Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Borel', Mikhail K., -1974, Borelʹ, Vera M., and Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
- Extent:
- 100 items and 1 box
- Language:
- Russian .
Background
- Scope and Content:
The collection includes correspondence and manuscripts, as well as copies of documents. The correspondence of General Alekseev is represented by extracts from letters of the periord of the Russo-Japanese War, and by copies of both official and personal correspondence from 1917-1918. Also included are a few letters to K. V. Denikina answering requests for information about General Alekseev; these include 2 from his daughter V. M. Borel'. The largest part of the collection comprises manuscripts by M. K. Borel'; a lengthy memoir of the Civil War entitled "Za veru i vernost'". Other Civil War memoirs, a number of brief historical anecdotes and stories of an account of the battle of Mukden by a British journalist named Atteridge, and a memoir of 1917 Soviet Russia by Sergeĭ Novikov called "Konets rodnogo polka" complete the collection.
- Biographical / Historical:
A principal commander of the White armies during the Civil War.
- Acquisition information:
- Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1966.
- Processing information:
Papers Accessioned 1966.
Papers Processed 06/--/81.
- 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
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