This collection is located on-site.
Manuscripts and related materials on the siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War, collected by Boris Ivanovich Bok. Included are diaries and memoirs by Russian participants in the siege: Dmitrii Grigor'evich Androsov (Diary), Oskar Fabianovich Berg (Memoirs), Vladimir Ferdinandovich Berg (Memoirs), Aleksandr Viktorovich Fok ("Zametki"), Nikolai Viktorovich Ienish (Memoirs), Aleksei Mikhailovich Iuzefovich (Memoirs), Vladimir Nikoalevich Nikitin (Diary), Aleksandr Apollonovich Vorob'ev (Memoirs). Some of the memoirs and diaries were published in: "Port-Arthur, Vospominaniia uchastnikov" (New York, 1955).
Other materials from the period 1904-1907 - correspondence, reports, minutes of an investigating commission - were collected by General Vladimir Nikolaevich Nikitin concerning the investigation into the siege.
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This collection is located on-site.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Boris Ivanovich Bok Collection on the Siege of Port Arthur; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Collection on the Siege of Port Arthur: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1954.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Collection on the Siege of Port Arthur Accessioned 1954.
Collection on the Siege of Port Arthur Processed 01/--/79.
Collection on the Siege of Port Arthur Revised 05/--/82.
Boris Ivanovich von Bok (1879-1955), naval officer, captain of the 1st rank, naval attaché at the Russian embassies in Berlin and the Netherlands; district leader of the nobility of the Shavlyai district, Vilna province. In emigration in the USA. President of the Port Arthur Anniversary Committee in San Francisco. Died in San Francisco, buried in Serbian Orthodox Cemetery, San Francisco.
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