Correspondence, manuscripts, a photograph and printed materials of Illarion Sergeevich Vasil'chikov. The catalogued materials consist of a copy of a letter to Vasil'chikov from B. E. Nold́e, and a copy of a poem dedicated to Vasil'chikov by A. A. Otsup, i.e., Sergei Gornyi. The manuscripts, all of which are by Vasil'chikov, are autobiographical in nature. They concern his service in the Imperial Senate (including a 1908 senatorial inspection tour of Turkestan), his participation in the Duma, his work with the Red Cross in 1917, and his membership in the All-Russian Orthodox Church Council of 1917. There are also essays about his family genealogy. The collection includes excerpts and clippings from various sources describing the Vasil'chikov family.
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The papers, which primarily concern Shmelev, consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials. The correspondence includes photocopies of letters from Petr Struve to Ivan Shmelev, and of letters from Shmelev to one Aleksandr Ivanovich. Manuscripts consist of Kutyrina's memoirs and essays about Shmelev; these draw heavily on correspondence of Shmelev, Ivan Bunin, Konstantin Balḿont, and Thomas Mann. Also included are Kutyrina's memoirs about the October 1917 Revolution in Moscow. Printed materials consist of books by Kutyrina's husband, the writer Ivan Novgorod-Severskiĭ.
Manuscript of Grigorovich's memoirs (ca. 250 pages) which begin with his childhood in St. Petersburg and conclude with his emigration to France in 1923. He primarily discusses his military experiences in the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the 1917 Revolution. He also describes his travels to the United States, England, and the Far East on various naval vessels and his service as naval attache in London from 1896-1898. The related materials include an essay about Grigorovich by A. de Loukine, two letters discussing the Grigorovich and Loukine manuscripts and an unsigned essay entitled "LʹOubli" which concerns Grigorovich.
The papers include a 1921 letter from Hickox's brother Eduard Ship in Petrograd to their last sister Marit︠s︡a in Tallinn concerning the fate of various family members after the Revolution. There are also three typescripts of Georgiĭ Kumming, one, entitled "Tri netochnosti", is an article by Kumming which questions various facts in the Bible, the other two are his Russian translations of German works on the Revelations of St. John and on the correspondence between Christ and Abgar Ukkam.
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents and printed materials of Tomilin. There are several letters from Georgiĭ D. Grebenshchikov. The manuscripts--all of which are by Tomilin--include essays, stories and autobiographical writings chiefly devoted to his career as a teacher in Russian and Soviet institutions as well as in DP camps following his emigration to Germany in 1945. The collection also includes his birth certificate and such printed materials as poems by Tomilin, an essay by his wife and a copy of "Luch" (Salzburg, 1954).
The materials relating to M.A. Lavrov include his diaries (which describe a round-the-world sea voyage he made in 1825-1827 with F.P. Vrangel)́, and an essay about him by Dmitriĭ N. Tikhobrazov. The materials concerning Adrian M. Lavrov include his diaries from the 1864-1906 period, and excerpts from letters to his wife. The M.A. Lavrov diary is dated 1892 and concerns his service as an Imperial page.
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, books and periodicals. There are two letters from Aleksandr Glazunov and one each from Aleksandr Grechaninov and Nikolaĭ Metner. The manuscripts deal with both cultural affairs and the Russian Revolution. Among the cultural topics are essays on music, Isadora Duncan, Maksim Gorḱiĭ and literary affairs. There are articles about general aspects of the Revolution and about such individuals as Lenin, Stalin, Chicherin, Dzerzhinskiĭ and Kamenev. Many of the articles are memoiristic in nature, particularly those about life in Moscow and in the provinces during the Revolution, Dzerzhinskiĭ and Kamenev. There are clippings of articles written by Sabaneev and a number of books and periodicals either written by Sabaneev or containing articles by him.
The collection consists of arranged correspondence (two items relating to the "Komitet za vozvrashchenie na rodinu") and manuscripts. Among the manuscripts are brief essays about the Russian Revolution, the Civil War and the cities Odessa, Simferopol ́and Komsomolśk na Amure before World War II. There is also an untitled manuscript by an unidentified author describing the blockade of Leningrad.
These papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials. The correspondence consists of typed copies of letters sent by Vinaver and Ivan Petrunkevich to each other. Manuscripts include a Duma speech by Vinaver on the Białystok pogrom of 1906 and two items on Russian politics by him. There is also an essay by Petr I︠U︡renev on the Vinaver-Petrunkevich correspondence. Printed materials include bound copies of "Zveno" for 1926-1928, and six books by or about Vinaver.
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, a photograph, and printed material, primarily from the period 1941-1957. Included are letters from Ivan Bunin, Marc Chagall, Mikhail Karpovich, Vasiliĭ Maklakov, W. Somerset Maugham, Vladimir Nabokov, Ili︠́a︡ Repin, Edmund Wilson, Boris Zaĭt︠s︡ev and many others. Manuscripts of his works include "Istoki""Nachalo kont︠s︡a""Zhivi, kak khochesh"́, and "The Escape" (English translation of "Begstvo"), such shorter tales as "Noch ́v terminale""Povest ́o smerti", and "Ulḿskai︠a︡ noch"́, as well as numerous articles, book reviews and essays. There are financial records for "Novyĭ Zhurnal", which Aldanov helped found, and the clippings are mainly articles about Aldanov. There is one late photograph of Aldanov.