Archives & Manuscripts Division

Resources (133)

• "D" Papers

  135 items. Documentation for footnotes to David Dallin's Soviet Espionage (New Haven, 1955).

• A. Fiodorov-Puntzev

  2 fairy tales: "Iablon'ka; skazka," 8 manuscript 11. with illustrated covers, and "Skazka-byl'," 10 11., with illustrated front cover; both [Iarosl. pol. izol., 1925].

• Albert Shaw (1857-1947)

  Papers, 1874–1947, 200 ft. Editor of the Review of Reviews (New York) 1891–1937. He corresponded with the Council on Foreign Relations, 1918–46, and with Near East Relief, 1919–44. There is information on Armenian history in these papers. (NUCMC 76–1544)

• Aleksandr Lachinov

  "Zhalovannaia gramota na dvorianskoe dostoinstvo i dvorianskii gerb, dannaia polkovniku Aleksandru Lachinovu za revnostnuiu voennuiu sluzhbu ot imeni Imperatora Aleksandra I." Signed by Nicholas I in St. Petersburg, 14 October 1827, written in ink with gold lettering, these letters patent are on folio-sized parchment, with decorated borders, illuminated by the Imperial arms and by Alexander I's Imperial monogram. The arms assigned to Lachinov also appear on the pages.

• Aleksandr Sokolyvych (pseudonym of A. Sokolyszyn)

  "A.F.A.B.N. Strength. On the Occasion of the Congress of American Friends of Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, Inc." (New York, A.F.A.B.N., 1958), 38 pp. with illustrations, and 37 autographs of prominent Ukrainians and others.

• Aleksandr Viktorovich Adiassewich (Russian historical archives)

  14 items. Unpublished essays on Russian/Soviet economic affairs, all but 1 in Russian: "A sketch of the Russian petroleum industry from the earliest times to the present day," 1922, 17 pp.; "Story of the Cossacks in Russia," 1917, 114 pp.; "General notes on trade," [19—], 122 pp.; "Cotton growing and cotton industry in Russia," 1922, but revised to 1929, 7 pp.; "Economic sketch of Georgia in the Caucasus," 1922?, 125 pp.; "Economic sketch of Turkestan," 1922, 36 pp.; "Two articles upon economic aspects of the Ukraine," n.d., 29 pp.; "Economic sketch of the Crimean peninsula," n.d., 33 pp.; "A description of Daghestan in the Caucasus," n.d., 11 pp.; 3 articles on Armenia (its mineral wealth, 15 pp.; general description, 10 pp.; and description of the Caucasian Turkish part, 15 pp.); and an unfinished manuscript on Turkey collected from official sources, 1922?, 268 pp.

• Aleksandriia

  A late Russian half-uncial manuscript, 17th c. 150 11., n.p., with initials, chapter headings, and running titles in red. Some leaves are missing. This is a translation of the Serbian version of the Romance of Alexander the Great into the Russian variant of Church Slavonic. An inscription from 1746 carries the names Ivan Nikolaevich Buturlin (praporshchik) and Petr Shkragutov (?). Bound with an item described below under Pieter Goos.

• Aleksei Remizov (1877-1958)

  Correspondence, 1924–34, 21 items. Writer. Letters and postcards written from Boulogne to Nicolas Slonimsky, the composer.

• Aleksyei Grigoryevich Yevstafiev (1783-1857)

  67 items. Russian consul in Boston and New York. Personal and official correspondence; documents (photostats); incomplete biographical sketch of Yevstafiev by Leo Wiener; family tree, 1680–1880, of the Wilson family (Emily Wilson married Yevstafiev); a photo of the Yevstafiev home in Buffalo, New York; and miscellanea. There is also a holograph, 120 pp., of his "The Great Republic Tested by the Touch of Truth" (an examination of ideas of government of Russia, England, and the U.S., 1848–52). In the Slavonic Division, bound at the end of the book Memorable Predictions of the Late Events in Europe (Boston, 1814), 108 pp. (call number *KF 1814). Manuscript, 37 11., entitled "Appendix. More predictions concerning the second downfal [sic] of Buonaparte," extracted from Yevstafiev's private correspondence with General Humphreys (his name is given as Alexis Eustaphieve in the book, whose contents were also extracted from his writings). The appendix consists of a publisher's preface, 21 August 1815, and 7 letters dated Portland, Boston, and Sandwich, 7 May-10 August 1815.

• Alexander Bakshy (b. 1885)

  Translations of Russian plays (Falcons and Ravens; and a drama by Alexander I. Sumbatov and Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko).

• Alexander Herzen [Gertsen] (1812-1870)

  Socialist and author. Typed copy of his letter to the editor of the London Daily News, 28 October 1854, concerning conversations with Russian prisoners at Plymouth. The piece appeared anonymously, bearing the signature "A Cosmopolitan Traveler."

• Alexander Hume (Campbell), Second Earl of Marchmont (1675-1740)

  Papers, 1722–24, ca. 400 items. Correspondence and diplomatic papers which discuss European affairs, especially the Congress of Cambray (with Baron Charles Whitworth); in English and French. (NUCMC 72–1056) (In the Hardwicke Collection)

• Alexander Werth

  Typescript of his "Moscow Diary." (Annex)

• Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoi [Tolstoy] (1883-1945)

  Writer. Typescript of "Hyperboloid of the Engineer Garin," apparently published by A. A. Knopf. Text identical to "The Death Box," translation by Bernard G. Guerney (London, 1957). (Annex)

• Andrew Pranspill

  1 box, ca. 185 items. Letters, most in Estonian, to Pranspill from leading 20th c. Estonian writers Eduard Wilde, S. Snglous (?), Kitzberg, Raudupp, Tammsaare, Kangro, Hindrey, Kiojad, Kampmann, Adson, Aavik, Wallak, Weiler, Rehang, Pass, Jurgenstern, Anderhopp, and Kallas.

• Angelica Balabanoff (1878-1965)

  Socialist. Typescript with manuscript corrections and interlineations of her My Life as a Rebel, ca. 380 11. (Annex)

• Anna Louise Strong

  Typescript—My Native Land. (Annex)

• Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler

  Diaries, 1843–48, 2 vols. Wife of the succeeding and mother of James McNeill Whistler, the painter. Her journal while in St. Petersburg, 28 November 1843–27 September 1844 and 12 March 1845September 1848.

• Anne Thomson (Mrs. James Thomson)

  Papers, n.d., 1 box. Letters sent to Anne Thomson, an American living in Paris, from Americans, Englishmen, Russians, and Spaniards distinguished in art, letters, and the professions.

• Anthony Jerome Griffin (1866-1935)

  Papers, 1883–1935, ca. 6 vols. and 49 boxes. Lawyer and U.S. congressman (from New York City). He toured the Soviet Union in 1931 with his wife Katharine (nee Byrne). During July and August they visited Leningrad, Moscow, Nizhnii Novgorod, Stalingrad, Rostov, Verblud Farm (a camel farm?), Tiflis, Batumi, Sochi, Yalta, Sevastopol', Balaklava, Odessa, Kiev, and Warsaw. Box 29 contains materials for a book about Russia, letters, and notes, all written by his wife. Box 7 contains his correspondence, 1930–32, in which there is discussion of the question of recognition of the USSR, Soviet slave labor, grain dumping, and American groups' opposition to trade with the USSR. Unpublished inventory (NUCMC 71–1204).

• Archimandrite Dosifei (d. 1845?)

  "Otkrytie bogomerzskoi i bogoprotivnoi skopecheskoi eresi"—composed in the Solovetsk monastery in 1834 by the archimandrite and kavaler Dosifei Nemchinov (Solovki, 1834). The manuscript, in 2 parts, folio, 101 and 44 pp., appeared in Chteniia v Imp, obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete, vol. I, in 1872 (P. I. Mel'nikov's "Materialy dlia istorii khlystovskoi i skopecheskoi eresei"). All of part 2 but not all of part 1 were published. (In the Methodist Episcopal Church Manuscript Records)

• Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams

  Part 2 of her biography of A. S. Pushkin, typed, 466 pp., with handwritten corrections, in Russian. (Annex)

• Armenian Manuscripts

  (a) David, called the Philosopher, Philosophic hints. Aristotle, About virtue, to King Alexander. Commentary on the New Testament; ms. on paper, 17th c., 121 11. (b) Song book of the Church of Armenia, 14th c., ms. on parchment, 366 11.

• Arthur James Putnam (b. 1893)

  Papers, 1942–63, 2 folders, ca. 300 items. Lend-lease administrator in Africa in World War II and editor of the Macmillan Co. Miscellaneous correspondence, including some letters of Immanuel Velikovsky relating to his book Worlds in Collision.

• Austrian Papers, 1781-83

  189 items. Transcripts made in 1868 of correspondence between the Austrian emperor, his ambassadors in London and Paris, and other individuals. The originals, in German, are in Vienna repositories. They concern the mediation of Austria and of Russia in continental disputes. (NUCMC 70–1702)

• B. (?) P. Dudorov

  See under V. R. Kachinskii.

• Bancroft Collection

  One part, 3 vols., of this large collection contains 135 transcripts of manuscripts (diplomatic correspondence) of the British ambassador to Russia. The letters, exchanged between Sir Robert Gunning, Sir James Harris, Lord Suffolk, Lord Stormont, and others (1774–83), concern the American war for independence (Britain's attempt to obtain Russian troops to serve in America) and European affairs in general. Originals are in the British Public Records Office in London. Another holding is listed as "Great Britain: Embassy to Russia" and has 21 pp. of extracts, transcripts, of dispatches between the Russian College of Foreign Affairs and its embassy at the Hague, 1782, again relating to American affairs. Eugene Schuyler made these copies from Moscow archives in 1868. A volume headed "Prussia: Embassy to Russia" has transcripts of dispatches of the Prussian ambassador to Russia about America, 1779–81; while the volume labeled "Prussia. Foreign Relations, 1776–1782" has transcripts of correspondence of Frederick II and ministers and courts of Prussia, Russia, and Sweden, 1781–82, on the armed neutrality agreements, 302 pp., copied from Prussian archives. "France, Ministry to Russia" has correspondence, in French, of Juigne, Corberon, and Verac with Count Vergennes (Charles Gravier) and others, 1775–82, transcribed from French archives ca. 1850, 73 items. Unpublished finding aids.

• Basil Fomeen

  Life's Worth Living—unpublished reminiscences of life in Russia and the United States, written in 1936, typescript, 1 vol.

• Benjamin Gitlow

  I Confess: the Truth About American Communism, typescript with manuscript corrections, 789 pp., for his book published by E. P. Dutton (New York, 1940).

• Bernard Pares

  Typescript of chapters 24–26, ca. 90 pp., of Sir Bernard's A History of Russia, with galley-proof and author's proof of index. (Annex)

• Bernard Peyton

  Typed, carbon copy, letters from Peyton to his wife in Charlottesville, Virginia, while on a journey through Russia and Siberia to establish trade relations, June 1856-April 1857, apparently transcribed in New York in 1934.

• Bertram Wolfe (b. 1896)

  Papers, 1925–37, 2 boxes. Author, teacher, lecturer, and specialist on Soviet Russia. Correspondence, typescripts, clippings, and mimeographed material concerning such subjects as the Workers (Communist) Party of America and the All-American Anti-Imperialist League.

• Bolton Hall (1854-1938)

  Papers, 1895–1938, 32 boxes and 3 vols. Lawyer, author, lecturer, and social reformer. His correspondence concerns Henry George and the single tax, the teachings of L. Tolstoi [Tolstoy], and agricultural cooperation. He corresponded with scholars, writers, publishers, anarchists, and government officials. (NUCMC 70–1727) (Annex)

• Boris Vasil'evich Sergievskii

  See under V. R. Kachinskii.

• Century Magazine

  Records, 1870s-1914, 207 boxes. Includes correspondence and contributions of various writers, among them George Kennan (1886–1912). List of correspondents. (NUCMC 69–810)

• Chess. St. Petersburg Quadrangular Tournament

  1 item. A manuscript about the tournament (1895–96) between E. Lasker, W. Steinitz, H. N. Pillsbury, and M. Tschigornin, 41 pp.

• DeWitt Clinton Falls (1864-1937)

  Writings and scrapbooks on European armies and their uniforms, including Russian.

• Dorothy Blumenstock

  See under Harold D. Lasswell.

• Eastern Orthodox Church, Russian

  1 item. Manuscript liturgy and ritual: "Lectionary of the Acts and Epistles" [Apostol] for the whole year, including weekday readings, beginning with lessons for Easter Week, 14th c. On vellum, 296 II., unnumbered, double columns of 19 lines, in Russian uncial (Slavonic, in 2 hands?), with an illuminated headpiece at the start and illuminated initials (in the original wooden boards). Provenance: Novgorod or northern Russia (?).

• Edward Goold and Company

  Letterbook, 1797–98, 1 vol. Commission merchants of New York City. Holds communications to other merchants, especially in New England; concerns trade with Europe, China, India, and Russia (iron, ginger, brandy, etc). Items date from 29 May 1797 to 3 September 1798.

• Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaia (1844-1934)

  Correspondence, 1923–34, 1 box. Russian revolutionary (pseudonym: Verigo). 174 letters and postcards to Mrs. Irene Dietrich, plus photographs, news clippings, and a letter from George (Egor) Lazarev to Dietrich, 1928, which discusses Breshkovskaia's life and work (and his own). The "little grandmother of the revolution" emigrated to Czechoslovakia after the Bolshevik coup and established a school for Russian children in the Carpathians. The correspondence concerns mostly Russian refugees, especially children, and Breshkovskaia's efforts to aid them with clothing and schooling. In some letters she also discusses her past life, philosophy, revolutionary figures (e.g., A. Kerensky), Russian and world affairs in general, the Russian national character, and other matters. Arranged in folders by date. (NUCMC 68–1076)

• Elmer Lawrence Corthell (1840-1916)

  Papers, 1872–1916, 4 boxes and 16 vols. Civil engineer and consultant. He became involved in the projected Trans-Alaska-Siberian Railway of Baron Loicq de Lobel. Many high tsarist officials and diplomats took part in negotiations for right-of-way concessions. Among the figures noted are Prince Obolenskii (director of his majesty's chancellery); Baron Fredericks; V. N. Kokovtsev (minister of finance and later premier); V. Lamsdorf (foreign minister); Khilkov (transport minister); and Cassini (Russian ambassador in Washington, D.C). Papers, 1901–12, include correspondence, reports, photographs, maps of the planned route, a printed brochure on the railway, a copy of Nicholas II's decree, 12 December 1905, approving Sergei Witte's report on the project, and reports on the economic and resettlement potentials of the railroad. (NUCMC 68–1101)

• Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

  Papers, 1906–40, 2 boxes and 1 microfilm reel, negative. Anarchist and author. Correspondence, address books, and other papers, collected by her niece Stella Ballantine, arranged in chronological order. The Russian-born Goldman emigrated to the United States in 1886, went back to the Soviet Union in 1920, became disillusioned and left, returning to the United States in 1922. Letters and postcards to Bayard Boyesen reveal Goldman's views of postwar conditions in Russia and Germany, 1917–28. Some letters concern the work of her friends who took up permament residence in the USSR. There are also letters to Mabel C. Crouch, Stella Ballantine, and Frances Perkins from prominent people; correspondence from Goldman concerning Spain and the Soviet Union; and microfilm (positive and negative) of manuscript letters of Goldman in the International Institute of Historical Sciences in Amsterdam. 1 letter, original, in this collection is to Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union about American naivete over Russia, 1924; there are similar letters from 1937. Other items include 2 address books, condolences on her death, a typescript of Alexander Berkman's The Russian Myth, and the index to her own book Living My Life. (NUCMC 70–328)

• Eugene Lyons

  Typescript, with corrections in pencil, of his Assignment in Utopia, 951 pp., published by Harcourt, Brace and Co. (New York, 1937). (Annex)

• Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records.

  1899-2003 [bulk 1945-1989]. 377.21 linear feet linear feet (893 boxes, 182 microfilm reels). The publishing company Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. was founded in 1945 as Farrar, Straus & Company by John Farrar and Roger W. Straus, Jr. After numerous changes in management and corresponding changes in name, the company became known as Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. (FSG) in 1964 when Robert Giroux became editor-in-chief. The company firmly established itself as a quality publisher in the 1960s and 1970s. FSG remained staunchly independent of conglomerate publishing for many years. Even after selling controlling interest to the German publisher Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1994, FSG maintained much of the freedom of an independent publishing house. The records include the correspondence and manuscripts of author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Finding aid available: http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#overview
  
  

• Fedor (?) Gladkov (1883-1958)

  Typescript entitled "Marusya Makes Mischief." (Annex) 46 Edward F. Glenn. Papers, 1918, 20 items. U.S. army officer. Includes correspondence with I. Paderewski. References to Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.

• Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

  British nurse and hospital administrator. Letter, 1867, asking for the address of the widow of a Surgeon Major French, who served at Scutari in 1854 and died in 1860. (In the Miscellaneous Collection)

• Francis Vinton Greene (1850-1921)

  Papers, 1776 and 1837–1921, 6 boxes and 13 vols. Army officer, historian, and engineer. Some correspondence concerns the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. Unpublished inventory (NUCMC 76–1512).

• Frank Wuttge

  Papers, in process. Includes biographical information about Frank Wuttge, Sr., a photographer's helper in Imperial Russia.

• George Bliss (1830–1897)

  0.1 linear feet (1 folder). Lawyer. His autobiography, typed, describes his 1846 trip to Russia and Western Europe, 3 vols.

• George Kennan (1845-1924)

  Papers, 1866–1919, 5 boxes. Explorer, author, journalist, and authority on Russia. First traveling to the empire (Siberia) in the late 1870s as part of a surveying party for a telegraph line, Kennan returned to do research, especially on political prisoners in Siberia, in 1885–89. The collection has his correspondence, reports photographs, and other papers—most in Russian but many with translations. Of the substantial holdings on Russian prisoners and political exiles and trials, Kennan estimated that only about a quarter found its way into his famous 2-volume study Siberia and the Exile System. This collection contains lists of names of political exiles (1886), sketches on the history of socialist thought in Russia and on the treatment of political criminals (including administrative exiles), and eyewitness accounts of tsarist atrocities at Kara, Nerchinsk, and Iakutsk. Also, copies of ca. 40 letters of Ekaterina Breshkovskaia. A. Yarmolinsky published a description of the Kennan papers (and published materials) in the library ("The Kennan Collection") in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol. 25 (February 1921). There is also an unpublished finding aid. (Annex)

• George Washington Whistler (1800-1849)

  Photostat copy of the "Report by Major George Washington Whistler to his Excellency the Count [R.] Kleinmichel on the gauge of Russian railways, St. Petersburg, September 9, 1842," 9 pp. The original is in the files of the Transport Archives in Leningrad. Also a mimeograph of a typed copy of the report and correspondence regarding its acquisition. The report concerns railroads in the Caucasus.

• Gershoy Family

  Papers, 5 boxes. Letters, 1912–35, to Miriam (Lioubarski) and Morris Gershoy, immigrants from Russia in New York City, including some from relatives in Russia—Sophia Lvovna Baranova, Berta and Valentin Rakita, in Russian. Restricted until 1981.

• Gherardi Davis (1858-1941)

  Papers, 1828–1940, 6 boxes and 6 vols. Lawyer, state legislator, and deputy police commissioner of New York City. Correspondence, notes, and illustrative material about flags of Russia (and other nations), plus a typed copy of The Story of My Life, ca. 106 pp., which includes recollections of conversations with German army officers about the Russo-Japanese War, ca. 1904. (NUCMC 68–1680)

• Giers (Girs) Family

  Papers, 1859–95, 7 reels of microfilm. Reproduction of manuscripts, mostly letters, of Nikolai Karlovich Giers and his family (in French and Russian).

• Giovanni Francesco Commendone (1524-1584)

  Diplomatic correspondence, 1563–65, 1 vol. Catholic cardinal, envoy to Poland in the mid-16th c. Correspondence, in Italian, from Warsaw and other Eastern European sites to Cardinal Borromeo, discusses ecclesiastical and political affairs in Poland and Eastern Europe, including Russo-Polish relations. These are handwritten transcripts. (NUCMC 74–526)

• Granville Hicks

  Typed draft with his revisions of his book John Reed: the making of a revolutionary (21 chapters and appendix, ca. 450 11.). John Stuart assisted him in the writing; Macmillan published it (New York, 1936). (Annex)

• Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786–1870)

  Miscellaneous personal name files D-Z. Correspondence received, ca. 1805–57, ca. 2,000 items and other papers, early 18th-mid 19th c., ca. 900 items. Author, politician, lawyer, and reformer. Includes 9 letters, 1829–31, from secretary of state Martin Van Buren to the U.S. minister to Russia.

• Gustav Manteuffel. Outline history of Livonia, 12th-19th c.

  In Polish, 2 vols., entitled Zarysy z dziejow krain dawnych inflanckich.

• Gustavus Vasa Fox (1821–1883)

  Miscellaneous personal name files D-Z. Papers, 1841–83, 8 ft. Assistant secretary of the navy. Traveled to Europe and Russia in 1866. Includes his diary for the time he was in the Russian Empire, plus related documents. (NUCMC 60–2751)

• Harold D. Lasswell and Dorothy Blumenstock

  Typescript with manuscript corrections: "World Revolutionary Propaganda," 413 pp.; published by A. Knopf (New York, 1939). (Annex)

• Harold Manchester Fleming (d. 1971)

  Papers, 1922–71, 12 cartons. Financial writer. Includes family correspondence, 1922–24, during his service in the American Relief Administration in Russia and as a journalist in China, plus a memoir of this period. (NUCMC 74–528) (Annex)

• Herma (Hoyt) Briffault (b. 1898)

  Papers, ca. 1951–73, 1 package. Author and translator. Includes a typescript entitled "To the Yukon and Beyond," about the Russian-American telegraph expedition to the Arctic regions of Alaska and Siberia; copies of source materials relating to this expedition; correspondence about publication of the manuscript; and related items. There are some letters of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. (NUCMC 76–1500)

• Horace Newton Allen (1850-1932)

  Papers, 1855–1915, ca. 12 boxes. Medical missionary in Korea, secretary of the Korean legation in Washington, D.C., and minister to Korea. Diaries, letter books, account books, correspondence, photos, and native periodicals. There is information on T. Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War.

• Ilya Ehrenberg (b. 1891)

  Typescript of "The tempering of Russia," 426 pp., plus a corrected copy of the same, 424 pp. (Annex)

• Innokentii Nikolayevich Seryshev (b. 1883)

  Orthodox priest. Typescript of his "Strana samuraev; peshkom po iaponskim shkolam" (Sydney, Australia, 1948), with the title in Japanese also—it concerns 20th c. Japanese education; and "Problema mezhdunarodnogo iazyka" in 2 parts (Sydney, [1949]).

• International Committee for Political Prisoners

  Records, 1923–42, 7 boxes. Materials detail its investigations into conditions and treatment of political prisoners in the Soviet Union and other countries (e.g., Canada, China, France, and India). 4 of the more interesting cases reported on were those of A. DeWit, 1937–38, Styopa Diebetz, 1938, Julius Simon, 1938, and Zensl Muhsam (Muehsam), 1936–40. Press releases, minutes of executive committee meetings, and correspondence deal with this same theme of political repression. The collection also holds a typescript by R. Abramovich, undated, entitled "Persecution of Russian Socialists by the Soviet Government." Among the group's correspondents were Henry G. Alsberg, Alexander Berkman, Harold Denny, Felix Frankfurter, L. S. Gannet, Emma Goldman, Z. Muhsam, Bertrand Russell, Upton Sinclair, Harry F. Ward, and the Soviet diplomat Alexander Troyanovsky. In 1925 the committee published its book Letters from Russian Prisoners. Unpublished inventory (NUCMC 76–1517).

• Isabel Florence Hapgood (1850-1928)

  Papers, 1886–1922, 5 boxes. Author and translator. Contains correspondence with prominent Russians, including artists, writers, musicians, and churchmen, mostly in Russian, about their own cultural fields and world and Russian political affairs. Some letters are of Petrovo Solovovo Perovsky (Count Mikhail Mikhailovitch), written between 1906–22, concerning politics and particularly the start of the Revolution of 1918 [sic] and its later effect on the Russian nobility. There are photographs and papers on the women's education movement in Russia and about the "Kate Marsden Case" as well. Among Hapgood's correspondents and persons noted in the papers were Count Leo N. Tolstoi [Tolstoy], countesses Sophia, Alexandra, and Tatiana Tolstoi [Tolstoy], Baroness A. Budberg, G. Bakhmeteff, Sophie Davydoff, Countess Speransky, Maksim Gorkii, M. M. Ipollitoff-Ivanoff, Alexandra Lvoff, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, Prince Alexander K. Meshcherskii, E. Naryshkin, Alia Nazimova, K. P. Pobedonostsev, Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, I. E. Repin, Baron R. R. Rosen, Count A. D. Scheremetieff, S. Stepniak (Kravchinskii), Sergius Witte, and General A. V. Verestchagin. Materials date from 1886–1926. Unpublished finding aid (NUCMC 71–1214).

• Ivan Strigutski. "Ocherk Ropshi, imeniia Gosudaria Imperatora."

  Manuscript. Compiled by I.S. (Ropsha?, 1881; 200 pp.), with the bookplate of the Grand Duke Vladimir Aleksandrovich.

• Izrail Bril'on. "Forced Labor; the memoirs of a revolutionist."

  Typed and handwritten manuscript. ca. 370 pp. Published in modified form in Moscow in 1927, the book lacks Chapter 1 and its last chapter differs from the corresponding one in this manuscript. (Annex)

• J. Harris. Logbooks, 1807-10

  6 vols. British midshipman. Logs kept while on board HMS Temeraire on a long voyage around Europe. The ship went from England to Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Russia. From Reval it set out again for Spain and was in Russian waters ca. late 1809 or early 1810.

• Jacques Kayaloff Papers (1829-1989)

  6 linear feet (12 boxes). Collection consists with the Armenian Etat Major and includes original documents, reports, memoirs, manuscripts of unpublished works, copies of books and articles in Armenian, English, Russian, and French. Finding aid available: http://archives.nypl.org/grd/22231

• James Asheton Bayard

  See under U.S. Mission to Russia.

• James Chrystal (1832-1908)

  Papers, 1871–1908, 3 boxes and 4 vols. Episcopal minister. Includes clippings about "God's judgment on Russian idolators." (NUCMC 68–1093) (Annex)

• James Copland

  Logs, 1818–21, 1 vol. Sea captain. Log of a voyage from New York to Hamburg and to St. Petersburg, kept by Copland, the commander of the brig Boxer, employed by J. J. Astor. Includes his observations and information on social entertainment in the ports, 1 March-9 May 1818 for Russia.

• James F. C. Wright (b. 1904)

  Typescript entitled "Slava Bohu, the story of the Dukhobors" (published by Farrar and Rinehart, 1940).

• Jan Waclaw Machajski

  Unfinished essay—a critique of socialism—translated by his wife from Polish into Russian [Paris, 1911], 51 pp., mostly in her hand; plus a photostatic copy of the essay.

• John Bigelow (1817-1911)

  Papers, 1839–1912, over 38 boxes and 63 vols. Includes his letters to Secretary of State W. H. Seward, confidential, 1862–66, and official, 1866; Seward's letters to Bigelow, 1856–68, all bound; and Bigelow's diary for 1843–53 and 1859–1911, 39 vols. There is information on the purchase of Alaska from the Russians. (NUCMC 73–671)

• John Jacob Robbins

  Papers, 1893–1953, 13 boxes and 1 package. Author and translator of Russian literature. At least 3 boxes contain letters, photos, and manuscripts of interest. Box 1 holds typescript articles on Mikhail Lermontov, Konstantin Stanislavsky, and Russian war poetry, plus a short sketch on "My Friend Soudeikine," holograph, presumably the painter Sergei Iu. Sudeikin. In box 3 are translations of Russian verse, including works of Lermontov, A. Blok, V. Ivanov, I. (?) Krylov, Kuzmin, Voloshin, and A. S. Pushkin (Boris Godunov). The original typescript in Russian (incomplete) of Stanislavsky's My Life in Art—with corrections in Stanislavsky's own hand—is in box 8. There are also manuscripts and typescripts in English translation of B. Lavrenev's "The Road Begins," Vladimir Solovyov's "Field Marshal Kutuzov," 5 acts, N. Pogodin, "Chimes of the Kremlin," 3 acts, and Pushkin's "Feast of Death," "The Miser Knight," and "Mozart and Salieri." Unpublished inventory (NUCMC 73–703).

• John Ridley

  1 vol. British mariner. Log of the brig Tirzal for 23 May-23 July 1849, with expense accounts on sundry voyages, 1849–50, primarily between Liverpool and ports on the Black Sea. Written in "Old Moore's improved New Almanac for 1844."

• John Rogers Hudson (b. 1784)

  Papers, 1778–1829, Massachusetts merchant. Letters, 1803–29, and accounts, 1778–1813, relating to Atlantic coast towns, the West Indies, Russia, Holland, Sweden, and Great Britain (box 2).

• Joseph Gardner Swift (1783-1865)

  Papers, 1815–58, 1 box. Soldier and civil engineer. Had some business contacts with Russia. One correspondent was George Washington Whistler.

• Levi Hayden

  Diaries, 1864–84, 4 vols. Marine engineer from New York City. In 1878 he traveled widely in the Russian Empire for business purposes (viz., river and harbor dredging). Some 25 pp. of handwritten diary entries describe his impressions of Moscow, Taganrog, the Azov Sea, Mariupol', Kerch', Yalta, Sevastopol', Odessa, Nikolaev, and St. Petersburg. (NUCMC 73–676)

• Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940)

  Papers, 1893–1940, 47 boxes. American social worker and pioneer in public health care. Wald founded a visiting nurse service in 1893 in New York City and also a settlement house. Includes correspondence with Jane Addams about the Russian Revolution and with Mrs. Vladimir Simkovitch (wife of a Russian agrarian historian). Unpublished finding aid. Note: The entire collection is available on master negative microfilm.

• Log Books

  Log of the brig Czarina, a merchant ship, commanded by Captain Wolston Dixey, master, for 13 January 1834–6 July 1837, 167 pp. 3 voyages from Boston to Cronstadt, Russia, the first and last via Cuba. Cargoes included hemp from Russia and sugar from Cuba.

• Luigi Palmer di Cesnola (1832–1904)

  0.1 linear feet (1 folder). Correspondence, 1870–73, 50 items. Archeologist. Typewritten copies of letters exchanged between Cesnola, the Imperial Hermitage Museum, and the Museum's agents, all concerning archeological matters, primarily Cesnola's excavations on Cyprus. A proposed sale of a Cypriot collection and some other Mediterranean art objects to the Hermitage did not materialize.

• M. R. Parkman

  Diary, 5 March-23 April 1871, of a young woman traveling through Egypt and the Holy Land. She describes the Armenian and Russian quarters of Jerusalem, 3 vols.

• Marcia van Dresser-Gertrude Norman

  Collection, 1 box. Correspondents include Clara (Clemens Gabrilowitsch) Samossoud.

• Mary Stoughton (Mrs. Edwin Wallace Stoughton)

  Diary, 1878–79, 2 vols. Wife of a U.S. minister to Russia. Diary for 23 May 1878–16 February 1879 describing travel in western Europe and official life at the Russian court in St. Petersburg.

• Michael Pankiw (1894-1956)

  His Ukrainian poetry, plus Dr. A. Sokolyszyn's "Ukrainian poetry of Michael Pankiw," original manuscript, typescript, and galley-proofs.

• Miriam (Shomer) Zunser (d. 1951)

  Papers, ca. 1900–1907, 1 box and 1 package. Author. Includes reminiscences of her mother's family and their life in Russia in the 19th c.; a journal of her European travels; and some genealogical notes. (NUCMC 71–362)

• Mstislav Valerianovich Dobujinsky (1875-1957)

  Papers, ca. 1914–52, 2 boxes. Painter, costume and stage designer. Includes notes for his apparently unpublished memoirs; notes; costume sketches; drawings; information about Russian stage designers and artists of the 19th and 20th c.; reminiscences of Constantin Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theater; and a chronology of the Russian art movement Mir Iskusstva. In Russian, English, and French.

• Nicholas N. Martinovitch (1883-1954)

  Papers, 1935–51, 1 box. Orientalist. Biographical sketch, correspondence, and manuscripts of monographs on Turkish subjects. Includes copies of Oriental and Persian manuscripts.

• Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevski (1828-1889)

  Radical writer. Die Nihilisten oder was thun?, a translation by Alexander Schlesinger, 1878.

• Nikolai M. Khrabrov (1869-1940)

  Papers, 1916–37, 1 box. Russian army officer (major general) stationed in the U.S. during 1916–17, first as president of the artillery section of the Russian Supply Commission in the U.S. and then as head of the entire supply organization. Remaining in America until 1919, he returned to Russia, whence he again came to the U.S. after a 1-year stay in Siberia. Personal correspondence, 1916–17, discusses his work on supplies and a suspicious explosion that destroyed a storehouse of Russian munitions in 1917. His memoirs, handwritten, 163 pp., concern his Siberian sojourn; part of these was published in Prague ca. 1930. (NUCMC 71–1243)

• Nikolai S. Karinsky

  See under V. R. Kachinskii.

• Norman Thomas (b. 1884)

  Papers, ca. 193 boxes. Author, lecturer, and leader of the Socialist Party in the U.S. Includes information on L. Trotskii's right of asylum and Russian history, plus criticism of communism and the Soviet government. 1 box in the Thomas family papers has biographical data on Norman Thomas. List of correspondents. (Annex)

• Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819-1905)

  Papers, 1852–98, 2 folders, ca. 60 items. Director of the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia. Includes miscellaneous documents relating to the scientific and civil service career of Struve (certificates of appointment to diplomatic posts and to honorary orders, signed by Alexander II and Alexander III); papers relating to his membership in the Imperial Russian Geographic Society; diplomas; birth certificates; curriculum vitae; and drafts of his letters requesting favors and appointments for his sons. In Russian, French, and German.

• Owen Family Papers, 1829-72

  2 vols., 70 11. Family living in New Harmony, Indiana, a communistic colony founded by George Rapp, 1814, and sold to the British reformer and socialist Robert Owen in 1825. Probably this family was that of his son, Robert Dale Owen. Includes a diary, September-November 1869, possibly written by Richard Owen, on a trip through southern Russia (Yalta, Kiev, and Odessa) and thence to the Near East.

• Patrick McCartan

  Doctor, envoy of the Republic of Ireland to Russia in 1921. Report on his contacts with Russia, typed copy, 34 pp. (In the Garrison-McKim-Maloney Collection/Irish Historical Collection—Miscellaneous Papers)

• Pieter Goos

  [Pere]vo s"knigi imen ema vo//ny mir. Sirech'krakoe opi//sanie o obreteni pervago mo//rskago karabelnago kho inovy neznatny zemel', [sic] (n.p., 1667). Cursive manuscript, 59 11. (In the Alexander the Great Collection, bound with the Church Slavonic manuscript described above under Aleksandriia.)

• Piotr Demyanovich Uspensky (1878-1947)

  Typescript entitled "Wheel of Life" (apparently published by A. A. Knopf). (Annex)

• Piotr Evgrafovich Stogov

  See under V. R. Kachinskii.

• Poultney Bigelow

  Signed holograph entitled "The German Emperor and the Russian Menace," 18 pp., and an ALS, bound, 1 p.

• Rand School of Social Sciences

  Ca. 6 items, a Bolshevik calendar, 6 pp., undated; "The Economic Work of the Soviets" (ca. 1918); Harry Wellington Laidler (?), "Russia" (1919?), typed, 55 pp.; Y. Stekloff's editorial on the attitude of Soviet leaders to the U.S. as compared with Germany (English translation from a Canadian Russian paper; original appeared in Izvestiia and was reprinted in Rabochii narod); Thomas D. Thacher, "Russia and the war" (New York City, 4 June 1918), a typescript, 11 pp.; and a "Letter from Alexander Trachtenberg to the Editor of The Evening Post, New York, on the Russian Revolution, 1917," carbon, 9 pp.

• Richard Watson Gilder

  4 letters of George Kennan (1888–93); 1 letter, n.d., concerning Russian players; 1 letter about Russia and a question of extradition, 1893; and a letter from Russia about the Tolstoi [Tolstoy] Fund, 1892. (NUCMC 69–875)

• Robert Blakey (1795-1878)

  Historical sketches on various European countries, including Russia, ca. 1830(?). (Part of the DeCoursey Fales collection)

• Robert J. Alexander

  Ca. 2 boxes total. Interviews with labor leaders, almost all from South America but also from Latvia and other European countries, ca. 1952–54. Restricted.

• Rose Pesotta (1896-1965)

  Papers, 1922–65, 45 boxes and 3 packages. Labor union official. Some family letters are in Russian. Correspondents include Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and David Dubinsky. Unpublished inventory (NUCMC 76–1536).

• Rossiiskoye Bibleiskoye Obshchestvo

  General Committee. 2 ff. contain a manuscript translation of the original Russian source concerning revision of the Esthonian Quarto Bible; and there are reports on the work of the General Committee, 21 ff., n.p., n.d. Materials are from 1870–74.

• Rostislav Polchaninov Collection (1941-2000)

  6.5 linear feet (15 boxes). The Rostislav Polchaninov collection consists of guidebooks from the former USSR catalogs of bookplates, postcards, labels for match boxes, photographs, match boxes and materials for the history of Russian Boy-Scouts. Finding aid available: http://archives.nypl.org/grd/22079
  

• Russia- Libraries. Cablegrams, 1944

  7 items. From librarians in Moscow addressed to the Library Journal, New York, 9 July-22 August 1944, reporting successful efforts to preserve public and private libraries in the USSR. They note the destruction wreaked by the German army, and discuss student use of libraries in war conditions and the impact of the weather.

• Russian Artillery Commission of North America Records, 1917

  Of an investigation made by Lt. Boris Brazol of the Russian Supply Committee of the Russian Artillery Commission into allegations that an official of the Commission had engaged in espionage and treason against the Russian government with agents of the Central Powers in New York. Included are copies of reports of verbal examinations made by Brazol and other documents relating to the investigation, typescript copies in Russian and English.

• Russian Lawyers' Association in U.S.A Records, 1922-47

  1 box. Correspondence, etc., largely in Russian, of an organization of emigre Russian attorneys. They worked to establish contact and cooperation with American lawyers' groups.

• Russian Literature

  Under this heading the catalogue lists an 18th c. manuscript entitled "Raznost' i priiatnost'" which contains selections from Trudoliubivaia pchela and other Russian periodicals of the late 18th c.

• Russians in U.S.

  Ca. 1 box. This rubric covers 2 separate holdings: issues of "Gazeta 'Ostrova Slez'," a daily newspaper in manuscript, edited by a group of deportees, mainly Russians, at Ellis Island, New York (numbers 2–4; 7–9 January 1920)—text in Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, German, Lithuanian, and English; and a box of "Materialy dlia istorii Federatsii russkikh organizatsii v Amerike, ee Filadel'fiiskogo otdela i Obshchestva izucheniia russkoi immigratsiin (New York, 1918–24). These latter papers include correspondence, protocols of sessions, and communications of members. The Society for the Study of Russian Immigration was New York-based. (The catalogue also lists this holding under the heading "Federation of the Russian Organizations in America.")

• Sergei Iulevich Witte (1849-1915)

  Typescript portions, ca. 100 pp., of the count's memoirs, translated and edited by Abraham (Avrahm) Yarmolinsky (whose edition appeared in 1921) plus some notes used in the translating work.

• Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov (1871-1944)

  A Marxist in his youth, Bulgakov became a priest and religious philosopher and teacher. His typescript, in Russian, entitled Ob imeni i Imeni (The Philosophy of the Sacred Name), has handwritten corrections, ca. 19377, 400 pp. It was published as Filosofiya Imeni (Paris, 1953). (Annex)

• Stedman S. Hanks (b. 1889)

  Papers, 1956–67, 53 vols. Correspondence, photos, documents, clippings, etc. about the history of Borzoi dogs and introduction of the Borzoi into the U.S. Unpublished listing (NUCMC 70–333). (Annex)

• Stella Marek Cushing

  Papers, 1928–37, 1 box. Journals, or letters, of her travels in Europe; collection of folk-songs, dances, costumes, etc. for lecture-concert programs in the United States; letters to her; and program notes. She visited most Eastern European countries, including Russia, 1928–34. (NUCMC 68–1107)

• Tello Jaen D'Apery (1876-1949)

  Correspondence, 1889–97 and 1902, ca. 200 items. Editor and publisher of The Sunny Hour, a monthly for children. From contributors, subscribers, and others, mostly in Europe, 1889–97, 1902; some are from Russia. (NUCMC 76–1505)

• Theodore P. Ion (d. 1940)

  Historian. Typescript of some chapters, with parts of a preliminary draft (revised) and references to sources in his hand, of The Political and Diplomatic History of the Eastern Question. (Annex)

• U.S. Mission to Russia, 1813

  Official papers of John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin, and James A. Bayard, envoys extraordinary to the tsar. Includes letters of credence; notes between the Americans and Count Nikolai Romanzoff (Rumiantsev), chancellor of the empire, about Russia's offered mediation to the U.S. and Great Britain during the War of 1812; and dispatches to the secretary of state. Bound with these 24 transcripts, 57 pp., are copies, 46 pp., of Bayard's letters to Caesar A. Rodney, 1802–14. (NUCMC 68–1050, under James Asheton Bayard)

• U.S. Treaties

  5 items. Photostat copies (made in 1932) of papers in Russian governmental archives concerning proposed negotiations for a treaty with the United States that became the Treaty of 1832. There are correspondence between U.S. minister to Russia James Buchanan and Count Karl Robert Nesselrode, Russian foreign minister; Nesselrode's confidential report to the tsar; the draft of a dispatch from Nesselrode to Baron Sacken, Russian charge d'affaires in Washington; and a summary of views concerning the principles of neutrality. The originals date from 14 June-18 December 1832. 4 of them are in French.

• Vasilii Aleksandrovich Potto. Istoriia Novorossiiskago dragunskago polka, 1803-1865

  [St. Petersburg, 1866], 2 vols., with tables—a manuscript presented to the Grand Duke Vladimir Aleksandrovich. Engrossed copy of a printed work which is in the NYPL Slavonic Division.

• Vasilii Nikolayevich Stroyev (?)

  Manuscript presumably written by Stroyev; bears the heading "Veselovskie: Avraam, Issak i Feodor—russkie gosudarstvennye liudi XVIII stoletiia,' n.p., n.d., 8 11.

• Viktorin Romanovich Kachinskii (b. 1891)

  Typescript of a book edited by Nikolai Sergeyevich Karinsky—Istoriia letnago dela v Rossii do padeniia Imperii (New York, 1944–45). 3 illustrated volumes contain essays by Karinsky (history of flight in Russia to World War I), B. (?) P. Dudorov (aviation in the Baltic Sea area, 1912–17), Kachinskii (aviation in the Black Sea region, 1912–17), Boris Vasil'evich Sergievskii ("Zapiski voennago letchika /voiny 1914–1917 g.g./H), and Piotr Evgrafovich Stogov (radio and sea flying).

• Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858-1943)

  Translation of his My Life in the Russian Theatre by John Cournos, typed with manuscript corrections, ca. 185 pp., plus the typescript in Russian as published in Moscow in 1936. (Annex)

• Vladimir Nikolayevich Smol'yaninov

  "Vospominaniia" in manuscript.

• Waldemar Jochelson (1855-1937)

  Collection, 1909–11, 6 boxes and 12 card files. Russian ethnographer. Aleutian linguistic and ethnographic materials collected on the Riabushinskii expedition of 1909–11. There are 81 coherent texts of folklore, tales, and traditions, plus Aleut-Russian and Russian-Aleut dictionaries in 9 card files. Roman Jakobson has supplied these Aleut holdings with a descriptive catalogue summary and they have been published by Avrahm Yarmolinsky as the Aleutian Manuscript Collection (New York, 1944). In addition, the collection has 3 card files of notes and writings, in English and Russian, on the language, customs, history, geography, and exploration of the Kamchadal people of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia from 1910–11. Materials include many folk tales in the Kamchadal language with English translations. Part of these have appeared as Kamchadal Texts Collection by Waldemar Jochelson, published by Dean Stoddard Worth (Mouton, 1961). Unpublished index cards (NUCMC 68–1658).

• William Frey (1839-1888)

  Papers, ca. 1860–88, 4 vols. Russian-American social reformer and Positivist. Born Vladimir Konstantinovich Heins, Frey came to America at the age of 29, forsaking a promising academic career, with the idea of founding or joining a communal agrarian settlement. He became a U.S. citizen; worked in both New York City and St. Louis, Missouri; founded 1 farm commune in Oregon and another in Cedar Vale, Kansas; and converted from a romantic socialism to Positivism (influenced by H. Spencer and A. Comte). He returned to Russia in 1885 to preach a new "religion of humanity," became close to Leo Tolstoi [Tolstoy], and died in 1888. The library has ca. 375 items of correspondence, 1860–88, with Russian liberals and revolutionaries, American communists, and British and American Positivists, mainly discussing the Cedar Vale community, 1870–72, and his philosophical-religious ideas, many in Russian; plus his biography of Auguste Comte, over 196 pp. in Russian, and a few manuscript tracts on Positivism. Note: The library has an important mimeographed tract, in Russian, n.p., n.d., 100 pp., entitled "The Correspondence and Personal Interviews of William Frey with L. N. Tolstoy [Tolstoi], 1886," donated by George Kennan. (NUCMC 69–861) (Annex)

• Yaroslav S. Stetzko

  Outline of his life with his signature and that of the donor, Dr. A. Sokolyszyn ("Freedom for every nation and social justice for every human being").

• Yevgenii Nikolayevich Chirikov (1864-1932)

  Novelist. 18 letters and a short story ("Oduvanchik") by Chirikov; a letter to V. Chirikova; and 2 letters by Vasilii Nemirovich-Danchenko. Materials are handwritten and typed; many letters are to Nikolai Sergeevich Karinskii.