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Ivanov, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikitich), approximately 1880-approximately 1960

Ivanov's manuscript memoirs (550 p.) touch on the following topics: the attempts by the Duma to convince Nicholas II to abdicate in February, 1917; Petrograd in 1917-1918; the Civil War on the Northwest Front, including relations between the Whites and the new Estonian republic (Ivanov also discusses the Northwest Front of the Civil War in a book "O sobytiiakh pod Petrogradom v 1919-om godu" Berlin, 1921.); his internment in the French concentration camp at Vernet in 1939-1940; German use of former White soldiers during WW II; and the war in the Smolensk area in 1942-1943. Notably collection includes typescritp draft of Grand Dukes' Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Kirill Vladimirovich and Pavel Aleksandrovich Manifesto of March 1 1917 (manifesto on granting constitution) with N. N. Ivanov's holograph notes and P. Miliukov's signature. There is also a letter to Ivanov from General Johan Laidoner, commander of the Estonian army.

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Buryshkin, P. A. (Pavel Afanasʹevich), 1887-1953

This collection consists of two typescripts. The first is Buryshkin's doctoral thesis for an unidentified French institution in 1944, entitled "Les Sociʹetʹes Russes Nationalisʹees." The second is his memoirs about S. N. Tret'iakov, who became a Soviet agent in the emigration, entitled "S. N. Tret'iakov. Glava iz vospominanii".

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Szajkowski, Zosa, 1911-1978
This collection contains an eclectic variety of materials collected by Jewish historian, archivist, and bibliographer Zosa Szajkowski (1911-1978). Materials include organizational records, documents, correspondence, periodicals, printed ephemera related to Eastern European Jewish life in France in 1920s and 1930s and on the territories of modern Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland and Russia in the first quarter of the 20th century.