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Iuliia Sergeevna Squibb Memoirs, 1968-1976
9 itemsThe memoirs of I︠U︡lii︠a︡ Squibb (or Skvibb) recount a number of episodes from her life including her early years in Tver ́("Nasha kukharka Tati︠́a︡na") and St. Petersburg ("Anna Fedorovna"). She also recounts her life in Shanghai where she worked for the Russian-Asian Bank and her emigration to Durban and later Cape Town.
Mstislav Petrovich Golovachev Papers, 1898-1954
3000 itemsMost of the collection dates from 1918-1940, and concerns the Civil War in Siberia and the emigration in China. There is a long manuscript by Golovachev on the Civil War. Other manuscripts include memoirs by F. Porotikov on Admiral Kolchak, and one by V. Russii︠a︡n, a former tsarist police official, attempting to prove that Stalin was a police agent. Photographs include an inscribed portrait of Lev Tolstoĭ. Subject files concern various Siberian and Far Eastern institutions and organizations, and deal with both the Civil War and the emigration. Printed materials include books, pamphlets, newspapers, and clippings, again mostly on Siberian or Far Eastern affairs, or on the law.
Nikolai Andreevich Martynov Papers, 1930-1964
100 itemsMartynov's typescript memoirs (in all 1000 p.) discuss the Civil War and his life in China in 1923-1948. There are also Martynov's diaries from the early 1950s. Printed materials include issues of emigre periodicals published in China in the 1930s ("Parus," "Rubezh"), and issues of "Chasovoĭ" from the 1950s.
Vasilii Nikolaevich Kasatkin Memoirs, 1960
1 itemThe memoirs, which seem incomplete, cover Kasatkin's military education, World War I, the Revolution, and the Civil War on the Siberian Front. A large section of the memoirs concerns China and the Far East, where Kasatkin lived and worked as a trade officer in 1919-1959.