Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Messner, Evgeniĭ Ėduardovich, 1891-1975
- Extent:
- 700 items and 8 boxes
- Language:
- Russian .
Background
- Scope and Content:
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts by Messner and others, memoirs by Messner, photographs and printed materials. Manuscripts by Messner include a typescript (275 p.) entitled "Nekotorye prichiny porazhenii︠a︡ Germanii v voĭnu 1939-1945 g.g." Messner's memoirs (3293 p. and 350 p.) cover the years 1914-1973. Included among them are clippings, photographs, mimeographed materials and pamphlets. The majority of his memoirs concern World War I and the Civil War. Photographs are mostly copies. Printed materials consist mostly of clippings of articles by Messner in South American monarchist periodicals.
- Biographical / Historical:
An officer in the White Army who emigrated to South America where he worked at the General N.N. Golovin Institute of Research on the Problems of War and Peace.
- Acquisition information:
- Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1957.
- Processing information:
Papers Accessioned 1957.
Papers Processed 02/--/80.
- 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
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Emigration and immigration -- Soviet Union -- 20th century
Emigration and immigration -- South America -- 20th century
Russians -- South America
World War, 1914-1918 -- Soviet Union
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union
Articles
Clippings (Information Artifacts)
Letters (correspondence)
Memoirs
Pamphlets
Periodicals
Photographic prints - Places:
- Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is located on-site.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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6th Floor East Butler Library535 West 114th St.New York, NY 10027, United States
- CONTACT:
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(212) 854-5590rbml@library.columbia.edu