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Part of the collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, military diaries, maps and printed materials that pertain to World War I. Some materials deal with the Civil War, Polish history, medieval Russia and Lithuania, and the history of Russian education. Several folders contain military orders, "prikazy", dating from the early 1900s to about 1925. There are also genealogical materials concerning Russian nobility and Goshtovt's family. The maps primarily concern World War I and the Civil War; also included are a postal map of Russia in 1860, and a map of transportation routes in 1887. The printed materials include clippings, and bulletins published by various emigre military organizations. Most of the books in the collection pertain to the German army during World War I.

Bound memoirs "S polkom pradedov i dedov v velikuiu voinu 1914-1917 gg." by Zubov.

The memoirs cover 1912-1922, but concentrate on 1918-1920.

Photocopies of typescripts of reports and letters. These reports and letters, some of them in extract form, cover from September 1916 to April 1918, and total 623 pages. Also included is an offprint of an article by Ioanis Sinanoglou that was partly based on this material.

Popov's typed manuscripts include his memoirs of his family through the Revolution, his work in Soviet factories from 1928 to the outbreak of World War II, and his analysis of the Vlasov movement.

Manuscripts and memoirs of Vakar. The topics with which Vakar chiefly deals include: his military education and service; the role of the cavalry in the Imperial Army; emigre military groups in Europe; the Russian Defense Corps (Russkiĭ Okhrannyĭ Korpus) in Yugoslavia during World War II; and Russian emigre life in Argentina after the war. In addition to the manuscripts and memoirs, there are several posters and maps drawn by Vakar on military topics.

Petrashin's memoirs are mostly brief fragments, and touch upon such topics as World War I, the Civil War, the USSR between the World Wars, anti-Semitism, and World War II. Many of the events discussed take place in the Ukraine and Belorussia.

Baranovskii's memoirs describe his youth in Chernigov province; the events of the revolution of 1905 there; his education at the Vil'no Military Academy; his peacetime military service and wartime service in East Prussia; the 1917 revolution and his service in the Volunteer Army during the Civil War; and emigration in Cyprus, Egypt, and Bulgaria.

Manuscript memoirs of Artur Georgievich Bitenbinder concerning his military education, the 1905 Revolution, World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Civil War.

The collection consists of memoirs, manuscripts and a few related photographs. The memoirs cover Nevzorov's reminiscences of the 1905 Revolution through the 1917 Revolution.