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Columbia University: Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Columbia University: Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027, United States
Located in Butler Library, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is Columbia's principal repository for rare and unique materials, with holdings that span four thousand years of recorded knowledge, from cuneiform tablets to early printed books and born-digital archives. Each year RBML welcomes thousands of researchers and visitors to their reading room, exhibitions, programs, and classrooms.

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Start Over You searched for: Repository Columbia University: Rare Book & Manuscript Library Remove constraint Repository: Columbia University: Rare Book & Manuscript Library Place Ukraine -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 Remove constraint Place: Ukraine -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 Subject Emigration and immigration -- Europe -- 20th century Remove constraint Subject: Emigration and immigration -- Europe -- 20th century

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Volkonskiĭ, Petr Mikhaĭlovich, kni︠a︡zʹ , 1861-approximately 1946

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, subject files, maps, and clippings of Volkonskiĭ. The correspondence dates from 1905-1946 and chiefly concerns religious matters. There are letters from Russians at the Vatican, for emample, and some concerning Volkonskiĭ's financial affairs in emigration. The manuscripts are almost exclusively in the form of notes on church history. Volkonskiĭ was particularly interested in the possible merging of the Orthodox and Catholic churches. The documents include accounts and contracts. One subject files concerns a World War I field hospital, and another has extensive materials on the Ukraine during the period of the revolution and civil war (1917-1920).

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Zenʹkovskiĭ, V. V. (Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich), 1881-1962

Typescript memoirs of Zenḱovskiĭ. This collection consists of ten memoirs by Zenḱovskiĭ. In them he discusses such topics as his participation in the 1918 Ukrainian government; his participation in the life of the Russian Orthodox Church in Western Europe from the 1920's to the 1960's; and his participation in the Russian Christian Student Movement.