Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files, printed materials, and memorabilia of historian George Vernadsky (Georgii Vladimirovich Vernadskii; 1887-1973). Most of the collection consists of his personal and professional papers, circa 1918-1973. Sizable groups of materials also concern members of his family, especially his wife Nina (1884-1971); his father, scientist Vladimir I. Vernadskii (1863-1945); his mother Nataliia E. Vernadskaia (1860-1943); and his sister Nina V. Toll' (1898-circa 1976).
The memoirs cover 1912-1922, but concentrate on 1918-1920.
The papers include office files and individual case files. The office files provide information on such topics as contacts with professional societies (such as AAASS and AATSEEL), grants and finances, particular professions, special projects, publicity, and conferences. There are also individual case files on the people who came to the Program.
Typescript memoirs "Svet i teni moei zhizni". The memoirs are edited and introduced by Mikhail Karachevskiĭ-Karateev. They touch upon her youth, the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War, emigration in Poland, World War II, emigration in the United States, and her subsequent round-the-world travels.
Manuscripts and memoirs of Vakar. The topics with which Vakar chiefly deals include: his military education and service; the role of the cavalry in the Imperial Army; emigre military groups in Europe; the Russian Defense Corps (Russkiĭ Okhrannyĭ Korpus) in Yugoslavia during World War II; and Russian emigre life in Argentina after the war. In addition to the manuscripts and memoirs, there are several posters and maps drawn by Vakar on military topics.
Baranovskii's memoirs describe his youth in Chernigov province; the events of the revolution of 1905 there; his education at the Vil'no Military Academy; his peacetime military service and wartime service in East Prussia; the 1917 revolution and his service in the Volunteer Army during the Civil War; and emigration in Cyprus, Egypt, and Bulgaria.
The memoirs of I︠U︡lii︠a︡ Squibb (or Skvibb) recount a number of episodes from her life including her early years in Tver ́("Nasha kukharka Tati︠́a︡na") and St. Petersburg ("Anna Fedorovna"). She also recounts her life in Shanghai where she worked for the Russian-Asian Bank and her emigration to Durban and later Cape Town.
Manuscript memoirs (15 p.) touch upon life in pre-revolutionary Russia and upon the Orthodox Church in Australia. Also included are several open letters and a pamphlet on the church.
Bound typescript memoirs that describe Elenevskai︠a︡'s childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, the period of the Revolution and Civil War, and the Russian emigration in Sweden and Finland.
