Collection ID: 4077905 BAR Ms Coll/Pli︠u︡shkov

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Pli︠u︡shkov, Alekseĭ Ivanovich, 1897-1968
Extent:
110 items and 1 box
Language:
Russian .

Background

Scope and Content:

This collection includes approximately 75 stories, several collections of poems, and two novels by Pli︠u︡shkov; there are also about 25 essays by him on literary topics, and a brief autobiography. Photographs are chiefly of Pli︠u︡shkov and his wife. In addition, there is a photocopy of a document concerning the medical treatment given to Maksim Gorḱiĭ in 1887 by Pli︠u︡shkov's father after Gorḱiĭ attempted suicide.

Biographical / Historical:

Writer who wrote under the pseudonyms Siverskiĭ and Ugri︠u︡mov. Pli︠u︡shkov emigrated from the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Most of his publications were in emigre periodicals, and he taught at Cambridge University in the 1950s and 1960s.

Acquisition information:

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1965.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1969.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1969.

Processing information:

Papers Accessioned 1965.

Papers Processed 03/--/81.

Papers Accessioned 1969.

Papers Accessioned 1969.

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