Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and printed materials of Volzhanin. The correspondence includes two letters from Aleksandra Tolstai︠a︡. The manuscripts are all by Volzhanin himself, and include memoirs describing his World War I military service, his service in the White Army in Siberia, his arrest and imprisonment until about 1937, his service with the Germans during World War II, and his eventual emigration to the United States. Other manuscripts deal with noted figures in Russian history, the emigre press, and literature. There are a few photographs of Volzhanin and a number of clippings.

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, a document, a subject file, printed materials and scrapbooks of Tarydina. The correspondence includes letters from Rodion Berezov, Georgiĭ Grebenshchikov, Olǵa Spesivt︠s︡eva, Aleksandra Tolstai︠a︡ and I︠A︡kov T︠S︡vibak. While most of the manuscripts are Tarydina's own, there is an essay by Natalii︠a︡ Logunova, and a copy of one by Maksimilian Voloshin about Tarydina's father, General Nikandr Marks. There are several dozen photographs that chronicle emigre theatrical events she produced during the 1940's in New York in collaboration with her husband, I︠A︡kov Shigorin. There is a 1917 contract with the Bolśhoĭ Letniĭ Teatr and a subject file concerning Tarydina's father. The clippings and scrapbooks relate to Tarydina's theatrical career at the Moscow Malyĭ Theater, in Odessa and in New York as well as to her essays published in the emigre press.

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files and printed material. The correspondence is primarily from the 1920s and includes letters from G. E. Lv́ov and S. P. Mel'gunov and one or two items each from M. A. Aldanov, I. A. Bunin, N. V. Chaikovskii, A. L. Tolstaiia, V. F. Zeeler and others. The manuscripts are primarily in the form of notes in Polner's hand and include Polner's diary from the years 1919-1925. The documents belong to Tikhon Polner's brother, Sergei, and deal with the latter's expulsion from the USSR in 1921. There is extensive material in the subject files on the writings of Lev Tolstoĭ, including typescript copies of several Tolstoi manuscripts and clippings of the reviews of Polner's book on Tolstoi. Also included is a photograph of A. I. Herzen from the 1850s.