The archival collection, measuring 450 linear feet, contain documents dealing with the history of the Russian emigration as well as materials from Imperial Russia. These include papers relating to the activities of political, military, and social organizations; the correspondence of various prominent Russian intellectuals; the correspondence of notable leaders of the Orthodox Church; and several collections containing photographic material that documents life in pre-revolutionary Russia and the Russian diaspora.
These papers reflect the writings and research interests of Vasilii Ivanovich Alekseev, a historian, writer, and professor in emigration. Among his writings are works related to the Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union under the German occupation.
These papers contain numbered alumni publications of the Morskoe uchilishche (Imperial Russian naval academy), published in emigration by Ivan Mikhailovich Belavenets, and circulated privately to alumni. Included are lists of members, memoirs, and photographs.
This collection contains the correspondence of Viacheslave Grigor’evich Naumenko, pertaining to the forced repatriation of the Cossacks from Lienz, Austria during Operation Keelhaul.
These papers contain the correspondence, and writings of Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov, participant in the Don Cossack uprising of 1918, and ataman of the Don Cossacks in emigration since 1947.
This collection contains the correspondence and writings of Stefan Liashevskii, an geologist in the Soviet Union, an archpriest in the Russian Orthodox Church, a biblical scholar, and historian.