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George Vernadsky Papers, circa 1500-1973, bulk circa 1918-1973 100 linear feet
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).
Handwritten memoirs which discuss in part his legal work before World War I.
Edward von Falz-Fein Memoirs, 1996-2001 0.5 linear feet
Autobiography of Baron von Falz-Fein; memoirs of General Nikolai A. Epanchin, Director of the Corps of Pages; one photograph; and several postcards.
Leslie H. Dingyan Chen's collection of Historiographic Materials for a Biography of Chen Chiung-Ming, 1988 1.25 linear feet
Iurii Vladimirovich Zubov Memoirs, 1978 271 pages
Bound memoirs "S polkom pradedov i dedov v velikuiu voinu 1914-1917 gg." by Zubov.
Georgii Grekov Memoirs, 1977 247 pages
The memoirs "Moe postuplenie i 7-letnee prebyvanie v Voronezhskom Velikogo Kniazia Mikhaila Pavlovicha kadetskon korpuse" concern his military education.
The memoirs cover 1912-1922, but concentrate on 1918-1920.
Rachinskai︠a︡'s manuscript memoirs discuss her childhood in Samara, and her education in Khvalynsk in the Saratov Oblast and Moscow. The collection includes a photograph of Rachinskai︠a︡ dated 1976 and a brief manuscript entitled "Otryvki iz moeĭ tetradi." (6 p.).
One manuscript, entitled "Vesna ne pridet" (20 p.), chiefly concerns his efforts to get permission to emigrate. The other"I v Khrista i v Boga" (45 p.) disagrees with Aleksandr Solzhenit︠s︡yn's views on the relation between Russia and Communism.
Popov's typed manuscripts include his memoirs of his family through the Revolution, his work in Soviet factories from 1928 to the outbreak of World War II, and his analysis of the Vlasov movement.
Milovskiĭ's memoirs discuss primarily the Civil War in the Baltic region and on the Northwest Front, and the occupations of Vilnius by the Soviet and then the Lithuanian army in 1939. Milovskiĭ uses the pseudonym Aleksandr Sushkevich in these memoirs.
Ol'ga Tissarevskaia Memoirs, 1973 307 pages
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.
A magnetic sound tape with Ekaterina Grigor'evna Andresen's reminiscences about her childhood and adult life in Russia and the USSR, including about conditions under Stalin's rule in the mid-1930s.
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.
Memoirs of Tulint︠s︡ev. The handwritten memoirs were written during the 1971-1976 period and are primarily in the form of letters addressed to Lev Magerovsky. Along with general remarks about Russian history and culture, Tulint︠s︡ev discusses his military education, religious and folk customs, and his travels through the Caucasus and Siberia.
The typed memoirs "Ekaterinodar-Nachalo 1918 goda i nachalo Beloi Borb́y na Kubani" (10 p.) and "Sudb́a" (7 p.) discuss the Civil War period.
Evgeniia Krylova Manuscript, 1971 11 pages
The memoir "Trekhsotletie doma Romanovykh (lz tsikla, shto pamiat' moia pomnit)" concerns the celebration in 1913 of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Romanov dynasty in an unidentified town in western Russia.
Photocopy of Natalia L'vovna Murav'eva-Nei's manuscript memoirs Koleso zhizni. An Autobiographical Novel, (783 p.). This work was published in Japanese in the late 1960s.
The 30-page typescript provides an account of the events of 1917 from the point of view of a cadet in the Nikolaev Cavalry School in Petrograd, where Velikotnyĭ studied in 1916 and 1917. It also describes in detail Velikotnyĭ's experiences as an officer in the Volunteer Army from late 1917 until the evacuation of the White Army in Nov. 1920.
Manuscripts and photographs of Ol'ga Mikhailovna Artamonova including her memoirs, entitled "Moia sem'ia", and family photographs from the early 20th century. The memoirs concern the Depreradovich family, Siberia in the early 20th century, the Revolution and the Civil War, and the emigration in the Far East and the U.S.
Petrashin's memoirs are mostly brief fragments, and touch upon such topics as World War I, the Civil War, the USSR between the World Wars, anti-Semitism, and World War II. Many of the events discussed take place in the Ukraine and Belorussia.
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.
Stefanov's memoirs about the Civil War consist of two typescript sections: "Neuvi︠a︡dai︠u︡shchie listi︠́a︡" (44 p.) and "Odesskai︠a︡ evakuatsii︠a︡" (23 p.). He recounts his service in the White Army with particular reference to Kharḱov, Ekaterinodar and Odessa.
Mikhaĭlov's largely typescript memoirs discuss his experiences in the early part of the Civil War, his education, Grodno in 1905, and the Orthodox Church in China (including two photographs).
Manuscript and typescript memoirs (38 p.) that touch on such topics as his family history and his education.
Collection consists of typescripts of Emiliia Vitol'dovna Brusinskaya's reminiscences of Siberia in the late 19th century. There are also two newspaper clippings with her publications, 1 drawing, clipping with image of ballerina, and a brief essay (typescript) written by Konstantin Bruzinskii about his grandfather, Iakub Geishtor.
Ol'ga Lang Memoir, 1970 42 pages
Lang's memoirs "The Insurgent (Makhno) Army in Ekaterinoslav" give her memories of the Makhno army's occupation of Ekaterinoslav in late 1919; also included are some contemporary topical songs.
Three typescript memoiristic essays (112 p.) by Inna Konstantinovna Buttler, describing primarily her experiences in the Soviet Union during World War II, and to a lesser extent life in the Soviet Union during the 1930s.
General Mitrofan A. Moiseev's typescript memoirs "Byloe" describe his experiences in the Civil War.
Manuscript memoirs of Artur Georgievich Bitenbinder concerning his military education, the 1905 Revolution, World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Civil War.
Romankevich's typescript memoir (8 p.) is accompanied by six photographic slides of churches in Kiev and Shevchenko University. Romankevich was present at a meeting of students at the university in Kiev on the day after the announcement of the tsar's abdication from the throne had reached the city.
Mamontov's typescript memoirs consist primarily of a single manuscript entitled "Mes chevaux et chevauchees" (317 p.); there are also several short pieces. The memoirs discuss primarily Mamontov's military experiences in the White Army in the period 1917-1920.
Typescripts cover a variety of Soviet and anti-Communist topics with comments on Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. The manuscripts are of memoiristic nature and discuss the Soviet Union from ca. 1916-25.
Reingardt's memoirs are in the form of twenty-one brief essays devoted chiefly to Civil War events in the area of Ekaterinodar. He discusses general Kant︠s︡erov and the Markov Division (with which he fought) and also includes excerpts from the memoirs of fellow officers (notably V. P. Stet︠s︡enko) and contemporary newspaper accounts. In addition, there are brief descriptions of historical military events and nineteenth century military figures. The essay entitled "Vospominanii︠a︡ uchastnikov o Gen. Kant︠s︡erove" includes several photographs of Markov Division parades, training and encampments.
Popov's manuscript memoirs touch on his childhood and life in Siberia and Mongolia.
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.
Two notebooks with Di︠a︡di︠u︡n's handwritten memoirs; one notebook of Soviet jokes; and a pamphlet by V. N. Jernakov, Nikolaĭ Apollonovich Baĭkov (Melbourne, 1968).
Manuscript memoirs.
The collection consists of memoirs, manuscripts and a few related photographs. The memoirs cover Nevzorov's reminiscences of the 1905 Revolution through the 1917 Revolution.
V. Linden Memoirs, 1968 64 pages
Linden's manuscript memoirs discuss women's education in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg; Russian youth in the 1890s; the Crimea and Odessa in 1917-1919; Aleksandr Kerenskiĭ; her husband and family; and the situation of Jews in the Russian Empire. With typed transcript.
Irina Eval'dovna Elenevskaia Memoirs, 1967 242 pages bound
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.
Photocopis of typescript memoirs of Klavdiia Nikolaevna Bugaeva "Vospominaniia" and of E. N. Kezel'man (Bugaeva's sister) "Vospominaniia: Zhizn v Lebediani letom letom 32-go goda." There are corrections and proofreaders' and typesetters' corrections and notes (made by the editor and publisher). The manuscripts were published, in abridged form, in 1981 as "Vospominaniia o Belom", ed. John E. Malmstad.
Pavlov's manuscript memoirs, in two notebooks, discuss such topics as his family, childhood, and the evacuation from the Crimea at the end of the Civil War. Also included are issues of a mimeographed emigre veterans' periodical"Svi︠a︡z ́po ʹt︠s︡epiʹ markovt︠s︡ev" (1966-73), which was edited by Pavlov.
The memoirs of Catherine Chapatte-Milton discuss Milt́on's childhood and youth in a military-aristocratic family in Livny, Orlov province, Perḿ and in Moscow.
The memoirs discuss World War I and also the Revolution and Civil War in the same area.
Manuscripts by Voronkov. One manuscript is a short (6 p.), handwritten, autobiographical essay, in which Voronkov mentions his military education, his service in the Russian Imperial Army, his management of a military factory in WWI, and his emigration after the Civil War. The other manuscript"Svi︠a︡tai︠a︡ Ruś" consists of 80 poems written by Voronkov primarily about Imperial Russia, Russian Orthodoxy and the Romanov family. The collection also includes a copy of a Russian emigre newspaper published in Argentina ("Nasha Strana" 15 Feb. 1966) that contains an article about Voronkov's poems.
The memoirs describe the final days, in the Fall of 1917, of the Supreme Commander's Headquarters and his own subsequent mission to the Ukrainian government in Kiev on behalf of the Cossacks, especially the Don Cossacks.
The collection contains a manuscript (10 p.) entitled"Velikai︠a︡ kni︠a︡gini︠a︡ Anastasii︠a︡" and a memoir (54 p.) that deals with Makhonin's education at the Naval Engineering Academy in Kronstadt, Makhonin's service in the navy during World War I, his mission to England to inspect the production of war materials for Russia, his service in the Volunteer Army in the south of Russia during the Civil War, his work with the American Red Cross in Crimea, and information on General Krasnov's Cossack Army, which collaborated with the Germans during World War II.
Typescript memoirs "Vospominaniia o pervykh dniakh revoliutsii 1917 goda v Petrograde"
Typescript memoirs (220 p.) concerning pre-revolutionary Russia, her experiences during the Revolution and Civil War, and in the emigration in France.
Memoirs of Nikolaĭ S. and Sergeĭ S. Beli︠a︡ev that reveal details about their family, World War I and its aftermath, and the emigration to Finland.
The collection includes Romanovich's memoirs (15 p.) concerning the period 1914-1920, mostly focusing on her activities in the Don region during the Civil War. There are also two typescript poems by Romanovich.
Fragmentary typescript copy of a diary (34 p.) by Lakier covering the years 1917-1920 in Odessa and Sevastopol. Also included in the collection is a typescript copy of a memoir (20 p.) by Lakier's grandmother, Sofii︠a︡ Aleksandrovna Sushchinskai︠a︡, entitled "1920-i god. Begstvo iz Odessy v Sevastopol ́i evakuatsii︠a︡ iz Rossii v Egipet.".
"Gosudar* Imperator Nikolai Il-oi, graf S. Witte, Manifest 17-go Oktiabriai gody pervoi revoliutsii," 1905, pages 1-70. "Prodolzhenie vospominanii A.A. Spasskago," pages 71-129. "Graf Witte, Karatelfnye otriady - ekspeditsii i ego, Witte, Otvetstvennost1," pages 130-205. "Vozvrashchenie: A.I. Guehkov i ego fGolos Moskvy1," pages 206-350."Chetyre reki i odno more; vospominaniia, obnimaiushchiia vremia s1883-go goda (s piatiletniago vozrasta) po noiabr' 1920-go goda(Tom Chetvertyi)," pages 351-510
Manuscript memoirs "Zapiski emigrantki" that cover Kachalova's childhood in Warsaw, life in St. Petersburg up to the 1917 Revolution, and the Civil War.
Peter Landerman Memoirs, 1965 59 pages
Typescript memoir describes Landerman's experiences in Soviet prisons in 1963-65, after he was convicted of killing someone in an automobile accident. The manuscript was apparently prepared by George Feifer from an interview he had with Landerman concerning the latter's experiences.
Memoirs--mostly handwritten--of Vadbolśkai︠a︡. She spent several years in Persia with her husband, General Vadbolśkiĭ, who commanded Russian troops in northern Persia after the Russo-Japanese War. The memoirs focus on the personal and social life of Vadbolśkai︠a︡. With typed transcript of handwritten portions.
The typescript memoirs (10 p.) of Tal ́concern the activity of the Grand Duchess Tati︠́a︡na Nikolaevna's Committee for the Administration of Temporary Aid to Victims of War Deprivations (Komitet Velikoĭ Kni︠a︡zhny Tati︠́a︡ny Nikolaevny dli︠a︡ okazanii︠a︡ vremennoĭ pomoshchi postradavshim ot voennykh bedstviĭ) during World War I.
Manuscript memoirs that discuss such topics as the Civil War in the Smolensk region and Siberia; the NEP period in Moscow; the terror of the 1930s; and World War II. Belozerov began the war as a technician in the Soviet army; was captured by the Germans in 1941. He later served in Russian auxiliary units on the German side, and in 1943-1944 was sent to France where he joined the French Catholic partisans.
Memoirs in the form of an autobiographical letter and two essays (52 p. in all). The memoirs cover Falḱovskiĭ's experiences during World War I and the Civil War.
V. E. Sproge Memoirs, 1963 1 item
Sproge's memoirs are in the form of a 215 page bound manuscript, "Zapiski inzhenera," which is dated Zurich 1963. In his memoirs, Sproge discusses the 1913-1941 period, beginning with his training as a communications engineer. He describes the 1917 Revolution, his post-Revolutionary life in Kharḱov, and his travels through the Crimea. Sproge chronicles his experiences in the White Army with which he traveled to Rostov, Ekaterinodar and Novorossiĭsk. He then describes economic development during the twenties in the Ukraine, notably his association with electrification and water-power plants. The memoirs conclude with a description of Central Asia and Leningrad during the 1930's and Sproge's emigration in 1941.
The manuscript memoirs deal with such topics as the career of her father Pavel I. Miller, the 1905 Revolution and Glazenap's emigration to Norway. Also included is a personal document of hers from 1917.
Shilo-Nudzhaevskai︠a︡'s five brief manuscript memoirs (in all 28 p.) discuss the Civil War in the Ukraine and the Crimea, meetings with White general Shkuro, the evacuation of refugees to Turkey, the emigration in Bulgaria and France, and attempts to avoid the Soviet forces and return to France at the end of World War II.
M. Iordanskii Memoir, 1963 3 pages
Typescript memoirs "Svidetelskoe pokazanie" give an account of Iordanskiĭ's experiences during the Revolution of October 1917 in Moscow, and of a conversation about 1917 he had with General M.P. Ermakov.
Manuscript memoir that discusses Krasnokut︠s︡kiĭ's three meetings with Tolstoy in 1907 and 1909.
Memoirs of Tereshchenko. These extensive, uncollated manuscript memoirs discuss Tereshchenko's service in the Russian army in World War I; inthe White Army in the Ukraine and southern Russia in the Civil War; in the French Foreign Legion in the 1920's; and, in World War II, with German auxiliary forces, the NTS, and the Vlasov movement.
Shelepina's manuscript memoirs chiefly concern her service as a nurse in military hospitals at the time of the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War. Shelepina was in Petrograd in 1917-1918, and then went south to join the White army.
Mi︠a︡kin's memoirs discuss his journalistic career; acquaintances, including the Suvorins and the actress Nadezhda Plevit︠s︡kai︠a︡; the Civil War; the emigration, including the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists in Yugoslavia; horse racing in Russia; and his experiences as a displaced person in Austria after World War II.
A. E. Ussakovskii Memoirs, 1962 8 pages
The memoirs of Ussakovskiĭ. The collection consists of a typed memoir concerning the years 1916-1917, and a meeting in Samara in 1916 with V.N. Lv́ov, Procurator of the Holy Synod in the Provisional Government.
Typescript memoirs that discuss such topics as her childhood on her parents' estate; World War I; 1917 in Petrograd; 1918 in the Ukraine; the Civil War and the emigration in Constantinople, Germany, and Poland; and World War II in Poland.
Evgeniia Markovna Enno Memoirs, 1962 49 pages
Manuscript memoirs concerning Kiev, Kishinev, and Odessa.
Typescript memoirs discuss Ili︠́u︡shkin's army career, including his role in the supression of the 1905 Revolution.
Collection consists of two letters, five essays, and one photograph. The essays are reminiscences of such topics as a World War I battle, the Corps of Cadets, Imperial hunts, and World War II. Photograph of Kiev Corps of Cadets (Kievskii kadetskii korpus).
Get︠s︡' memoirs deal with World War I, the Civil War, the emigration in Bulgaria, and his experiences as a Russian translator for the Germans during World War II. Also included are clippings of articles by and about Get︠s︡.
Typescript memoirs "Proizvodstvo v ofitsery" by Boris N. Treti︠́a︡kov. The memoirs recount the ceremony in 1911 whereby Treti︠́a︡kov, having completed his military education in the Imperial Corps of Pages, became an army officer.
Linden's typescript memoirs "Vospominaniia o davno proshedshem" discuss life in the Crimea during the Civil War and the early years of Soviet rule, up to 1924.
Manuscript memoir ""Posle vtoroi mirovoi voiny: polozhenie starikov v katolicheskikh monastyriakh Petites Soeurs des Pauvres" that discusses the situation of elderly Russian emigres in France after World War II.
Sergei V. Vasil'ev Memoirs, 1961 10 items
Manuscript memoirs (69 p.) of Vasilév. The 10 short manuscripts, chiefly autobiographical in nature, deal with such topics as Vasilév's experiences during the 1905 and 1917 revolutions and the Civil War.
Korvin's memoirs, largely in typescript and in English, discuss his participation in World War I and the Civil War.
Helene Romanoff Papers, 1960-1963 27 items
The collection primarily consists of her typescript memoirs (65 p.) which cover events from 1917 to her husband's death at the hands of the Bolsheviks. Also included is correspondence, and her obituary from a newspaper in Nice.
The longer of the three typescript memoirs (58 p.) discusses Puzanov's whole life; the two briefer ones (7 p. and 16 p.) concentrate on the atrocities and the investigation in Evpatorii︠a︡, largely repeating the information found in the longer work.
The memoirs, which seem incomplete, cover Kasatkin's military education, World War I, the Revolution, and the Civil War on the Siberian Front. A large section of the memoirs concerns China and the Far East, where Kasatkin lived and worked as a trade officer in 1919-1959.
The memoir includes reminiscences about Balakirev, Repin, Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ, Shali︠a︡pin, Meyerhold, Akhmatova, Gumilev, Georgiĭ Ivanov, and other habituʹes of the Brodi︠a︡chai︠a︡ Sobaka.
Monte-Riko's typed memoirs describe his participation in the Civil War with the Red army in 1918-1918, and with the Whites in 1919-1920.
Al'ma A. Krants Memoirs, 1960 23 pages
Krant︠s︡' memoirs discuss her experiences in Petrograd during the Civil War, including her arrest and imprisonment, and also her experiences in rural Novgorod and Pskov provinces.
Aleksei A. Varzukevich Memoirs, 1960 29 pages
Typed memoirs of Varzukevich. The memoirs cover the period from 1904 to 1914, during which Varzukevich's regiment was stationed in the Far East and then in Odessa and Yalta. Varzukevich describes the end of the war with Japan, revolutionary agitation in the armed forces in 1905-1906, and military life up to World War I.
Marina D. Geiden Memoirs, 1960 60 pages
The memoirs primarily concern aristocratic life and the Imperial court in St. Petersburg in the early 20th century. A version of Geiden's memoirs has been published as Heyden, Marina de "Les rubis portent malheur", Monte-Carlo, Regain [1967], 315 pp.
Louis Guy Michael Memoirs, 1960 214 pages
The bound memoirs "Russian Experience 1910-1917" discuss Michael's adventures in Russia in 1910-1917. In 1910 he was hired by the Bessarabian provincial zemstvo to help landlords and peasants in that province improve their corn yields; he stayed there until 1916, when he returned to the United States. The first half of the memoirs covers these years, including extensive commentary on Bessarabian peasants, gentry, zemstvo politics, and some information on World War I. In 1917 he returned on a mission to study the Russian grain trade. He sailed across the Pacific with the American Red Cross Mission, spent August in Petrograd, and then travelled around Russia's Black Sea ports in September-November. In early November, he returned to Petrograd, and finally left Russia by the Trans-Siberian railroad in December. While the first half of these memoirs includes much first-hand information, the second half, on 1917, is more derivative in nature.
Memoirs of Fedor F. Kirkhgof and of his wife, Vera V. Fedor's typescript memoirs (in all 220 p.) are in six parts, entitled: "Vospominanii︠a︡ adʺi︠u︡tanta komendanta glavnoĭ kvartiry shtaba verkhovnogo glavnokomandui︠u︡shchego"; "Pokhod Leĭb-Gvardiĭ Izmaĭlovskogo Polka 1914-1918"; "Posledniĭ period Leĭb-Gvardiĭ Izmaĭlovskogo Polka"; "Moe vozvrashchenie s voĭny"; "Moi︠a︡ zhizn ́v Petrograde v 1918 i 1919 godakh i komandirovka osobogo naznachenii︠a︡ v Berlin v 1918 godu"; and "Moi︠a︡ zhizn ́na Ukraine v 1919 godu." The typescript memoirs of Vera Kirkhgof, entitled "Moi︠a︡ shkola" (16.), mostly discuss her education at the Shaffe girls' gymnasium in St. Petersburg.
Papers of Solomonovskiĭ, consisting primarily of his manuscript memoirs (ca. 300 p.). The memoirs mostly concern his experiences during World War II, but also touch on the Civil War and emigration. Also included are clippings and correspondence from 1964-1971 which concern various controversies relating to the ROA and World War II.
Kezar Bernard Memoirs, 1959-1965 1 folder
Manuscript memoirs (207 p.) that describe Bernard's experiences in the Soviet Ukraine between the Wars and the Second World War in the Vinnytsia area.
The collection consists of a typescript copy of a fragment of a diary (14 p.) by Vladimir Pavlovich dated 1903, a typescript copy of his memoirs (71 p.) dated 1910, and a typescript (15 p.) of the memoirs of I︠U︡stina Kruzenshtern, Vladimir's daughter, concerning the years 1906-1914. The memoirs primarily concern Russian military expeditions, military life in Manchuria and Russian relations with the native population.
Manuscript memoirs, entitled "Perezhitoe" (11 p.). One manuscript gives general autobiographical facts and the author's political views. The other manuscript describes life on his family's estate during the early 20th century.
Aleksandra A. Smugge Memoirs, 1959 250 pages
The memoirs of Smugge, nʹee Gori︠a︡chkina, which cover the 1880-1955 period, begin with a vivid description of her early life in Irkut︠s︡k. She then chronicles the years she lived and studied in Geneva and Paris before returning to Siberia and thence moving to Harbin, Port Arthur and, in 1902, to Vladivostok. The next section of the manuscript deals with her marriage to Evgeniĭ M. Smugge, a railroad engineer, and their life and work in Turkestan (1907-1910) and Odessa (1910-1911 and 1916-1920). The memoirs then turn to the Civil War period and the Smugges' evacuation via Constantinople to Yugoslavia where they lived until 1925. Following a description of the 1926-1944 period, when the Smugges lived in Riga, the memoirs end with the evacuation to Germany and their life there. A few revised sections are appended to the very end of the manuscript. The memoirs are in 5 notebooks and total ca. 250 pages.
Pavel Shteingel' Manuscript, 1959 154 pages
The manuscript concerns the adventures of an Armenian fugitive and partisan in the Caucasus mountains, before and during World War I. It is not clear how much of the story is fiction or non-fiction.
Petr Petrovich Isheev Memoirs, 1959 148 pages
Typed memoirs "Itogi semidesiatiletiia" discuss such topics as Isheev's family and education; the 1905 Revolution in Riga and Jelgava; his contacts with the world of theatre and journalism in Russia; World War I and the Civil War; and the emigration in Bulgaria, France, and the United States, where he was again involved with cultural activities and journalism.
Hedwig von Heyking Memoirs, 1959 40 pages
Typescript memoirs "Aus politischer Haftzeit" discuss Heyking's experiences in Soviet-occupied Germany, and her arrest and internment as a spy.
The larger part of Poli︠a︡nskiĭ's memoirs is entitled "Russkiĭ Korpus v Serbii, 1941-1945" (343 p.), and concerns the Russian Defense Corps in Yugoslavia. This body, in which Poli︠a︡nskiĭ served all through the war, fought on the German side. Two shorter manuscripts by Poli︠a︡nskiĭ are entitled: "Chto vspomnilos ́o passazhirskom parokhodstve po reke Volge" (17 p.), and "Chto sokhranilos ́v pami︠a︡ti o Nizhnem-Novgorode i ego zhizni, 1908-1917 gg." (38 p.).