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Manuscript memoirs that discuss Levitskiĭ's experiences during the Russo-Japanese War and as a staff officer in St. Petersburg before the First World War.

The collection consists primarily of manuscripts by Bragin, including his memoirs, which describe his military service during the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War. The documents and subject file relate to his service as head of the White military mission to Iran in 1920. Printed materials are largely clippings from and copies of emigre periodicals, with articles by Bragin.

"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

The papers include correspondence, photographs, and articles written by I︠U︡zefovich on the defense of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War. Also included are scrapbooks relating to his life and career; and printed material.

Papers of Alf́red K. Bentkovskiĭ that consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials. These items chiefly concern the monarchist group associated with the Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich in France in the 1920s. Bentkovskiĭ was chairman of the commission of foreign affairs of Grand Duke Kirill's "state council" (gosudarevo soveshchanie) in France in 1930. Files of printed materials concern the Mladorossy and the Russo-Japanese War.

The collection includes correspondence and manuscripts, as well as copies of documents. The correspondence of General Alekseev is represented by extracts from letters of the periord of the Russo-Japanese War, and by copies of both official and personal correspondence from 1917-1918. Also included are a few letters to K. V. Denikina answering requests for information about General Alekseev; these include 2 from his daughter V. M. Borel'. The largest part of the collection comprises manuscripts by M. K. Borel'; a lengthy memoir of the Civil War entitled "Za veru i vernost'". Other Civil War memoirs, a number of brief historical anecdotes and stories of an account of the battle of Mukden by a British journalist named Atteridge, and a memoir of 1917 Soviet Russia by Sergeĭ Novikov called "Konets rodnogo polka" complete the collection.

Russo-Japanese war - correspondence, photographs, diaries, journals which belonged to Boris Doudoroff (1882-1965).

The collection consists primarily of letters written to Gerua in the 1930s by other emigres who had formerly served as officers, such as Vladimir Kamenskiĭ and Vasiliĭ Gurko. There are also copies of letters by Gerua from the Far East at the time of the Russo-Japanese War. Also included are manuscripts by Gerua and by Nikolaĭ Rotshteĭn; sketches by Gerua of participants in the 1926 Zarubezhnyĭ Sʺezd (Congress Abroad) in Paris; and photographs.

The collection consists of two manuscripts, entitled "Istoricheskie tainy I︠A︡ponskoi voiny 1904-1905 gg. (Alexandria, Egypt, 1925) and "Zapiski, vospominani︠a︡, kritika, melkii︠a︡, Tom VIII, Mysli vosnikavshchii︠a︡ pri chteniĭ byvshago Frant︠s︡uzkago posla v Rossiĭ, Morit︠s︡a Paleologa: "T︠S︡arskai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡ vo vremii︠a︡ bolʹshoi voiny." (Alexandria, Egypt, 1928). Also included is a list naming Russians buried in the Orthodox cemeteries of Alexandria, Egypt, from 1880-1975.

Typescript memoirs that cover Kefeli's student years in Paris around the turn of the century, World War I in the Caucasus region, the 1917 revolution in Petrograd, and the revolution and Civil War in Odessa. Also included is a collective memoir of the siege of Port Arthur, compiled by Kefeli and other veterans of that seige.