished, about the liberation movement, work in the Kadet Party, the dumas, the Revolution, and the Russian Liberation Committee in emigration; correspondence with V. A. Maklakov, E. V. Sablin, A. V. Kartashev, P. Struve, F. Rodichev, N. A. Teffi, S. Mel'gunov, S. Panina, B. Pares, Boris Zaitsev, M. Rostovtsev, G. Vernadskii, M. Karpovich, V. Shklovskii, G. L'vov, P. Miliukov; manuscript of the novel Vasilissa premudraia, A zhizn' tekla..., and other literary works; dispatches and materials of Tyrkova-Williams's husband, Harold Williams, a British journalist and correspondent of the London Times in Russia, 1904–26; and orders, documents, and papers relating to the Kadet Party and to the Volunteer Army in the South during the Civil War; correspondence, reports, and pamphlets of the London Komitet osvobozhdeniia Rossii. Restrictions.

• Arkadii A. Borman

  Printed materials concerning the Denikin government in southern Russia, 1918–19; typed memoirs, "Vospominaniia o strashnykh godakh, 1917–18," 274 pp.

• Arkadii Nikolaevich lakhontov

  Papers, 2 boxes. Handwritten and typed transcriptions, plus typed copies, of his minutes of State Council meetings in 1914–16, 346 pp. Other holdings: originals and copies of correspondence from former members of the Council of Ministers about the publication of Iakhontov's memoirs relating to Council work in 1914–16 (P. L. Bark, V. I. Gurko, V. N. Kokovtsev, and S. E. Kryzhanovskii), 1922–35; typed copies of 2 letters from Paris minister A. P. Izvol'skii to Minister of Foreign Affairs S. D. Sazonov, 1/14 December 1914.

• Artur Georgevich Bittenbinder

  Handwritten memoirs concerning his childhood and youth, military career, World War I, and the Civil War in the South, plus an essay on A. Guchkov as minister of war in the Provisional Government.

• Asta Aristova

  Newspaper articles and a typed account of a visit to the USSR, 1960s.

• Avgusta Filippovna Damanskaia

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 150 items. Memoirs in 17 typed essays, 1956–57, of this emigre writer, journalist, and translator cover 1905–17 Russian literary, stage, journalistic, and political life, as well as the same topics for post-revolutionary Russia and the emigration, Berlin, 1920–23, and Paris, 1923–1950s; published and unpublished works of Damanskaia; her personal documents; notebooks for 1938–54 with jottings; and photos (including the editorial board of Russkoe bogatstvo).

• Avraam Savelievich Iarmolinskii

  Papers, ca. 128 items. Correspondence of E. Zamiatin, N. Roerikh, M. Aldanov, P. Miliukov (1929), V. Nabokov, Vladimir Markov (about V. V. Khlebnikov), G. Struve (on a translation of Anna Akhmatova's work), M. Karpovich, S. Esenin (1922), and George Rapall Noyes; photographs: Isaac Babel and his daughter Natalie (with negative), I. S. Turgenev, Madame P. Viardot, L. N. Tolstoi [Tolstoy], handwritten notes on Turgenev; letters about Iarmolinskii's book A Russian's American Dream; Narkompros documents about education in 1924. Restrictions.

• Ayaz Ishaki Bey

  Handwritten autobiography, 29 pp., covers his childhood, education, Tatar customs, tsarist policy toward Moslems, the political and cultural awakening of the Tatars, the 1905 Revolution, and formation of the First Moslem Union (ITTIFAKA).

• B. A. Sokolov (B. Snezhin)

  "Pobedit' li Galileianin?"—a typescript; philosophical notebooks and pamphlets, 1910–50, with thoughts on cosmopolitanism.

• B. I. Dodov

  A typescript, "The monetary reform and tax on capital in Bulgaria" (1946).

• B. I. Nil'skii

  Typed sketches on daily life in the Soviet Union and political persecution, 1930–40.

• B. N. Sokolov

  This engineer's mimeographed reports on "Industry in the U.S.S.R. in 1931" and "Soviet Dumping" (Paris, 1931).

• B. P. and Iu, P. Aprelev

  A typed copy of B. P. Aprelev's diary for 1915–19; the typed text of Iu. P. Aprelev's memoirs ("Zametki o sobytiiakh vo Rossii, 1917–19"); handwritten essays on World War I, the Revolution, and the Civil War.

• B. P. Eriksen

  Short, impressionistic, typed memoirs concerning his Cossack ancestors back to the 18th c., including I. V. Turchaninov, who was a brigadier general in the U.S. Civil War, and his emigration from Russia ca. 1920.

• B. V. Levenets

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Diaries, documents (copies) and memoirs concerning World War I, Civil War and Soviet regime.

• B. V. Savinkov

  Papers, ca. 5.5 boxes. Documents, correspondence, financial accounts, minutes of meetings, proclamations, reminiscences, and newspapers relating to the history and activity of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia and in exile, ca. 1890s-1920s, Holdings include a letter of E. Azef, seals of the SR Party abroad, a large photo of and letters to S. P. Postnikov, and 10 photos of such revolutionary figures as A. Herzen [Gertsen], N. Ogarev, and E. Breshkovskaia. Restrictions.

• B. V. Sergeevskii

  Papers, 1.5 boxes, ca. 500 items. Officer in the Russian air force in World War I. Includes his autobiography (World War I, the Revolution and Civil War); reminiscences of others about him; ca. 70 of his military documents, 1916–21, in Russian, English, French, and Ukrainian; and correspondence with various emigre organizations (ROVS, Cossacks, etc.).

• Boris A. Bogaevskii

  Collection, ca. 130 items. Contains several handwritten manuscripts: "Iz proshlogo," Lt. Milnikov, Bogaevskii's "Pervyi kubanskii pokhod," and N. D. Khomutov's "Iz dalekogo proshlogo," 89 pp., on the Civil War in the South. There are also a printed letter of Colonel Bogaevskii and a pamphlet history of the Kalmuks.

• Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmeteff (Bakhmetev) (1880-1951)

  Papers, over 84 boxes, ca. 32,000 items. Last ambassador to the United States of pre-Soviet Russia (the Provisional Government). His papers contain official documents and materials of the Russian embassy in Washington, correspondence, items relating to the Natsional'nyi Fond and to the Humanities Fund, Inc.; and various books and pamphlets. Restrictions.

• Boris Aleksandrovich Nikol'skii

  Papers, ca. 12 boxes. A commercial counselor in the Stockholm Russian embassy before 1914; after the war he was active in right-wing emigre activities and founded the Russian Christian Labor Movement. Included are correspondence and reports relating to the Russian Christian Labor Movement, 1930–41.

• Boris Georgevich Berg

  Count. Memoirs; family photos; and the handwritten original, and a typed copy, of a biography of Field Marshall F. F. Berg by Boris Berg, 462 pp.

• Boris Gurevich

  His fictionalized memoirs (or a novel)—"Krasnyi sfinks. Povest' o sud'be russkoi revoliutsii i russkikh evreev"—an interpretation of the Revolution, its causes and effects, from a liberal viewpoint.

• Boris I. Puzanov

  Typed memoirs in several parts (1960): "Iz vospominanii sledovatelia po delu massovykh ubiistv v Evpatorii v lanv. 1918 g." concerning Bolshevik summary trials for naval officers and well-to-do citizens, 23 pp.; "Moya zhizn'," 57 pp., about childhood in Eupatoria, law study at Kharkov, Odessa career (1909), evacuation from Eupatoria to Constantinople in 1920; the emigration in Yugoslavia, World War II, and finally, life in France and Belgium.

• Boris Ivanovich Buchinskii

  Handwritten essays/ reminiscences concerning the Corps of Pages, tsarist hunts, and military events.

• Boris J. Bok (Bock)

  Papers, ca. 20 items. Reminiscences of the Russo-Japanese War and the fall of Port Arthur; diary of General V. N. Nikitin; memoirs of other participants in the siege of Port Arthur; minutes of the commission investigating the fall of the port. Full text of Dmitrii Ivanovich Abrikosov's memoirs concerns his childhood, diplomatic service (mainly in Japan), and life as an emigre in the Far East after 1917. All but the last part appeared in Revelations of a Russian Diplomat, edited and published by G. A. Lensen (University of Washington, 1964).

• Boris K. Balakan

  Papers, 29 items. Contains typed manuscripts of his novels, stories, and memoirs.

• Boris Konstantinovich Zaitsev

  Papers, ca. 5 boxes. Emigre writer. Correspondence with I. Bunin, R. Gul', G. D. Grebenshchikov, V. A. Maklakov, Ivan Shmelev, N. A. Teffi, D. Merezhkovskii, A. Remizov, V. Khodasevich, V. Bulgakov, K. Bal'mont, Metropolitan Vladimir, Archbishop Kiprian, M. Aldanov, Z. Gippius [Hippius], A. Grechaninov, M. Dobuzhinskii, M. M. Karpovich, B. Pasternak, photocopies, E. N. Roshchina-Insarova, and A. V. Tyrkova-Williams, 1920s–1940s; literary manuscripts and typed diaries for 1939–45, carbons. Restrictions.

• Boris L'vovich Gershun

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, ca. 1,500 items. Correspondence and other materials about the Ob"edinenie russkikh advokatov vo Frantsii, 1929–1950s; minutes of meetings of the Congress of Russian Jurists Abroad from 1922; Gershun's memoirs, 1903–17, about his work as a lawyer and membership in the Kadet Party; correspondence and biographical sketch of O. O. Gruzenberg.

• Boris Markovich Sarach

  Papers, ca. 412 items. Correspondence, 1930s-1950s, partly copies, with and about N. P. Vakar, the early days of the German occupation of Paris in 1940, and the Ob"edinenie russkikh adokatov vo Frantsii (with biographical data on members in questionnaires for the French police); documents; and 2 pamphlets/reports of the Moscow "Kollegiia zashchitnikov" about Soviet jurisprudence, 1922–23.

• Boris Mikhailovich Kuznetsov

  Papers, ca. 170 items. Memoirs and essays, typed, of General K. K. Akintievskii; Kuznetsov's published memoirs on the Civil War in Daghestan in 1918; correspondence and documents relating to emigre military and monarchist organizations, especially ROVS (Russkii obshchevoinskii soiuz); correspondence and other materials on the Civil War. Restrictions.

• Boris N. Beliaev

  Doctor. Typed manuscript on his work with the Empress Alexandra during World War I, and a pamphlet by Beliaev regarding help to war victims.

• Boris N. Polozov

  Essays on military life 1906–13 and the army in the Transcaucasus.

• Boris Nikolaevich Ermolov

  Papers, 55 items. Documents, reports, proclamations, correspondence, and other items on the Orthodox Church, the Revolution, and the Civil War, 1917–21.

• Boris Nikolaevich Tret'iakov

  "Proizvodstvo v ofitsery," typed memoirs of the Russian Corps of Pages ca. 1900.

• Boris Nikolaevskii

  An anonymous typed manuscript about the USSR 1939–45, army service, and the Vlasov movement, "V doliakh za rodinu i za Stalina."

• Boris Nol'de

  An essay, in French, on Russian foreign policy and diplomatic history, 1700–1940: "Questions russes," typed.

• Boris Petrovich Vysheslavtsev

  Papers, ca. 1 box. Emigre philosopher. Texts of his articles and lectures on philosophy, typed and handwritten; issues of emigre publications containing his pieces; handwritten notes on his readings and lectures; correspondence from the 1940s-1950s with such people as the painter Konstantin Korovin, D. Merezhkovskii, and B. Zaitsev; and his manuscripts on Marxism, Stalinism, mass psychology, the Russian national character, Russian religion, Christianity and Judaism, Hindu mysticism, and esthetics, 1920s-1960s. Restrictions.

• Boris Sergeevich Korvin

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Archive of this former artillery colonel includes manuscript of memoirs, typed in English, recounting his military education, service in World War I, Civil War in the Ukraine, arrest by the Cheka, and emigration.

• Boris Viktorovich Gontarev (b. 1879)

  The general's memoirs cover his childhood on a large estate and service on the Caucasus front in World War I, handwritten.

• Boris Vladimirovich Gerua

  Papers, 6 boxes. Correspondence, ca. 1904–1972, discussing military history, the Revolution and Civil War, and the emigration. There are also copies of letters written by Gerua while serving in the Far East in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905; caricatures (prints and originals) of emigre political and cultural figures, done at the 1926 Zarubezhnyi Kongress in Paris.

• Boris Vorontsov-Viliaminov

  Colonel. Handwritten memoirs, 39 pp., for 1917–20, when he was an administrator of arms factories.

• Bureau of Applied Social Research

  Papers, 36 boxes, ca. 7,000 items. Among the studies prepared by this bureau for the U.S. government was the War Documentation Project on the partisan movement in the USSR behind German lines in World War II. There are reports on specific geographic areas, the origins, organization, and morale of the partisans, and the military potential of East European and other nations. Additional military studies are in the collection. Restrictions.

• Catherine Chapatte Milton

  2 sections of memoirs about a childhood in Livny, family life in Perm (the father was a general), and women's education, 1900–14.

• Charles Malamuth

  Papers, ca. 17 boxes. His translations of Russian literature; data on Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and the Voice of America (Malamuth was a director of VOA broadcasts); interviews concerning Soviet prison camps; information on L. Trotskii, including correspondence with him regarding translation; Malamuth's articles and writings about the USSR and the Jews in Eastern Europe; typescripts; a Boris Pilnyak short story and a scenario of Viktor Shklovskii; personal correspondence; photographs, 1900–1960s, including some Bolshevik leaders. Finding aid available: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/ldpd_bak_4077790.pdf

• Charles R. Crane

  Papers, ca. 365 items. Memoirs of this prominent American businessman for 1907–37, carbon copy, 348 pp.; carbon copy of a diary of a trip to Siberia and European Russia in 1921; correspondence, carbon copies, 1877–1939.

• Chester Bliss

  Papers, ca. 25 items. American entomologist, worked in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Contains copies of his letters to his family describing working conditions in Soviet scientific institutions, his contacts with Soviet scholars and his reactions to communism and the Soviet political situation, 1935–37.

• Claudio Iosifovich Popov

  Typed essays about his family (descended from a factory serf), the Vlasov movement, and the language of the Russian emigres, ca. 1850–1950.

• Columbia University Russian Institute

  Papers, 87 boxes. Transcriptions of interviews with Hungarian refugees concerning their personal backgrounds, political views, participation in the 1956 revolt, and evaluations of the Hungarian system.

• Committee for the Education of Russian Youth in Exile

  Papers, 51 boxes. The files of this organization, directed by Thomas Wittemore, contain biographical information on students, correspondence, financial records, photographs, etc. for 1920–39.

• Communist Party, France, Jewish Section.

  Papers, 3 boxes, ca. 1,900 items. Leaflets, correspondence, membership cards, pamphlets, notes, and ephemera 1928–39.

• D. D. and Olga A. Kuzmin(a)-Karavaev

  Typed essays and reminiscences by this lieutenant in the Imperial Army include: family history; childhood in army garrison towns and St. Petersburg; "Voennoe obrazovanie v Imperatorskoi Rossii v 20 stoletii," 1900–14, in 2 parts; "Invalidnyi dom v Sovetskom soiuze" (his arrest in 1945 in Finland); and "10 let v zakliuchenii," 1945–55, Butyrsk prison and the Mariinskii razpredelitel'nyi punkt. Also typed diaries of his wife who was arrested after the Russo-Finnish war and deported to the USSR. They concern the emigration in Finland and Soviet-Finnish relations.

• D. F. Diadiun

  Notebooks containing his "Vospominaniia" of Russia before 1914, the Civil War, and emigration.

• D. L. De Vitt

  A staff cavalry captain who served in the Imperial Guards Dragoons Regiment and in the Chechnia Cavalry Division in the North Caucasus during the Civil War. The collection includes manuscripts on military service during World War I and the Civil War.

• D. M. Mikhailov

  His typed reminiscences concern 1905 in Grodno and its boarding school for officers' children, 1918 and the start of the Civil War, the Pekinskaia dukhovskaia missiia over 250 years and the Russian Orthodox Church in China in 1945, and Archbishop Viktor.

• D. V. Pruzhan

  A short, handwritten biography of the ethnographer A. Efimenko (1848–1918), and 2 portraits, one of the daughter of the poet V. Zhukovskii.

• David Iul'evich Dalin

  Papers, 1 box, ca. 20 items. Essays written by Soviet displaced persons in 1947 explaining why they chose not to return to the USSR. Most are typed and with English translations. They describe the authors' personal experiences as students, doctors, army commanders, peasants, workers, and scientists. Some attempt to generalize about the Soviet system. They provide valuable information on wages, living conditions (in towns and rural areas), political terror and controls in the 1930s, and the life of Soviet POWs and displaced persons in Germany. Restrictions.

• Dmitri D. Sonzov

  Papers, ca. 30 items. Notebooks with handwritten "Zapiski psovago okhotnika," ca. 1890s-1920s; a book, photos, and drawings of dogs, their care and breeding, and hunting; and correspondence.

• Dmitrii Dmitrevich Chikhachev

  An album of photographs taken by G. H. Rogers of Russian troops in Manchuria 1904–1905 and of the Russo-Japanese War.

• Dmitrii Iosifovich Daragan

  Papers, 4 boxes, ca. 1,500 items. Field diaries of General F. F. Palitsyn, 1916–21 (he was military representative in Paris); a handwritten interview with a participant of the Kronstadt revolt (done in 1960); personal documents, etc., from 1890–1960; correspondence for 1970–73 and for 1918–19; memoirs of Daragan's childhood in Warsaw, life on a family estate in Byelorussia, service as a naval officer, the Civil War in the North, and the emigration, ca. 1900–73. Restrictions.

• Dmitrii Kondratevich Ovdenko

  Papers, 17 items. Notebooks with handwritten, semifictional reminiscences about Russian courts, the legal profession, Odessa, student life, the Jewish question, city administration, and the Paris emigration, 1900-early 1920s, by this emigre jurist.

• Dmitrii Konstantinovich Kapatsinskii

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes, 1,070 items. Personal documents, his master's thesis on social insurance in Czechoslovakia, minutes and correspondence on Russian war relief, 1941–46; also records of the Russkoe Ob"edinennoe Obshchestvo Vzaimopomoshchi Ameriki, 1920s-1950s; and materials on ROOVA, the ROOVA farm, the Russkoe Obshchestvo "Nauka," and the Obshchestvo Russkikh Bratstv v S.Sh.A. Restrictions.

• Dmitrii Nikolaevich Fedotov-White (1889-1950)

  Papers, 90 boxes, ca. 31,000 items. Fedotov-White was a teacher of the "naval art" before 1917; he worked for the Cunard Lines after the Revolution and wrote about Russian and Soviet military history. Contents include his memoirs, entitled "Survival," covering his experience as a naval officer, in the Civil War with Admiral A. V. Kolchak, as a Soviet prisoner, and as a Soviet academic and administrator in 1920–21. His correspondence contains much information about Cunard business, also about affairs of the emigration and aid to the USSR in World War II. 2 of his correspondents were G. T. Robinson and G. V. Vernadskii.

• Dmitrii Nikolaevich Tikhobrazov

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 165 items. Lieutenant general. Handwritten memoirs entitled "Iz vospominanii," about his family, military career, the Revolution and Civil War. Also diaries of Admiral M. A. Lavrov, who was on the F. P. Vrangel' expedition around the world, 1825–27, and Tikhobrazov's biography of Lavrov; handwritten diaries of Adrian M. Lavrov covering his naval career, 1864–66, and exploration of the Barents and Kara seas, 1870; handwritten essays on naval history, 1880–1905, by A. M. Lavrov; letters and diaries of Lieutenant Lavrov in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877; and correspondence with A. N. Alekseeva, V. M. Borel' (daughter of General M. D. Alekseev), 1963–74, and with General B. N. Sergeevskii, 1960s. Restrictions.

• Don Aminado (pseud. of Aminad Petrovich Shpolianskii) (1888-1957)

  Papers, 1 box. Emigre satirist and poet. Contains materials 1920–57 on the Russian emigration, its literature and theater, newspapers and journalism, plus the manuscript of his autobiography Poezd na tret'em puti (Chekhov House, New York, 1954). The bulk of the collection is correspondence: over 100 letters from his readers worldwide, and such other correspondents as Ivan Bunin, 69 items, 1920–53, Mark Aldanov, 17 letters, 1920–56, Zinaida Gippius [Hippius], 3 items, 1933–35, K. Bal'mont, 1 item, 1920, N. A. Teffi, 22 items, 1920–38, A. Tolstoi [Tolstoy], 11 items, 1920–21, A. Remizov, 10 items, 1929–35, I. Repin, 1 item, 1920, P. Struve, 1 item, 1921.

• Dormidont Matveevich Savin

  Papers, ca. 26 notebooks. Writings on history, moral values, science, and religion.

• Dtnitrii Nikolaevich Liubimov

  Papers, ca. 4 boxes, 200 items. "Russkaia smuta nachala deviatisotykh godov. 1902–1906," memoirs dictated by this former senator and head of the Ministry of Interior chancery, based on recollections, notes, and documents, primarily about the 1905 Revolution; also memoirs about his governorship of Vil'no, 1906–14, tenure as assistant to the governor general of Warsaw, 1914–15 and as senator 1914–17, plus the emigration in France; materials and documents concerning aid to refugees and emigres, 1921–58, typed, 479 pp. Restrictions.

• Duving

  A typescript on internal opposition in the USSR and the Vlasov movement, 1936–46—fictionalized personal experience ("Velikaia skorb'"), 600 pp.

• E. A. Milton

  Part of typed memoirs of the life of her family in Moscow, 1914–17, where her father headed the Moscow Evacuation Point for wounded returning from the front in World War I.

• E. Dune

  "Zapiski krasnogvardeitsa"—about his experiences in the Red Guard, 1917–19, typed.

• E. Glinskii

  Manuscript, typed, carbon, entitled "Za piat'desiat' let'"—concerning the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and Svetlana Allilueva, 1967.

• E. M. Brofel'dt

  Papers, 20 items. Handwritten essays about his service in the tsarist prison administration, as vice-governor of Volhynia, and in the Civil War.

• E. M. Reeve

  Memoirs, in English, of the Revolution and Civil War.

• E. N. Kosatkina-Rostovskaia

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Papers of the late F. N. Kosatkin-Rostovskii, a poet and dramatist: a published book of his verse; handwritten diaries for 1940; memoirs of the literary, theatrical, and aristocratic life of St. Petersburg ca. 1910–40; correspondence from 1920 and after; and "Moi put' sluzheniia teatru," about the Russian theater in 1910–18, typescript, 400 pp.

• E. N. Shendrikov (Shendrikoff)

  Typescript about the Revolution in Turkestan, 1917–18, 32 pp.

• E. O. Gunst

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Russian musician, founder of the Russian Conservatory in Paris. There is correspondence and an essay about him. Restrictions.

• Edigei Kirimal

  Typed copy of the 1918 Law Code adopted by the Crimean Parliament; essay by Dr. Kirimal concerning the Soviet treatment of the Moslem Crimean Tatars, typed and handwritten copies.

• Edvard Ivanovich Totleben

  Papers, 43 items. General. Family documents from the 19th c.; bound notebook with his letters to his wife during the Crimean War, 1854; and 9 notebooks with Fieldmarshal Count E. I. Totleben's diary, with notations, kept in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.

• Egor Egorovich de Staal

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes. Baron. Correspondence, ca. 1883–93; materials on events of 1870–71 (concerning Constantinople, Persia, Armenia, and the Baltic provinces); personal documents, 1860–90; and a handwritten essay on the new military law of 1874, in Russian. Restrictions.

• Ekaterina Breshkovskaia

  Originals and copies of 8 letters to Arthur Bullard and his family, 1912–29.

• Ekaterina Dmitreevna and Sergei Nikolaevich Prokopovich

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes. 2 photo albums of such emigre figures as P. N. Miliukov, E. D. Kuskova-Prokopovich, M. A. Osorgin, A. I. Guchkov, and M. A. Aldanov, ca. 1900–55; some 95 manuscripts by S. N. Prokopovich on economic topics, published and unpublished. Restrictions.

• Ekaterina Grigorevna Garina

  Papers, ca. 1 box. Typed memoirs of the Decembrist Nikolai Ivanovich Lorner (1794–1873), in Russian, 82 pp.; typed memoirs of his granddaughter, Nadezhda von Grotthus-Foelkersam, 309 pp., in German. Restrictions.

• Ekaterina Grigovevna Andersen

  A tape recording, ca. 1972, of her reminiscences of childhood and adult life and Soviet conditions under Stalin, ca. 1905–38.

• Ekaterina Ippolitovna Maidel' (Maydell)

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 985 items. Typed and handwritten memoirs/reminiscences, ca. 1890–1920, about women's education and her family (she was married to a naval officer and her father was also in the navy); a manuscript by S. E. Vittenberg on a mission to exchange Russian POWs for arrested Finns, July 1918, 6 pp.; typed memoirs of B. V. Berkelund, a Finn in the Imperial navy, about his family life in St. Petersburg pre-1917, the Revolution, the economy in War Communism, 1895–1918, his arrest by Soviet agents in Helsinki in 1945, and his term in Soviet prisons and camps until 1953; documents from the Provisional Government's 1917 investigation of the Kornilov affair. Restrictions.

• Ekaterina Ivanovna Sverbeeva

  3 documents of Sergei Sverbeev, last tsarist ambassador to Berlin (note signed by A. Sazonov and a report on German-Turkish relations in 1913).

• Ekaterina Nikolaevna Roshchina-Insarova

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 300 items. The prominent Russian actress's memoirs (and autobiographical essays) of childhood, her professional career before and after the Revolution; A. Pleshcheev's biography of her; correspondence with prominent cultural figures, including N. A. Teffi, 1922–51, ca. 50 letters, Boris Bakhmetev, K. Balmont, V. Bunina, M. N. Benois, V. Burtsev, O. Dymov, N. N. Evreinov, G. Grebenshchikov, A. Grechaninov, A. Kuprin, N. Kedrov, and S. Iablonovskii; theater programs; a memoir on V. Meierhold's staging of Lermontov's Maskarad in February 1917.

• Ekaterina Osipovna Glinka

  Papers, ca. 50 items. Family papers of pre-1917 Ukrainian landowners—family finances, bills of sale, and bank books. They were refugees in Turkey and France.

• Elena Aleksandrovna Miller

  Papers, ca. 550 items. Miller was the widow of a former marshall of the nobility in Grodno and president of Warsaw. Family correspondence, papers of General M. D. Nechvolodov, including correspondence, reports on Civil War conditions, minutes of meetings of the Soiuz Russkikh Patriotov, ephemera of emigre political groups, monarchists, 1919–40; reports and correspondence on the Civil War, Russians fighting for Germany in World War II, the White movement, and the emigration in France; proclamations of the Kolchak government; and information about anti-Bolshevik terrorism in the USSR, 1920s-1930s, and the Orthodox Church in Russia and in exile. Restrictions.

• Elena Antonovna Popandopulo

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Handwritten memoirs of General A. N. Shuberskii, in 6 notebooks; an essay on Nicholas II; and copies of 6 reports on Russian transportation in the 1830s.

• Elena Ivanovna Lakier

  Memoirs of Lakier ("Otryvki iz dnevnika—1917–1920") and of Sofiia Aleksandrovna Sushchinskaia ("1920-i god. Begstvo iz Odessy v Sevastopol' i evakuatsiia iz Rossii v Egipet").

• Elena Konstantinovna Zagorskii

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes. Typed memoirs—"Koe-chto iz proshlago"—for 1910–20; short, typed autobiography of her husband, A. P. Vorobchuk-Zagorskii, 1954; and materials concerning the emigration in China.

• Elena Petrovna Romanov

  Papers, ca. 10 items. Text, in French, typed carbon, of memoirs by Duchess Helene of Serbia, daughter of King Paul, who married the Russian Duke Ioan Konstantinovich, son of the Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich.

• Elena Sergeevna Pil'skaia

  Papers, ca. 15 items. Typed essay in literary criticism (on Russian authors) and memoirs/reminiscences, handwritten and typed, about her husband and the Russian theater ca. 1860s-1920s. Pil'skaia was an actress at one time.

• Elena Tikhonovna Mogilat

  Papers, ca. 3.5 boxes, 1,260 items. Papers of this Russian language teacher at Columbia University include correspondence with students and with the Museum of Russian Cavalry and Other Services (New York), teaching materials, personal photographs, articles by and about Mogilat, and translations of Poe into Russian, 1960s–1970s.

• Elena Vladimirovna Safonov

  Personal documents of Safonova (nee Bystrova) and her husband, M. S. Safonov, 1912–20.

• Elizabeth Williams Foxcroft

  Papers, ca, 20 items. Materials mostly dealing with the Russian emigration in South Africa.

• Elizaveta Alekseevna Naryshkina

  Papers, 1 folder. Lady-in-waiting to the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna. Her diary, written in 1917, describes the moods of the tsar and tsarina, political personalities, reactions of court circles to domestic affairs, and the impact of World War I. Part only of the diary was published in the last chapter of her book Under Three Tsars (New York, 1931). The diary is typed in French.

• Elizaveta Leonidovna Miller

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes. Typed memoirs and reminiscences of St. Petersburg life, social history, women in Russia, women's education, women writers, dress, the legal system, life in France, World War II, and the emigration in South Africa, ca. 1900–60; personal correspondence, family documents, photos, and biographies of Miller's grandfather (a military engineer) and husband (a lawyer), 1860s-1920s; the Almanach de St. Petersbourg for 1911; essays on G. L. Lozinskii, his family, and works, 1900–55, including correspondence and a bibliography, typed; 4 notebooks with the handwritten diaries of Baron A. L. Frederiksen for 1938–40, in English, concerning world events; correspondence of Baron Frederiksen, Marshall Gustaf Mannerheim, late 1930s, and A. V. Romanova; notes from French police archives about terrorism and the ROVS and General E. K. Miller's abduction. Restrictions.

• Elizaveta Vladimirovna Isaakova

  Typed memoirs of this daughter of a liberal landowner in northwest Russia regarding her life in Russia and the emigration (Poland and Western Europe), the 1905 Revolution, World War I, 1917 in Petrograd, and the Civil War in the Ukraine, 1900–50.

• Ella Genrikhovna Messe

  Papers, ca. 225 items. Papers of the Russian singer Evgeniia Foresta: memoirs ca. 1900–60 about F. I. Chaliapin, Raoul Czinsbourg, Hendrik W. Van Loon, and emigre culture.

• Emilia V. Bruzinskaia

  Reminiscences of her Siberian childhood.

• Emiliia Khristianovna Goppe

  Typed memoirs of her late brother, Evgenii Kh. Tal'—his experience working on the Tatianinskoi Komitet dlia okazaniia vremennoi pomoshchi postradavshim ot voennykh bedstvii," 1915–17.

• Emmanuil Pavlovich Bennigsen

  Papers, 2 boxes. Extensive memoirs of government and Red Cross service and the emigration (France and Brazil); correspondence on the emigration in France, 1920s-1930s.

• Erast Chevdar

  Typed reminiscences: 1 of Berlin under Soviet occupation, 1945–46, the other of the Civil War in southern Russia, 1918–20. Restrictions.

• Erast Dlotovskii

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Original documents of General Dlotovskii's promotions and decorations, 1825–79; his short history of the Kirasirskii Regiment, 1710–1826, 65 pp.; and his memorandum proposing the establishment of irregular troops in the 1860s, 11 pp.

• Erik Grimm

  "Iz vospominanii Leib-gvardii Dragunskogo polka," ca. 1910, about military history, handwritten, 4 pp.

• Ernest C. Ropes

  Papers, ca. 35 items. Correspondence relating to his efforts to start courses on the USSR and an Institute of Slavic Studies in the U.S. in the 1940s; a diary for 1919–20 on the administration of Russian refugee relief in Estonia and Arkhangel'sk; a photo album; and a typescript by Ropes, "The Russia I Have Known," about the Soviet Union, based on his visits there in 1938 and 1946.

• Evgenii Aleksandrovich Vechorin

  Papers, ca. 8 boxes. Russian engineer. Taught at the Polytechnical Institute in St. Petersburg before the Revolution and in Paris after emigrating. His mimeographed memoirs of the Polytechnical Institute; materials of a group of its graduates in Paris; related materials.

• Evgenii Ambros'evich Efimovskii

  Typed memoirs about his studies at Moscow University (history faculty), V. O. Kliuchevskii and A. A. Kizewetter, the 1905 student movement, his work for the Kadets, and being a lawyer in 1917 and during the Civil War. Also typed essays on political thought and Emigre affairs; photocopies of his writings.

• Evgenii E. Messner (Moessner)

  Papers, 7 boxes. Typed memoirs about family history, youth, high school education, his early military career, World War I, the Volunteer Army, the Civil War in Odessa, World War II and Russians in Yugoslavia and Serbia; biographical data on General N. Golovin, plus the general's typed "Gallitsiiskaia bitva, 1914"; typed essays from, and the archive of the South American branch of, the Institut po issledovaniyu problem voiny i mira im. Gen. N. N. Golovina. Messner's diaries, written in Argentine emigration, with his views on contemporary questions.

• Evgenii Fedorovich Novitskii

  Papers, ca. 20 items. Letters of General A. Lampe, S. Sollogub, G. Siunnerberg, and a handwritten account of the 1914 Battle of Lublin.

• Evgenii Isakevich Novitskii

  Papers, ca. 40 items. Letters of A. and P. Kartashev, and Novitskii, copies; emigre press articles on political and church affairs (Holy Trinity Monastery, New Jersey).

• Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin

  Papers, ca. 900 items. Writer. Literary manuscripts—stories, articles, and other writings; correspondence, 1920s-1930s, including some with Charles Malamuth regarding a film of Zamiatin's story "The Captured Tsar" (1935); materials for the novel Attila; and his typescript about meetings with Russian and foreign literary figures (Litsa, published in 1955). Restrictions.

• Evgenii L'vovich Brazol

  Handwritten and typed essays on Russian legal education, international politics, and the Brazol family genealogy.

• Evgenii Nikolaevich Gagarin

  Papers, ca. 160 items. His sketches about the Neva and Volga Rivers; a typed copy of a letter by a peasant soldier from Bessarabia to a medical sister in Petrograd who had tended him; short typed memoir by Gagarin about Simferopol' in 1917–18.

• Evgenii Porfirovich Arkhipenko (1884-1959)

  Papers, 63 boxes. Brother of the sculptor Alexander Arkhipenko, and minister in the Ukrainian People's Republic. He continued his political activity in the emigration in West Germany after 1945. The collection includes papers, minutes, and publications of such emigre organizations as the Ukrainian Red Cross, the Democratic Union of Former Politically Repressed Ukrainians under the Soviets (DOBRUS), Ukrainian Peasants Party (USP), Ukrainian National State Union (UNDA), Ukrainian Revolutionary-Democratic Party (URDP), Union of Christian Youth (IMKA), Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UPT), and the Ukrainian Technical Economic Academy (UTHI). A founder of the Ukrainian Heraldry Society, Arkhipenko also gathered many drawings of family crests, biographical materials on prominent Ukrainians, coats of arms, and bookplates of Ukrainian families. The papers further include correspondence, clippings, and a genealogy of the medieval prince Daniil of Galich. Restrictions.

• Evgenii Vasil'evich Maslovskii

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, ca. 2,065 items. Typed memoirs of this general, bound, 3 vols., about an intelligentsia family, military education, diplomatic and military activity in northern Persia 1909–14, service on the staff of the Caucasus front in early World War I, and the Civil War in the South, ca. 1890–1920; 2 vols. of a typed diary—the Russian emigration in southern France and Nice, emigre political life, ROVS, the abductions of Generals A. P. Kutepov and E. K. Miller; copies of articles (and correspondence) relating to General N. Iudenich; drafts of typed reviews and reactions to Maslovskii's Mirovaia voina na kavkazkom fronte, 29 pp. Restrictions.

• Evgenii Vasil'evich Sablin

  Papers, ca. 49 boxes. Last Russian diplomatic representative in London before the Bolsheviks took power. Contains some of the archive of the former Imperial embassy in London for 1886–90 and 1919ca. 1930.

• Evgeniia Alekseevna Sidorova

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Handwritten memoirs of acquaintance with the painter K. S. Petrov-Vodkin; a photo of E. Sidorova, whose pseudonym was Evgeniia Mor; 2 poems, 1917–50; handwritten essays from the 1920s-1930s by the playwright Evgenii Shvarts; and handwritten essays/reminiscences of the Imperial family, Evgenii Shvarts, Ivanov-Razumnik (Razumnik Vasilevich Ivanov), A. Pliushkov, and World War II.

• Evgeniia Dostoevskaia

  "Tiur'my, ssylki i kontslageria SSSR"—a carbon copy typescript, 152 pp., about the 1930s.

• Evgeniia I

  Berestovskaia. Short typed, carbon, memoirs.

• Evgeniia Ignatevna Vagner

  Papers, over 60 items. Correspondence with friends and scholars (on the life and work of her husband, Iu. N. Vagner, a noted entomologist); documents (including an official service record) and photos of her husband relating to Russian science, and the emigration in Yugoslavia and Germany before World War II, ca. 1800–1970s.

• Evgeniia K. Leontovich

  Papers of her brotherin-law, Boris L'vovich Baikov: typed essays in English on claims to the Imperial throne, and a typed English translation of his manuscript about experiences in Persia in 1920.

• Evgeniia Markovna Enno

  Handwritten memoirs by the widow of the French consul in Odessa ca. 1918, covering the period of roughly 1900–18, ca. 60 pp.

• Evgeniia Mikhailovna Briunelli

  Papers, ca. 250 items. Some 120 letters from her sister from Leningrad, 1922–40; notebooks of memoirs of Briunelli, an educator and wife of a retired guards officer, Pavel A. Briunelli. Restrictions.

• Evgeniia Moiseevna Dalina

  Papers, 3 boxes, ca. 1,000 items. Correspondence, statutes, financial records, documents, and name indexes for the Nadejda Mutual Aid Society, a U.S. voluntary charity for emigres, plus clippings on the same, 1940–60.

• Evgeniia Sergeevna Khmel'nitskaia

  Papers, ca. 90 items. Letters from the USSR, 1920s; printed text of her story of the Bolshevik underground; her autobiography, in English and Russian; her articles and essays on Russian history and linguistics (teaching Russian); "From the letters of William Frey, 1839–1888," a typescript; offprints and handwritten drafts of her articles; letters to E. Mogilat, 1954–56, from Khmel'nitskaia.

• Evgeniia Sergeevna Zarina

  Book of her poems; clipping relating to her novella; and typed excerpts of her diary (San Francisco emigration in the 1950s).

• Evstafii Vladimirovich Grishkevich-Trokhimovskii

  Short typed biography, curriculum vitae, and bibliography of works by this emigre scientist.

• F. I. Gorb

  Reminiscences, typed, about his and his family's life in the USSR in the 1930s and World War II.

• F. P. Rerberg

  Papers, ca. 14 items. Copies of a mimeographed speech delivered on the anniversary of the death of the Grand Duchess Ol'ga Aleksandrovna; information on emigration in Turkey and Egypt.

• F. V. and E. P. Shlippe

  Typed memoirs, 1900–17, ca. 250 pp., by F. V. Shlippe, who was in the Moscow provincial zemstvo and the Ministry of Agriculture, about local government and the Stolypin reform; and the reminiscences of his wife, E. P. Shlippe, of social life and aristocratic political views in the 1890s, 6 pp.

• Fannina Halle

  Papers, ca. 20 items. Materials on her contacts with the Russian Archeological Society and the Academy of Arts; correspondence with art historians and institutions.

• Father Innokentii Seryshev

  Papers, ca. 7 boxes. Memoirs and autobiographical writings concerning Japan and Siberia before 1917, Japan and China in the early 1920s, and emigre life in Australia, 1922–66; correspondence with figures in the Esperanto movement.

• Fedor F. Kirkhgof

  Notebooks with the typewritten reminiscences of Kirkhgof: "Vospominaniia adiutanta... verkhovnogo glavnokomanduiushchego," "Pokhod leib-gvardii izmailovskogo polka, 1914–1918," "Poslednii period leib-gvardii izmailovskogo polka," "Moe vozrashchenie s voiny," all on World War I, plus "Moia zhizn' v Petrograde v 1918–19 gg i kommandirovka v Berlin" and "Moia zhizn' na Ukraine v 1919."

• Fedor Izmailovich Rodichev

  Papers, 28 boxes. Zemstvo leader and Kadet liberal. Personal and political correspondence; political documents; copies of letters relating to the family of A. I. Herzen [Gertsen]; account books; essays, for example, on refugees in the Crimea in 1920; correspondence, 1920s-1930s, with George Vernadskii, I. I. and A. Petrunkevich, Countess S. Panina, V. Maklakov, N. I. Astrov, A. V. Kartashev, Natalie Herzen; autobiographical and biographical information, plus memoirs, of Rodichev, 1900–1920s (duma career, youth); his speeches in the duma; handwritten copies, in French, of correspondence between Alexander and Natalie Herzen before their marriage. Restrictions.

• Fedor Konstantinovich Iur'ev

  Papers, ca. 40 items. The colonel's biography (clipping); photos; manuscripts of his music and poetry; about 10 official documents relating to his career in Russia and the emigration (Germany); and a handwritten supplement to the biography, penned by his widow.

• Filip Linnik

  Papers, ca. 26 boxes. Correspondence and ephemera of primarily religious organizations, 1950s-1960s. Restrictions.

• Finliandskii Polk

  Papers, ca. 30 boxes, 10,800 items. Materials largely on the regiment's history in the 19th and 20th c.

• G. A. Grekov

  Photocopy of his memoir entitled "Moe postuplenie i 7-mo-letnee prebyvanie v Voronezhskome Velikago Kniazia Mikhaila Pavlovicha kadetskom korpuse" and further sections of the same manuscript, ca. 1907–14.

• G. A. Liubarskii

  The colonel's handwritten memoirs on military history 1914–20, ca. 450 pp.

• G. A. Tal' (Thal)

  Papers, ca. 68 items. Notebooks with handwritten memoirs of childhood in St. Petersburg in the 1880s, court life, education, military career (lieutenant in a Hussar regiment); material based on diaries of Tal''s father concerning the assassination of Alexander II; data on serfdom taken from notes of Tal''s grandfather (1822); and information about the Jewish question in Russia, the emigration in Yugoslavia, and Russian military history, 18th–19th c.

• G. Bukhantsov

  His personal reminiscences, typed, 51 pp., of the German invasion and the course of the war, 1941–44.

• G. G. Karpoff

  "Le Drame d'un Grand Peuple. La Russie et le Systeme Sovietique," typed, carbon, 1920–40.

• G. Iu. Gerts

  Memoirs: "10 let advokatury v Kitaiskom Sude," covering the early 20th c. in the Far East, typed copy.

• G. K. Graf

  Manuscripts on Russian naval history, ca. 1906–17, on the Revolution, and the emigration.

• G. Katkov

  "The political opinions of Soviet citizens" (Oxford, ca. 1950), a mimeographed essay.

• G. P. Struve

  Photocopies of 4 letters of Archbishop Sergei of Prague to Nina Aleksandrovna Struve, 1926–31, and a letter of the archbishop to Arkadii Petrovich Struve, 1946.

• G. Wierzbicki

  His typescript, edited by M. Bernard, entitled "Deux ans dans les camps nazis d'extermination," n.d., 90 pp., on World War II, 1943–45.

• Galina L. Vigand

  Papers, ca. 200 items. Handwritten Vospominaniia, 2 vols., bound, concerning life in the Northern Caucasus and Ternopol' regions, 1921–24; and letters to her from friends and relatives in the USSR, describing domestic conditions, 1925–36. Restrictions.

• Galina Nikolaevna von Meek (fon Mekk)

  5 typed essays by the granddaughter of P. I. [Tchaikovsky] Chaikovskii's patroness (the widow of a wealthy railroad engineer). Galina's father married a niece of Chaikovskii [Tchaikovsky], thus making her also a grandniece of the composer. The essays concern Russian railroad development in late 19th c. Russia. There are also her memoirs about Chaikovskii [Tchaikovsky], life in Russia and the USSR, and exile in forced labor camps of Siberia, 1882–1930s; and an explanatory letter from before 1911.

• Gedvig fon Geiking

  Her memoirs, typed, discuss her experiences in Germany under American and Soviet occupation, 1945, arrest and deportation to the USSR as a spy, and life as a political prisoner there until 1954.

• George E. Warren

  Framed photocopy, with translation, of a document signed by A. G. Belosordov, chairman of the Ural District Soviet, 30 April 1918, acknowledging his receiving in custody Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, and the Grand Duchess Mariia Nikolaevna (in Ekaterinburg).

• George V. and Nina V. Vernadskii

  Papers, ca. 205 boxes. Emigre historian and his wife. Correspondence of both Vernadskiis, his father Vladimir (a noted geologist), their relatives (including the Bakunin, Staritskii, and Rodichev families); materials on the scientific work of George's father Vladimir, and emigre cultural life in Czechoslovakia and the U.S.; literary manuscripts of friends and relatives, including verses of V. I. Staritskii and stories of N. D. Shakhovskaia; papers of G. V. Vernadskii's graduate students in Russian history at Yale University; incomplete typescript with notes and drafts of G. V. Vernadskii's "Ocherki russkoi istoriografii" plus materials (including correspondence) on such historians as A. A. Vasil'ev, A. A. Kizevetter, M. P. Dragomanov, M. Rostovtsev, and S. G. Pushkarev and on the Seminarium Kondakovianum in Prague; family and personal documents of the Vernadskiis; articles and lectures in manuscript on many topics from Russian and Byzantine history; and notebooks, memoirs, and diaries of F. I. Rodichev. Restrictions.

• Georgii Adamovich Goshtovt

  Papers, ca. 9 boxes, ca. 2,500 items. Goshtovt was a military historian. Correspondence for 1925–52; memoirs about World War I, 1914–15, and the Civil War (Whites and partisans in the South, 1919); information on emigre military and veterans organizations.

• Georgii Aleksandrovich Orlov

  Papers, 1 box. Diaries for 1918–21, typescript, 400 pp.; poems; correspondence, 1948–64; a typed essay on General P. N. Wrangel; and other items about the Civil War, military history, and the emigration. Orlov was a representative in Prague of the survivors of the Gallipoli campaign and an associate of Generals Wrangel and A. P. Kutepov.

• Georgii Aleksandrovich Teslavskii

  Papers, ca. 58 items. Writer. Memoirs concern his education, World War I, and the northwest front in the Civil War, 1907–19; more memoirs under his pseudonym Iurii Pskovitianin; his literary works, including sections of the autobiographical novel "Burelom," on the Revolution, Civil War, and emigration, and the novel Smuta (written under his pseudonym).

• Georgii Dmitrevich Grebenshchikov

  Papers, 30 boxes. Many of this author's literary works are in this collection ("The Turbulent Giant," "The Churaev Brothers," Russian and English, "Gonets," "Tsarevich," and some short stories); his diaries and notebooks; typed copies of 6 letters of I. Bunin to him, 1937–40; materials on Prague archives, 1930s-1950s.

• Georgii Ferdinandovich Tanutrov

  Memoirs, in 4 notebooks, typed, of the Caucasus and Daghestan (where his father served in the administration and he was born), of military training, Tbilisi, the cavalry in World War I, and the Civil War, 1895–1920.

• Georgii I. Shavel'skii

  Papers, ca. 40 items. Orthodox priest. The original typescript of his "Russkaia Tserkov pred revoliutsiei" (Sofia, 1937) and a copy, 540 pp.; his typed reminiscences about life in the Orthodox Church, its organization, his experiences in World War I and the Revolution, 581 pp., 1911–18; a typescript on the Volunteer Army, ca. 1920, 62 pp.; "Pokhod protiv Rasputina," 435 pp., another typed essay; more personal memoirs of life before World War I and the emigration in Bulgaria, 387 pp.; and typed biographies of Father Shavel'skii by F. Bokach.

• Georgii M. Kiselevskii

  Papers, ca. 48 items. Typed reminiscences of his education, work in the Russian railroad administration, and the life of emigre engineers, 1890–1920; diary and documents, copies, about his service at the Northwest Front (Reval) in the Civil War; historical documents, 1652–1872, of Peter I, Anna Ivanovna, etc.

• Georgii Mitrofanovich Sadovskii

  Papers, ca. 52 items. Typed essays/reminiscences concerning his work on one of the Stolypin land reform commissions, the Civil War, Vitebsk in the early years of Soviet administration, his imprisonment by the Cheka, emigration ("Latvia, 1921–39"), and life in Germany and Brazil.

• Georgii Pavlovich Bennigsen

  Papers, 2 boxes. Typed essays and clippings on Russian history and politics in the 19th and 20th c.; letters and essays of V. L. Burtsev.

• Georgii Pavlovich Larin

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 560 items. Correspondence (the Shanghai branch with other branches) and information on the Bratstvo Russkoi Pravdy, an antiBolshevik organization established in the early 1920s by Metropolitan Anigonius Khrapovitskii and General P. N. Krasnov, 1920s-1930s; data on a mutual credit society in Shanghai, 1938–39; issues of emigre publications, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets, and mimeographed material on the emigration in China and Australia, 1920s–1960s.

• Georgii Petrovich and E. N. Fedotov(a)

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, 1,300 items. There are offprints and articles by Fedotov about Russian history, church history, religion, literature, and political questions, 1850–1940s, written for emigre publications, plus a photocopy of Svobodnye golosa No. 1 (April 1918), which he published and edited. Additional holdings include Fedotov's monograph and article manuscripts, lecture notes, and translations. Correspondents include S. Bulgakov, G. T. Struve. There are also letters relating to Fedotov's conflict with the Bogoslovskii Institut in Paris, 1935–39. Finally, there is reference to F. D. Maurice and Christian Socialism. Restrictions.

• Georgii S. Tikhanovich

  Secret documents of the general headquarters of General P. N. Wrangel, including 2 letters from General E. K. Miller concerning German policy, 1920–21. Restrictions.

• Georgii Vasil'evich Dmitrenko

  Papers, 1.5 boxes, ca. 90 items. Manuscripts and notes of a lawyer active in the Soiuz russkikh advokatov zagranitsei, ca. 70 notebooks and 2 folders. There are notes, articles, and reviews, 1900–64, about World War I, the Revolution and Civil War, the Volunteer Army, I. Stalin, the peasants, World War II, emigre political organizations, and world history/ international relations in general.

• Gleb Alekseevich Benzeman

  Papers, 130 items. Officer in Grenadiers Regiment of the Life Guards, 1917. A biography, family history, and typescript on the Corps of Cadets and the visit to Russia of Prince Hirohito of Japan. Typed reminiscences of Benzeman's military training and career. There is correspondence (and printed matter) concerning Russian emigre monarchist circles.

• Graham Taylor

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 800 items. Mostly printed matter related to the U.S. intervention in the Far East during the Civil War (including the newspaper Druzheskoe Slovo, published by American authorities in Vladivostok; and reports on local attitudes, U.S. activities, and the local press.)

• Grand Duke Gavril Konstantinovich

  Papers, ca, 4 boxes, 100 items. Original typed and photocopies of the grand duke's memoirs concerning the lives and careers of his father Konstantin Konstantinovich and his grandfather Konstantin Nikolaevich (ca. 1825–1918). Also, typed copies of official documents and correspondence of his father and grandfather, 1890–1910.

• Grigorii Alekseevich Aleksinskii (1879-1967)

  Papers, 15 boxes, ca. 2,400 items. Bolshevik spokesman in the second duma. Aleksinskii later left Lenin and joined Bogdanov and Lunacharskii in the Vpered group, emigrating to France after the Revolution. The collection includes photocopies of his memoirs for 1905–10, and substantial material (correspondence, documents, petitions, pamphlets, etc.) on the Russian Social Democratic Party, ca. 1907–14. Subjects covered: the socialist movement and anarchists in World War I, German influence and propaganda in Russia, the assassination of Nicholas II, Russian soldiers and prisoners in Germany and France during World War I, the London Congress, the Vpered group, the SD Capri school, and the Okhrana penetration of the SD party. There are letters from Maksim Gorkii, G. Plekhanov, V. I. Lenin, Iu. Martov, D. Z. Manuilskii, A. Lunacharskii.

• Grigorii Efimovich Popov

  His memoirs of childhood in Tomsk and life in Mongolia, where he worked for a Russian company (much detail is on the life style of Mongolians), ca. 1901–21.

• Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin

  Part of a letter written by him, original and photocopy, n.d.

• Grigorii Grigor'evich Mitkevich

  Papers, ca. 350 items. Collection of German press photos, of German armies on the eastern front in World War II, the occupation of the USSR, Russian collaboration with the Germans, and other subjects.

• Grigorii Iakovlevich Aronson

  Collection, ca. 75 items. Includes a description of the archive of S. P. Melgunov, manuscripts and notes of V. I. Lebedev, letters, and a typescript by P. Garvi, "Rabochaia kooperatsiia, 1917–21."

• Grigorii Petrovich Godin

  Papers, ca, 50 boxes, 11,700 items. Correspondence, reports, accounts, and published material about the Russian Expeditionary Force in France and Salonika during World War I, the Civil War, Russian emigres and refugees in France, and emigre organizations (military and charitable).

• Harvard University Russian Research Center

  Papers, ca. 21 boxes, 335 items. Data from the "Refugee Interview Project," 1950–51, including correspondence, mimeographed summaries of each interview, and a bound qualitative file (interviews coded according to selected categories). These interviews with Soviet emigres cover social history, family life, nationalities, political history, and education 1900–50.

• Helena Didisheim

  Letters, including 1, undated, from M. Gorkii to George Foster Peabody.

• I. Eikhenbaum

  His handwritten memorandum concerning the origins of the White movement in Russia in 1919, submitted to the International Congress of Jurists in 1950, along with a typed explanatory note. Both relate to the disposition of Soviet displaced persons after World War II.

• I. F. Polianin

  Papers, ca. 10 items. Short typed and handwritten essays on the Bulgarian emigration, World War I, and the Civil War, 1914–1920s, based on personal reminiscences.

• I. I. Manukhin

  Handwritten memoirs of this medical doctor, covering his training, medical students in the 1905 Revolution, family connections with such cultural figures as M. Saltykov-Shchedrin and F. Dostoevskii [Dostoevsky/Dostoyevskii/Dostoyevsky], the Moscow Art Theater, and S. Botkin, 1889–1914; a continuation of the memoirs, revised by his wife, for the years in emigration, 1921–42. Also memoirs ca. 1913–21 concerning his treatment of the upper class and "ruling circles"; he knew M. Gorkii, A. Kerensky, N. N. Sukhanov, L. Trotskii, G. Zinov'ev, and the Grand Duke Gavriil Konstantinovich. They also cover his work abroad before World War I. Restrictions.

• I. Kachalinskii

  "Prolozhenie k TKazachei zhizni1; protiv zlostnoi klevety v zashchitu pravdy i chesti V. G. Glazkova" (1958)—about the Cossack emigration in the U.S.

• I. N. Urusova

  Princess. Memoirs; and P. V. Vogak's memoirs about Red Cross work in 1914–21. Vogak's memoirs also cover his father's life under Alexander III and Nicholas II.

• I. S. Iakovlev

  Typed history of the Russian emigration in Australia, 6 pp.

• I. V. Lopukhin

  A bound volume, composed 1809, with the manuscript "Zapiski nekotorykh obstoiatel'stv zhizni i sluzhby deistvitel'nogo tainogo Sovetnika, Senatora I. V. Lopukhina" about government service 1775–1807.

• Ia. V. Budanov

  The typescript of his Slovar' novykh slov i vyrazhenii voshedshikh v russkii iazyk v SSSR (n.d.), on the Russian language 1920–50.

• Iadviga Iosipovna Tanutrova

  Handwritten memoirs—"Na pol'skoi zemle"—about the turn of this century.

• Iakov Aleksandrovich Grebenshchikov

  Illustrated memoirs about the Pavlovsk Voennoe Uchilishche ca. 1790–1911, typed, with an historical introduction, 571 pp.

• Iakov I. Kefeli

  In a bound volume and in loose sections, typed Vospominaniia s generalom A. V. Shvartsem v Karse, Trapezunde i Odesse, osen' 1915-vesna 1919 g.g. (Odessa, 1918–19); 2 notebooks with typed memoirs on medical student days and World War I in Trapezund, 1900–17; and 2 bound manuscripts: Oktiabrskii perevorot (on the Bolshevik coup in 1917) and Port Arturtsi o byloi stradie (on the Russo-Japanese War).

• Iakov L'vovich Rubinshtein

  His speech honoring V. A. Maklakov and the latter's refugee work, 1917–1920s, typed copy.

• Ignat Arkhipovich Bilyj

  Papers, ca. 8,000 items. Supreme Ataman of the Cossack National Liberation Movement. Includes correspondence, documents, subject files, clippings, manuscripts, and printed matter. Most correspondence concerns his activities as ataman, the journal Kazak, the anti-communists groups. There are reminiscences, drafts of appeals and proclamations, and texts of speeches.

• Igor Konstantinovich Solomonovskii

  Papers, ca. 30 items. Handwritten essays based on memoirs concerning the Vlasov movement and anti-communism in the Soviet Union in 1941–45; more of the same on Soviet espionage in France in World War II, Russian military history, and the defense of Kiepaja, Latvia in 1945; and a biography of Solomonovskii, 1901–45.

• Igor Mikhailovich Cherkasskii

  Papers, ca. 65 items. The archive holds manuscript and typed reminiscences mostly on World War I, the Civil War, and other materials.

• Igor' Vsevolodovich Simonovich

  Diary for 1920–24 in Constantinople and Prague, handwritten, 5 vols.; notebook of poetry, ca. 1916–55; handwritten memoirs of the Revolution, Civil War, and evacuation of White armies in the South, 1917–20; and a notebook with literary fragments and essays, handwritten, 1920–23.

• Ilia Dmitrevich Surguchev

  Papers, 11 boxes. Playwright and novelist. Includes his literary manuscripts in French and Russian, notebooks, photos of play scenes and personal photos, and his correspondence with such figures as I. Bunin, A. Kuprin, N. Evreinov, and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.

• Il'ia Grigorevich Savchenko

  Papers, ca. 17 boxes. Memoirs of the V. V. Andreev balalaika orchestra by Prince P. A. Obolenskii; Savchenko's memoirs; the archive of the Russian Juridical Faculty in Prague, 400 pp.; the archive of the Soiuz ob"edinenii russkikh okonchivshikh vysshie uchebnykh zavedeniia (OROVUZ), which Savchenko headed, 1,200 pp., 1925–32; 2 handwritten essays by a Kuban Cossack officer in the White movement on the Civil War in the South, 1917–18; and correspondence with such prominent emigre cultural figures as Ivan Bilibin, I. A. Bunin, A. T. Grechaninov, A. I. Denikin, V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, F. I. Shaliapin, Lev Shestov, S. and G. D. Grebenshchikov, ca. 200 letters from the 1940s, and I. S. Shmelev.

• Il'ia L'vovich Tolstoi [Tolstoy]

  Papers, ca. 100 items. Letters to Count I. Tolstoi; notebook with handwritten notes; typed piece entitled "Democratic Peace," 3 pp., and a telegram text, ca. 1920–45.

• Il'ia Nikitich Mokin

  Papers, 1 box, ca. 350 items. Correspondence, accounts, membership lists, etc. for the emigre group Stavropol' skoe zemliachestvo (former residents of the Stavropol' region) in France, 1934–41.

• Il'ia Nikolaevich Kovarskii

  Papers, ca. 200 items. Kovarskii was a member of the central committee of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. This collection of materials belonged to him and to M. V. Vishniak: A. Argunov's "Iz perezhitogo"—a memoir about ideological disputes between internationalists and defensists in the Russian socialist emigration in Europe during World War I and about the situation in Petrograd ca. 1917–18; correspondence, 1940s, with M. A. Aldanov, G. Grebenshchikov, M. Vishniak, and others.

• Illarion Sergeevich Lanskoi

  Papers, ca. 10 items. A typescript about the emigre architect R. N. Verkhovskoi and a pamphlet on the same.

• Illarion Sergeevich Vasil'chikov

  Papers, 30 items. Autobiographical sketches on family history, the Revolution, Civil War, and political life in the emigration; his "Moe naznachenie Gubernskim Predvoditelem Dvorianstva Kovenskoi Gubernii"; "Sebastopol. Souvenirs du Chef d'Etat Major de la garnison de Sebastopol Prince Victor Wassiltchikoff, ecrites a Moscou en 1875–77," typed copy; and historical and biographical essays/reminiscences, typed, about the senatorial reviziia of Turkestan, 1908, the Red Cross and the Orthodox Church, both 1917, the Revolution, and the Civil War.

• Inna Konstantinovna Buttler

  Memoirs of collectivization, the purges of the 1930s, and World War II.

• Iosif Grigorevich Loris-Melikov

  Papers, ca. 4 boxes. Printed matter, documents, and handwritten material about World War I, the Civil War in Siberia, the northwest front, German plans for Russia after World War I, the emigration in Western Europe, 1918–1920s.

• Iraida V. Barry

  Papers, 13 boxes, ca. 2,700 items. Includes correspondence and diaries from 1880 to 1920s. Among the items are Barry's typed reminiscences of 1914–18; a diary for 1858–59; the diary of Lieutenant P. N. Kondratovich, 1915; notebooks and essays by her father, Viacheslav Nikandrovich Kedrin, on music, ballet, esthetics, and theater, plus some of his poetry; photos of the Kedrin family and of A. Kerensky with Russian troops.

• Iraklii Georgievich Tseretelli

  Papers, ca. 65 items. Menshevik leader. Typed chapters of memoirs on the February Revolution, Ukrainian crisis, and the nationalities question, 187 pp., also on the foreign and domestic policies of the Provisional Government; parts of these memoirs are in published form—Recollections of the February Revolution (1952: reissued, Paris, 1963?). Restrictions.

• Irina Elenevskaia

  "Vospominaniia" about pre-1917 life in St. Petersburg plus the emigration in Finland and Sweden, 1900–60, typed and bound.

• Irina Ivanovna Malina

  Papers, ca. 30 items. Papers on her father, General I. P. Romanovskii, A. I. Denikin's chief of staff, 1918–20.

• Irina Petrovna and A. A. Shebeko

  Papers, ca. 5 boxes. Typed reminiscences of N. N. Shebeko, former ambassador to Vienna, about the origins of World War I, published in French as Souvenirs, in 1936, plus his correspondence; personal correspondence from 1914–37; Shebeko's official reports on the Balkan situation in 1913–14; and his notes on events 1918–19 and the activities of former Russian officials in the West. Restrictions.

• Irina Sergeevna Rakhmaninova-Volkonskaia

  Papers, ca. 100 items. Correspondence, 1950–68, from Ivan Bunin, 3 letters, 1948–49, Eugene Ormandy, Vladimir Horowitz, Leopold Stokowski, Sviatoslav Richter, Friz Kreisler, Emil Gilels, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and others.

• Irina Viktorovna Fleginskaia

  Typed reminiscences of Fleginskaia, the daughter of V. I. Karpov, a gentry member of the Council of State, concerning the early days of the February Revolution and some incidents prior to it, 1916–17.

• Irina Vladimirovna Kolf (Coll)

  Papers, ca. 5 boxes, 1,000 items. A bibliography (on index cards) on the murder of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914; a list of readers and their books at the Bibliotheque russe in Lausanne, Switzerland for 1912, bound volume; 3 microfilm rolls of materials about Gavril Princip and the Sarajevo assassination, much of it clippings; papers of her father, Vladimir Ivanovich Lebedev, minister of the navy in the Provisional Government and a journalist after the Revolution, including photos, clippings, fiction, and political articles. Restrictions.

• Isidor L'vovich Tsitron

  Letters from M. A. Aldanov and V. A. Maklakov, 1945–56; and 2 manuscripts—"Biografiia Isidora L'vovicha Tsitrona, prisiazhnogo poverennogo Peterburgskogo sudebnogo okruga, i dolgoletnogo sotrudnika O. O. Gruzenberga" and "V. G. Korolenko v Kishineve" (reminiscences), both by Tsitron.

• Iu. A. Kutyrina

  Papers, ca. 50 items. Typescripts on Ivan S. Shmelev, a writer; typed essays about Shmelev by Kutyrina, his niece; photocopies of correspondence with P. B. Struve.

• Iu. A. Nikol'skii

  Papers, ca. 50 items. Papers of this literary critic include articles on A. A. Fet and I. S. Turgenev, copies of Fet-Turgenev correspondence, articles on enlightened absolutism, and a copy of a letter of Nicholas II.

• Iulia A. Gersdorf

  Original handwritten and typed "Vospominaniia" about her husband, a deputy governor of Podolia.

• Iulii Iosifovich Aronsberg

  Russian lawyer. Handwritten memoirs 1900–14. They describe his meetings with the poets V. Briusov and Anna Akhmatova as well as his legal career.

• Iuliia Sergeevna Squibb

  A brief memoir entitled "Anna Fedorovna"; a handwritten piece about the years 1900–50 ("Makarych"); a typescript on military settlements in Novgorod province (apparently in the 20th c); "Nasha kukharka Tatiana"; and other items on the Russian-Asiatic Bank and South Africa.

• Iurii A. Slezkin

  Short handwritten essays on military history; and his novels.

• Iurii Aleksandrovich Kolemin

  Papers, ca. 200 items. Russian diplomat in Paris and Madrid, and a scholar; the stepson of V. P. Bakhrat, last tsarist emissary to Switzerland. The diplomatic papers of his stepfather (and his own) concern Russo-German and Russo-Swiss relations before 1917. Kolemin's correspondence and manuscripts also relate to his scholarly interest—Russian Orthodoxy, 1892–1950s.

• Iurii Aleksandrovich Reingardt

  Typed essays/ reminiscences of the Civil War and biographies of various generals, ca. 1890–1920s.

• Iurii Appolonovich Cheremshanskii

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 630 items. Typed and handwritten essays on emigre politics, Russian military history, and the Cossacks in the Civil War, 1918–50; reminiscences of 1917; materials on the emigration in Japan and China in the 1930s and 1940s.

• Iurii G. Gudim-Levkovich

  Typescript concerning Soviet peasants and anti-Bolshevik propaganda in the 1950s; photostat of his essay on Soviet kolkhoz production, typed, in Russian, undated.

• Iurii Il'ich Lodyzhenskii

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, ca. 1,200 items. Typed reminiscences ("Zapiski vracha") of medical education and career in Russia and the Civil War in the Ukraine and Crimea, 1908–23, 2 notebooks in French; "Iz razskazov A. N. Tulub'eva," typescript, 17 pp., concerning life and mores on an estate ca. 1900; his articles, 1929–50, on Soviet espionage, the Comintern, and the anticommunist emigration; his mimeographed work on the church in Russian medieval history; and 2 essays by V. M. Pronin about the Crimean War and the Civil War. Restrictions.

• Iurii K. Meier

  Memoirs by General A. M. Mikhailov on Russia in Central Asia; writings on the Russian emigration in Yugoslavia, the founding of ROA and KONR, the start of World War II, and A. A. Vlasov.

• Iurii K. Sakhno-Ustimovich

  Papers, 3 boxes, ca. 10 items. General. Typed memoirs of the Russian army in World War I, political decay of tsarism, the Revolution and Civil War, particularly the Polish and Rumanian fronts, the Volunteer Army in the South, General A. Denikin, and the Ukraine, ca. 1914–20.

• Iurii Petrovich Miroliubov

  Papers, ca. 20 items. Handwritten essays about early Russian history, religion, the Russo-Japanese War, folklore.

• Iustin'ia Sushcheva

  Papers, 18 notebooks. Handwritten notes for lectures on Russian and European history, physics, and Russian and French literature, 1968–72, in Russian and French.

• Ivan Aleksandrovich Shepetkovskii

  Memoirs on military history, 1906–14, with many poems—"Russkaia imperatorskaia gvardiia," typed.

• Ivan F. and Olga Ivanovna Koshko

  Papers, ca. 52 items. A governor and high civil servant of Imperial Russia and his daughter. 4 memoir notebooks concern his governorship of Perm province, 1911–14, 2 contain "Vospominaniia gubernatora, 1905–1914" starting with his Novgorod service in 1905. Her memoirs cover student life and revolutionary circles in St. Petersburg ca. 1910, life in Novgorod, social conditions in Penza and Perm, life in Perm during World War I, the Revolution, Civil War, and the emigration in Constantinople and Paris in the 1920s; memoirs of her brother, B. I. Koshko, relating to his service in the chancellery of the Council of Ministers; and the typed memoirs of Metropolitan Evlogii, his childhood, seminary education, career as bishop of Kholm and archibishop of Volhynia, service as a delegate in the third and fourth state dumas, World War I, the Revolution, the Civil War, and his tenure as metropolitan of the Russian Church in Exile, 1920–21. There are many papers of Dr. I. I. Manukhin (b. 1882), including a Russian typescript of his book "Samozashchita organizma." Restrictions.

• Ivan Fedorovich Iurtaev

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 50 items. Unpublished studies by this metallurgist, a student of N. T. Beliaev, on his specialty, in French, ca. 1925–45.

• Ivan I. and Valentina Pavlovna Shali

  His handwritten account, "Spetsi Trudposeleniia v severnom Kazakhstane v 1931–36 gg."—his experiences as an agronomist and political prisoner and the forced resettlement of peasants and political prisoners in the 1930s; his "Pol'skie evreibezhentsy v Tomsk-Asinskikh lageriakh, 1940 god" (handwritten also), concerning life as a veterinarian and Siberian camp conditions for Jewish refugees from Poland in World War II; and her memoirs about Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania in 1945–58.

• Ivan Mikhailovich Kheraskov

  Papers, ca. 20 items. Notebooks, in Russian and French, with clippings and handwritten accounts of World War II by this emigre in France.

• Ivan Mikhailovich Shadrin

  Notebook with handwritten description of the Imperial Court Choir; other writings concerning the Romanovs, 1900–17; and handwritten memoirs about service in the reserves in World War I, the 1917 Revolution at the front, the Civil War in the South, evacuation from the Crimea, and the emigration in northern Africa, 1914–28.

• Ivan N. Minishki

  Memoirs, "Illiuzii ili deistvitel'nost'," 1910–40, typed, 387 pp.

• Ivan Nikolaevich Shumilin

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 825 items. Typed sections of his memoirs and reminiscences about childhood in Warsaw ca. 1900, the Kiev Cave Monastery (he was its jurisconsultant), Petrograd in the October Revolution, the Civil War, Soviet academic life, ca. 1917–45, and the emigration. Shumilin's pseudonym was Ivan Nikodimov. Restrictions.

• Ivan Petrovich Eryzhenskii

  His manuscript, "Moia odisseia," is on the Civil War in 1918–20.

• Ivan Petrovich Sozonovich

  Taught comparative literature in Warsaw before World War I and in Prague after 1917. The collection contains his personal documents, a short biography of him and his wife, and handwritten lecture notes.

• Izmailovskii Folk

  Papers, ca. 15 boxes, 4,200 items. Memoirs of members of the regiment; data on the history, organization, and membership of the regiment, 1711–1920s; lists of officers; 2,428 cards with information about officers, officials, doctors, and priests; biographies of 203 officers; correspondence; and over 250 photos. Subjects noted: the campaign of 1812, the Russo-Turkish war of 1877–78, World War I, and the Civil War.

• Jacob B. Hoptner

  Papers, 13 boxes, ca. 3,850 items. Manuscripts, statistics, and books on the economy, history, and geography of Yugoslavia and Central Europe; and mimeographed papers for a 1939 conference on Central Europe, the Little Entente, and diplomatic history 1920s-1930s. Sponsored by the Institut Internationale de la Cooperation Intellectuelle and the League of Nations. Restrictions.

• Jane Perry Clark Carey

  The diary of this legal scholar during a trip to the USSR as a student in 1929 has information on the Soviet legal system and on conditions in the Volga region.

• Jaromir Smutny

  Papers, 22 Boxes. Chancellor to President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, ca. 1938–48. After the February 1948 revolution, he emigrated to London, founding the Eduard Benes Institute (Ustav). The archive contains many of the Institute's published volumes; also, notes and lectures by Smutny; typed manuscripts on Czech politics and diplomacy, 1915–65, the February 1948 revolution, death of Jan Masaryk, the London government in exile in World War II, the Munich crisis of 1938, Benes's visits to Moscow in 1943 and 1945, and the Sudeten Germans in 1945; "Zpravy o situace v Rusku, 1942–43" and more zpravy (reports) of the London government in exile, 1941–43; and other materials concerning Thomas G. Masaryk, H. Pika, S. Osusky, V. Krajina, M. Hodza, B. Lausman, and H. Ripka. Restrictions.

• John N. Hazard

  Papers, 11 boxes. In World War II this legal scholar was an important officer in the lend-lease program. The collection has a complete record of the office diaries, July 1941–46, during Hazard's tenure. There are also some office correspondence, January 1943–46, and reports on shipments. One report by the Foreign Economic Administration concerns German administration in the Baltic Area, November 1943, 23 pp. Most or all of these items are duplicates of documents in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Also included are Hazard's class notes from the Moscow Juridical Institute in 1934–37.

• Joseph Korbel

  Memoranda of conversations with V. Clementis and A. Bebler; a Czech-Yugoslav trade treaty and typed essay about their trade relations.

• K. A. Katin

  Handwritten memoirs of a Russian officer.

• K. Ivanenko

  A story/memoir entitled "Shlema," about a Soviet prison camp in the late 1930s; and a poem, "Beglets," 1930s.

• K. M. Geishtor

  Papers, ca. 20 items. Memoirs about military history, K. Pobedonostsev, the Imperial family, St. Petersburg life, the Russo-Japanese War, railroads in the Far East, the Civil War. Restrictions.

• K. N. Kramarenko

  Memoirs in 5 parts, handwritten, about Kramarenko's experiences in Soviet industry as an industrial safety inspector and about trade unions, 1930s. Restrictions.

• K. V. Semchevskii

  Papers, ca. 30 items. Memoirs describing childhood in the Caucasus, education and service in the Imperial Corps of Pages (with some history of the latter), service in the Imperial Horse Guards before and during World War I, the February Revolution at the front, and emigration in the Far East, the U.S., Germany, and Austria; and documents.

• Karl Karlovich Miller

  Papers, ca. 200 items. A commercial attache in the Imperial Russian embassy in Japan. The archive contains accounts, correspondence, and reports about the liquidation of the embassy and consulates in China, Russian government financial transactions in Japan ca. 1916, and other affairs in Japan, 1920–21.

• Kezar K. Bernard.

  Construction engineer in Vinnitsa. Handwritten memoirs, in 7 parts, ca. 1914–43. They concern the sugar industry, World War II, and the Ukraine.

• Kira Vasil'evna Hickox

  Largely papers of George Kumming, including manuscripts on Biblical topics.

• Konstantin A. Tomilin

  Papers, ca. 26 items. Professor. Handwritten autobiography; typed essays on Soviet art and Russian fables; letters from G. Grebenshchikov; poems; handwritten manuscripts on Russian and Soviet education, ca. 1900–1920s, and on the education of Russian refugee children in World War II.

• Konstantin Aleksandrovich Ermans and Varvara Ivanovna Ermans-Strakhova

  Papers, 1 box. Contains her memoirs describing her work with the Mamontov opera; family documents; photographs and information about F. Shaliapin; memorabilia; material on the Russian conservatory in Paris; and correspondence with, for example, F. Shaliapin, A. Grechaninov, 1939, S. Rachmaninoff, 1928, Olga Knipper Chekhova, 2 items, 1946 and undated.

• Konstantin Bruzinskii

  Typewritten essay "O moem dedushke" concerning the adventures of his grandfather Jakob Geishtor in Lithuania and in Siberian exile after the 1863 Polish uprising.

• Konstantin Efimovich Val'kov

  Papers, ca. 30 items. Some of the personal effects of protoierei Vsevolod Perovskii, Perovskii's own publications, and 4 notebooks with handwritten essays on calendar reform.

• Konstantin Fedosevich Shteppa

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes. History professor. The first part of his typed memoirs, 161 pp., concerns domestic conditions in the USSR in the 1930s and the historical profession. Other items: typed bibliography of historiographic books and works on history in the USSR, 1948–60, and of works by emigre historians; his reviews and articles, some published, on religion, the Ukraine, anthropology, nationalism, Marxism, Soviet ideology, and politics; and 2 typed essays—"Volna massovykh arrestov, 1937–38" about the purges and "Velikaia revoliutsiia nashei epokhi" on Burnham's The Managerial Revolution.

• Konstantin K. Troitskii

  Handwritten memoirs/ essays on the agrarian question, the administration of the Stolypin reform, V. I. Gurko, N. N. Kutler, and secondary education and university life in St. Petersburg in the late 1890s.

• Konstantin Mandrajy (Mandrachi)

  "Begin at the Beginning"—typed memoirs about his military career, World War I, and the Revolution, ca. 1880–1920.

• Konstantin N. Gavrilov

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes, ca. 400 items. An engineer who emigrated during World War II. His diaries describe life in Stalingrad and other cities of that region. The collection also contains personal documents of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary in World War II, when he was a political refugee after the war.

• Konstantin Nikolaevich Khagondokov

  Papers, 69 items. 67 notebooks contain the handwritten memoirs of this general, a Kabardian, 1891–1920; the 944 pp. (and a typed carbon copy of the same) concern World War I, the Caucasus, and Turkestan.

• Konstantin Nikolaevich Nikolaev

  Papers, ca. 115 items. Part of his typed memoirs on the Revolution and Civil War, late 1917–20; memoirs of others on General Kornilov; Nikolaev's autobiographical writings for the years 1919–45 in the emigration, typed; typed memoirs/reminiscences of the Civil War, General L. Kornilov, White armies, military units in Serbia, ROVS and its history in the 1920s and 1930s, the emigration in Yugoslavia, and World War II; and correspondence and reports relating to an emigre jurists organization that Nikolaev headed in the U.S., 1950s–1960s. Restrictions.

• Konstantin Romanovich Krovopuskov

  Papers, ca. 5 boxes, ca. 2,150 items. Minutes, proclamations, and reports of the Vserossiiskii natsional'nyi tsentr, financial records, law projects, and decrees, 1918–20, relating to White governments in the Civil War, materials from ca, 1949–55 on the "Russkii Ofis" of K. and V. A. Maklakov, which attempted to aid Russian refugees in France.

• Konstantin S. Leiman

  A handwritten essay on the Vilna [Vilnius, Vilno] Military Academy; others on military subjects.

• Konstantin V. Ialyshev

  Papers, ca. 210 items. Issues of the mimeographed Informatsiia of the 18th Army Corps in Emigration (Armeiskii korpus v Emigratsii), 1930–37, with biographical information on the corps, ca. 1900–1918; minutes and other data on the Russian Brotherhood of St. Nicholas in Constantinople, 1921–23, and about a Russian refugee camp in Marseilles, 1923–25; 3 notebooks of handwritten memoirs about the revolutionary movement among students and the 1905 Revolution, 1900–1905; lectures on Ukrainian and Russian political questions, 1930s; and materials concerning General Bulak-Balakhovich's army, which fought on the Polish side in the Russo-Polish War of 1920.

• Konstantin V. Sakharov

  General. Books, in German, about the Kolchak campaign and the Czech legion; 2 biographies by his wife and a bibliography of the general's works; and his typed essay "Die Herrgottsbienen."

• Ksenia Grundt

  Papers, 1 box, 150 items. 7 notebooks of handwritten memoirs, 1958–60, describing her ballet career in tsarist Russia (ballet training in general and hers at Kharkov in particular), the Revolution and Civil War, her work as a dancer and teacher in Yugoslavia and France.

• Ksenia Nikolaevna Rossolimo

  Papers, 4 boxes, ca. 1,200 items. Typed excerpts from a diary for 1891–1923, part or all of which has been published; drawings and photographs; personal documents; business and other correspondence, mostly from 1948–53, with such figures as Professor M. Karpovich, R. Gul, V. Bunina, and B. Unbegaun.

• L. E. Ivanov

  Travel notes, handwritten, and sketches of a military topographer on a surveying expedition to Central Asia (Bukhara, Tashkent, Chimkent), 1900–1901.

• L. Lishin (Lischin)

  His handwritten essay, "Bolshevizm i religiia"; issues of a newspaper put out by the concentration camp administration.

• L. P. Dzhunkovskii

  "Vospominaniia generala Aleks. Aleks. Smagina," memoirs written by Dzhunkovskii, the general's friend, based on conversations with and notes of Smagin. They concern the Don Cossacks, the Revolution, and the Civil War, 1917–20.

• Larissa Dmitrievna Zvereva

  Typed memoirs of life in Russia on her father's estate in Nizhegorod province, conditions there, the 1905 Revolution, and life in St. Petersburg with her husband, a deputy to the state duma (ca. 1885–1918; her father was a zemskii nachal'nik); and additional memoirs about events in Yugoslavia and the assassination of King Alexander in 1934.

• Leon Mitkiewicz

  His typescript entitled "Powstanie Warszawskie w Sierpriu 1944 roku w swietle dokumentow Polskiej Misji Wojskowej w Stanach Zjednoczonych," with 40 transcribed government documents, in Polish and English. Mitkiewicz was the chief of the Polish Military Mission in the U.S. in 1944.

• Leonid Ivanovich Strakhovskii

  Papers, ca. 50 items. Baron S. F. Korf's essays and speeches about Russian law and constitutional matters; papers of E. Francis Riggs, on the U.S. military mission to Russia in 1916–18; and a typescript by Count Paul Nikolaevich Ignatieff, former minister of education.

• Leonid L. Andrenko

  Papers, 24 items. Photos, Soviet newspaper clippings, correspondence mostly concerning K. E. Tsiolkovskii.

• Leonid L. Sabaneev

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes. Historian of Russian and Soviet music. Typed essays on revolutionary events, personalities, 1917–20; articles and pamphlets by Sabaneev; 4 letters from A. Glazunov, A. Grechaninov, and K. Medtner; books by various authors, including Sabaneev, on Russian music, ca. 1920–50.

• Leonid Mikhailovich Andreev

  Short personal reminiscences of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 and of the 1917 Revolution.

• Leonid Seifulin (Seifullin)

  Typed memoirs of his military career and World War I, 1900–17.

• Leonid Vladimirovich Andrusov

  Papers, 20 items. Emigre scientist. A short typed autobiography plus printed copies of his scientific papers in French and German, 1950s.

• Leonid Vladimirovich Griunval'd (Gruenvald)

  Short, typed biography of General N. N. Iudenich.

• Lev Petrovich Sukachev

  Military officer. Memoirs (partly published in Vestnik Pervopokhodnika) about the Revolution and Civil War and the emigration, where he was a major in the Albanian army of King Zog and then a general in the Italian army, 1939–47; photos; and a memoir about the role of a Russian unit in Akhmet Zog's conquest of Albania.

• Lev Stepanovich Rubanov

  Papers, ca. 15 items. Typed essays/reminiscences about the Revolution and the Civil War in the South, 1917–20; later writings on Russian/Soviet political questions; and materials on the Soviet committee "Za vozvrashchenie na rodinu," 1957.

• Lia I. Neustroeva

  Her typed memoirs, in English, of life in Russian banking circles, ca. 1900–17.

• Lidia Aleksandrovna Protich

  Her memoirs of marriage to a pre-1914 Serbian diplomat, typed, in French.

• Lidia Mikhailovna Borshch (Borchtch)

  Papers, 2.5 boxes, ca. 150 items. 2 biographies of Viktor B. Oks, a lawyer, writer and journalist (typed and handwritten); a typed bibliography of Oks's works; manuscripts of his novels and plays; and Oks's reminiscences of Lenin, Stalin, G. Zinov'ev, L. Krasin, and A. Enukhidze.

• Liubov Vasilevna Roehr (Rer)

  Carbon copy of Count V. N. Kokovtsev's memoirs of childhood and lycee education, ca. 1860–90.

• Liudmila Aleksandrovna Kravtseva

  Papers, ca. 40 items. Letters from Andrei V. Kravtsov in the USSR to relatives in Paris, 1925–28, describing domestic conditions; and issues of Soviet provincial newspapers. Andrei Kravtsov was a member of the Narodnaia Svoboda Party before 1917.

• Lollii Ivanovich L'vov

  Papers, ca. 200 items. Manuscripts on Ivan Turgenev and miscellanea, including typed copies of 3 letters of the Tsaritsa Evdokiia, wife of Mikhail Romanov, ca. 1627.

• M. A. Lunin

  A notebook with copies of letters from this former Decembrist to his sister in the 1830s and an essay on Polish conditions written in 1840. Restrictions.

• M. D. Andrusova

  Typed memoirs ("Moi vospominaniia") cover World War I, the Revolution, and foreign intervention in the Civil War, 1914–19. Restrictions.

• M. Iordanskii

  Mimeographed copy of his eyewitness account of the Bolshevik takeover in Moscow, 1917.

• M. K. Sverbeeva

  Papers, 11 items. Letters from Tatiana L'vovna Tolstaia-Sukhotina (Count Leo's daughter) to Svergeeva's husband; and Tolstaia-Sukhotina's typed essay on A. S. Pushkin, with reminiscences of her father, 1940s.

• M. M. Zolotarev

  Papers, ca. 4 boxes. Government official. Correspondence concerning the unification of emigre organizations; materials concerning I. L. Solonevich, a former Soviet journalist who was sent to a prison camp and then fled the Soviet Union; membership lists, correspondence, statutes, etc. of Berloga—an emigre New York group seeking the overthrow of communism in Russia, 1939–40; documents on the 1914 Congress of Representatives of Russian Industry; papers from Zolotarev's tenure as a controller of the port of Vladivostok during World War I—about service in the State Control in the Far East, the Volunteer Fleet, etc., 1914–20; notes, reports, and minutes of meetings of the Russian Financial and Commercial Association in America, 1922–26; materials of the Rossiiskii Finansovo-Promyshlenno-Torgovyi Soiuz, 1922–23; and list of members of the Priamur National Assembly and other items on the Far East in the early 1920s.

• M. N. Lyons

  Papers, ca. 60 items. Map collection dating from ca. 1890–1920—Russian Central Asia, Mongolia, Afghanistan, China, and Japan as well as Galicia, Bukovina, and the Sea of Marmora.

• M. Nilskii

  "Pobeg," about Soviet labor camps, 1920–41, typescript, 266 pp.

• M. S. Stakhevich

  Papers, ca. 75 items. A book on Russian naval history, with personnel lists, Petrograd, 1916; the emigre Morskoi zhurnal (Naval Journal), Prague, 1927–42; documents, clippings, memoirs, and printed matter about naval history, 1890–1940.

• Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevskii

  Papers, 2 boxes. Includes extensive correspondence, some in typed transcripts, with, among others, Petr Lavrov, ca. 75 letters, ca. 1890, Petr Struve, M. Tugan-Baranovskii, and P. Miliukov. Also, 35 handwritten notebooks of memoirs, with typed transcripts of same, entitled "Moia zhizn'" and "Vospominaniia." In addition, there is a typescript by S. Iu. Witte on Russian financial problems in 1880, submitted to the future Alexander III.

• Maksim Moiseevich Vinaver

  Kadet Party leader. Contains typed transcripts of his correspondence with another prominent Kadet, I. Petrunkevich. The letters, dated 1919–26, discuss the Civil War, intra-party politics, and foreign policy. There are also: typed stenographic report of Vinaver's speech to the First State Duma, 20 pp., typed copy of reminiscences about the October Manifesto and the first KD party congress, 4 pp., and a handwritten article dealing with politics, Paris, n.d., 7 pp.

• Malcolm W. Davis

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Davis served with the Carnegie Endowment in the 1930s. The collection contains typed essays by N. Grigorev on the history of Ukrainian nationalism and materials of I. Efremov on the Russian Orthodox Church and the ecumenical movement.

• Marc Raeff

  Typed copy of an unpublished manuscript by A. E. Nolde—a biography of M. M. Speransky, 239 pp.; and a photocopy of a 1783 document of Catherine II, rewarding a subject for his service.

• Margarita Oskarovna Domashkevich (Domaschkewitsch)

  Typed and bound copies of her literary works.

• Maria Alexandrovna Iazykova

  Genealogy of the Iazykov family; and 4 notebooks of handwritten diaries about childhood, the Revolution, and the Harbin emigration, 1918–38.

• Maria Alexandrovna Vasil'chikov

  Lady-inwaiting to the last Russian empress. Photos of her, and her handwritten essay in French on "The Empress Alexandra Fedorovna."

• Maria Bok

  Manuscript of Bok's personal recollections, 1890–1911, of her father, Petr A. Stolypin, as family man and statesman; and a 1909 photograph of Stolypin. Her memoir appeared as Vospominaniia o moem ottse P. A. Stolypine (Chekhov Publishing House, New York) in 1953.

• Maria Ronseval

  Typescript by Mariia Belozoskaia—"Na strashnyi sud istorii: Delo Anny Akhmatovoi," smuggled out of the USSR ca. 1951 and concerning events in 1946.

• Maria Sozonovich-Kozhin

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Personal and family archive, with photos (e.g., of Professor Konstantin Vasilevich Bestuzhev-Riumin, founder of the St. Petersburg women's higher education courses), and memoirs.

• Marianna A. Davydova

  Handwritten essays: "Moi ded," 5 pp., reminiscences of her grandfather, Ivan Orlov, and life on a large estate, ca. the 1870s; on popular discontent in southwest Russia in 1905, 10 pp.; and about the February Revolution in Kiev and St. Petersburg, 12 pp.

• Marianna Volkov

  Papers, 22 items. Photos of such personalities as Lili Brik, A. Khachaturian, E. Evtushenko, Iuri Liubimov, and V. Shklovskii.

• Marie Shevich

  Typed memoirs in French: Sans retour (social history of 1880–1920).

• Mariia Aleksandrovna Bocharnikova

  Typed memoirs and documents relating to her reminiscences of the Women's Battalion and the Civil War.

• Mariia Andreevna Slivinskaya

  Memoirs for ca. 1917–46 (Moi vospominaniya), typed, in a bound volume.

• Mariia Georg'evna Novitskaia

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes. Correspondence, reports, photographs, biographical information and reminiscences of her father, Georgii Shavel'skii, a priest for the Imperial family, and on such topics as the Orthodox Church in emigration.

• Mariia Nikolaevna Chernysheva-Bezobrazova

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes, 500 items. Handwritten memoirs and a family history of the princess, whose father was Prince N. S. Shcherbatov, director of the Moscow Historical Museum. There is also correspondence in the collection.

• Mariia Vasil'evna Fedchenko

  Handwritten memoirs about her aunt, E. N. Geringer, favorite lady-in-waiting of the Empress Alexandra. There is also reference to Archbishop Feofan of Poltava. The work covers the years 1872–1939.

• Mariia Vladimirovna Volkonskaia

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes. Family archive of the princess and her father, Professor Vladimir Fedorovich Luginin. Includes his memoirs, correspondence, and family papers. Born in 1834, Luginin went to the Mikhailovsk Artillery School in 1849–53, fought in the Russo-Turkish war of 1853–56, knew L. Tolstoi [Tolstoy] at the siege of Sevastopol, left the military, was educated abroad in chemistry and physics, became a friend of A. M. Herzen [Gertsen], returned to Russia, and became a professor at Moscow University, dying in 1911. Also village church documents from Kostroma province; Volkonskaia's memoirs for 1875–1911 and an Italian translation of her diary for 1914; financial records of credit societies in Kostroma and Vetluga; and correspondence from the 1920s-1959 relating to the emigration in France. Restrictions.

• Marina Geiden

  Comprises 2 sections of her typed memoirs, in French, about Russian high society 1907–12.

• Mark Aleksandrovich Aldanov (pseud, of M. A. Landau) (1886-1957)

  Papers, 37 boxes, ca. 6,700 items. Author. Mainly writings and correspondence. Among his correspondents, ca. 1926–57: Don Aminado, B. A. Bakhmetev, Ivan Bunin, Marc Chagall, S. P. Mel'gunov, A. I. Konovalov, A. F. Kerensky, A. L. Tolsto [Tolstoy]i, Somerset Maugham, W. Lednicki, V. V. Nabokov, N. A. Teffi, B. K. Zaitsev, M. V. Vishniak, M. M. Karpovich, S. A. Kusevitskii, V. M. Zenzinov, S. V. Rachmaninoff, V. A. Maklakov, P. I. Miliukov, G. Struve, the editors of Novoe Russkoe Slovo. There are manuscripts (and reviews), in English and Russian, for most of Aldanov's major works, including Nachalo kontsa, Istoki, The Fifth Seal, Before the Deluge, Zhivi kak khochesh; many short stories ("Rubin," "T'ma," "Fel'd-marshal," "Greta i tank," etc.); and some plays (The Lie Detector—in Russian—and Rytsar' svobody). Restrictions.

• Mark Popovskii

  Papers (1957 - 2000). 21 linear feet in 43 boxes, including 6 oversized flat boxes. Popovskii, Mark Aleksandrovich (1922 - ), Russian writer journalist and essayist, was born in Odessa. A veteran of World War II, he started freelance literary work in 1946, and had numerous publications in the Soviet press (including 14 books), primarily dealing with issues of science and scientific ethics. During the 1970s two of Popovskii's books, Beda i vina akademika Vavilova and Zhizn' and Zhitie Voino-Iasenetskogo were rejected by the censor and circulated in samizdat. Popovskii also signed several letters in support of Russian dissidents. Systematically persecuted by KGB, he left the country in 1977 and settled in New York City, USA. In emigration he contributed to numerous Russian-language periodicals, and served as a North American editor of émigré journal Strana I Mir. He wrote and published numerous books, some were translated into English French and German. After the fall of the Soviet Union Popovskii's work started once again to appear in Russia. Collection contains correspondence, works, diaries and research materials of Mark Popovskii, a prominent literary figure of Russian emigration. The collection also contains writings by contemporary russian authors, photographs, videotapes and scrapbooks of Popovskii's articles in Russian émigré newspapers. The date span of the collection is 1957 - 2000. In the early 1980s a fire at Popovskii's New York apartment destroyed a large part of Popovskii's archive, so the Popovskii Papers contain a very limited number of pre-1980s materials. This also explains the gap in Popovskii's diaries. The bulk of the materials are dated 1985 - 2000. Includes a significant collection research materials on Tolstoy [Tolstoi]. Finding aid available: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/BAR_Popovskii/

• Marshall MacDuffie

  Papers, ca. 9 boxes. A mimeographed and typed transcript of his taperecorded recollections of a USSR trip in 1946 to Central Asia and Minsk; mimeographed report on his 1953 trip. Note: See also the UNRRA papers in Columbia's Lehman Library.

• Metropolitan Seraphim (Lukianov)

  Handwritten memoirs, 1879–1950, entitled "Moi vospominaniia. Istoriia moei zhizni."

• Michael Karpovich (1883-1959). (Series 1).

  Correspondence, 1900—1959. ca.. 3000 items (7 boxes). Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. -- Michael Karpovich was an employee of the embassy of the Russian Provisional Government in Washington, D.C., professor of Russian history at Harvard University, and editor of "Novyi zhurnal." -- Summary: Correspondence and subject files of Russian-American historian Michael Karpovich include letters from former ministers of the Russian Provisional Government Alexander Kerensky, Aleksandr Guchkov, and the Provisional Government's ambassador to the United States, Boris Bakhmeteff. There are letters from Social Revolutionaries Nikolai Avksent’ev and Vladimir Zenzinov, Mensheviks Boris Nikolaevsky and Nikolai Vol'skii, and extensive correspondence with contemporary historians such as Michael Florinsky, Sergei Pushkarev, George Vernadsky, and Karpovich's students who included Marc Raeff and Richard Pipes. Much of the correspondence concerns Karpovich's involvement in emigre affairs and the promotion of Russian studies in the United States including such institutions as the Bakhmeteff Archive, the"Novyi zhurnal" and the Chekhov Publishing House. There is correspondence with prominent authors and literary critics including Mark Aldanav, Ivan Bunin, Aleksei Remizov, Gleb Struve and Roman Gul’. Of special importance are 3 letters and poems by Vladimir Nabokov. The subject files concern Boris Bakhmeteff, Alexander Kerensky, Vladimir Nabokov and Karpovich's work as editor of Pavel Miliukov's books.

• Michael Karpovich (1883-1959). (Series 2).

  Correspondence, 1930 - 1959 ca . 17,000 items (36 boxes ). Selected correspondence and manuscripts cataloged; remainder arranged. -- Summary: Correspondence, manuscripts , lecture notes, subject files, printed materials and clippings. Cataloged materials include correspondence and/or manuscripts from prominent historians Geroge Vernadsky and Sergei Pushkarev, writers Maria Germanova and Pavel Miliukov, as well as translations by Oscar Jaszi. Karpovch' s cataloged correspondence also contains letters from Presidents Kennedy and Truman. Personal correspondence is arranged chronologically; professional correspondence deals with the Harvard Slavic Department, Professor Karpovich' s various students, and the Russian Review. The collection also contains separate Novy Zhurnal correspondence and manuscripts. The detailed lecture notes on Russian History in English and Russian cover the years 1935 - 1957 . There are also notes on non-Russian subjects. Subject files include Karpovich' s bibliography cards and material on Russian archives and organizations. Printed materials and clippings have to do with Slavic Studies.

• Michael T. Florinskii

  Papers, 1 box, ca. 500 items. Correspondence with S. N. Prokopovich, 1938–46; the typed text of Prokopovich's work on the fourth Five-Year Plan; Florinskii's correspondence with Bernard Pares, V. Maklakov, J. Chamberlain, A. Gurkov, S. Sazanov, V. Kokovtsev, M. Karpovich, D. Mirskii, A. Meiendorff, D. Nabokov (6 in 1948 about Alexander II and Alexander III), and Professor Otto Hoetzsch, 1939.

• Mihail Dragomirov

  Handwritten notes about Russian military history, 1856–81.

• Mikhail A. Golubov

  Papers, 11 items. Memoirs and essays on Civil War, displaced persons after World War II, and the forced repatriation of Cossacks in 1945.

• Mikhail Aleksandrovich Drizo (MAD)

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, ca. 2,800 items. Drizo, whose pseudonum was MAD, was a Russian caricaturist. Among his correspondents were Ivan Bunin, P. Miliukov, M. Aldanov, N. Teffi, A. Benois, and N. Evreinov. There are also a number of his caricatures and illustrations. Restrictions.

• Mikhail Aleksandrovich Lipskii

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes. Personal correspondence. Restrictions.

• Mikhail Aleksandrovich Taube

  Papers, ca. 20 boxes. Materials for a Taube family genealogy; manuscript biography of Johann Georg von Taube, founder of the family; binder with correspondence, printed matter, and ephemera on the Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Rerikh) Museum and on his peace activities; handwritten and typed copies of von Taube's reminiscences—"Vospominaniia o tragicheskoi sud'be predrevoliutsionnoi Rossii"—for 1890–1917 and also for the years in emigration, 1918–56; and notes on Russian history.

• Mikhail Andreevich Svechin

  Papers, 14 items. Typed memoirs—"Vospominaniya starogo kirasira eia velichestva" (Nice, 1958) and photos, 1890–1917, plus more memoirs for 1876–1919 covering education, the Imperial family, military training, the Civil War, Kiev, Ukraine, and the Don River region; and materials on the Soviet army in the 1920s and 1930s.

• Mikhail Diderikhs

  A typed copy of an order issued by Diderikhs (ruler of the Zemskii Priamurskii Krai), 11 October 1922.

• Mikhail Dmitrevich Karateev (Karachevskii-Karateev)

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, 1,410 items. This historical novelist's papers contain typed reminiscences of the emigration in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria in the 1920s, Paraguay in the 1930s; books and manuscripts in Spanish on mineralogy by his father, Dmitri Vasil'evich Karateev, who taught at the University of Lima, ca. 1920–40. Restrictions.

• Mikhail E. Fridieff

  Notebooks of handwritten memoirs for 1919–24, about the Civil War in the South and the early emigration, written in 1921 and 1970.

• Mikhail Fedorovich Vasil'ev

  Memorabilia concerning the Vlasov army (medal, identification book, 3 photos); and 2 notebooks with reminiscences of World War II.

• Mikhail Georgevich Mavrodi

  A notebook contains handwritten memoirs about his naval training and career, 1914–17; and memoirs of his service on a Black Sea transport ship during the Revolution and Civil War and of the French intervention in the South, 1917–20.

• Mikhail Kantor

  Materials of this writer include a manuscript (and typed copy) of 15 sonnets ("Venok somnenii").

• Mikhail Lidin (Fomichev)

  A typescript and 2 photocopies of an essay by "M. Fomichev" entitled "Iz vospominanii antonovtsa," about the peasant anti-Bolshevik revolt in Tambov, 1921–22, 34 pp.

• Mikhail M. Novikov

  Papers, ca. 8 boxes. Novikov, a biologist, was rector of Moscow University in 1919–20. His typed curriculum vitae and memoirs cover his youth, education, early academic career in biology at Moscow, and the emigration. There are also lectures, handwritten and typed, correspondence, a handwritten summary of his work, 1876–1911, photos of Russian scientists, and his works.

• Mikhail M. Shneerov

  "V pogone za sinei ptitsei," "My last arrest and state prison in Kursk," and "When I Was Young"—all typed—about the SR Party and the revolution in 1902–1908, and 1917–18. Restrictions.

• Mikhail Mikhailovich Fedorov

  Papers, 15 boxes, 6,700 items. Includes correspondence with Russian emigre students and about student aid; reports of the Tsentral'nyi Komitet po Vysshemu Obrazovaniiu, 1922–23 and 1928–29; materials about the commission on Russian schools and students in Poland, the Union of Russian Students in France, 1920–1930s, and the Russkii Natsional'nyi Komitet, 1933–34; and other manuscripts and correspondence.

• Mikhail Nikolaevich Arkhipov

  "Vospominaniia o pervoi mirovoi voine."

• Mikhail Pavlovich Polivanov

  Handwritten essays on Soviet higher education and universities 1919–42.

• Mikhail Petrovich Dolgorukov

  Papers, ca. 10 items. Photos and information about his father, Petr Dmitrevich Dolgorukov, who was vice-president of the duma, and about his family; clippings with excerpts of the diary of Fr. Nikolai Ryzhkov's daughter concerning her father's life and career in the Orthodox Church, ca. 1890–1945.

• Mikhail Petrovich Osipov (Ossipoff)

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes, ca. 2,220 items. Materials on the Russian Civil War and ROVS activities in the West, 1918–1940s; papers of the Soiuz kavalerov imperatorskago voennago ordena Sv. V. i P. Georgiia i georgievskago oruzhiia; soldiers' memoirs from World War I and Civil War; manuscript of a novel about Soviet refugees following World War II; publications of emigre military groups; and some documents relating to the White armies 1918–23.

• Mikhail Vasil'evich Karkhanin

  Papers, ca. 600 items. The colonel was chief of staff for representatives of the Russian supreme command in France, 1916–17. The collection includes mimeographed orders and documents of the REF, France and the Salonika front, 1915–19; handwritten "Materialy po istorii prebyvaniia russkikh voisk vo Frantsii, 1915–1919"; documents, correspondence, orders, etc. on the army of General A. Dutov in Siberia, 1919–20; a short biography of Karkhanin by his widow.

• Mikhail Vladimirovich Bernatskii

  2 boxes, ca. 400 items. The papers are largely from his service in the Provisional Government; his tenure as chairman of the Financial Board in 1919–20 for the White government in southern Russia; and the emigration in Europe in the 1920s.

• Mitrofan Ivanovich Boiarintsev

  Papers, 3 boxes, ca. 600 items. Imperial Army officer. Memoirs of Boiarintsev's experiences as a young officer in World War I and the postRevolutionary disintegration of the army; his service records; documents, articles, and ephemera on the war, the Civil War, General L. Kornilov and his troops, and Emigre military organizations (0b"edinenie kornilovtsov, Russkii obshchevoinskii soiuz).

• Mitrofan Petrovich Bogaevskii

  Papers, ca. 35 items. Material on his life as a student in St. Petersburg and on St. Petersburg University, ca. 1900–1906, and on the Civil War.

• Mstislav Petrovich Golovachev

  Papers, ca. 10 boxes, ca. 2,350 items. Documents, correspondence, reports, etc. of and about the Siberian Civil War, emigration to the Far East, emigre efforts to reestablish an independent Siberian government, 1918–38, the Bratstvo russkoi pravdy, Soviet administration and the Red Army in Siberia, the Soviet consulate in Manchuria, 1929–34, Russian/Soviet refugees in China, 1926–45.

• Mstislav Stepanovich Shitov

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Military engineer. Typed, handwritten and illustrated memoirs, 2 vols., about his experiences in World War I, plus his ideas on military education and technology, 1914–70; and correspondence and documents of ROVS in Argentina.

• Mstislav Titov

  Correspondence, notes, and writings concerning the emigration in Argentina, ca. 1959–73.

• Mstislav V. Dobuzhinskii

  Papers, 19 boxes. Leading Russian painter and stage designer. Contents include his essays on the World of Art group and its individual members; his sketches and illustrations of Russian literary and architectural styles and of historical costumes; catalogues of his exhibits; personal and business correspondence (mostly closed); official documents; memoirs on major modern Russian artists, musicians, and writers, written in the 1930s and 1940s. Among his correspondents were M. Karpovich, Mark Aldanov, Ivan Bunin, A. Grechaninov, V. Nabokov. Restrictions.

• Mykhailo O. Vetukhiv (d. 1960)

  Papers, 38 boxes. Geneticist active in Ukrainian emigre organizations, and president of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in New York (UVAN). Correspondence, published works, manuscripts, lectures, and scientific experiments of Vetukhiv; material on the history of genetics in the USSR; papers of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in the U.S.; personal materials; and documents of Ukrainian emigre organizations. Restrictions.

• N. A. Gorchakov

  Papers, ca. 351 items. His "Istoriia sovetskogo teatra," typed, of which a short English version was published in Columbia Slavic Studies. Much in this manuscript, covering 1917–50, did not appear in print. Also 2 typescripts: "Tipy zakliuchennykh NKVD" by A. T. and "Pod znakom perspektivnoi illiuzii" by A. V. Lipskii, about L. [Tolstoy] Tolstoi's novels, 296 pp.

• N. D. Bakhareva

  Papers, 40 items. Includes a typescript concerning N. S. Leskov.

• N. F. Rerberg

  Typescript on the Russo-Japanese War by a participant and member of an investigating commission on the war, ca. 350 pp.

• N. I. Lorer

  A notebook containing the second part of Lorer's memoirs; he was a Decembrist, exiled to the Caucasus, who returned to Central Asia.

• N. I. Vorobev

  Papers, ca. 6.5 boxes. Materials on agriculture, southern Russian flora, and the Orthodox Church in Nice; emigre ephemera in French; typed and handwritten notes on the Kuban and Cossack affairs; lectures; curriculum vitae and related documents; diaries for 1931 and 1943–45; maps (including some of Central Asia); handwritten essay on Caucasian beekeeping; items relating to the Jewish question and to anti-Soviet activity; of Russians in World War II; and notes for a dictionary of prominent people from the Caucasus and Black Sea region. Restrictions.

• N. K. Globachev

  Typed copy of General K. I. Globachev's memoirs 1914–20.

• N. L. Krasnokutskii

  Memoirs about his meetings with Leo Tolstoi [Tolstoy], ca. 1907, 12 pp.

• N. N. Egerov

  Handwritten "Vospominaniia o russkikh uchebnykh zavedeniiakh v Pol'she" (1920–45).

• N. N. Flige

  Papers, ca. 80 items. Typed essays and documents about 1905, 1917, and the Paris emigration; Flige's memoirs about Russian high financial circles (Flige was related to both V. Kokovtsev and N. Bunge); typed materials on the Imperial family, including eyewitness accounts, in 1917–18; essays on other topics from the early 20th c. in Russia.

• N. N. Kissel-Zagorianskii

  Bound volume of the general's memoirs: military and civil career, ca. 1910–30, governor of Riazan province in 1917, and the emigration ("Les memoires du general Kissel-Zagorianskavo"), typed, 300 pp. Restrictions.

• N. N. Nikolaev

  Papers, 1 box. Kadet, deputy to the fourth state duma. Papers include items gathered for his biography about work in the fourth duma, the Kadet Party, and his service with the Russian Mutual Aid Society in the U.S. Other materials: his poems; essays on Russian liberalism, G. Rasputin, and the Civil War in the Kuban area; correspondence; typed notes on the Provisional Government, Civil War, emigre politics, and the emigration in the United States.

• N. P. Ukraintsev

  Colonel, a military jurist on the commission investigating General L. Kornilov's attempted coup in 1917. Handwritten memoirs about St. Petersburg society, military history, jurisprudence, the Revolution and the Provisional Government; handwritten reminiscences, entitled "1941" and "Raskol," concerning service as an interpreter with German occupation troops in the USSR; and several handwritten manuscripts, including "1905-yi god," based on personal memoirs of the revolution, 49 pp.; "Desiat' let v ispravitelfnykh trudovykh lagerlakh," ca. 200 pp., on life in Soviet camps after being arrested in Poland, 1945–55.

• N. P. Zemtseva

  Papers, ca. 15 items. 3 notebooks containing handwritten memoirs of her father, General P. I. Bastieno, who participated in the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, 1863–65; mimeographed press releases, Tiflis, 1919, about the Civil War in Georgia; and a handwritten memo on Sukhumi and Georgia.

• N. S. Rusanov

  "K istorii mirnoi kampanii sovetskoi demokratii sredi evropeiskikh sotsialnykh partii"—a typescript on World War I, the socialist movement, and the Stockholm Conference, 1918.

• N. V. Plevitskaia

  Handwritten memoirs, in notebooks, of childhood and the start of her career as a singer, ca. 1890–1916.

• Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Shcherbacheva

  Typed memoirs of the widow of a general who commanded the Rumanian front in World War I, written in 1919.

• Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi (1892-1952)

  Papers, ca. 10 boxes. Pseudonym of N. A. Buchinskaia, emigre writer and journalist. Contains many literary manuscripts (some published in whole or in part), largely from the period in emigration; typescripts of movie scenarios, in French (including "Gnock le bienfaiteur" and "Les Heritiers de la Jument Grise"); and correspondence with such figures as the Chekhov Publishing House, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio, M. Aldanov, G. Adamovich, I. Tsvibak, A. Remizov, I. Shmelev, I. Bunin, Iu. Trubetskoi, F. Rodichev, E. Kuskova, B. Zaitsev, 1920s-1950s.

• Nadezhda I. and Vladimir M. Bek

  Papers, ca. 75 items. Her handwritten memoirs, 1880s–1920. Also papers of her husband, V. M. Bek, including materials on the Kuban Cossacks in the Civil War, and A. I. Denikin's armies.

• Nadezhda Iakovlevna Dubakina

  Papers, ca. 20 items. 2 manuscript reminiscences of Nicholas II's visit to Suwalki and of her experiences in the Crimea during the Civil War; documents issued to her and her husband in the Civil War in southern Russia. Also in this collection: papers of Evgeniia Tuliakova-Danilovskaia, including the typescript "Pervyi god v Germanii," about a flight to Germany from Pskov in World War II and a German labor camp.

• Natalia Borisovna Bekker

  Handwritten memoirs by the widow of an NKVD engineer. Bekker herself became a political prisoner. The memoirs cover the years ca. 1919–40.

• Natalia Ivanovna Potresova

  Papers, 4 boxes, ca. 1,400 items. The archives of the Soviet and emigre journalist Sergei Viktorovich Iablonskii (Potresov) include 3 albums of clippings of his newspaper articles about cultural and political questions, 1920–50, drafts, typed and handwritten, of his articles about literature, the theater, and other topics; album entries written by K. Bal'mont, I. Bunin, I. Bilibin, and others, 1908–1920s, and correspondence of A. Remizov, A. Kuprin, I. Shmelev, N. Teffi, V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, and I. Bunin. Restrictions.

• Natalia Konstantinovna Iskander

  Papers, ca. 19 items. 4 chapters of her husband's memoirs, "Videniia proshlogo" (he was Prince Aleksandr Iskander, illegitimate son of the Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich); correspondence concerning publication of these memoirs; a typed and handwritten account of the grand duke's life in Tashkent, ca. 1900–14; letters and military memoirs about World War I and the Civil War; and a "Voennookhotnichii dnevnik" with photos by the prince. Items cover the period ca. 1900–1953.

• Natalia Lazarevna Erenburg (b. 1884)

  Autobiographical essays.

• Natalia V. Usachova

  Papers, ca. 15 items. Papers of Natalie Usachova-Gurliand, nee Sekerina, with whom A. N. Skriabin was once in love, letter from Skriabin, musical notes, books on Skriabin, and a handwritten biography of her former husband, I. Ia. Gurliand (a writer of history and fiction) by Usachova, 10 pp.

• Nataliia Apollonarievna Logunova

  Papers, ca. 16 boxes, 1,850 items. A bibliography of her published and unpublished works; her poems, short stories, and novels of the 1950s and 1960s; the diary of a former displaced person for 1945–52 ("Proidennyi etap"), parts of which have been published; correspondence with readers and publishers; and published works, including memoirs of Odessa in World War II. Restrictions.

• Nataliia Murav-Teva

  Photocopy of "Koleso zhizni—handwritten account of the emigration in Japan (autobiographical fiction), 1909–1950s, published in Japan in Japanese in 1969 as "Love, Revolution, and War."

• Nataliia Nikolaevna Troitskaia

  Typed "Vospominaniia" dealing with the history of women's education, especially institutions run by the Imperial family for the nobility, 1764–1914; plus letters, typed essays, and photos concerning the education of Russian emigre children in Indianapolis, ca. 1950s-1960s.

• Nicholas P. Vakar

  Papers, ca. 45 items. Scholar. Typed copies and newspaper clippings with his articles on Soviet politics, diplomacy, and international politics, 1930s.

• Nikolai A. Epanchin

  Memoirs, "Na sluzhbe trekh imperatorov," about the army, military campaigns, politics, the Imperial family, and foreign policy in the reigns of Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nicholas II, ca. 1860–1917, and about the emigration in France, to 1940.

• Nikolai A. Mel'nikov

  Papers, 2 boxes. Memoirs about his service in the Kazan zemstvo —"19 let na zemskoi sluzhbe. Avtobiograficheskie nabroski i vospominaniya," written 1936–39, 371 pp., covering the years ca. 1898–1917 and such subjects as S. Witte, G. Lvov, A. V. Krivoshein, P. Stolypin, A. Guchkov, D. Shipov, the third duma, and the zemstvo delegation to Nicholas II in 1913; and a typescript, "Notes of a Dreamer" (1949), about Russian political, religious, and historical development problems, with proposals for a future government, 390 pp.

• Nikolai Aleksandrovich Palchevskii

  Papers, ca. 95 items. Handwritten diary about Russian POWs in France, 1918–20; personal documents and correspondence, from before and during the years of emigration in France, 1910–50.

• Nikolai Aleksandrovich Reimers

  Professor. A short, handwritten biography with his photo; a philosophical pamphlet by him; and bibliographies of his scholarly work.

• Nikolai Andreevich Martynov

  Papers, ca. 55 items. His typed reminiscences of the Civil War in Siberia and the Far East; typescript in 2 parts, ca. 900 pp., "O zhizni i politicheskikh sobytiiakh v Kharbine, v Manchurii i voobshche na Dal'nem Vostoke s uporom na Beliiu Armiiu, 1923–1948," about the emigration; his diaries for 1951–52. Restrictions.

• Nikolai Berdiaev (1874-1948)

  Papers, ca. 50 items. Philosopher. Correspondence, 1923–47, with A. Remizov, M. Osorgin, L. Shestov, and others.

• Nikolai Dmitrevich Nelidov

  Papers, ca. 87 items. Material about emigre political activities in France and youth organizations, 1920s; and documents on anti-communist and anti-Makhno movements in the northern Crimea, 1919–20.

• Nikolai Dmitrevich Semenov-Tian-Shanskii

  Typed memoirs about service with the Imperial family, 1903–14.

• Nikolai Evgen'evich Markov

  Papers, ca. 120 items. Letters in the French emigration, 1930–54; biographical sketches and writings on the state duma (he was a member, 1907–12, on the extreme right), anti-Semitism, and emigre politics; a handwritten biographical sketch of him by his nephew; anti-Masonic and antiSemitic ephemera.

• Nikolai Frantsevich Ern

  Papers, ca. 20 items. 6-part memoirs, handwritten, ca, 138 pp., of this Russian general who served in the Caucasus before and during World War I and under the Provisional Government. He was also chief of staff of the Russian Expeditionary Force in northern Persia.

• Nikolai I. Gasfel'd (Gasfield)

  His experiences working for the French military in Persia, organizing Armenian troops to fight the Turks, are chronicled in the typed manuscript "Un An en Persie." Part of it was published as Polveka (Paris, 1950).

• Nikolai I. Tereshchenko

  Handwritten memoirs about World War I, the Civil War, N. Makhno, the Foreign Legion, World War II, and the Vlasov movement, 1914–45.

• Nikolai Kirillovich Vlodarskii

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Mathematician. Offprints and photocopies of scholarly papers and articles; and essays about Soviet scientific life, the NKVD, and a meeting with N. S. Khrushchev in Kiev during World War II, handwritten. Restrictions.

• Nikolai Kupfer

  Memoirs of the ROA brigade in Italy; handwritten manuscripts—"Tole" and "Marzabotto"—on the Vlasov movement, Russian soldiers, and prisoners in World War II; and other material. Restrictions.

• Nikolai Mikhailovich Mel'nikov

  Papers, ca. 13 boxes. Headed the southern Russian government under A. I. Denikin during the Civil War, and close friend of the Don Cossack Ataman A. P. Bogaevskii. Correspondence of Mel'nikov, Bogaevskii, and Ataman V. Naumenko; Mel'nikov's "Grazhdanskaia voina na iuge Rossii"; his typed memoirs, carbon, entitled "Pochemu Belye na luge ne pobedili Krasnykh"; 8 vols. of financial accounts of the Don government; and a typed biography, plus 2 photos, of General Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, 330 pp.

• Nikolai Mikhailovich Zernov

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes. Correspondence with autobiographical material on emigre leaders (writers, scholars, clerics), 1950s-1960s; typescript on V. Lenin's death according to the testimony of I. P. Pavlov and another neurologist; memoirs of Sofiia Aleksandrovna Zernov (1865–1942); report on Russian and Armenian refugees in France in 1935; materials on G. G. Kullman and the World Student Christian Federation, 1920s; and manuscripts of Zernov's articles, mostly published, on the Russian Orthodox Church in the USSR and in emigration, relations between the Anglican and Russian Orthodox churches, and other topics. Restrictions.

• Nikolai N. and Aleksandra N. Iudenich

  Papers, 5 boxes, ca. 2,000 items. White Russian general. Correspondence, mimeographed material, and other items on the Northwest Army as well as on emigre politics and cultural affairs; personal correspondence; photos of the tsarist army and Caucasian front in World War I. Also his widow's memoirs ca. 1862–1933.

• Nikolai N. and Anna A. Evreinov(a)

  Papers, ca, 12 boxes, 4,600 items. Primarily a theater collection, this archive contains galleys of the book Histoire du theatre russe and its Russian typescript; manuscripts on theater, art, aesthetics; and correspondence with artists and writers. Restrictions.

• Nikolai N. Evseev

  Clippings about publications and public readings by this poet in the emigration, 1962–63.

• Nikolai N. Ivanoff

  Papers, ca. 34 items. Handwritten account of the formation of the Russkaia narodnaia armiia by the Germans in the USSR during World War II; handwritten memoirs on events leading to the February 1917 Revolution and the Civil War; handwritten reminiscences in 2 sections: "Mezhdu maloi i bol'shoi revoliutsiei" and "Sobytiya v litsakh" for 1905–17; and data on Russian emigres interned in France during World War II. Restrictions.

• Nikolai Nikolaevich Kostylev

  Papers, ca. 440 items. Handwritten memoirs for 1876–1917; letters.

• Nikolai Nikolaevich Mashukov

  Papers, 9 boxes, ca. 3,000 items. A rear admiral in the tsarist Black Sea fleet. His personal documents; biographical material; memoirs of various naval officers; correspondence, ca. 1919–1960s.

• Nikolai P. Smirnov

  His short, handwritten "Ocherk istorii fenologii v Rossii"; "Istoriia Iosifa, zapisannaia na iazyke derevev," on the science of phenology, late 19th c. to 1950.

• Nikolai Prokof fev-Pylaev

  "Zheltye zvezdy" —a typescript on World War II and experiences in the Vlasov movement, 1941–43.

• Nikolai Rebrov

  Handwritten "Kratkaia biografiia moego zhiznennogo puti s 1914 goda" (1956).

• Nikolai S. and Sergei S. Beliaev

  Nikolai's typed memoirs on the Beliaev family, who operated an important lumber business and were patrons of Russian music, and on the emigration in Finland, ca. 1890–1964. Also handwritten and typed memoirs of Sergei concerning St. Petersburg musical life, 1890–1914, the Revolution, and life in the emigration in Finland.

• Nikolai Sergeevich Arsen'ev

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 50 items. Some pamphlets plus handwritten and typed manuscripts on Russian Orthodoxy. Restrictions.

• Nikolai Stepanovich Grabar

  Typed memoirs of this civil servant, chairman of the Kiev circuit court, 1904–12, and member of the Senate, 1915–17; a list of former members of the Senate in emigration, 1922; and typed reminiscences about Grabar by A. P. Vel'min. Subjects discussed include Poland and Ukraine under tsarist administration, the Revolution, and the Civil War.

• Nikolai T. Beliaev

  Papers, 1 box. Clippings, notes, and offprints on archeology.

• Nikolai Timofeevich Kashtanov

  O sukonnom fabrikante N. T. Kashtanove (Paris, 1942), a mimeographed volume, on the period ca. 1890–1941.

• Nikolai Trofimovich Dakhov

  Papers, ca. 34 items. Autobiographical manuscripts on his life, from Gallipoli to Brazil, with photos. Dakhov was a White Army officer, author of a book on the Vlasov movement, and editor of the Sao Paulo Russkaia gazeta.

• Nikolai V. Falkovskii

  Autobiographical accounts, handwritten, of his participation in A. Denikin's army in the Ukraine and Crimea, 1918–20.

• Nikolai Vasil'evich Zaretskii

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes. Autographs and letters of prominent Russian literary and cultural figures, including V. A. Zhukovskii, M. P. Pogodin, N. I. Grech, A. I. Turgenev, N. Gnedich, B. Pilniak, A. M. Remizov, and V. V. Rozanov; autobiographies of V. Khodasevich and B. Pilniak; writings of other 20th c. authors; correspondence, 1920s-1950s, with V. Bulgakov, S. Melgunov, N. Evreinov, A. Remizov, E. Zamiatin, N. A. Teffi; materials on the Museum of Russian History and Culture in Prague; short typed autobiography of Zaretskii; items relating to A. S. Pushkin and his times, ca. 2,300 prints, photos, cards, etc; materials on military history, especially as it relates to Russian culture. Restrictions.

• Nikolai Vasil'evich Zheleznov

  Papers, 2 boxes. Captain on the Russian general staff. Handwritten memoirs concerning the organization of the 13th army in World War I, the northern front in 1915, the Brusilov offensive, the Rumanian front, Revolution in Petrograd, disintegration of the army, and the Civil War in the South, ca. 1914–18.

• Nikolai Vasil'evich Zhigulev

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes. Pseudonym of N. V. Matviichuk, an emigre journalist. Includes correspondence from the 1950s-1970s (some with Aleksandra Tolstoi); "Ushedshee"—recollections of childhood on the Don, ca. 1905, typed; and papers of the diplomat G. N. Gul'kevich regarding the Russkoe trudovoe khristianskoe dvizhenie, plus his correspondence with Zhigulev.

• Nikolai Vitalevich Maryshev

  Papers, ca. 80 items. Handwritten memoirs about childhood, youth, and education (Odessa, Vil'no, Warsaw) and "22 goda pod sovetskim itogom," carbon; handwritten memoirs about the emigration in Germany, 1941–57; poems and religious works; and information about displaced persons in Western Europe, 1942–60. Restrictions.

• Nikolai Vladimirovich Sviatopolk-Mirskii

  Papers, ca. 6 boxes, over 700 items. Miscellanea relating to many different aspects of Russian history: photographs and graphic materials of Nicholas II and his family, the French invasion of Moscow in 1812, Russian clergy in the 1920s, a Russian church in Belgrade, Orthodox icons, Nicholas I; papers of the Finnish Notbek (Nottbek) family relating to agriculture, trade, and industry (ca. 1844); correspondence of General A. M. Dragomirov, 1950s; letters, grants, and decrees of emperors from Nicholas I to Nicholas II; a handwritten genealogy of the Sviatopolk family; Basil N. de Strandman's reminiscences of diplomatic service in the Balkans, 1908–15, 2 vols., 525 pp., in Russian; a photo and correspondence of the oceanographer Iu. M. Shokaevskii; and a variety of pamphlets, journals, and other printed matter.

• Nikolai Voronkov

  Military engineer in World War I. Short, handwritten autobiography (service for the Provisional Government, then A. I. Denikin; the Civil War in Siberia); and typed poems in Russian, ca. 1960.

• Nikolai Vsevolodovich Dmitriev

  Head of the Russkii Narodnyi Universitet in Prague. Handwritten memoirs and notes, concerning the Union of Towns in the Civil War.

• Nil Valentinovich Milovskii

  Memoirs, signed "Aleksandr Sushkevich," about the city of Drissa on the Western Dvina during World War I, experiences in the Civil War (northwest front), the emigration in Vilna [Vilnius, Vilno], and the Soviet and Lithuanian occupations of Vilna in 1939.

• Nina S. Don

  Memoirs, typed and carbon copy, of the wife of a tsarist naval officer, covering their life 1910–14, experiences during the Revolution (in Finland) and the Civil War (Ukraine), and in the emigration in France; also her trip to the USSR in 1968.

• Nina Vladimirovna Vadbol'skaia

  Typed and handwritten memoirs of the widow of General N. P. Vadbol'skii, commander of Russian troops in northern Persia in 1907, concerning Russian-Persian relations, Georgia, N. N. Iudenich.

• O. A. Zinger

  Photocopy of a typed manuscript by V. N. Pavlova about her youth and work in the Moscow Art Theater, ca. 1900–1930s, written in 1940 in Berlin, 200 pp.

• O. Aptekman

  Typescript (and carbon) of an unfinished biography of the social-democratic leader P. B. Akselrod, 1870–1905, 200 pp., attributed to Aptekman.

• O. Kallynyk

  Typescript on the Bolshevik administration of Ukraine in 1948 ("Communism, enemy of mankind").

• Oleg Anisimov

  Typed memorandum: "Plight of the Russian Refugees in Germany" by O. V. Anisimov, and a mimeographed "Otchet gamburgskogo komiteta po delam bezhentsev" (1949) about Russian displaced persons in Germany.

• Oleg Pantiukhov

  Founder, in 1914, of the Russkie Skouty-Razvedchiki. Letter dated ca, 1909.

• Oleksandr Skoropis'-Ioltukhovskii

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 25 items. Photo albums about World War I and the Civil War; books and pamphlets on Ukrainian history; and typescripts about the Ukrainian problems in the 1930s and Poland, in German, by various authors.

• Olga Lang

  A curriculum vitae and an essay, based on personal memoirs, on the Makhno army in Ekaterinoslav in 1919, both typed.

• Ol'ga M. Artamonova

  Contains typed notes and memoirs on her family, youth, education, and the Civil War in Siberia; and life in the emigration in China, Manchuria and the U.S.

• Olga N. Shilo-Nudzhevskaia

  Handwritten personal reminiscence of the Civil War, a meeting with General A. G. Shkuro, and World War II, 1918–20, 1941–44.

• Ol'ga Pavlovna Glazenapp

  Handwritten reminiscences of her family, commercial life in Nizhnii Novgorod, and her youth, ca. 1890–1917.

• Ol'ga Rachinskaia

  Her personal memoirs of childhood in Samara, education, pre-1917 Simbirsk, Moscow life under the Soviet regime in the 1930s, and the emigration, ca. 1900–77.

• Olga Tomashek

  Her genealogy of the Struve family, published in German in 1960 (she was the grand-niece of Georg von Struve, the astronomer).

• Olga Vladimirovna Kachalova

  Her handwritten "Zapiski emigrantki" discuss family life in pre-1917 St. Petersburg and the Civil War in the South, 1905–20, 172 pp.

• Oscar Oskarovich Gil'de

  Notebooks with "Stikhi" and a "Kratkaia russkaia istoriia" by Gil'de, plus poetry by M. Domashkevich-Gil'de.

• Osobyi komitet po delam russkim v Finliandii

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes, ca. 2,000 items. Correspondence, reports, minutes, accounts, etc. of this committee and of the Soiuz predstavitelei promyshlennosti i torgovli and the northwestern White Army and government of General N. Iudenich (including correspondence of Iudenich, A. V. Kartashev, A. N. Fenu, V. A. Maklakov, and M. Girs; printed transcript of the 1881 trial of A. Zheliabov; a Russian consular code book; autobiography of General M. G. Cherniaev; memoirs of E. F. von Mendt, a Finnish baron serving the Imperial family before 1917. Restrictions.

• P. A. and Natalia Arkadievna Tomilov

  Papers, ca. 20 boxes. He was a general. Chapters, typed, with duplicates, of his manuscript about the last days of the northwest front in the Civil War; documents, leaflets, and typed material about the end of the Civil War; her handwritten reminiscences of the taking of Erzerum in 1915; some 30 maps and charts from World War I; and the archive of General N. Iudenich. This collection holds the entire operational and political part of the so-called Archive of the Northwest Front.

• P. A. Buryshkin (Bouryschkine)

  Typed copy of Buryshkin's Ph.D. thesis, "Les societes russes nationalisees" (1944) and a typescript of his biographical sketch of S. N. Tretiakov.

• P. A. Pletnev

  Sections of his memoirs, written in quasi-novel form: "Den' v Peterburge," "U moria," and "Den' v Gaage," ca. 1900–40, about life in St. Petersburg and in the emigration (Netherlands).

• P. B. Sushil'nikov (Souchilnikoff)

  "Astrakhanskie grenadery v boiu i bytu, 1900–1920," 1942, handwritten, and 10 short stories, typed, by Lieutenant Sushil'nikov about Russian military life, the Revolution, and Civil War.

• P. Kovan'ko

  "Voiny i finansy," a typescript.

• P. N. Finisof

  Papers, 40 items. Bound collection, 12 vols., of 29 lectures delivered in Paris in May 1921: Trudy Obshchago S"ezda predstavitelei Russkoi Promyshlennosti i Torgovli v Parizhe. Also, collection of 11 unbound lectures given by members of the Central Organizational Committee at a session of the Russian Exile Congress (Rossiiskii Zarubezhnyi S"ezd) in Paris, March 1926.

• P. N. Krasnov

  Papers, ca. 90 items. The general's letters to P. V. Kartashev, 89, 1921–37, concerning the Civil War and the Don Cossacks, plus a photocopy of a letter of July 1918 from the general and Don ataman to Kaiser Wilhelm, also about the Civil War.

• P. P. Chechulina

  This typed manuscript is entitled "Vospominaniia o sem'e Velikogo Kniazia Konstantina Konstantinovicha."

• P. P. Haensel [Genzel' of Haentsel]

  Typed article (1994), "The Truth about Tsarist Russia." A revisionist view of social and intellectual conditions in Russia before the Revolution. Subject include: Russian social life and customs, manners, and intellectual life.

• P. P. Isheev

  The prince's memoirs, typed, in 2 sections, concern his military training and career, his family and social acquaintances, political events, the director V. Meierkhold, and the emigration in Bulgaria, France, and the United States, 1882–1938.

• P. P. Mendeleev

  Papers, ca. 13 boxes. Zemstvo figure, member of the chancellery of the Committee of Ministers and, later, of the Council of Ministers, under S. Witte and P. Stolypin, ca. 1890–1917. Correspondence, photos, personal documents, diaries, typed essays, and clippings; 7 notebooks with handwritten memoirs, and a typed version, on the zemstvo movement before and during World War I. Minutes of meetings of the Union of Russian Gentry, 1926–41. Restrictions.

• Paul N. Miliukov

  Papers, ca. 8 boxes. Scholar and political leader. Documents and correspondence, 1918–37, involving E. P. Dzhunkovskii, A. I. Denikin, E. Sablin, V. A. Maklakov, P. Struve, B. A. Bakhmetev, N. Astrov, S. Panina, A. I. Konovalov, V. D. Nabokov, I. Gessen, C. Crane. Documents and correspondence, 1900–1930s, of the Kadet Party, including draft programs, constitutions, reports, publications; Miliukov's speeches in exile on literature and his "Vospominaniia F. I. Rodicheva o 1917"; Miliukov's diaries for May 1918-April 1920; his memoirs, mostly published in the Chekhov edition of the memoirs, edited by M. Karpovich and B. Elkin (New York, 1955) and in the abridgement edited by A. Mendel (Political Memoirs: 1905–1917, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1967); and a notebook relating to the Congress of Constituent Assembly Members in Paris. Restrictions.

• Pavel A. Staritskii

  Papers, 2 boxes. Personal correspondence, 1970s, of the former head of the Union of Russian Chauffeurs in Paris (see also Soiuz russkikh shoferov v Parizhe).

• Pavel Abramovich Berlin

  2 boxes. Reports collected by Pavel Berlin as head of the economic department of the Soviet Trade Mission in Germany, France, and England, 1925–30.

• Pavel Alekseevich Sokolov

  Printed and typed memoirs of military service, World War I, and southern White armies in the Civil War, ca. 1914–20; plus a typed novel, "Valeriia i Vera." Restrictions.

• Pavel G. Kalinin

  Papers, ca. 13 items. Personal documents, memoirs, and manuscripts about his service in the Imperial navy, 1905–15; typed copies of articles on the Russian navy.

• Pavel Ilich Baranovskii

  Typed memoirs about his military training and career, ca. 1900–20, and emigration on the island of Cyprus, in Bulgaria, and in Egypt. Restrictions.

• Pavel N. Shatilov

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes. General. Typed memoirs, carbon copy, 1,110 pp., of childhood, education, military career under Nicholas II, Revolution, Civil War, the Crimea, ROVS, and the Plevitskaia trial in the 1930s; documents and correspondence from 1921–22 concerning the evacuation of the White Army from Russia and Constantinople and settlement in Hungary and the Balkans; "Vospominaniia armeitsa"—a typescript about the Irkutsk military school ca. 1905–10; correspondence, typed, carbon copies, from 1923–38; and documents, letters, and clippings on the Civil War, General A. P. Kutepov, and the Crimea, 1919–1930s. Restrictions.

• Pavel Nikolaevich Chizhov

  Papers, ca. 20 items. Contents include the colonel's handwritten memoirs and essays on military history, World War I, the Civil War, and emigration.

• Pavel P. Shteingel'

  Handwritten manuscript entitled "Andron" contains observations on the national question in the Caucasus, Russian administration there, and Armenians in Russia, ca. 1909–19, 154 pp.

• Pavel Pavlovich Tutkovskii

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes, ca. 100 items. Personal documents; correspondence; photos; music notes for Tutkovskii's compositions; reminiscences of her husband by Mrs. Tutkovskii; handwritten texts of Tutkovskii's writings; texts of 2 novels in French and 6 other books by Tutkovskii. Restrictions.

• Pavel Sergeevich Krasnikov

  Papers, ca. 100 items. Writer (pseudonym: Karelin) and editor of the San Francisco Russian Life. Materials on World War I.

• Pavel Zhestovskii

  Architect for the king of Afghanistan. Typed account ("12 let v Afganistane") of his personal experiences, 1937–50, with illustrations and an historical introduction.

• Pavla Andreevna Sokolova-Popova

  Manuscript of a novel entitled Kazaki Ermakovy, in 3 notebooks, about Cossack families in the Don region; part of it has been published in the emigre press.

• Petr Danilchenko

  Typed memoirs about his service in the Izmailovskii Guards regiment, the organization of regimental cultural evenings in St. Petersburg, the Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, literary activity, and the composer A. Glazunov (1897–1915).

• Petr Evgrafovich Kovalevskii

  Papers, ca. 11 boxes, 3,050 items. This professor was in the emigration in Paris. His papers contain autobiographical material; materials of the Comite central dfaide aux etudiants russes, 1930s; family information and genealogy; family correspondence, 1845–60.

• Petr Grigorevich Sobolev

  Papers, 12 items. "Zapiski zhurnalista," about a rural childhood, St. Petersburg journalism, the February Revolution, and the Civil War in the Murmansk area, ca. 1905–20. Restrictions.

• Petr L. Bark

  Finance minister under Nicholas II. Typed memoirs for 1890–1914, particularly describing his service as minister of finance.

• Petr L. Koniskii

  Fragments of memoirs, typed, about Soviet labor camps and political prisoners in the 1930s.

• Petr L. Lavrov

  Papers, 1 box, 49 items. 48 of his letters to the revolutionary Aleksandra Vasil'evna Bauler about political theory and the potential for revolution in Russia, 1876–82, typed copies, and a catalogue of his library in Prague, 1938.

• Petr Mikhailovich Volkonskii

  Papers, ca. 1 box. Documents, proclamations, etc., on the Civil War, 1918–20; and religious writings.

• Petr P. Migulin

  Papers, 2 boxes. Manuscripts about the Russo-Japanese War, Russian and Soviet financial and agrarian policies, Nicholas II's reign, and correspondence and pamphlets relating to emigre monarchical circles and education in France (Migulin was a professor). Correspondents include N. Astrov and V. N. Kokovtsev.

• Petr Panteleimonovich Savin

  Papers, ca. 110 items. Materials on General E. K. Miller's death in 1937; and correspondence concerning research on politics and Soviet infiltration of emigre monarchist-military organizations, 1920s-1960s.

• Petr Petrovich Dmitrenko

  A Russian railroad engineer. The archive includes his handwritten "memoirs" on railroads in Russia, 1899–1912, hydro-electric power, electrification, water transportation, and Russian economic history, 326 pp. He wanted to run a railroad through the central Caucasus. His writings also shed light on the professional organizations and activities of Russian engineers, the Ministry of Transport, elections to the first duma, the mood of railroad workers and the political activities of engineers in both the 1905 Revolution and the events of 1917, international conferences/meetings he attended, and the early history of the Kadet Party.

• Petr Semenovich Makhrov

  Papers, ca. 1.5 boxes, 600 items. Materials on military schools in tsarist Russia; a typescript of his SSSR, 1917–1945. Krushenie starogo mira, much of it on World War II; Makhrov's memoirs about Generals A. Brusilov and A. M. Kaledin, 1915–16; a handwritten biography of General M. V. Alekseev; memoirs, photos, maps, and other items about Germans in the Ukraine in 1917, A. I. Denikin, P. N. Wrangel, the Nikolaevskii Military Academy of the General Staff, the emigration, and World War II; and notebooks, mostly handwritten, about other military topics.

• Petr Terent'evich Kazamarov

  2 memoir pieces about the Revolution and Civil War: "Ekaterinodar—Nachalo 1918 goda i nachalo Beloi Bor'by na Kubani" and "Sud'ba."

• Petr V. Vogak

  Papers, ca. 18 items. Handwritten memoirs covering his career in the Russian administration, World War I, the Red Cross, and the Civil War, 1900–18; additional memoirs going back to his father's life under tsars Alexander II and Nicholas II.

• Petr Vasilevich Mironov

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 800 items. Printed and typed documents of the Russkii Pravitel'stvennyi Komitet in London, which purchased arms for Russia in World War I, and Mironov's typed account "Boevoe snabzhenie russkoi armii v voinu 1914–1918."

• Petr Vasilevich Petrashin

  Short, handwritten essays on the USSR, secret police, prisons, World War II, and foreign trade, 1939–45. Restrictions.

• Philip E. Mosely

  Papers, ca. 24 boxes. Photos, field notes, correspondence, copies of articles, and genealogical items relating to the USSR, Eastern Europe (Soviet bloc), and China; correspondence with V. M. Chernov, ca. 1934–35; copies of letters of the British diplomatic representative in St. Petersburg, 1781; 2 boxes on the Soviet-American student exchange (profiles and projects of students, reports on the exchange from both countries, travel information), 1959–61; reports on the Germans in Eastern Europe and the USSR and on local resistance, ca. 1941; correspondence of Mosely, Svetlana Allilueva, her lawyer, and George F. Kennan; letters and reports on the 6th Dartmouth Conference in Moscow, January 1971. Restrictions.

• Philip Shorr

  Handwritten essay by Professor J. Saposnekov, 1920s, about N. Novikov; a bibliography on Novikov; and a letter from P. Sorokin about Novikov. 599 I. Z. Shteinberg. Papers, 11 folders. Documents, memoirs, and essays by Left SRs and a history of the party, 1917–21.

• Rafail R. Petrov

  "Dagestanskii konnyi polk, 1916–17" and "6 let voiny," about World War I and the Civil War, both handwritten, and "Aleksandrovskii khuzarskii polk."

• Rakhil Samoilovna Chekver

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes, ca. 750 items. Among the correspondents of this poetess, whose pseudonym was Irina Iassen, were: V. N. Bunina, A. M. Remizov, M. L. Slonim, I. Odoevtseva, and G. Adamovich. Restrictions.

• Raphael A. Abramovitch (1880-1963)

  Papers, 4 boxes, 1,300 items. Includes notes for a book on the Revolution, Civil War, and Soviet Union in the 1920s (his The Soviet Revolution); and a typed work by B. Dvinov, "Oppozitsiia v VKP, 1917–1924." The materials, covering 1914–39, concern Bolshevik intraparty politics, the 1917 Pre-Parliament, the working class, TsIK meetings, and foreign policy.

• Research Program on the History of the CPSU

  Papers, ca. 8.5 boxes. Materials on the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Soviet politics, and social history; typed accounts from former Soviet citizens; a list of all the essays, authors, and titles in this collection; and L. L. Sabaneev manuscripts on the Revolution and social freedom in the USSR.

• Research Program on the USSR

  Papers, over 54 boxes. Mimeographed and typed reports by Soviet emigres on Soviet domestic life, the nationalities, Stalinism, the economy, and World War II, 1920s-1950s, with a list of holdings by subject. These items were published in 1952. Also, ca. 25 organizational charts of the Soviet secret police and security Organs (NKVD, KGB, etc.) 1945–60.

• Richard Pipes

  Typed copy of a report by Philip Makhardze to the central committee of Soviet Georgia, 6 December 1921; correspondence and notes on this report.

• Roman Grigorevich Miagkov

  Papers, ca. 150 items. Memorabilia, objects, and photos relating to military regiments and military history.

• Rudolf Slansky

  Typed, 2 vols., in Polish, of the proceedings of his trial, 1952, plus an English version, printed, both based on radio transmissions.

• Russian Civil War Memoir

  Photocopies of a fragment of a typed memoir about the Civil War in Tambov province, the forces of Antonov, and the peasants' role in the fighting.

• Russkaia Mysl'

  Papers, ca. 40 items. Parisbased emigre publication. A leaflet—"K russkomu narodu"—from 1918 with an appeal by Western ambassadors, information about the Allied intervention, texts of exchanges with Soviet foreign minister G. Chicherin; and letters to the editors, 1950–56.

• Russkii Obshche-Voinskii Soiuz (Paris) (ROVS)

  Records, 1919–72, mostly from the 1930s, ca. 156 boxes. Correspondence with other organizations; information on members and other branches (in Poland, England, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Finland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, and the Far East); financial reports; reports on the USSR; and publications. Restrictions.

• S. D. Pavlov

  3 photographs from 1903–04 (1 of a military unit in the Russo-Japanese War, the other 2 of people on ships); and 2 broadsides—"Portmutskii traktat" (n.d. but ca. 1905) and another on the death of Nicholas II's uncle Vladimir Aleksandrovich in 1909.

• S. de zur Muhlen

  Baron Vladimir Knorring's essay entitled "Imperatorskaia Rossiia i ee otnoshenie k Lifliandskomu dvorianstvu i nemetsko-baltiiskomu natsionalizmu," 18th20th c.

• S. E. Plotnikov

  "Nikolaevskoe Voennoe Inzhenerskoe Uchilishche," covering the years 1900–17, handwritten, 187 pp.

• S. E. Rynkevich

  Handwritten memoirs about the Russo-Turkish War: "Voina 1877–1878."

• S. E. Trubetskaia

  Letters about Russian political and cultural history from A. K. Tolstoi [Tolstoy], A. Benois, Professor B. Nolde, and Professor P. Struve, 1830–1945.

• S. E. Vittenberg

  4 notebooks with Vittenberg's diaries while in Finland, April 1918-May 1919, in a military post during the Civil War; typed essay by Ekaterina Maidel with background information on Soviet-Finnish relations and Finnish developments after October 1917; and documents. See also under E. I. Maidel for reminiscences of Vittenberg's visit to the Soviet Union in 1918.

• S. G. Svatikov

  Papers, ca. 61 boxes. Contents include his published books and article manuscripts; correspondence and other papers of V. Burtsev; reports on the Allied intervention and the economy of the Far East, 1912–19; a handwritten and typed manuscript, 143 pp., about "General Kornilov" and the Civil War in the Don and Novocherkassk areas; photos of Nicholas II, V. L. Burtsev, A. Gertsen [Herzen], and E. Azef; photocopies of Svatikov's manuscript on Okhrana activities in Paris and Europe in 1881–1917; and bibliographic materials. Restrictions.

• S. I. Kolokol'nikov

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 75 items. The private and business papers of this former member of the first state duma contain data on his business interests in Siberia (in the grain trade) and with U.S. firms, before and after the Revolution; the Civil War in the Far East; and the duma. Restrictions.

• S. Raev

  Manuscript entitled M... I v Khrista i v Boga..." concerns his experience in Soviet concentration camps.

• S. Tukholka

  Typescript entitled "Ancient Turkey; memoirs of a Russian Consul General" and 6 short essays, typed, in Russian, about the Russian diplomatic service in the Balkans in the late 19th-early 20th c.

• S. V. Vasil'ev

  Handwritten memoirs of the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 in the Ukraine and southern Russia, the pogroms, Civil War, and Soviet agrarian policy; plus a short story, "Russkaia zhizn'."

• Semen Konstantinovich Sazhin

  Medical doctor. Curriculum vitae and his collected essays, on such topics as the University of Kazan, Russian medicine, general medical questions, philosophical problems, and his arrest and imprisonment in China in 1954.

• Semen Liudvigovich Frank

  Papers, 17 boxes, ca. 6,500 items. Papers of this Russian philosopher and religious thinker, a liberal who contributed to Osvobozhdenie 1903–1905, privat-dotsent at St. Petersburg University 1907–17, participant in the famous Vekhi symposium, 1909, professor in philosophy at Saratov University 1917–21, collaborator with N. Berdiaev's Free Academy of Spiritual Culture in Moscow, 1921–22, exile from the Soviet Union, and founder of the Russian Academy of Philosophy and Religion in Berlin. Includes a short autobiography; personal documents; correspondence with P. B. Struve, N. Berdiaev, G. P. Fedotov, S. Bulgakov, V. N. Losskii, F. Stepun, M. Aldanov, A. M. Remizov, Albert Einstein, and others; biographical materials; manuscripts and published works on philosophy, religion, history, etc.; other notes; and printed matter. Restrictions.

• Sergei Aleksandrovich Malloi

  Papers, ca. 420 items. Photo, typed biographical information, correspondence, and other items (some biographical) relating to Vladika Sergei (Korolev) of Prague (later archbishop of Vienna and of Kazan and Chistopol') in the 1920s; mimeographed and printed matter, plus photos, about the Orthodox Church in France, Prague, and Austria, 1940–65. Restrictions.

• Sergei Aleksandrovich Toporkov

  Papers, ca. 8 boxes. Typed memoirs, 1881–1921, of youth in the northern Caucasus, military service, 1905–17, and participation in the Civil War, ca. 440 pp.; A. Vel'min's short biography of Toporkov; papers of a union of members of the Fifth Gusarskii Aleksandrovskii Polk and correspondence with other emigre military groups, 1928–34 and 1940–51; typed biographies, 2 boxes, of members of the Hussars regiment, 1775–1917; typed essays by Toporkov, a colonel and military historian, on the history of the Nikolaevsk cavalry school and other topics of military history; handwritten reminiscences of Fedor V. Severin on the Russian navy in the Russo-Japanese War; Toporkov's typescript about the abduction of General E. K. Miller, written in 1938, 115 pp.; typed reminiscences of World War I by V. A. Karamzin; and typed diary for 1914–17 by V. A. Petrushevskii, Restrictions.

• Sergei Grigor'evich Dvigubskii

  Papers, 18 items. A miscellany largely consisting of family documents, memoirs, and some photographs.

• Sergei Grigor'evich Trubetskoi

  Largely materials on the genealogy of the Trubetskoi family.

• Sergei Il'ich Razhev

  Pages from his memoirs, particularly on experiences in post-World War II Soviet "kontslagery."

• Sergei Iul'evich Witte

  Papers, 13 boxes, ca. 500 items. Finance minister under Alexander III and Nicholas II, negotiator of the Portsmouth Peace of 1905, and premier from October 1905 to April 1906. Primarily the original typed manuscript and photocopies of Witte's memoirs, which have been published. Witte's extensive correspondence with many statesmen of Imperial Russia are also in the collection, as are documents he gathered to support and illustrate the memoirs. Other holdings include essays (one is a 2-volume work on the origins of the Russo-Japanese War, from 1907); letters of Prince Nicholas of Herzegovina; his direct reports to the tsar as premier; telegrams and diplomatic correspondence, 1905; and a copy of the 17 October 1905 Manifesto. Additional reports and documents are by or about N. Bunge, the Finnish Question, the peasant question, 1898–1906, the Fundamental State Laws of April 1906, the gold standard, relations with Kaiser Wilhelm II and negotiations for a commercial treaty with Germany, the taking of Port Arthur, General A. N. Kuropatkin.

• Sergei Ivanovich Bel'deninov

  Papers, 7 boxes, 3,300 items. His memoirs for 1890–1919 student days, Irkutsk life in World War I, the Revolution, and the Civil War. There are typed and handwritten essays. Other items include correspondence and printed materials.

• Sergei Ivanovich Iliushkin

  This former Imperial Army officer's memoirs cover his military career, the 1905 Revolution, and the tsarist army, 1900–14, typed, 19 pp.

• Sergei Ivanovich Mamontov

  Typed memoirs, in French and English, about childhood on a country estate, service as an officer in Moscow during the Revolution, flight from Moscow, service in the White Army in the South, and the early emigration in Western Europe, ca. 1900–20; plus short sketches on peasant customs and agriculture.

• Sergei Ivanovich Pavlov

  Papers, ca. 200 items. Includes Sergei Gubinskii's typescript Moia Rossiia (Harbin, 1929), which discusses Russian literature; information on the emigration in Greece.

• Sergei Ivanovich Sobrievskii

  Typed biography about the army, a musician's life, musical circles, and the emigration in Egypt, 1872–1951.

• Sergei Mikhailovich Stepniak-Kravchinskii

  Papers, ca. 110 items. Revolutionary and writer. 58 undated letters of Stepniak to his wife Fanni Markovna, about personal affairs, and the revolutionary movement in Russia and Western Europe; an additional 25 letters to his wife, 1860s-1930s; 10 letters to Stepniak, 1890–91, correspondence with E. Bernstein, Eleanor Duse, E. E. Lazarev, G. Plekhanov, Semen Vengerov, and A. Kornilova-Moroz; notes from Petr Kropotkin; a Stepniak 1905 speech; clippings; and 13 photographs. Restrictions.

• Sergei Nikolaevich Riasnianskii

  Papers, ca. 20 boxes. Head of ROVS in the U.S. Includes personal and ROVS correspondence of the 1950s–1960s; correspondence, photos, and other materials on emigre military organizations (including ROVS) and the Russkii Politicheskii Komitet, 1950s-1960s; and information on military history. Restrictions.

• Sergei R. Shishmarev

  Papers, ca. 12 items. His wife's memoirs, "Zhizn' i tvorchestvo Sergeia Shishmareva," typed; some typed manuscripts, including the novel "Korvet Eruslan"; and typed personal memoirs.

• Sergei S. Belosel'skii-Belozerskii

  Papers, ca. 45 boxes, 14,400 items. Emigre scholar. Papers of General M. D. Skobelev concerning the conquest of Central Asia in the 19th c.; memoirs of Princess Marie Galitzine; materials concerning many of the great aristocratic families of Russia, including the Cherkasovs, Lievens, Chernyshevs, Laptevs, and Stroganovs; memoirs about World War I, the USSR after World War II, and military history; Belosel'skii-Belozerskii's papers from his work with emigre organizations, particularly the Russian Immigrants' Representative Association in America, Inc.; plus clippings, newspapers, periodicals, and books.

• Sergei Sergeevich Nabokov

  Photocopies of letters from Sergei Witte to V. D. Nabokov, 1906, and from Lord Miller to Nabokov, 1918.

• Sergei Vasil'evich Vakar

  Papers, ca. 38 items. Memoiristic writings about the city of Tambov, World War I, Revolution and Civil War, the White evacuation, emigre life in Yugoslavia, the Nazi Russian Corps; additional memoirs entitled "Nasha generatsiia," about World War I; handwritten essays on World War I, Russian military life and traditions, and the emigration in Argentina, 1920s-1960s, 10 pp.

• Sergei Vsevolodovich Simonovich

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 300 items. Letters to him from Yugoslavia in the 1950s; documents about refugees in the 1920s; orders and information relating to ROVS, Obshchestvo Gallipoliitsev, and other emigre military organizations; Simonovich's notes on his experiences in the Civil War and prominent Russian women he knew.

• Shevchenko Scientific Society, Inc.

  Microfilm of materials on collectivization of agriculture in the Ukraine, 1929–33.

• Silvan F. Baldin

  Memoirs about the Russian Military Engineering Commission in the U.S., which Baldin headed 1914–17; and the Revolution and Civil War.

• Simon A. Bolan

  Collection, ca. 320 items. Contains a broad range of items on many topics in Russian and Soviet history, such as description of Alexander I's death, plus printed documents on his succession; photos and documents about Jews in Kherson in 1917; and proclamations from the Civil War. Restrictions.

• Sinclair Hatch

  Typed copy of his diary, which recounts a trip to Leningrad and Odessa in the summer of 1931. Restrictions.

• Skorodumov

  Typed essays/memoirs on the start of World War II in the USSR, the author's flight from the Soviet Union to Germany, and Soviet opposition to Stalin, 1941–45.

• Sofia Borisovna Pilenko

  Papers, ca. 77 items. Part of typed family memoirs, "Moi vospominaniia," about politics and culture in the reigns of Alexander I, Nicholas I, and Alexander II, 1820–80; 11 manuscripts by Mother Mariia (Elizaveta Skobtsova), Pilenko's daughter, on the Revolution and the emigration; a biography of Mother Mariia, recounting her arrest and execution by the Nazis in France, 1943, typed, 4 pp.; poetry, religious essays, drawings, and notes on Russian authors (P. Chaadaev, N. Danilevskii) by Mother Mariia.

• Sofia Iakovleva

  Handwritten manuscript about the life of Russian emigres in a French convent in the 1950s.

• Sofia Iu. Kovalevskaia

  Papers, ca. 60 items. Basically the archive of General Iu. N. Pliushchevskii-Ploshchik, with his handwritten memoirs about the army, the Provisional Government, and the Kornilov Affair, 1918–23; and documents on World War I, the February Revolution, and the Civil War.

• Sofia Ivanovna Anichkova-Taube (188?-1957)

  Papers, 4 boxes, ca. 400 items. Poet. Includes material on Petrograd in 1917–24 (literary and cultural life), her manuscripts, and also correspondence with P. Gnedich, Professor V. Speranskii, and V. Bulgakov (L. N. [Tolstoy] Tolstoi's secretary). There is also information on the emigration in Czechoslovakia. Also ca. 3 boxes of E. N. Taube, editor of Ves' mir in St. Petersburg before 1917. Poems, drawings, leaflets, correspondence (including one signed by Eleanor Roosevelt), her obituary, and an autograph of A. Kuprin; typed material on Baron E. N. Taube's family in the Czech emigration, 1940–46; photos; issues of Russian journals, 1903–17; and printed matter (books and pamphlets).

• Sofia Markovna Bakunina

  Papers, 17 boxes, ca. 5,000 items. Contains materials on Russian military and political history, emigre military organizations, the emigration, and the Staritskii, Rodichev, Herzen [Gertsen], and Bakunin families. Restrictions.

• Sofia Mikhailovna Zernova

  Papers, ca. 120 items. Typescript on visits to the USSR in 1961 and 1966 and on conditions there; typed memoirs for 1910–40 concerning the Civil War in the South, Georgia under the Mensheviks, the emigration in Constantinople, Europe, and the U.S., work for the Russian Student Christian Movement; letters of A. M. Remizov to his wife and his autobiographical sketch in English; and letters of N. A. Berdiaev and his wife to M. M. Zernova. Restrictions.

• Sofia Vikent'evna Korsunets

  Copies of her fiction, mimeographed, short stories, and plays.

• Sofiia Vladimirovna Panina

  Papers, ca. 12 boxes. Contains much material on the Kadet Party in the Civil War, 1917–21, including protocols of the central committee; reports of local party conferences; manuscripts, papers, and correspondence of F. F. Kokoshkin, F. I. Rodichev, V. D. Nabokov, M. M. Vinaver, P. N. Miliukov, and other Kadet leaders; correspondence of Count Nikita Panin and other Panins, 1714–1801; family photos and letters from the 19th c.; the countess' speeches about emigre culture and her trial by the Bolsheviks in 1917; correspondence of N. I. Astrov, General A. I. Denikin, and Mrs. Ksenia Denikina (1919–46); N. I. Astrov's manuscripts, his memoirs, letters, and biographical notes; data on Russian education and women's education, pre-1917; and information about Moscow administration.

• Soiuz pazhei

  Papers, over 11 boxes. Archives of the Corps of Pages Union; mimeographed volumes with excerpts from memoirs of members of the Corps; copies of letters of V. Balabin concerning diplomatic service ca. 1840; L. V. Islavin's handwritten account of his mission to King Nikolas of Montenegro in 1915–21; photos of the Corps; and material on military and administrative history.

• Soiuz russkikh pisatelei i zhurnalistov v Parizhe

  Papers, 4 boxes. Correspondence, much of it to B. Zaitsev and V. Zeeler, reports, and accounts, 1928–51.

• Soiuz russkikh shoferov v Parizhe

  Papers, 16 boxes. Card file of members of the Union of Russian Chauffeurs in Paris ca. 1929–60; accounts, correspondence, and protocols of commissions, 1920s-1940s; a mimeographed history of the group.

• St. Chemer (pseud, of Fedor Nikolaevich Tkachenko)

  Typed copy of his memoirs, "Dva goda pod znakom svastiki," 76 pp., actually covering 1941–45; a bound volume of typed memoirs—"Dvadtsat' piat' let pod serpom i molotom"—about life in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917–41.

• Stepan Burian

  Papers, 1 box, ca. 40 items. Mostly essays of an autobiographical, philosophical, and religious nature.

• Stepan Vasil'evich Vostrotin

  Papers, ca. 4 boxes. Short biography of him; typed pages concerning the food supply question in World War I, the Revolution, and Civil War; 15 maps of Siberia and other places (showing resources and railroads); materials on the Chinese Eastern Railway, including official documents and treaties; stories of Vostrotin's grandfather about goldmining in Siberia; items relating to the Far East emigration; and typed and handwritten memoirs of youth and education in Siberia, ca. 1870–90, World War I, Revolution, and Civil War, General Khorvat's government (in which Vostrotin was active), work in Japan for the White government, and Russians and Japanese in Manchuria; papers of the Far East government and General Khorvat; materials on the Obshchestvo Sibiriakov i Dal'novostochnikov in Paris; and manuscripts about arctic exploration and the Polar explorers F. Nansen and the Englishman Joseph Wiggins.

• Stoyan Pribichevich

  6 rolls of microfilm contain documents from the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning the history of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Balkan history and diplomacy, Yugoslav history, and Czech history, ca. 1939–45. Restrictions.

• T. Protoponov

  Military nurse. Memoirs describe her training, service in World War I, the Revolution and Civil War in the South, and the evacuation of the Crimea by White forces, ca. 1912–22, bound in 2 folders.

• Taras Novak

  Papers, 6 boxes, ca. 110 items. Typed, handwritten, and mimeographed writings largely on physics.

• Tat'iana A. Smirnova-Maksheeva

  Papers, ca. 25 items. Her published literary works, including Taina Kazbeka (Paris, 1947), Dushoi i sertsem, and Rasskazy i povesti; biography of her husband, Vladimir Smirnov; her poetry, 1900–55; and typescripts about Russian women's education and Russian industry, 1812–1900. 618 I. S. Smolin. Army officer. "Vospominaniia starogo ofitsera," typed essays/reminiscences of childhood in Iakutia, Siberia, the Russo-Japanese War, and military history and training, ca. 1900–17, plus other essays on military history. Restrictions.

• Tatiana Aleksandrovna Timchenko-Ruban

  Papers, ca. 21 items. Memoirs of her aunt, E. S. Shaikevich-Ostrovskaia, about the life of a family with connections in cultural, political, business, and Jewish circles ca. 1890–1920, handwritten in pencil, in 1929, in 15 notebooks; personal documents of S. V. Danilova, widow of an adjutant general, and of S. K. and O. I. Lazarev.

• Tat'iana N. Tarydina

  Papers, ca. 3 boxes, ca. 500 items. Actress, began her career in Moscow's Malyi Teatr and continued her career in the emigration after 1917. Includes correspondence (A, Tolstaia, A. Sedykh, E. Mogilat, and R. Berezov); photographs; published and unpublished short stories of Tarydina in manuscript; materials on her father, General N. A. Marks, other ancestors, and the poet Maksimilian Voloshin.

• Thomas Day Thacher

  Papers, ca. 2,000 items (7 boxes; 1 box of photographic negatives on glass). Red Cross worker in Russia. Official materials, correspondence, and reports concerning the personnel, travel, and work of the American Red Cross Mission in Russia, 1917–18. There are photograph albums with pictures of the Russian army, Red Cross Mission, street scenes, the Women's Battalion, and architecture in major cities (Kiev, Moscow, Nizhnii Novgorod, Odessa, and Yaroslavl). Restrictions. Finding aid available: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078148/

• Tikhon Kuz'mich Chugunov

  Papers, ca. 50 items. Chugunov was a peasant's son, raised in a Soviet village, who became a trained agronomist. The collection includes typed and handwritten manuscripts on cattle-breeding in the USSR, 1917–62, and agrarian history in general for this period (part of a longer work: "Stoletnii plan russkoi derevni"); on the peasantry, 1900–40; and on Soviet labor and education. Restrictions.

• Uchreditel'noe sobranie

  Papers, 1 box, ca. 150 items. Material from a 1921 meeting of former members of the 1918 Constituent Assembly, printed bulletin, appeals, typed minutes of the meetings of various commissions, mimeographed documents, and documents issued by the SR Party in 1921.

• V. A. Kravtsev

  Papers, ca. 180 items. Mimeographed and printed matter on the Soviet economy and foreign relations of the USSR, 1920s-1940; and materials on such emigre groups as the Russkii zarubezhnyi s"ezd, 1926, Obshchii s"ezd predstavitelei russkoi promyshlennosti i torgovli (Paris, 1921), and the Federatsiia soiuzov russkikh inzhenerov zagranitsei.

• V. A. Zambrzhitskii

  "Voennaia podgotovka SSSR v mirovoi voine i revoliutsii," about the period 1917–41, typescript (carbon), 309 pp.; and 3 handwritten essays about the 2 world wars and before.

• V. D. Belov

  Imperial Army officer. His memoirs cover tsarist military education, World War I, and post-World War II repatriation.

• V. K. Abdank-Kossovskii (d. 1962)

  Papers, 7 boxes, ca. 2,000 items. Emigre in France. Materials on emigre cultural life in Paris, emigre ballet, and the politics of the emigration (photos, correspondence, clippings). Some items also relate to the Volunteer Army, the Civil War in the South, and the White movement, the Russian Orthodox Church in emigration, ca. 1920–50, and the adult courses taught in Paris in 1931 by General N. N. Golovin. The collection further includes correspondence of the All-Russian Union of Cities (Vserossiiskii Soiuz Gorodov) in 1918–21, documents concerning the White northern forces in the Civil War, and letters concerning the unity of the early post-revolutionary emigration.

• V. K. Pilkin

  Papers, ca. 1 box, ca. 600 items. The admiral's papers include financial records of emigre naval organizations, 1920–25 (in Finland) and of the ship "Kitoboi" (1920), plus material on the Civil War in the Northwest. Restrictions.

• V. L. Levitskii

  Notebooks with memoirs: "Vospominaniia polkovnika 155-go pekh. Kubanskogo polka," typed and handwritten, 1914–17.

• V. Linden

  A biographical sketch of her husband, Mikhail Vil'gelmovich Linden, brother of Aleksandra, a bureaucrat in the tsarist ministry of trade and industry; other reminiscences about her family, south Russia 1917–19, and other topics.

• V. N. Chelishchev

  Includes brief typed essays on the Civil War.

• V. N. Kasatkin

  Parts of the general's autobiography, covering his military education, World War I, the year 1917, and refugees in Harbin, 1900–1930s, handwritten.

• V. N. Rzhevskii

  Manuscripts about his life, Nicholas II's death, and the Revolution, ca. 1907–60.

• V. N. Stefanov

  Memoirs about his service in the Volunteer Army, part 1 of which is entitled "Neuviadaiushchie list'ia," part 2 is "Odesskaia evakuatsiia."

• V. P. Meshcherskii

  Papers, ca. 150 items. Original (and copies) of correspondence with members of the Imperial family, including Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nicholas II, ca. 1860–1905.

• V. P. Semenov-Tian-Shanskii

  Papers, ca. 500 items. Handwritten and typed memoirs—"Stranitsy semeinoi khroniki" (1800–1917), about the ancestors of his father, P. P. Semenov-Tian-Shanskii; manuscripts on V. Semenov-Tian-Shanskii's activities in the Finnish emigration, 1920s; an essay by Z. Gippius [Hippius], 1930; Semenov-Tian-Shanskii's lectures in emigration; diary for 1941–44, handwritten and typed, by Semenov-Tian-Shanskii's son on the Russo-Finnish War and the son's letters, 1941; typed excerpts of a diary, 1917–19; and correspondence. Restrictions.

• V. Ryndin

  Handwritten manuscript entitled "Rabota NKVD," ca. 115 pp., including an organizational scheme and a description of the work of the Soviet secret police in the 1930s.

• V. S. Myl'nikov

  Typed and handwritten manuscripts about the White Army in the southern Civil War, 1919–20.

• V. V. Kirkhgof

  Her memoirs on V. K. fon Vitte (von Witte) family genealogy, her childhood in St. Petersburg, education at the women's gymnasium of Emiliia Pavlovna Shaffe in the capital, and contacts with M. L. Goffman, one of her teachers who became a Pushkin scholar after emigrating to Western Europe.

• V. V. Vladimirov

  Papers, ca. 30 items. Typed memoirs of military espionage in the Russian navy, 1914–15, military service, the Revolution, and life under the Soviet regime, 1890–1921. More of the same on the Russo-Japanese War.

• V. V. Zenkovskii

  Scholar. Sections of typed reminiscences, in Russian, concerning cultural figures he met in Prague, Belgrade, Paris, and the U.S., 1920–40; "Piat' mesiatsev u vlasti. Moe uchastie v ukrainskoi zhizni" (1918); materials on his participation in the Russian Christian Students' Movement, ca. 1900–1930s, and on the Russian church in Western Europe, 1950s; and manuscripts relating to pedagogical work in the emigration. Restrictions.

• V. Valentinov

  Typed memoirs—"Wie ich 'Kollaborateur' wurde"—concern World War II, 1941–44, 70 pp.

• V. Vynnychenko

  Papers, 138 boxes, 1900–50. Materials relating to Ukrainian studies. Restrictions.

• Vadim Vsevolodovich Shchavinskii

  2 mimeographed volumes, 1931, plus some chapters of Istoriia Markovskoi Artilleriiskoi Brigady—about the Civil War in the South.

• Vakhan Totomianz

  Typed memoirs/essay on the cooperative movement and his private life, 1890–1954.

• Valentin Iosif Lekhno

  Papers, ca. 43 items. His typed memoirs concern his experiences as a lawyer, 1915–1920s, the emigration in Poland and Yugoslavia, and World War II, to 1950.

• Valentin P. Zubov

  Typed "Souvenirs de la revolution russe (1917–1927)," 191 pp.; offprint of a Novyi zhurnal piece—"Institut istorii iskusstv. Stranitsy vospominanii"; and memoirs of the dwarf of Prince P. A. Zubov "Karlik Favorita. Istoriia zhizni Ivana Andreevicha Iakubovskogo, Karlika Svetleishego Kniazia Platona Aleksandrovicha Zubova, pisannaia im samim," with preface and notes by V. P. Zubov. Restrictions.

• Valentina Evgen'evna Zlinchenko

  Poetry manuscripts, copies. Her pseudonym was Zlin.

• Valentina Shelepina

  Handwritten memoirs by a nurse in World War I, 1917–22.

• Valerian I. Gureev

  "Ekaterinoslavskii pokhod" in the Civil War, 1918–19, a typed study, by Lieutenant Gureev (about the Ukraine and P. P. Skoropadskii); his typed and handwritten memoirs about the White Army in the Crimea, 1919–20.

• Valerii F. Salatko-Petrishche

  Papers, ca. 220 items. A short reminiscence of I. S. Turgenev (author unidentified), ca. 1900; typed reminiscences by Salatko-Petrishche of prerevolutionary Russian society, the Chinese emigration, and the Orthodox Church in Russia and the emigration, ca. 1910–1950s. Restrictions.

• Varvara Alekseevna Shakhovskaia

  Papers, ca. 22 boxes. Papers of the lawyer M. M. Filonenko, best known for defending N. Plevitskaia in the General E. Miller kidnapping trial: diary, 1918–19 (begun in Arkhangel'sk), about the Civil War; and professional papers (arranged in folders by client, mostly from the 1930s). Papers of Georgii Alekseevich Polianskii, former lieutenant-colonel of cuirassiers; diaries of Polianskii for 1919–20 (on the Civil War in the South) and for 1938–45; documents, etc. on the cuirassiers regiment (Kirasiry eia velichestva) and its veterans' organization in the emigration. The archive of Nikolai N. Chebyshev—pre-revolutionary procurator in Kiev and Moscow, senator in the Provisional Government, and writer for Vozrozhdenie in the emigration—holds his diaries for 1921 and 1926–34; correspondence (some with the Mladorosskaia party organization); and a diary and letters of N. Plevitskaia, with some other materials about her.

• Varvara Uspenskaia

  Papers, ca. 53 items. Typescript by the protoierei Ioann Chepelev about Uspenskaia's father, Metropolitan Platon, and work among the Russian Orthodox in America, 1918–30; clippings and printed matter about the Orthodox Church in the U.S.; and material on church history, religious thought, and the church in the USSR.

• Vasili E. Pavlov

  Papers, ca. 18 items. Notebooks with handwritten memoirs about Pavlov's youth and the Civil War, 1900–72.

• Vasili Grigorevich Gavrilov

  Papers, ca. 19 items. Includes manuscripts about a broad range of topics in Russian history.

• Vasili V. Tulintsev

  Papers, ca. 44 items. Handwritten autobiography/reminiscences of childhood in the Ukraine, folk customs and religious holidays, his military career, World War I, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Volga region, and Russian culture to 1919; essays on similar topics of Russian history, 1600–1919; and his grandmother's reminiscences of St. Petersburg and its Ekaterinskii Institut for the education of young women, 1870s-1880s.

• Vasilii Aleksandrovich Mikhailov

  Papers, ca. 60 items. Handwritten essays about the reign of Nicholas II, education, and the Mendel Beilis case; and reminiscences of Admiral A. V. Kolchak and the defeat at Omsk, 1919–20.

• Vasilii Fedorovich Butenko

  Papers, 1 box, ca. 200 items. Typescript on the history of General S. L. Markov and the Markovtsy in the Civil War, 830 pp.; correspondence of S. S. Maslov, A. A. Argunov, F. I. Kolesov, and N. N. Somburov, 1900s-1940s, much of it concerning the Trudovaia Krest'ianskaia Partiia (Working Peasants Party), its central committee, and the emigre publication Krest'ianskaia Rossiia; and other printed materials.

• Vasilii Fedorovich Klement'ev

  Papers, ca. 25 items. His handwritten and typed essays, mimeographed poems, and clippings about World War I, B. Savinkov's Soiuz Zashchity Rodiny i Svobody, the Civil War, and the emigration in Poland; handwritten memoirs 1917–18, in 4 sections, and for the 1920s (Polish emigration); and an essay on the Civil War in 1918, "V 33 pekh. Divizii, II," handwritten, 6 pp.

• Vasilii Mikhailovich Fedorovskii

  Papers, ca. 1 box, 440 items. 2 handwritten essays about the Civil War in the South, 1917–20; material on Russian military activity in the Balkans in the 1870s (the Russo-Turkish War) and in the Caucasus in the early 20th c., including maps and orders of General Berkhman in the Sarkamysh operation in the Caucasus in 1914–15, during World War I.

• Vasilii Mikhailovich Kamenskii

  Papers, ca. 4 boxes, ca. 1,475 items. Sections of his memoirs concern student days, military service in World War I (Siberia in 1916 and then the Southwest Front), the revolution in Iaroslavl, the Civil War in the Northwest, and the emigration (Estonia and the United States), ca. 1908–1970s. He was active in the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and the U.S. Restrictions.

• Vasilii Mikhailovich Kliuzhin

  Papers, ca. 10 items. Short, handwritten essays concerning early childhood and life at the Krasnoufimsk district factory, factory serfs, cottage industry, and the Dukhobors, 1800–1917.

• Vasilii Mikhailovich Pronin

  Papers, 15 items. Typed, 64 pp., and handwritten, 10 pp., manuscript on General M. V. Alekseev, World War I, and the Revolution, 1916–17; typed essays ("General Lavr G. Kornilov" and "Miting Gen. Brusilova"); handwritten autobiography, 5 pp.; handwritten manuscripts on the administration of emigre affairs in Serbia, 1941–44, Trotskii assassination plans, 1929, and Russian emigres in Yugoslavia, 1920–40.

• Vasilii Nikolaevich Rudskii

  Copy of "Kratkii otchet o rabote otdela Dezhurnogo Generala Shtaba Osoboi Armii so vremeni eia sformirovaniia do 1 fevralia 1918," 1916–18.

• Vasilii Pavlovich Marchenko

  Papers, 21 boxes, ca. 8,000 items. This collection of an emigre Ukrainian scholar and journalist includes a short autobiography; personal documents; correspondence; notes and materials for articles; drafts and typescripts about the Soviet Union, Ukraine, international politics, emigre political groups such as SBONR (Soiuz bor'by za osvobozhdeniia narodov Rossii); and a diary for 1935–43 and 1945–49 (about the USSR under German occupation and the author's emigration to Germany).

• Vasilii Pavlovich Stetsenko

  Papers, ca. 30 items. Typed memoirs about General Kantserov, commander of the Markov Officers' Division, and the Civil War, 1918–20, with photos; typed memoirs of Admiral I. K. Grigorovich, in French, written in 1929; 2 notebooks with handwritten diaries of Stetsenko, 1918–20; short typed essays on military events of World War I and the Civil War; "Mrachnye vospominaniia o gen. Biskupskom..."by Stetsenko; and about the Bulgarian communist uprising of 1923.

• Vasilii Petrovich Nikitin

  Papers, 19 boxes. Nikitin (1885–1960) was a diplomat, economist, and scholar of oriental languages and history. His diary and memoirs concern diplomatic service in northern Persia, 1911–19. Correspondents include the Soviet committee for return to the homeland, 1956–59, M. Aldanov, V. A. Maklakov, B. E. Nolde, P. N. Miliukov, P. E. Kovalevskii, N. Evreinov, Baron M. A. Taube. Other holdings: drafts for books on Cossack history and the writer A. M. Remizov; family history and correspondence; all of his published work; reminiscences and autobiographical writings; and documents of Petr Aleksandrovich Nikitin (d. 1912), a high tsarist official in Poland before 1914, including diaries.

• Vasilii V. Rozanov (1856-1919)

  Literary critic, publicist, and philosopher. 5 letters written by him, with typed transcripts, 1918, and 2 envelopes.

• Veniamin Valerianovich Korsak-Zavadskii

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes, 560 items. This writer's correspondence and handwritten works.

• Vera Aleksandrovna Popova

  Handwritten family and personal memoirs: "Popovskaia khronika," ca. 190O-1920s, about a Moscow textile merchant family, Popova (a sculptress), and the Paris emigration, her life, contacts in the art world, the theater, etc., and a biography of her cousin, P. S. Popov, a Soviet philosopher.

• Vera Georgievna Kugusheva

  Typed memoirs of life in a liberal intelligentsia family ca. 1865–1923; reminiscences of V. P. Al'tovskaia and Tat'iana Isakovich; Kugusheva's short reminiscence about the Bolshevik capture of Vladivostok in 1919.

• Vera Harteveld

  Mimeographed copy of her memoirs about life in musical, artistic, and literary circles of Russia; includes reminiscences of I. Repin, A. Glazunov, A. Akhmatova, F. Sologub, I. Severianin, S. Esenin, K. Balmont, V. Meierkhold, and V. Maiakovskii (1886-ca. 1920).

• Vera Ivanova Shiraeva

  Papers, ca. 18 items. Papers of Grigorii Ivanovich Shiraev, Russian botanist who worked in Prague, including short biographies, 1882–1954, a bibliography, and offprints of about 10 short scholarly works.

• Vera Meletovna Romanovich

  Typed and handwritten memoirs about life and military affairs in the Don region, particularly the Civil War, 1914–20; and information about Viktor Sevskii and journalism.

• Vera Mikhailovich and Mikhail K. Borel'

  Papers, ca. 150 items. Includes photocopies of letters to General M. V. Alekseev, from A. I. Denikin and others, ca. 1918; reminiscences by Mikhail Borel', and his brother Georgii Borel', on the Civil War; and minutes of a September 1918 military conference in Georgia of the Volunteer Army. Restrictions.

• Vera Nikolaevna Pavlovskaia

  Handwritten manuscripts about the St. Catherine Academy for the education of young women in Moscow, where she studied, with photographs.

• Vera Sergeevna Ianitskaia

  Papers, 2 boxes. Materials by Alexandra M. Petrunkevich, typed essays on S. T. Platonov, her translation of the Slovo o polku Igoreve, a typescript on Russian verbs, and correspondence about her books and lectures (she taught in the Bestuzhev women's courses at St. Petersburg University). In addition there are correspondence of A. Petrunkevich and Miss A. F. Rodicheva. Restrictions.

• Vera V. Savitskaia

  Typescript about women's gimnaziia, founded in St. Petersburg by Princess A. A. Obolenskaia, and "Moi vospominaniia," about Savitskaia's family and the Russian gentry, ca. 1830–1931.

• Vera Vasilevna Onoprienko

  Papers, ca. 60 items. Her family's archives for 1827–1914 contain correspondence, photos, and documents about army careers and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.

• Vera Vladimirovna Zherebtsova

  Papers, ca. 36 items. Book with reminiscences of a Russian dentist, A. V. Frolov; and typed biography of Vladimir Vasil'evich Margoit.

• Viacheslav G. Seniutovich

  Papers, ca. 133 items. Handwritten and typed essays on Ukrainian history and political situation, and other historical topics; and mimeographed memoirs of Seniutovich's father, 1921–22.

• Viacheslav P. Artem'ev (Artemjev)

  Manuscript of Ispravitel'no-trudovye lageria MVP.

• Viacheslav Vasilevich Babushkin

  Handwritten memoirs (1885–1919) covering his early life, service in the Russo-Japanese War, garrison life in Chita, army reforms, the battle of Mukden, events of 1905–1907 in Chita and Simbirsk province, and Russian diplomacy (Japan, Manchuria, and Mongolia), the Revolution and Civil War.

• Vikentii Ivanovich Gets

  30 items. Memoirs of V. I. Gets, who served as an officer in the Imperial and White armies during World War I and the Civil War. His memoirs deal with World War I, the Civil War, the emigration in Bulgaria, and his experiences as a Russian translator for the Germans during World War II.

• Viktor Ivanovich Meshchaninov

  Papers, ca. 24 boxes. Materials on the Semenovskii Regiment and its veterans' organization. Restrictions.

• Viktor Ivanovich Semenov

  Notebooks with diaries for September-December 1939, when Semenov was in Warsaw, describing the German invasion and occupation.

• Viktor K. Leontovich

  Papers, ca. 90 items. Documents, books, and memoirs about the Russian administration in the Novorossisk region in 1910 and the Revolution in Transcaucasia; ca. 50 stereopticon pictures of Russo-Japanese War scenes; and a handwritten manuscript entitled "Skitaniia po delu russkogo intelligenta v Severnoi Persii."

• Viktor M. Baidalakov

  Head of the Narodno-Trudovoi Soiuz (NTS), 1931–55. Papers contain his history of the founding and organization of NTS. Restrictions.

• Viktor Viktorovich Vinter

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes, ca. 700 items. Engineer. Includes personal documents (from the period of Revolution and Civil War but mostly from the years in emigration), scientific articles and patents relating to his work in the food-processing industry, family photos, and correspondence; diaries, 1930s-1940s; materials on World War I in Russia, the Volunteer Army in the Civil War, and the emigration in Czechoslovakia, ca. 1914–1950s. Restrictions.

• Vitali Fedorovich Ditianin

  2 notebooks with the handwritten text of a speech for a celebration of Den' Russkoi Kul'tury; and 2 manuscript fragments. These are products of the emigration.

• Vitalii Il'ich Mushketov

  Papers, 16 items. Typed, carbon copy of his biography, 1 p., a handwritten biography by his wife, typed notes and an album of drawings on Smolensk history (Istorii drevnego Smolenska v kartinakh, 1938).

• Vladimir A. Silin

  Manuscript about the death of Alexander III and coronation of Nicholas II.

• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bazilevskii

  Imperial army lieutenant general. 2 letters to him from General P. N. Krasnov, 1923, plus handwritten memoirs about the White movement near Orenburg and Semirech'e by Bazilevskii, 1918–20.

• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Borisov

  Handwritten diaries, apparently written in Constantinople, covering the emigration to Turkey, 1920.

• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kamenskii

  Papers, ca. 33 items. Handwritten memoirs: military education, including school schedule for the Corps of Pages; social-cultural life of St. Petersburg ca. 1890–1914; 7 short sketches/ reminiscences of the Leib-gvardii egerskii polk, its organization, duties, and activities in World War I, ca. 1910–17.

• Vladimir Alexandrovich Vereshchagin

  Papers, ca. 15 items. Correspondence with Prince F. Iusupov and the Grand Duke Gavril Konstantinovich, 1950s-1960s; and reminiscences ("Iz proshlogo," 123 pp.) of St. Petersburg cultural life in 1890–1923, typed carbon.

• Vladimir Avgustinovich Gol'dgaar

  A secret report published by the quartermaster general of the White Armies command in the South: "Ocherk vzaimootnoshenii vooruzhennykh sil luga Rossii i predstavitelei frantsuzskago komandovaniia," May 1919; concerns the Civil War and Allied intervention.

• Vladimir Danilovich Merzheevskii

  Papers, ca. 5 boxes, 960 items. Typed reminiscences of Generals A. P. Kutepov and E. K. Miller, and of ROVS and its espionage/sabotage activity in the USSR in the 1920s; manuscripts on military topics and emigre military groups. Restrictions.

• Vladimir Fedorovich Kozlianinov

  Papers, over 2 boxes, ca. 785 items. Correspondence with the Grand Prince Gavriil Konstantinovich, the Grand Princes Dmitrii Pavlovich and Dmitrii Konstantinovich, members of the monarchist movement, and various emigre veterans organizations; memoirs of his military career, 1900–17; historical documents, including one signed by A. Lunacharskii in 1918 about the confiscation of property; 29 notebooks describing political and personal events 1918–1940s. Restrictions.

• Vladimir Fedorovich Malinin

  Papers, 24 items. Letters from M. V. Chelnokov, 18; 1930–34; typescripts entitled "Zabastovka vodoprovoda v Moskve 1905," "Pamiati printsa A. P. Oldenburgskogo," and "Velikaia kniaginia Elisaveta Feodorovna." Restrictions.

• Vladimir Feofilovich Zeeler

  Papers, ca. 7 boxes. Zemstvo and Zemgor leader, and a lawyer in the Paris emigration. Includes manuscripts and letters by leading Russian emigre writers and artists; the correspondence and materials of the Ob"edinenie russkikh advokatov vo Frantsii, 1928–33; correspondence with such emigre cultural figures as L. Pasternak, V. Nabokov, A. Glazunov, V. A. Maklakov, V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, A. M. Remizov, Marc Chagall, N. Roerich, Fedor Rodichev, A. F. Rodichev, N. A. Teffi, Mark Aldanov, N. I. Astrov, Konstantin Balmont, Aleksandr Benois, Ivan Bunin, M. Dobuzhinsky, V. F. Khodasevich, A. A. Kizewetter, Serge Koussevitsky, A. Kuprin, P. Miliukov.

• Vladimir Gavrilovich Mikhailov

  Mimeographed volumes of his poetry, plus a long curriculum vitae, 1950, on his life and activity in the South American emigration.

• Vladimir Heppener

  Documents and certificates issued to him (in Czech and German) plus 2 photos, 1935–48.

• Vladimir I. Maiborodov

  Papers, ca. 60 items. His memoirs cover his career as a zemskii nachalnik, 1904–16 ("Moia sluzhba pri starom rezhime i vo vremia smuty"), childhood in Orel and Chernigov provinces and his education, 1890–1910, and the years in the emigration in Yugoslavia, 1930–44 ("V otstavke").

• Vladimir Ivanovich and Ol'ga Vsevolodovna Iurkevich

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 800 items. Iurkevich (1885–1964) was a Russian marine engineer. His wife, nee Krestovskaia, was active in the Russian Red Cross in Europe during and after World War I and was also a writer (pseudonym: Ol'ga Iork). The archive includes his biography, plus documents and biographical materials on him; Ol'ga's memoirs of life in Paris and her correspondence (several letters from V. A. Maklakov); manuscripts and clippings of her short stories.

• Vladimir Ivanovich Granberg

  Papers, ca. 2 boxes, ca. 840 items. A member of the State Council. Typed memoirs about World War I, the Revolution, and Civil War.

• Vladimir Ivanovich Karpov

  Information about Karpov, his life, and his work.

• Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko

  Papers, ca. 30 items. His letters to Dr. Vladimir Veinberg, 1933–37, and to Nikolai Alexeev about the Soviet theater.

• Vladimir Ivanovich Poliakov

  Papers, ca. 107 items. Correspondence on military topics; handwritten reminiscences of the years 1903–45 and handwritten essays about various Russian topics.

• Vladimir Ivanovich Sekara

  Papers, over 1 box. Memoirs: "Smotr kavaleriiskoi divizii generala Barbovicha v Krymu" and another memoir on Sekara's capture by the Red Army during the Civil War in the South and his escape; anecdotes about meetings with British military men in World War I.

• Vladimir Ivanovich Shaiditskii

  Papers, ca. 120 items. The official historian of the Vsezarubezhnoe ob"edinenie vilentsev, an organization of alumni of the Vil'no military academy. Holdings include manuscripts on this academy and its alumni.

• Vladimir Konstantinovich Grigor'ev-Trudin

  Papers, ca. 200 items. Manuscripts on broad range of topics.

• Vladimir Mikhailovich Andreevskii

  Papers, 2 boxes, ca. 300 items. Member of the State Council. Contains diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and handwritten reminiscences. Also includes a typescript entitled "Iz vospominaniia B. N. Chicherina" by N. I. Krivtsov.

• Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov

  Papers, ca. 52 boxes. Correspondence, 13 boxes, from the 1940s; reminiscences of Amalia Fondaminskaia, plus materials about her of V. Nabokov and Z. Gippius [Hippius]; letters of G. A. Gershuni, typed transcripts, 1903–1904, to his brother Viktor Andreevich, from the Petropavlovsk Fortress; letters, diaries, and photos of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Zenzinov, and Russian students, 1903–1905; typed protocols of SR central committee sessions, September 1917January 1918; a report on finances and statistics on elections to SR Party congresses, 1917–18, plus information on the Petrograd collective; typescript about the February Revolution and the SR Party, 93 pp.; correspondence, accounts, and mimeographed and handwritten materials from the 1950s concerning the Liga Bor'by za Narodnuiu Svobodu; plans for a united emigre center, 1951; Zenzinov's diaries, 1940s-1950s; manuscripts of his writings; photos, correspondence, texts of articles, and autobiography, 1923, of E. Breshkovskaia, with a bibliography of her works; typed "Vospominaniia" of B. Savinkov; letter from A. M. Remizov; documents on the founding of the Literaturnyi fond, 1946–47.

• Vladimir N. Salatko

  Parts of typed memoirs for the period 1920–40 ("Zapiski sovetskogo advokata"), concerning the Soviet legal profession and system.

• Vladimir Nikolaevich Smirnov

  Handwritten memoirs of the Russian Expeditionary Force on the Salonika front in 1916–18; 5 photos of the REF and of a Russian military cemetery on the Marne; a typescript, "Vernye dolgu," on the Russian legion in France, 1918.

• Vladimir Nikolaevich Timchenko-Ruban

  Memoirs of service in the Preobrazhenskii Regiment, Civil War, and French emigration, ca. 600 pp., 1889–1945, and an essay on the Preobrazhenskii Regiment on its 275th anniversary, 1683–1958, both typed.

• Vladimir Nikolaevich Unkovskii

  Papers, ca. 9 boxes. Emigre writer. Diary for 1925–27; handwritten reminiscences of social and cultural life in Kharkov and Kharkov University ca. 1907, World War I, and work in French West Africa after the evacuation from the Crimea; correspondence; literary manuscripts, including short stories; the manuscript and galleys of his novel Ikary, 1942; notebooks with autobiographical writings; handwritten reminiscences of A. M. Remizov, V. L. Burtsev, and Gallipoli, 1900–1930s; correspondence of A. Remizov and M. Aldanov.

• Vladimir Nikolaevich Velikotnyi

  Typed memoirs concerning education in a classical gymnasium, the Nikolaevskoe kavaleriiskoe uchilishche, February and October Revolutions in Petrograd, and the Civil War in the South with the Volunteer Army, 1907–20.

• Vladimir Nikolaevich von Dreier

  The typed memoirs ("Zapiski") of the general, whose father served in the tsarist administration of Turkestan, 350 pp. They cover his father's service, his own military education, his career in the Balkan Wars, World War I, and the Revolution, 1880–1920.

• Vladimir Pavlovich Kruzenshtern

  His typed memoirs about Russians in Manchuria; excerpts of his diaries when he was an officer in a regiment guarding the Russian railroad lines in Northern Manchuria, 1900–14, and while serving in the trans-Amur River cavalry, 1910, all typed.

• Vladimir Sergeevich Khitrovo

  His bound memoirs, "Vospominaniia i materialy dlia istorii: Leib-gvardii konnaia artilleriia. Chast' II-aia. Voina 1914–17. Pokhod k Vostochnuiu Prussiiu," typed, with photos; plus a microfilm of maps for the same.

• Vladimir Shubut

  Papers, ca. 22 items. Documents, including autographs, of A. Glazunov, E. Roshchina-Insarova, A. Pavlova, F. Shaliapin, H. Sienkiewicz; documents about estates and landownership in Poland; and a letter from G. Danilevskii.

• Vladimir Vasil'evich Shapkin

  Typescript on the Cossack Obshchefrontovyi kazachii s"ezd in October 1917 and the Ukrainian Rada, plus a manuscript about the last days of the tsarist high command.

• Vladimir Veniaminovich Khoromanskii

  Papers, ca. 44 items. Handwritten reminiscences of the start of World War I; typed reminiscences of service in Ekaterinoslav in 1919; leaflets appealing to Ekaterinoslav citizens; letters, documents, notes on the Russkoe khristianskoe dvizhenie in France, 1930s; the memoirs of his father, 1918–22, handwritten, with a photo of P. A. Stolypin; his essay, with documentation, on Russian refugees on Malta and Cyprus and on journalism, handwritten; a typed essay, "Poslednii otpusk, 1911 g."; plus other handwritten or typed reminiscences.

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Popov (Popoff)

  Papers, ca. 5 boxes. Includes the archives of the Soiuz Byvshikh Sudebnykh Deiatelei Rossii (minutes of meetings, membership lists, reports, correspondence, accounts), 1925–68; his typed "Vospominaniia 1889–1957." Apparently a lawyer in Odessa before 1917, he was an associate of the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, P. N. Wrangel, and E. K. Miller in the emigration. Also reminiscences of S. Matsylev, A. Dzhuliani, A. Lebedev, A. Derevitskii, and others; typed report for General E. K. Miller, P. N. Wrangel's chief of staff, 1922, on the Bulgarian political situation and difficulties the White armies might have in being received there; and handwritten "Vospominaniia matrosa sluzhby 1914 goda" by Trofim Isidorovich Gonoratskii (1932), in 11 notebooks, concerning naval education, the navy, and the Revolution, 1914–21.

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Sakharov

  Papers, 12 boxes, 1926–43. Art historian. Materials for a comprehensive dictionary of Russian art and artists from the 10th c. to the 1930s, in 50 notebooks with handwritten notes; manuscripts on individual painters; catalogues of exhibits in London, Paris, and elsewhere; Sakharov's diaries for 1932–42; a 1924 list of emigre artists, arranged by geographical location, with many addresses. Restrictions.

• Vladimir Vostokov

  Papers, ca. 16 items. Handwritten autobiographical essay; 2 typed reminiscences of tsarist days and the Orthodox Church under the Soviet regime, ca. 1900–20, plus a manuscript on the church in 1890–1917; miscellanea about Vostokov, an emigre clergyman.

• Vserossiiskii Zemskii Soiuz

  Papers, 7 boxes, 1916–46. Minutes of meetings; reports on the union's activities; its bulletin; correspondence; photos of survivors of the Gallipoli campaign; and information about American aid, the credit union of the organization, and emigre welfare in Constantinople and elsewhere.

• YMCA in Siberia

  Photos taken by Charles Riley of YMCA activity in Siberia and the American Expeditionary Forces, showing Vladivostok, Tomsk, and Czech troops.

• Z. Szajkowski

  Papers, ca. 1 box. Ephemera, leaflets, posters, and newspapers, in Russian, French, and mostly Yiddish, about Jews in Russia and the USSR, 1900–1920s; handwritten essay by A. Lozovskii on the trade union movement in the West, in Russian with French documents, 1911; revolutionary, conservative, and soviet proclamations and leaflets from the period l904–1905; and documents of the Comite General de la Colonie Russe, 1917.

• Zeledi V. Togan

  Typescript about Azerbaijan, signed by Togan, 88 pp., and a typed essay on the same subject, 1800–1920, 3 pp.

• Zinaida Aleksandrovna Rzhevskaia

  Sections of handwritten memoirs about life and thought in St. Petersburg high society, World War I, and G. Rasputin, 1914–18.

• Zinaida Andreevna Melik-Ogandzhanova

  Papers, ca. 78 items. Handwritten memoirs about her husband, L. D. Melik-Ogandzhanov, his judicial career in Siberia, the Civil War, A. V. Kolchak, Ataman G. M. Semenov, and the emigration in the Far East.

• Zinovii Ivanovich Baltushevskii (Baltusauskas)

  Manuscripts on World War I; memoirs, in 4 parts, of military education (Vil'no military academy) and service, 1913–16.