Collection ID: 4077631 BAR Ms Coll/N.N. Ivanov
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Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Ivanov, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikitich), approximately 1880-approximately 1960
Extent:
8 folders and 1 box
Language:
Russian .
Preferred citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nikolai Nikitich Ivanov Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Background

Scope and Content:

Ivanov's manuscript memoirs (550 p.) touch on the following topics: the attempts by the Duma to convince Nicholas II to abdicate in February, 1917; Petrograd in 1917-1918; the Civil War on the Northwest Front, including relations between the Whites and the new Estonian republic (Ivanov also discusses the Northwest Front of the Civil War in a book "O sobytiiakh pod Petrogradom v 1919-om godu" Berlin, 1921.); his internment in the French concentration camp at Vernet in 1939-1940; German use of former White soldiers during WW II; and the war in the Smolensk area in 1942-1943. Notably collection includes typescritp draft of Grand Dukes' Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Kirill Vladimirovich and Pavel Aleksandrovich Manifesto of March 1 1917 (manifesto on granting constitution) with N. N. Ivanov's holograph notes and P. Miliukov's signature. There is also a letter to Ivanov from General Johan Laidoner, commander of the Estonian army.

Biographical / Historical:

A member of the White Northwest Government during the Civil War; he was associated with the Kadet (Constitutional Democratic) Party.

Acquisition information:

Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1953.

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

Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1955.

Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1959.

Processing information:

Memoirs Accessioned 1953.

Memoirs Accessioned 1958.

Memoirs Processed 08/--/79.

Memoirs Accessioned 1955.

Memoirs Accessioned 1959.

Rules or conventions:
aapm

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

This collection is located on-site.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nikolai Nikitich Ivanov Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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