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Most of the collection consists of the files of the Vserossiiskii natsional'nyi tsentr (Tsentrosoiuz; All-Russian National Center), an anti-Bolshevik body based in the South during the Civil War, for 1918-1922. Other materials relate to the emigration in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, when Krovopuskov was an official of "Zemgor" and Vasilii Maklakov's assistant in the "Russkii ofis" in Paris. Also included are personal documents and photographs of Krovopuskov. Printed materials dating from the Civil War include publications of the White southern government (laws and decrees).

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, a subject file, minutes of meetings, membership applications, addresses, membership records, financial records and printed materials, all relating to the Society. Cataloged correspondents include Mark Aldanov, Mikhail Karpovich, George Fedotov, and other.

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, documents, subject files and printed materials of Sergei Grigor'evich Svatikov (1878/1880?-1942), Russian lawyer, historian, publicist, and public figure. The correspondence includes letters from Mark Aldanov, Vladimir Burtsev, Ivan Efremov, Georgii Grebenshchikov, Grigorii Lozinskii, Sergei Mel'gunov, Nikolai Rubakin, George Vernadsky and Mark Vishniak. There is a notebook that belonged to Vera Zasulich. Among the photographs are pictures of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Sergei Mel'gunov, and Aleksander Wielopolski. The manuscripts include several by Svatikov as well as many notes, lists and bibliographical compendia relating to his oeuvre. The subject files cover such areas as the Russian Reading Hall in Heidelberg, the Turgenev Library in Paris, and the Russkii akademicheskii soiuz (Groupe academique russe), also in Paris. The printed materials include clippings, materials from the Institute d'ʹetudes slaves, and a number of books by Svatikov.