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Collection includes correspondence of family and personal letters from 1902-1973, including typed excerpts of letters written by Daragan to his wife from the Murmansk-Arkhangelśk region during 1919-20. The remainder of the correspondence deals with Daragan's business and naval and religious topics. Manuscripts consist primarily of Daragan's memoirs of his youth, family and naval experiences in northern Russia. There are family documents, the earliest of which dates from 1762, and family financial records. Other printed materials include two pre-World War I theater programs from St. Petersburg and Moscow. There are also photographs of the Daragan family, dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

There are two separate memoirs: the first written under the name I. Idelev and entitled"Li︠u︡di vne zakona (zapiski sovetskogo voennoplennogo v Germaniĭ)" (215 p.); the second is entitled "O sebe i o drugikh. Avtobiograficheskie zapiski. Chast' l: 1904-1942" (266 p.). There is also a bibliography of Dawletschin's writings.