Mark Popovskii papers, 1980-1986

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Series III: Arranged Correspondence

Series contain Popovskii's business and personal correspondence, predominantly from his New York period (1978 - 2000). Enclosed photographs were separated into Photographsseries. Paper enclosures (news clippings, postcards, literary works) kept on file. 1980 - 1987 letters from friends and family in USSR are addressed to Efim Rabinovich - evidently a nickname for Popovskii in order to confuse the Soviet censure.


Subseries III.1: Prominent Individual Correspondents

Individual files of prominent correspondents ( friends and colleages of Mark Popovskii) arranged alphabetically by last name. Included into this subseries are individuals featured in Popovskii's writings, or individuals with large (over 10 items) body of correspondence. Also included is photocopy correspondence with notable Russian writers. Files contain incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence, arranged chronologically.



Box 2 Folder 1 Armalinskii, Mikhail ( Peltsman, Mikhail) M.I.P. Company , Minneapolis, MN, 1985 - 1998


Box 2 Folder 2 Bezdetskaia, Tat'iana , IAlta, Crimea, 1997 - 1999


Box 2 Folder 3 Bokarius, Marina; Bokarius, Aleksei , St.-Petersburg, Russia, 1994 - 2000


Box 2 Folder 4 Chalidze, Valerii Four letters from Popovsky (copies) on publishing the manuscript by Ivan Filimonov (real name: Obolonskii, Aleksandr) in the publication SSSR-Vnutrennie Protivorechiia, edited by Chalidze, New York, NY, 1987 - 1988


Box 2 Folder 5 Chichibabin, Boris Letter from Popovsky (copy), New York, NY, Mar. 1990


Box 2 Folder 6 Ciobanu, Vasile Translator of Zhisn' and Zhitieinto Romanian, Kishinev, Moldova;, 1994 - 1999


Box 2 Folder 7 Danivov, Nicholas American Journalist in USSR. Moscow, Russia, 1983 - 1987

[John Hall - nickname of Popovskii in correspondence with Danilov]


Box 2 Folder 8 Dizhur, Bella , Brooklyn, NY, 1987 - 1991


Box 2 Folder 9 Druzhnikov, IUrii University of California, Davis , Moscow, USSR; Vienna, Austria; Davis, CA, 1985 - 1999


Box 2 Folder 10 Farber, IAkov Chief doctor of the Hospital named after Archbishop Luka Voino-IAsenetskii, prominent citizen of Tambov, Tambov, Russia, 1994 - 1998


Box 2 Folder 11 Hammer, Darrell P.; Hammer, Louise B. Indiana University, Department of Political Science Louise Hammer continued the correspondence after the death of Darrell Hammer in 1998. 1984 -1988 correspondence deals with sociologist Aleksandr Obolonskii (referred to as nash drug- our friend) and publishing of his work (referred to as rukopis'- the manuscript)., Moscow, USSR; Helsinki, Finland; Bloomington, IN, 1984 - 1999

[See also Chalidze, Valerii and Obolonskii, Aleksandr (in Arrandged Corresondence - O).]


Box 2 Folder 12 Kazarnovskaia, Mina Primarily incoming letters from a personal friend. Moscow, USSR, 1984 - 1991

[See also Pervova, IUlia (frequently mentioned in Mina's letters). Their early letters were often interleaved.]


Box 2 Folder 13 Khazanov, Boris (Faibusovich, Gennadii) 1985-1990 correspondence deals primarily with Strana I Mirmagazine, edited by Khazanov and Liubarskii, with Popovskii as the American representative., Munich, Germany, 1985 - 2000

[See also Liubarskii, Kronid and Strana I Mir correspondence folders.]


Box 2 Folder 14 Kraineva, Elena , Moscow, Russia, 1994 - 2000

[School friend]


Box 2 Folder 15 Levitin-Krasnov, A. E. (Anatolii Emmanuilovich), Lucerne, Switzerland, 1984 - 1989

[Popovskii's secretary in early 1970s]



Box 3 Folder 1 Liubarskii, K. A. (Kronid Arkad'evich) Correspondence re: Strana I Mirmagazine, edited by Khazanov and Liubarskii, with Popovskii as the American representative., Munich, Germany, 1985 - 1990

[See also Khasanov, Boris and Strana I Mir correspondence folders.]


Box 3 Folder 2 Maksimova, Olga , Montreal, Canada, 1985 -1991


Box 3 Folder 3 Pervova, IUlia Primarily incoming letters from a personal friend. Kiev, Ukraine, 1984 - 2000

[See also Kazarnovskaia, Mina (frequently mentioned in Pervova's letters). Their letters were frequently interleaved.]


Box 3 Folder 4 - 6 Pinsky, Oleg Correspondence with the Russian emigrant - US prison inmate, High Desert State Prison, Susanville, CA; Pelican Bay State Prison, Crescent City, CA, 1998 - 2000


Box 3 Folder 7 Sarnov, Benedict Letter from Popovsky (copy), New York, NY, Jan. 1989


Box 3 Folder 8 Sorokina, Marina Russian Academy of Science Archive Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk - Arkhiv, on acquisition of Popovskii's diaries, Moscow, Russia, 1997 - 2000


Box 3 Folder 9 Svirskii, Grigorii , Toronto, Canada, 1986 - 1999


Box 3 Folder 10 Svirskii, Vladimir , Tivon, Israel; Migdal-Ha-Emek, Israel, 1996 - 2000


Box 3 Folder 11 Vladimov, Georgii Confidential letter from Popovsky (copy), with evaluation of contemporary russian émigré writers, New York, NY, Sep. 1983


Box 3 Folder 12 Voino-IAsenetskaia, Ol'ga Valentinovna; Voino-IAsenetskaia, Tat'iana Correspondence with the family of Voino-IAsenetskii, Valentin Feliksovich (Archbishop Luka), character of Popovskii's book Zhizn' and Zhitie of Voino-Iasenetskii, Odessa, Ukraine; Ialta, Ukraine; Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA, [1990s]


Box 3 Folder 13 Vol'fson, Vladimir (Zeev) , Rishon Le Ziyon,Israel, 1983 - 1989


Box 3 Folder 14 Zelickman, Engelina , Jerusalem, Israel, 1988 - 1998


Subseries III.2: Publishers

Popovskii's business correspondence with periodicals and publishers. Arranged alphabetically by corporate name.



Box 4 Folder 1 Proffer, Carl; Proffer Ellendea; Meyer, Ronald Ardis , Ann Arbor, MI, 1983 - 1989


Box 4 Folder 2 Alloi, Vladimir Atheneum , Paris, France, 1987 - 1988


Box 4 Folder 3 Malenkovich, Vladimir Forum Copy of outgoing letter, Munich, Germany, 1987


Box 4 Folder 4 Pirozhkova, Vera Golos Zarubezh'ia , Munich, Germany, 1984 - 1989


Box 4 Folder 5 Samsonova-Breitbart, Ekaterina; Zhilkina, Tat'iana Grani Copies of outgoing letters, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Moscow, Russia, 1987 - 1999


Box 4 Folder 6 Efimov, Igor' Hermitage Includes business and personal correspondence with Efimov, Tenafly, NJ, 1984 - 2000


Box 4 Folder 7 Sedykh, Andrei (TSvibak, IAkov); Shakhova, Liudmila; Vainberg, Valerii (Weinberg, Lawrence) Novoye Russkoye Slovo , New York, NY, 1979 - 1997


Box 4 Folder 8 Maloradovich, Serafim; Karsov, Nina Overseas Publications Interchange, Ltd. (OPI) , London, UK, 1979 - 1990


Box 4 Folder 9 Polovets, Aleksandr Panorama , Los Angeles, CA, 1986 - 2000


Box 4 Folder 10 Zhdanov, Nikolai Possev Publishing House , Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1985 - 1989


Box 4 Folder 11 Finkel'shtein, Eitan; Antonovich, A; Conan, Clara, Hazanov, Boris; Liubarskii, Kronid; Gertner, Mikhail; [...], Mara. Strana I Mir Business correspondence between Popovskii as the magazine's American representative with the Munich staff. For letters addressed individually to Liubarskii and Khazanov see their folders in Arranded Correspondence- Individuals, Munich, Germany, 1986 - 1990


Box 4 Folder 12 Perel'man, Victor Vremia I My , Leonia, NJ, 1986 - 1988


Box 4 Folder 13 Shmeman, Natalia; Struve, Nikita YMCA-Press , Paris, France, 1978 - 1993


Box 4 Folder 14 Posnova, Irina Zhizn' S Bogom , Brussels, Belgium, 1990


Box 4 Folder 15 24 Chasa; Forverts; Novyi Zhurnal; Poberezh'e; Russkaia Mysl'; Vechernii New York; Vestnik; Russian-Language Newspapers. Outgoing letters to editors., USA, 1991 - 1999


Box 4 Folder 16 Anan'ev, Anatolii; Brianskaia, I; Enisherlov, V. P.; Gushchin, L. N; Korotych, Vitalii; Luk'ianin, V.P.; Loshkareva, N. K,; Chuprinin, S. I; Ar'ev, A. IU; Zelenko, G. Literaturnaia Gazeta; Nashe Nasledie; Nauka I Religiia; Ogonek; Oktiabr'; Ural; Znamia; Znanie - Sila, Zvesda Russian periodicals after Perestroika. For Ogoneksee also Cataloged Correspondence - Korotych, Vitalii, Russia, 1990 - 1995


Box 4 Folder 17 Crossroad Publishing Co.; Doubleday & Co.; McMillan; Readers' Digest; Shoestring Press; Unwin Hyman, INc.Westview Press; William Morrow & Co.; US Publishing Houses, USA, 1979 - 1988


Box 4 Folder 18 Stasica, Ernest Ksiazka I Wiedza , Poland, 1991


Subseries III.3: Family Correspondence



Box 5 Folder 1 - 3 Vasilevskaia, Tatiana Vasil'evna , Moscow, Russia, 1984 - 1992

[Popovskii's former wife and authorized representative in Russia until her death in 1992. After Tatiana's death, Leonid Gurevich becomes Popovskii's authorized representative]


Box 5 Folder 4 Popovskaia, Lilia , New York, NY, 1986 - 1988

[Wife]


Box 5 Folder 5 Popovskii, Konstantin; Popovskaia Yevgeniia, Popovskii Platon; Popovskii Ignatii , St. Petersburg, Russia, 1987 - 2000

[Son Konstantin and his family]


Box 5 Folder 6 - 7 Bishko, Genia , Leningrad, USSR;Jerusalem, Israel, 1987 - 2000

[Cousin ]


Box 5 Folder 8 Khotmakher, Leiba , Odessa, Ukraine; Holstein, Germany, 1990 - 1998

[Stepfather]


Box 5 Folder 9 Shadskaia, Inna; [...], Dina; [...], Teusch, Mikhail [and Lialia]; Kon, Alina; Popovskii, Aleksandr Other family members, 1985 - 1998


Subseries III.4: Correspondence by subject



Box 6 Folder 1 International Association of Soviet Political Prisoners - ; Kongress Russkih Americantsev; Russian-American Associations, 1981, 1990


Box 6 Folder 2 Church community, 1984 - 1989


Box 6 Folder 3 Orthodox Church officials - letters regarding book about Voino-IAsenetskii, 1988 - 1999


Box 6 Folder 4 US Politics, 1987 - 1989


Box 6 Folder 5 Outgoing correspondence re: Vavilov, Nikolai, 1987 - 1989


Subseries III.5: Miscellaneous

Arranged alphabetically by author, then chronologically. Approx. date span: 1969 - 2000


Box 6 Folder 6 Abelev, Garry; Abrashkin, Petr; Aksel'rod, Elena; Al'tshuller, Boris (re: Miller, Larisa); Anikiev, Kirill; Archimovich, Kira; Arronet, Nikolai; Artem'eva, A.; Azmanov, Iskren; Correspondence: A


Box 6 Folder 7 Bagley, Peter; Bagration, Teimuraz; Balandina, Svetlana; Bandman, A.; Baranowski, Peter; Barmetova, Irina; Barnett, Don; Basov, Vasilii; Batchan, Aleksandr; Beilin, Boris; Belinkova (Iablokova), Natasha; Belogorskii, Anatolii; Ben-Iakov, Avram; Benigsen, Georgii; Berdichevskii, IEfim; Berkovich, Moisei; Billington, James H.; Biriukova, Ol'ga; Bisenko, [...]; Blestkina, Tat'iana; Blok, Viktor; Correspondence: Ba - Bn


Box 6 Folder 8 Bochstein, Boris; Boldyrev, Peter; Bondarenko, Alla; Borisov, Aleksandr; Bourikova, Svetlana; Brif, Mikhail; Braude, Benjamin; Brodsky, Hellen; Bulanov, Leonid; Bulashenko, Elena; Byrnes, Robert F.; Correspondence: Bo - Bz


Box 6 Folder 9 Cate, Curtis; Cerni, Aleksandr; Chakovskii, A. B.; Chartschlaa, Platon; Chepliunova, Valentina; Chertok, Semen; Chichkan, Nadezhda; Choslovsky, Syd; Chow, David and Mary; Christoffers, Henry J.; Chudnovsky, Volf G.; Chudnovsky, David and Gregory; Chukovskaya, Lidia (outgoing); [Chyradia], John; Cogan, Aleksandr (Alex); Croucher, Murlin; Correspondence: C


Box 6 Folder 10 Danielian, Elena; Danzig, [...]; Davies, Richard; Davydova, Liudmila; Dechtiarenko, Luba; Dediukin, Sergei; Deikun, Aleksei; De Lima, Lisa; Demokhin, IU; Diczbalis, Sigizmund; Druskin, Lev; Dumas, Galina; Dunaiev, T. ; Correspondence: D


Box 6 Folder 11 Edgerton, William; Edizioni Gruppo Abele; Elbert, Leonid; Elkonin-Johansson, Irina; Emel'ianov, Vasilii; Eniutina, Vera; [Eppen], Gella; Eremina, L. C.; Etingoff, Ievgenii; Eydinov, Yakov; Ezerskaia, Bella; Correspondence: E


Box 6 Folder 12 Fain, [...]; Fainberg, Nora; Fainberg, Vladimir; Fal'kovich, Volf; Fedorov, IUrii; Feldman, Zeylik; Filipp, Valeria; Filippov, Boris (and Zhiglevich, Ievgenia); Filips, K.; Flan, Liudmila; Foster, Liudmila; Frants, Elena; Freeman, Margaret; Fridman, Lawrence G.; Friedberg, Maurice; Correspondence: F


Box 6 Folder 13 Galanter, Boris; Galperin, Grigorii; Gantman, IUlian; Garbut, Kim; [Gee, Aurora]; Gendler, IUrii; Genieva, E. (re: Men'); Gert, IUrii; Gertsikov, Greg and Dora; Gessen, Elena; Gifford, Prosser; Ginsburg, V.; Girshin, Mark; Glad, John; Correspondence: Ga - Gn


Box 6 Folder 14 Goichman, Vladimir; Goldshtein, Leia; Golianskii, Grigorii; Golitsina, Nina; Golitsyn, Andrei; Gollerbakh, Sergei; Golubev, Daniil; Goodman, IUlii; Gordin, IAkov; Goriacheva, Viktoria; Gorshevsky, Boris; Gorokhovskaia, Elena; Gosteva, Alevtina; Grechishnik, Leonid; Grem, Irina; Grib, Sergei; Grigorenko, Zinaida; Grigorovich, Vadim; Grin, E.; Grosman, Ievgenii; Gurevich, Georgii; Gurevich, Leonid; Gurina, Tamara; Gusev-Mikhalev, Petr; Guyot, Daniel; Correspondence: Go - Gz



Box 7 Folder 1 Harris, Chauncy, D.; Hough-Ross, Richard; Iakovlev, Egor; Iankelevich, Tat'iana and Efrem; Il'in, A, IU (Mayor of Tambov); Ioffe, Solomon; Isaacs, Susan; Istomina, Aleksandra; Iur'ev, Zoia; Ivanov, S.; Jensen, Kenneth M.; Correspondence: H - J


Box 7 Folder 2 Kafanova, L.; Kalina, Aleksandr; Kampova, [Marika]; Kapeliushnikov, [...] (Slava); Kaplan, Igor'; Karpova, Tat'iana; Kartasheva, Marina; Kashlinskaia, Galina; Kasinec, Edward; Katsenelinboigen, Aron J.; Kaup, Peeter V.; Kazak, V.; Kazhdan, Aleksandr; Khadzhinova, Nadezhda; Khait, Leonid; Khaselev, Vitalii &IUlia; Kheifets, Mikhail; Khoury, Lora; Kirsh, Boto; Kiseleva, Lida; Kitaevich, IUlii; Klimchak, Edward; Kogan, Mark; Kogan, Eric; Kolesnikov, Nikolai and Raisa; Komarov, Vladimir; Konashev, M. B.; Konson, Lev; Kopylova, Maia; Korobkova, Ievgeniia; Koshkarev, Zotik; Kozyreva, Natal'ia; Correspondence: Ka - Ko


Box 7 Folder 3 Krasnostchekova, Elena; Krasnov, Evgenii ; Kreid, Vadim; Kresin, Vladimir; Krutovskaia, Lina; Krylova, Irina; Kryzhitskii, Sergei; Ktorova, Alla; Kudrova, Irma; Kunin, Isaak; Kupchenko, V; Kurz, Voldemar; Kvitash, Vadim; Correspondence: Kp - Kz


Box 7 Folder 4 Latynina, Alla; Lavrov, L.; Lavrova-Karelina, Lidia; Lemkhin, Mikhail; Leventon, Anatolii; Levin, Roman; Levitan, Efim; Levy, V.; Liberman, Anatolii; Linnik, IU (Tsentr po Isucheniyu Duhovnoi Kul'tury Gulaga); Lipkovich, IAkov; Liutova, Maia; Livshits, Marina; Lovell, John P.; Lukinchuk, Valerii; Lukishker, Edward; Lupalovskii, Oleg; Luryi, IUrii; Lackenbach Siegel Marzullo & Aronson, P.C. Correspondence: L


Box 7 Folder 5 Magnus, Margarita; Maksimov, Andrei; Maksimova, Tat'iana; Manin, Evgenii; Marcus, Stephanie (Library of Congress); Margolina, Anna; Markov family; Marshall, Eliot; Martsin, Anatolii; Maruts, Oleg; Maslennikova, Zoia; May, Lynn E.; Meerovich, Il'ia; Meiendorf, Ioann; Meier, IUrii (Meyer, George); Meier, Reinhard; Meisarosh, Georgina; Men', Pavel; Men', Natalia; Menaker, Tat'iana; Meniker, Elena; Meskin, Bella; Michelet, Michel; Mikhailov, Mikhaila; Mikhniuk, Galina; Miller, Larisa; Mininberg, David T.; Minuhin, Ella; Mirkovich, Elena; Mogendovich, [...]; Molodoi, Vadim; Momal, Claude; Moravets, S.; Moravskii, Nikita; Morozov, Vladimir; Muller-Dietz, Heinz E.; Muranova, Lidiia; Murav'eva, Irina; Correspondence: M


Box 7 Folder 6 Natkho, Kadyr; Neboga, Nadezhda; Neifakh, Aleksandr; Nikitin, M.; Nisenson, Boris; Nizhnikov, Margarita; Novoseletskaia, Fira; Nul'man, M.; Correspondence: N


Box 7 Folder 7 Obolenskii, Sergei; Obolonskii, Aleksandr; Ocheretianskii, Aleksandr; Oksman, Tat'iana; Olsuf'eva, Evgeniia; Orlova, Raisa; Ozerkov, P.; Ozernoy, Vladimir M.; Correspondence: O


Box 7 Folder 8 Pakh, Natal'ia; Pakh, Imre; Palant, Boris; Palm, Charles (Hoover Institution); Pashenkova, Marina; Petlakh, L.; Pirozhkova, Vera; Pleshko, Petr; Pliushch (Pliouchtch), Leonid; Poklitar, E. A.; Polchaninoff, R; Polenov, Vladimir; Poliak, Grigorii; Pomar, Mark; Popkin, Jim; Popova, Aleksandra; Potik, [...]; Pototskaia, Lidiia; Prikhod'ko, Natal'ia; Pruden, Natal'ia; Pundeff, Martin; Putz, Paul; Puzin, Nikolai (custodian of Tolstoy's museum at Iasnaia Poliana); Correspondence: P



Box 8 Folder 1 Rabichev, Lev; Rabkin, Iakov; Radunskaia, Irina; Radunskii, Victor; Radysh, Oksana; Rappoport, Gedda; Rappoport, Vitalii; Reddaway, Peter; Reitman, Mark; Ringland, Peter; Rodina, Elena and IUrii; Roiz, Maks; Rokhlin, Leonid; Romanov, Anatolii; Roitman, Anna; Rozin, M. A.; Rubinshtein, Igor'; Ruble, Blair A.; Rudiak, Ilia; Rudkevich, L. A.; Rumiantsev, A.; Rusakovskii, Samuil; Correspondence: R


Box 8 Folder 2 Saito, [...]; Salganick, Dolores; Sandler, Valerii; Sapozhnikov, Elena; Schaad, Rudolf; [Schneyd, Schlob]; Sechkarev, Vsevolod; Selezneva, Evgeniia; Shapoval family; Sharova, Anna; Sharp, Ben; Shchedrinskii, A. ; Shirinkina, Ariadna; Shmeman, Aleksandr; Sholomova, S. B.; Shropshire (Rusakova), Liudmila; Shtein, Edward; Shterenberg, Bella; Shtern, IUrii; Shtivel, Ruslan; Shur, [...]; Shustov, Valentin; Sikorskii, Igor; Sil'ver, Raisa; Sil'vestrova, Svetlana; Simontova, Marianna; Sinkevich, Valentina; Skoblinskii, Aleksandr; Slavov, Atanas; Slonim, Anna; Smith, Lidia; Smith, Melissa; Smolianskii, IAkov; Correspondence: Sa - Sn


Box 8 Folder 3 Sokirko, Victor; Sokolov, Liubov' and Valerii; Solov'ev, Vladimir; Sominskii, Monus; Sonenshine, Tara; Soulson, Iosif; Stavitskii, Petr; Steinberg, Mark; Stoliarov, Isaak; Stoliarova, Marina; Strelkova, [...]; Suhih, Aleksei; Svechin, Grigorii; Sverdlin, Anatoliii; Svetlov, Felix; Svetlosanova, Isabella; Svetohovskii, Tadeush; Sviridov, Mikhail; Swildens, Helene; Sztein, Edward; Correspondence: So - Sz


Box 8 Folder 4 Takhtadzhian, Armen; Targan, Samuil; Temkina, Marina; Tison, Vera; Titer, Mark; Tokarev, Sergey; Tlomatsu, Solomon; Tolstaia, Ol'ga; Tolstoi, Ivan; Tontoya, Karen; Treml', Vladimir; Trofimov, Aleksandr; Trubetskoi, A; Tsauder, pavel; Tschernaiavskaia, Anna; Tsurupa, Aleksei; Tsurukova, Ol'ga; Tucker, Martin; Tverdynina, Ol'ga; Correspondence: T


Box 8 Folder 5 Ulam, Adam; Ulanovskaia, Maia; Correspondence: U


Box 8 Folder 6 Vainer, Mikhail; Vainshtein, Ruvim; Vaksberg, Arkadii; Vaksman, Abram; van Doorn, Jack; Varlamov, Edward; Vasiliadou, Erica; Verbitskaia, Lina; Verner, Artur; Verkhovskii, Aleksandr; Vinogradov, Igor'; Vinokur, Bertol'd; Vinokurov, Zinovii; Vishnevetskii, I, (re: Men'); Voevodskaia, Kseniia; Vollfson, Stanislav; Volin (Ponomarev), Mikhail; Volkov, Solomon; Voll, John; Volodin, Boris; Von Wiren-Garczynski, Vera; Vorontsov, IUlii; Correspondence: V


Box 8 Folder 7 Waksman, Selman A.; Werbizky, George G.; White, Sara; Whitney, Thomas; Correspondence: W


Box 8 Folder 8 Young, Cathy; Zaitseva, Svetlana; Zaks, B. ; Zalevskii, Georgii; Zaltsberg, Mak; Zarechniak, Dmitrii; Zarifian, Alla; Zerbino, Dmitrii; Zernov, Nikolai; Zhabkovskii, Evgenii; Zholkovskii, A.; Zorin, Aleksandr; Zusman, Vladimir; Correspondence: X - Z


Box 8 Folder 9 Unidentified - outgoing


Box 8 Folder 10 Unidentified - incoming