Nikolai Vasil'evich Matviichuk Papers, 1945-1973

Summary Information

Description

Scope and Content

Collection 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.

Arrangement

Using the Collection

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--N. V. Matviĭchuk. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1954.

Papers: Source of acquisition--N. V. Matviĭchuk. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1956.

Papers: Source of acquisition--N. V. Matviĭchuk. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1958.

Papers: Source of acquisition--N. V. Matviĭchuk. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1960.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1973.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1954.

Papers Accessioned 1956.

Papers Accessioned 1958.

Papers Accessioned 1960.

Papers Processed 04/--/82.

Papers Accessioned 1973.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical sketch

A writer who used the pseudonym Nikolaĭ Zhigulev.

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