Papers of Zi︠a︡blov. Included is a copy of a letter from Moscow in 1919 by Zi︠a︡blov to his daughter, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and other miscellaneous items. Manuscripts include Zi︠a︡blov's travel diary of a trip from Moscow to the Black Sea and the Crimea in 1886, his memoirs, and lectures on engineering. The memoirs discuss his childhood and education (he graduated from Moskovskoe Tekhnicheskoe Uchilishche (Moscow Technical Institute)) in 1887; his work as a teacher and engineer; the 1905 revolution in Kolomna, where he was director of a machine works; and his continued engineering career through World War I and the early Soviet period. There are family photographs and photographs of unidentified groups, including Zi︠a︡blov, standing around locomotives. Also included is a pamphlet by Zi︠a︡blov"K voprosu o nemet︠s︡kom zasilí: Illi︠u︡strat︠s︡ii iz parovozostroĭtelńoĭ praktiki" (Petrograd, 1919).

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and subject files of Witte. The correspondents include Ivan S. Aksakov, Tsar Aleksander III, Tsar Nicholas II, Konstantin P. Pobedonost︠s︡ev, I︠U︡riĭ Samarin, Lev N. Tolstoĭ and Kaiser Wilhelm II. The manuscripts, which constitute over half of the collection, consist of Witte's memoirs and of his work on the Russo-Japanese War, and include a signed typescript essay by Lev N. Tolstoĭ. The photographs depict the signing of the Portsmouth Treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War (Portsmouth, N.H.). The subject files, which are primarily typescript copies of documents, refer to such topics as the various assassination attempts on the tsars, questions of agrarian reform, relations with Germany, and the siege of Port Arthur. There is also a framed pen and ink drawing depicting an event in Witte's public career.

The papers comprise correspondence, documents, institutional files, writings, lectures, memoirs, research notes, photographs, third party materials, printed materials, periodicals, microfilms, audio material, and digital files accrued by historian and professor emeritus of Columbia University, Leopold H. Haimson, during his professional life.

The collection includes Pli︠u︡shchevskiĭ-Pli︠u︡shchik's diaries for 1905-1909 (covering the Russo-Japanese War, and the 1905 Revolution) and 1914-1920 (covering World War I, the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Civil War). Among other manuscripts are a memorandum prepared by General Denikin's staff for the allied missions upon their arrival in Ekaterinodar (Nov. 1918) and Pli︠u︡shchevskiĭ-Pli︠u︡shchik's obituary of General Ivan Romanovskiĭ. There is also a photograph of Pli︠u︡shchevskiĭ-Pli︠u︡schik and Romanovskiĭ at Imperial Staff Headquarters in Mogilev in 1917.

Papers of Dmitrii Nikolaevich Liubimov, consisting of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials. Correspondents include Vasilii Maklakov and Boris Zaitsev, and there is a document signed by Boris Savinkov. Manuscripts include Liubimov's memoirs of his years in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "Russkaia smuta nachala deviatisotykh godov (1902-1906)", and others by him on many topics, often based on his personal experiences. Liubimov scrapbooks from the emigration include notes and clippings on various topics. There are materials relating to the activities of his wife, Liudmila Ivanovna, as representative of the Russian Red Cross in Poland in 1919-1922, including correspondence and a photograph album.

The memoirs discuss such things as his career, the investigation into the 1905 Odessa pogrom, the period 1917-1919 in Kherson, and the emigration in Constantinople and France.

Mel'nikov's manuscripts include his memoirs, "19 let na zemskoi sluzhbe: avtobiograficheskie nabroski i vospominaniia" (371 p.), describing in detail his service in governmental posts. Several other manuscripts in the collection discuss general problems of Russian developments and also his views on a future, non-Soviet Russia.

One manuscript entitled "Burnye gody" deals with the events of 1905 (especially in Kiev), and the attitudes of various leaders after the failure of the 1905 revolution. The other manuscripts are about Japanese mythology and English literature.

Typed memoirs that chiefly concern the events of 1904-05 in St. Petersburg. The longest memoir (42 p.) is entitled "Aus den Erinnerungen eines Augenzeugen: Der Blutsonntag vom 9/22 Januar in St. Petersburg: Der Pope Gapon." Gerby, at the time a Social Democrat, became acquainted with Gapon while working in workers' groups in St. Petersburg. There is also a brief French summary of the German manuscript. The other brief memoir concerns Gerby's encounters with Pavel Mili︠u︡kov in 1906 and 1940-41. Finally, there are clippings of two articles by Gerby (as A. Zherbi) from "Russkai︠a︡ Mysl"́, entitled "I︠U︡nosheskie vstrechi s Leninym.".

Typescript memoirs consist of a bound volume and some loose pages (in all 361 p.). The memoirs cover Kisel-́Zagori︠a︡nskiĭ's childhood, education, his years as a provincial official, the Revolution of 1917 and Civil War, and emigration in Turkey. Also included are two photographs of him.