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Morningside Area Alliance records, 1947-1992
149 linear feetMstislav 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.
Nataliia Apollinarievna Logunova Papers, 1913-1972
8 linear feetNikolai Nikolaevich Kostylev Papers, 1905-1950
150 itemsThe papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, and printed materials. The correspondence is made up of letters sent by his mother, Olǵa Kostyleva, from Petrograd in 1916-1919. Kostylev's extensive manuscript memoirs (522 p.) discuss his life from his childhood and university education in St. Petersburg up into World War I. Also included are issues and clippings from "Slovo" and "Rus"́ with articles by Kostylev, and clippings from "Poslednie Novosti" by various newspapers.
Nikolai P. Voronkov Manuscripts, 1966
3 itemsManuscripts by Voronkov. One manuscript is a short (6 p.), handwritten, autobiographical essay, in which Voronkov mentions his military education, his service in the Russian Imperial Army, his management of a military factory in WWI, and his emigration after the Civil War. The other manuscript"Svi︠a︡tai︠a︡ Ruś" consists of 80 poems written by Voronkov primarily about Imperial Russia, Russian Orthodoxy and the Romanov family. The collection also includes a copy of a Russian emigre newspaper published in Argentina ("Nasha Strana" 15 Feb. 1966) that contains an article about Voronkov's poems.
Nikolai Trofimovich Dakhov Papers, 1920-1960
150 itemsThe collection includes letters of an autobiographical nature; memoirs concerning the Civil War and emigration, the largest part of them entitled "Ot Gallipoli do Brazilii"; copies of photographs and drawings from the Civil War and the Russian emigre fascist movement in the 1930's; and one issue of Russkaia Gazeta (Saõ Paulo, 1935), edited by Dakhov. Oversized materials: One folder, front fold of Russkaia Gazeta, January 26, 1935.
Nikolai Vasil'evich Matviichuk Papers, 1945-1973
1500 itemsCollection includes correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials. There are letters from Rodion Berezov, Aleksandra Tolstai︠a︡, I︠A︡kov T︠S︡vibak, and Mark Weĭnbaum as well as one letter each from Georgiĭ Grebenshchikov, Dmitriĭ Shakhovskoĭ, and Igor ́Sikorskiĭ. There is a poem and letter drafts by Matviĭchuk, dating from 1945-1973. The arranged manuscripts include a brief memoir by Matviĭchuk entitled "Ushedshee." The essay discusses his family, the Civil War, and life in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. Matviĭchuk left the Soviet Union during World War II, and eventually emigrated to the United States. There is a box of clippings and several boxes of emigre newspapers and journals, many of which contain essays by Matviĭchuk.
Pavel Pavlovich Mendeleev Papers, 1900-1951
8 linear feetThe papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, subject files, photographs, and printed materials. Correspondence in the collection includes 1 item from Ivan Bunin, 2 from Vladimir Davydov, and many from G. A. Alekseev. Mendeleev's extensive memoirs, "Svet i teni v moei zhizni," discuss his childhood and youth, government service, World War I, the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War, and life in the emigration up to 1933. Subject files in this collection concern the Prague Russian Archive, the Union of the Russian Nobility, the Russian Imperial family in the emigration, and other topics. Printed materials include an almost complete set of the weekly "Parizhskii Vestnik" (1942-1944).
Peter Wellington Alexander papers, 1835-1910
30 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, and newspapers. These include over four hundred letters to Alexander, as well as miscellaneous letters and telegrams; some of his manuscripts and notes; business records of his law firm; military documents of the western divisions of the Confederate Army; copybooks and letter books; and complete and partial newspapers and clippings from the various Southern newspapers (in particular THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN, the DAILY DISPATCH of Richmond, and the ADVERTISER AND REGISTER of Mobile) which carried Alexander's dispatches.
Polish Dissident Press Printed Materials, 1976-1982
2000 itemsPolish dissident press printed materials (pamphlets, fliers, leaflets, newspapers, periodicals, posters and various ephemera) from 1976-1982. Materials in the first nine boxes were used in the preparation of "Polish Dissident Thinking: An Annotated Bibliography" edited by Jane L. Curry and J. Preibisz, covering 1976-1982.