Boris Aleksandrovich Nikol'skii Papers, 1894-1969

Summary Information

Description

Scope and Content

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, questionnaires, photographs, and printed materials. Cataloged correspondents are Ilín, Anton Denikin, Ivan Shmelev, Boris Zaĭt︠s︡ev, and Kirill Zaĭt︠s︡ev. Correspondence primarily concerns the Russian embassy in Stockholm through 1920 and the Russian Christian Labor Movement (1931-1940). Manuscripts are mostly by Ivan Ilín on anti-Communist topics. Subject files generally concern conferences of the Russian Christian Labor Movement, and also contain information on the Conference Economique des Allies a Paris (1916), the Russian embassy in Stockholm, and Witte's visit to Norway in 1894. Questionnaires, photographs and printed materials mostly deal with the Russian Christian Labor movement. Printed materials contain issues 7-91 of the periodical "Novy put"́ of the Bureau of Russian Christian Workers. The great majority of this collection concerns the Russian Christian Labor Movement.

Arrangement

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--B. A. Nikolʹskiĭ and Elizaveta Horneffer. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1963.

Papers: Source of acquisition--B. A. Nikolʹskiĭ and Elizaveta Horneffer. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1971.

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Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1963.

Papers Accessioned 1971.

Papers Processed 05/--/80.

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

Financial attachʹe of the Imperial Russian embassy in Stockholm who settled in Europe after the Civil War and became an officer of the Russkoe trudovoe khristi︠a︡nskoe dvizhenie (Russian Christian Labor Movement).

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