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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.