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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.

There are letters from Russian emigre writers such as Mark Aldanov, Ekaterina Kuskova, Mikhail Osorgin, and Alekseĭ Remizov, and by western authors, including Henri Barbusse and Alexander Roda Roda. Manuscripts include memoirs, stories, and notebooks of Damanskai︠a︡. Printed materials consist of clippings of her articles, and one book by her entitled "Kartochnye domiki sovetskogo stroitelśtva" (1920).

Correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, sketches, photographs and printed materials of Dmitriĭ D. Sonzov, chiefly concerning hunting dogs.

Two notebooks with Di︠a︡di︠u︡n's handwritten memoirs; one notebook of Soviet jokes; and a pamphlet by V. N. Jernakov, Nikolaĭ Apollonovich Baĭkov (Melbourne, 1968).

Collection includes an untitled manuscript, a 712 page political tract, which deals with world events since 1914 in a strongly anti-Communist spirit; there are several drafts of a second treatise on a similar subject, which might have been intended by the author as a continuation of the first. This has been labelled "The Contemporary World Crisis." Also included are: multiple drafts of several shorter pieces on political-historical subjects; a few such pieces included in a single version only; a number of reports written to be delivered at emigre political congresses, chiefly those of the All-Russian National Union (Rossiĭskoe Nat︠s︡ionalńoe Obe̋dinenie); and some notes and jottings. For a list of the contents of each of the numbered stenographer's notebooks in which most of the manuscripts are written see the list compiled by Dmitrenko's literary executor, P. Sokolov, in Box 2.

The papers largely concern Russian military history and the emigre monarchist movement. There are two letters and typescripts on such themes as military education before World War I, the Benzeman family, and the kidnapping of General A. P. Kutepov in 1930. Also included are a pamphlet entitled "Imperator Nikolai II" (no author, published in Germany in 1948), and a binder entitled "Iz krasivogo proshlogo imperatorskoi Rossii" consisting of clippings of articles written by Benzeman.

The collection contains correspondence of this body, financial records, minutes of meetings, notebooks, documents, printed materials, and a coat of arms, all relating to the organization.

Iustinia Sushcheva's handwritten notebooks contain texts of lectures on history, literature, art, science and grammar delivered in the years 1868-1872. The lectures are recorded in both Russian and French, and, with the exception of four hand-written notebooks, they are in what appears to be hectograph format.

Notebook with mimeographed contents, "Genealogicheskie svedeniia o russkikh dvorianskikh rodakh, proisshedshikh ot vnebrachnykh soiuzov, s rukopisi K.A.G." (i.e., K.A.Gubastov).

Collection includes manuscripts and printed materials. Manuscripts consist of Fridév's memoirs, in six notebooks, about the volunteer White army in Southern Russia and the Crimea. There is a handwritten catalogue of the materials of the Russian Chamber of Commerce in the collection of the University of Paris, as well as a catalogue of the contents of the "Vestnik finansov, promyshlennosti i torgovli" for 1912. Printed materials include four pamphlets on various historical topics, and a copy of Lenin's "O proletarskom gosudarstve" (1924).