Collection ID: 4077539 BA#0015

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Ivanov, Georgiĭ Matveevich, Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich, 1870-1938, Struve, Petr Berngardovich, 1870-1944, and Taube, Emmanuil N
Extent:
400 items and 4 boxes; 1 oversized folder in MAP 14-K-04
Language:
Russian .

Background

Scope and Content:

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials of Baroness Sofii︠a︡ I. Taube, writer and editor in Russia and the emigration who wrote under the name Sofii︠a︡ Anichkova. Among her books was "Zagadka Lenina." While in Russia before the 1920s, she edited such literary periodicals as "Skazki zhizni" and "Almanakh." There are single letters in the collection from Georgiĭ Ivanov, Aleksandr Kuprin, Petr Struve, and other writers. Manuscripts consist primarily of writings by Anichkova-Taube, including her memoirs of literary life in Petrograd in 1917-24: "Vechera poetov v gody bedstvii." Other manuscript items and drawings by other writers also concern these "poets' evenings." Also included are memoirs by her husband Emmanuil N. Taube about Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II. There are numerous photographs of Anichkova-Taube. Printed materials consist of her books, books inscribed to her, scattered issues of periodicals which she edited or in which she published, and newspaper clippings.

Acquisition information:

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1958.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1960.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1961.

Processing information:

Papers Accesssioned 1958.

Papers Accessioned 1960.

Papers Accessioned 1961.

Papers Processed 11/--/79.

Papers Revised 01/--/82.

Accruals:

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Rules or conventions:
aapm

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

This collection is located on-site.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027, United States
CONTACT:
(212) 854-5590
rbml@library.columbia.edu