This collection is located on-site.
Materials by A. N. Skriabin include: a brief letter to Usacheva; a poem he wrote to her; his autograph; piano exercises; and a brief composition. (All these appear to be in Skribin's hand.) There are also clippings and book (Aleknsandr Nikolaevich Skriabin, 195-1940: Sbornik k 25-letiiu so dnq smerti. M., L., 1940)about Skriabin. Also in the collection is a memoir by Usacheva about Usacheva's second husband, Il'ia Gurliand, who was an assistant of Petr Stolypin and also a journalist. There are also two postcards from M. A. Maklakovoi to Usacheva, materials about V. A. Maklakov.
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This collection is located on-site.
Papers: Source of acquisition--N.V. Usacheva. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1954.
Papers: Source of acquisition--N.V. Usacheva. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1960.
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Papers Accessioned 1954.
Papers Accessioned 1960.
Papers Processed 10/--/79.
Nataliia Valerianovna Usacheva (née Sekerina), 1877-1962, was Aleksandr Skriabin's inamorata in the early 1890's. Later, wife of Sekerin and Ilia Gurliand.
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