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Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Papers, 1898-2014

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Series I: Correspondence, 1924-1993

The series consists of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's personal and professional correspondence with various people and organizations, as well as family and subject correspondence. It also includes correspondence of Svetlana Kazem-Bek with various persons and organizations.

Subseries I.1: Correspondence with Prominent Persons, 1930-1958

Contains professional and personal letters (some with Kazem-Bek's replies) of prominent scholars, writers, composers, and public figures. Arranged alphabetically.


Box 1 Folder 1 Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich. New York, New York, 1941-1942, undated

(1 autograph letter signed, 2 typed letters signed)

Box 1 Folder 2 Avinoff, Andrey. Bedford, Long Island, Pittsburgh, undated

(2 handwritten letters signed, also included 2 letters from Avinoff's wife)

Bunina, Vera: see Muromtseva-Bunina

Box 1 Folder 3 Chavchavadze, Paul. Dearborn, Michigan, 1942 March 10

(1 telegram)

Box 1 Folder 4 Grebenshchikov, Georgii. Lakeland, FL, 1943 March 12

(1 typed letter signed with handwritten notes)

Box 1 Folder 5 Gusev-Orenburgskii, Sergei, 1958, undated

(1 typed letter signed with handwritten notes, 1 handwritten postcard signed)

Box 1 Folder 6 Jakobson, Roman. Cambridge, MA, 1950-1951

(2 typed letters signed, with 2 Kazem-Bek's responses)

Box 1 Folder 7 Karpovich, Michael. New London, CT, 1949-1951

(2 typed letters signed with Kazem-Bek's responses)

Box 1 Folder 8 Knupffer, George. London, 1941-1944

(1 handwritten letter signed, 13 typed letters signed, 2 telegrams, 1 wedding invitations, related materials. Khunpffer's correspondence with Svetlana Kazem-Bek see: Svetlana Kazem-Bek Correspondence)

Box 1 Folder 9 Konovalov, Aleksandr, 1940 August 20

(1 typed letter to A. L. Tolstaya)

Box 1 Folder 10 Likhachev, Boris. Paris, Monaco, 1952-1955, undated

(32 handwritten letters signed)

Box 1 Folder 11 Lourie, Arthur. New York, New York, 1947-1948

(2 handwritten letters signed)

Box 1 Folder 12 Moseley, Philip. New York, 1952 March 3

(1 typed letter signed, with Kazem-Bek's response)


Box 12 Folder 1 Mott, John R., 1946

(1 typed letter signed, related materials. Correspondents with John R. Mott is a part of Series V: Professional Activity -- Subseries V.2: YMCA)


Box 1 Folder 13 Muromtseva-Bunina, V. N. Paris, 1951 May 20

(1 handwritten letter signed)


Box 3 Folder 8 Poole, De Witt Clinton, 1941-1942

(4 typed letters signed, 2 telegrams, with Kazem-Bek's responses. Correspondents with De Witt Clinton Poole is a part of the subject correspondence folder "U.S. War Department")


Box 1 Folder 14 Rachmaninoff, Natalie, 1943

(part of Sablin's correspondence folder)

Raeff, Marc

(Marc Raeff's correspondence is a part of Series III: Documents -- Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's Documents and Biographical Materials -- Mireille Massip Correspondence)


Box 9 Folder 11-13 1990-1997


Box 10 Folder 1-2 1998-2008


Box 1 Folder 14 Sablin, Evgenii. London, 1941-1947

(2 typed letters, 2 telegrams, with related materials. Also included a note from Natalie Rachmaninoff)

Box 1 Folder 15 Sedykh, Andrei. New York, undated

(1 autograph letter signed, 1 typed letter signed; related item)

Box 1 Folder 16 Shteiger, Anatolii. Berne, 1941-1942

(2 handwritten letters signed, 1 typed letter signed; photocopies of his poetry)

Box 1 Folder 17 Slonim, Mark. New York, 1944 June 16

(1 typed letter signed)

Box 1 Folder 18 Sorokin, Pitirim. Cambridge, MA, New London, 1951-1952

(2 handwritten letters signed, 1 typed letter signed, typed autobiography, list of publications)

Box 1 Folder 19 Timasheff, Nicholas, 1930 October 5

(1 handwritten letter signed)

Box 1 Folder 20 Vakar, Nicholas. Various places, 1940-1950

(22 handwritten letters signed and 23 typed letters signed, 2 handwritten post cards signed. Also included 1 letter from Vakar's wife)

Box 1 Folder 21 Zenkovsky, Serge. Various places, 1942, 1955

(2 autograph letters signed, 1 copy of autograph letter. Zenkovsky's correspondence with Svetlana Kazem-Bek see: Svetlana Kazem-Bek Correspondence)

Subseries I.2: General Correspondence, 1926-1969

Consists of correspondence with various people and organizations. Selected correspondence with individuals that contains a significant number of letters is arranged alphabetically. The rest is arranged in chronological order. This subseries also includes Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's outgoing letters.

Alphabetically Arranged Correspondence, 1940-1956


Box 14 Folder 18 Anderson, Paul, 1943-1956

(Correspondence with Paul Anderson is a part of Series V: Professional Activity -- Subseries V.2: YMCA)

Box 14 Folder 6 Avsenev, Panteleon, 1942-1956

(correspondence with Panteleon Avsenev is a part of Series VI: Social and Political Activity: Mladorosskaia partiia--Subseries VI. 4: Mladoross members personal files)


Box 1 Folder 22 Bakh, Henry, 1943-1954

(Correspondence with Aleksandr Kazem-Bek. Bakh's correspondence with Svetlana Kazem-Bek see: Svetlana Kazem-Bek Correspondence)

Box 1 Folder 23 Drozdov, Petr, 1942-1945

Box 1 Folder 24 Graf, Georgii (Garald Karlovich), 1950-1956

Box 1 Folder 25 Haefely, Emile and Irina, 1941-1956

Box 1 Folder 26 Hwoschinsky, Basil, 1941-1952

Box 1 Folder 27 Krasinskii (Romanov), Vladimir, 1945-1952

Box 1 Folder 28 Maller, Iasha, 1942-1949, undated

Box 1 Folder 29 Mouad, Simone, 1951,1956, undated

Box 1 Folder 30 Underhill, Sam, 1940-1943

Box 1 Folder 31 Vilezhkovskii, Kirill, 1946-1955

Chronological correspondence, 1926-1968

Box 1 Folder 32 1926-1941

Box 1 Folder 33 1942-1944


Box 2 Folder 1 1945-1946

Box 2 Folder 2 1947-1951

Box 2 Folder 3 1952-1968

Box 2 Folder 4 undated

Box 2 Folder 5 Outgoing correspondence, 1939-1969, undated

Subseries I.3: Family Correspondence, 1928-1975, undated

Consists of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's correspondence with his wife and daughter. Also includes his and Svetlana Kazem-Bek's correspondence with various family members.

Correspondence with Svetlana Kazem-Bek, 1928-1975, undated

Box 2 Folder 6 1928-1941

Box 2 Folder 7 1942

Box 2 Folder 8 1943-1950

Box 2 Folder 9 1952-1958

Box 2 Folder 10 1960-1975

Box 2 Folder 11 undated

Box 2 Folder 12 Nadine Marquies Correspondence, 1941-1974

(Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's daughter. Includes her correspondence with Aleksandr Kazem-Bek and Mara Chavchavadze)

Box 2 Folder 13 Correspondence with various family members, 1938-1956

(Aleksandr and Svetlana Kazem-Bek's correspondence with various family members)

Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence, 1928-1974

Consists mostly of correspondence with various institutions and organizations, including churches and religious organizations, publishers, universities, and the U.S. War Department. There is also letters from Kazem-Bek's students, as well as invitations to various receptions, exhibits, and so on.


Box 3 Folder 1 Churches and religious organizations, 1943-1974, undated

(professional and personal correspondence with clerics and members of various religious organizations such as the Fellowship of Sts. Alban and Sergius, the World Council of Churches, etc.)

Box 3 Folder 2 College students, 1947-1952

(invitations, thank you notes, greeting cards, good wishes, etc.)

Box 3 Folder 3 Invitations, 1928-1964, undated

(receptions, exhibitions, weddings, lectures invitations)

Publishers, 1941-1956

(correspondence with editors and publishers, requests for articles, invoices, reciets, etc.)

Box 3 Folder 4 Chekhov Publishing House, 1951-1953

(see also: Series II: Writings--History of Russian Colonization, box 5 folder 22)

Box 3 Folder 5 Novaia zaria, , 1942-1956

Box 3 Folder 6 Various publishers, 1941-1952

Box 3 Folder 7 Universities, 1944-1956

(Columbia, Harvard, Middlebury, Smith College, Vassar College, Yale, et al. Employment opportunities, invitations to conferences, personal and official correspondence with professors, etc. Correspondence with Connecticut College see in Series V: Professional Acitivity: Teaching--Subseries V.3: Connecticut College, box 11, folders 9-10)

Box 3 Folder 8 U.S. War Department, 1940-1946

(Including correspondence with Boris Bakhmetieff, DeWitt Clinton Poole, Lovering Hill, Edward G. Lansdale, Edward L. Barlow. Also includes queries concerning employment opportunities, notes and memos, submission of articles, personal correspondence with U.S. War Department staff, etc.)

Subseries I.5: Svetlana Kazem-Bek's Correspondence, 1924-1993

Contains Svetlana Kazem-Bek's personal and professional correspondence with various people (including some prominent figures) and organizations. Also includes personal correspondence with family members and her outgoing letters. Correspondence with prominent figures and selected correspondence with individuals that contains a significant number of letters are arranged in alphabetical order. The rest is arranged chronologically.

Correspondence with prominent persons, 1941-1962

Box 3 Folder 9 Ivask, Iurii. Seattle, 1962 January 26

(1 typed letter signed with handwritten notes)

Box 3 Folder 10 Knupffer, George. London, 1941-1944

(1 handwritten letter signed, 2 typed letters signed)

Box 3 Folder 11 Zenkovsky, Serge. DeLand, FL, 1960 January 20

(1 typed letter signed, with Svetlana Kazem-Bek's letters of various years)

Alphabetically Arranged Correspondence, 1942-1984

(selected correspondence with various people that contains significant number of letters; arranged in alphabetical order)

Box 3 Folder 12 Anderson, Paul, 1945-1959


Box 14 Folder 6 Avsenev, Panteleon, 1957-1963

(correspondence with Panteleon Avsenev is a part of Series VI: Social and Political Activity: Mladorosskaia partiia--Subseries VI. 4: Mladorosskaia partiia's members personal files)


Box 3 Folder 13 Bakh, Henry, 1949-1960

Box 3 Folder 14 Chadourne, Marc, 1950, undated

Box 3 Folder 15 Connecticut College, 1948-1977

Box 3 Folder 16 Krasinskii (Romanov), Vladimir, 1961-1969

Box 3 Folder 17 Makinsky, Alexander, 1944-1977

Box 3 Folder 18 Manziarly, Irina, 1948-1977, undated

Box 3 Folder 19 Palland, Francoise, 1950-1951

Box 3 Folder 20 Putiatina, Mariia (Serafima), 1956-1965

Box 3 Folder 21 Sergii, Archimandrite, (Kirill Chevich), 1956-1984

Box 3 Folder 22 Tolstoy, Alexandra, 1942-1948

Box 3 Folder 23 Tereshchenko, V., 1958-1960

Chronological correspondence, 1934-1993


Box 4 Folder 1 1934-1946

Box 4 Folder 2 1947-1959

Box 4 Folder 3 1960-1993

Box 4 Folder 4 Undated

Box 4 Folder 5 Outgoing correspondence, 1942-1944, undated

Box 4 Folder 6 Family correspondence, 1924-1982

(correspondence with various family members)

Series II: Writings, 1906-1973

The series comprises published and unpublished works of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek, including articles, monographs, talks memoire, etc. There are also writings of other authors. Arranged in five subseries.

Subseries II.1: Kazem-Bek's Books and Monographs, 1951-1952, undated

Drafts, manuscripts, and typescripts of Kazem-Bek's published and unpublished works "History of Russia", "History of the Russian Church", "History of Russian Colonization", and "K zhizneopisaniu Sviateishego Patriarkha Moskovskogo i Vseia Rusi Aleksiia".

"History of Russia", undated

(Drafts of unpublished book. Typescripts with handwritten corrections, notes)

Box 4 Folder 7 Zakat Vizantii i vozvyshenie Moskvy

Box 4 Folder 7 Tretii Rim

Box 4 Folder 7 Na strazhe Evropy

Box 4 Folder 7 Narod - hoziain prostranstva

Box 4 Folder 7 Perenesenie moshchei sviatitelia

Box 4 Folder 7 Vseia Rossii chudotvorets

Box 4 Folder 7 Mezhdu papoi i sultanom

Box 4 Folder 8 Handwritten notes

Box 4 Folder 9 Dekabristy

Box 4 Folder 9 Istoriia orfografii v Rossii

Box 4 Folder 9 Rozhdestvo v Kremle: 25 dekabria 1648 goda

Chapters and notes from a book on the Russian Revolution

Box 4 Folder 10 Narodnyi komissariiat po delam natsional'nostei

Box 4 Folder 10 Perviye gody Sovetskoi Federatsyi

Box 4 Folder 10 Revolutsiia pered dilemoi posle provala stavki na internatsional

Box 4 Folder 11 Notes

"History of the Russian Church", undated

(Drafts of unpublished book. Typescripts, handwritten notes)

Box 4 Folder 12 Khristianstvo, kak put' k velikoderzhavnosti

Box 4 Folder 12 Pervaia kanonizatsiia v russkoi tserkvi

Box 4 Folder 12 Pravoslavie v Novgorodskoi Rusi

Box 4 Folder 12 Pravoslavie i russkaia kultura

Box 4 Folder 12 Russkoe pravoslavie - pravoslavnaia Rus'

Box 4 Folder 13 Notes and research materials

"History of Russian Colonization", 1951-1952, undated

(Drafts, notes, plan of the book. Also includes related correspondence with publisher, contract, research materials, bibliography)


Box 5 Folder 1 Aziia

Box 5 Folder 1 Baltika

Box 5 Folder 2 Finliandiia

Box 5 Folder 3 Gruziia, Armeniia

Box 5 Folder 4 Kazakhstan

Box 5 Folder 5 Kazaki

Box 5 Folder 6 Krainii sever (far north)

Box 5 Folder 7 Krym, Chernoe more

Box 5 Folder 8 Kyrgyzstan

Box 5 Folder 9 Malaia Rus', Ukraine

Box 5 Folder 10 Povolzh'e

Box 5 Folder 11 Puti Rossii

Box 5 Folder 12 Revoliutsiia i natsional'nyi vopros

Box 5 Folder 13 Russiia i Vostok

Box 5 Folder 14 Severnyi Kavkaz

Box 5 Folder 15 Shestnadtsat' russkikh respublik?

Box 5 Folder 16 Sibir' i Dal'nii Vostok

Box 5 Folder 17 Sredniaia Aziia

Box 5 Folder 18 Tadzhikistan

Box 5 Folder 19 Tatary, Bashkiriia

Box 5 Folder 20 Turkmenistan

Box 5 Folder 21 Uzbekistan

Box 5 Folder 22 Book plan, contract with publisher, related correspondence

Box 5 Folder 23 Bibliography and clippings


Box 6 Folder 1-5 "K zhizneopisaniiu Sviateishego Patriarkha Moskovskogo i Vseia Rusi Aleksiia", undated

Box 6 Folder 6 Chapters from untitled novel [XX Century], undated

Subseries II.2: Kazem-Bek's Biographical Writings, 1948-1949

Drafts and notes to Kazem-Bek's autobiography and photocopy of typescript of memoire piece.

Box 6 Folder 7 Autobiography, 1949, undated

(drafts, notes)

Box 6 Folder 8 Memoire, 1948

(photocopy of typescript)

Subseries II.3: Kazem-Bek's Articles, 1930-1973

Typescripts, handwritten notes, research materials; clippings and various newspapers with Kazem-Bek's printed articles in Russian, English, and French.

In Russian

Box 6 Folder 9 "35 let tomu nazad… i teper'", [1949]

Box 6 Folder 9 "1946 - pervyi poslevoennyi god", 1946

Box 6 Folder 9 "Anglo-russkii soiuz", undated

Berdiaev

Box 6 Folder 10 "Berdiaev o tserkvi", undated

Box 6 Folder 10 Untitled draft on Berdiaev, undated

Box 6 Folder 10 Research materials

Box 6 Folder 11 "Chto den' griadushchii nam gotovit?", undated

Box 6 Folder 11 "Chto god griadushchii nam gotovit?", undated

Box 6 Folder 11 "Gadalki i zvezdochety", undated

Box 6 Folder 12 "Dzhon R. Mott", 1945

(also included brochure "John R. Mott" by Ruth Rouse)

Box 6 Folder 13 "Ne predvidenie, a propaganda!", undated

Box 6 Folder 13 "O Germanii, kapitalizme I drugikh veshchakh", [1949]

Box 6 Folder 13 "O mobilizatsii amerikanskoi demokratii dlia total'noi voiny", undated

Box 6 Folder 13 "Ot fantasmagorii k deistvitel'nosti", undated

Box 6 Folder 13 "Pis'mo v redaktsiiu gazety 'Pravda'", 1957

Box 6 Folder 13 "Posle chuda Stalingrada", 1943

Box 6 Folder 14 "Rasprostranenie khristianstva na russkom Severe", undated

(also included English translation)

Box 6 Folder 15 "Rossiia i Iaponiia: Bor'ba za Sakhalin v proshlom i v nastoiashchem", undated

Box 6 Folder 15 "Tri izmeny obshchemu delu", undated

Box 6 Folder 16 Untitled articles and drafts, 1941, undated

Subject articles


Box 7 Folder 1 Articles for Novaia Zaria newspaper, 1940s-1950s

(See also: Series VIII: Printed Materials -- Subseries VIII.2: Periodicals -- Novaia Zaria; boxes 28-34)

Religious themes

Articles 1-10, undated

Box 7 Folder 2 "Spor episkopov s mirianami"

Box 7 Folder 2 "S tserkoviu ili s Karlovtsami?"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Karlovtsy i Gitler do voiny"

Box 7 Folder 2 "'Ierarkhi' iz oboza germanskoi armii"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Karlovtsy vo vremia i posle voiny"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Tserkovsnoie zapreshchenie"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Vselenskoie edinstvo pravoslaviia"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Solidarnost' sester-tser'kvei s russkoi tserkoviiu"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Loial'nost' grazhdan-khristian"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Poslushanie i svoboda v tserkvi"

Various articles

Box 7 Folder 3 "Igumen Velikoi Lavry"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Konets brestskoi unii"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Pochin Stefana Permskogo"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Podvig ravnoapostol'noi Niny"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Religiia, kak stroi zhizni"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Tserkov'"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Tserkovnaia avtokefaliia?"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Tserkovnyi sobor v Moskve"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Zametka ob otnoshenii pravoslavnoi tserkvi k sotsial'nomu voprosu"

Box 7 Folder 3 Untitled typescripts and handwritten drafts of various articles

Printed articles

(Articles printed in various Russian newspapers:Bodrost', Novaia Zaria, Novoe russkoe slovo, Russkii golos, Svet, and others)


Box 19 Folder 1-9 Clippings, 1942-1954


Box 20-34 OS Oversized, 1930-1956

(oversize flat boxes)

In English


Box 7 Folder 4 "Andrei Nikolaevich Ingatiev: In Memoriam", 1973

Box 7 Folder 4 Ballet

(notes)

Box 7 Folder 5 "Gide and Dostoyevsky", undated

Box 7 Folder 6 "Gogol", 1947

(article for Collier&Son encyclopedia)

Box 7 Folder 7 "Japan Follows 1904 Strategy of Stab in Back", 1941

Box 7 Folder 7 "Problems in Teaching of Russian", undated

Box 7 Folder 7 "Russia and America", undated

Box 7 Folder 7 "Russian Easter", undated

Box 7 Folder 8 "Russian work of the YMCA in the USA", 1945

Box 7 Folder 9 "Thirty Eight Years Ago… Russian Pearl Harbor", [1941]

Box 7 Folder 9 "Why Russia Does Not Have a Fifth Column", undated

In French

Box 7 Folder 10 "Ame Russe Contre L'Hitlerisme", 1939

Box 7 Folder 10 "Cas d'Anastace Vonsiatsky", undated

Box 7 Folder 10 "Evolution Politique de la France Depuis l'Armistice de 1940", undated

Box 7 Folder 10 "Nationalisme Russe dans le Conflit Mondial", 1939

Box 7 Folder 10 "Patriotisme Russe et la Guerre", 1939

Box 7 Folder 10 "Russie-Angleterre: Une Alliance en Depit des Polemes", undated

Box 7 Folder 10 "Traite d'Alliance Anglo-Russe a Été Conclu il y a Un An", undated

Box 7 Folder 11 Untitled

Subseries II.4: Kazem-Bek's Various Writings, [1935]-1948

Typescripts, drafts and notes of addresses, lectures, talks, interviews, reviews, memoranda, sermons.

Addresses, Talks, and Lectures

Box 7 Folder 12 "Brat'ia-chekhi!", undated

Box 7 Folder 12 "Brat'ia poliaki!", undated

Box 7 Folder 12 "Byvshim chlenam Mladorosskoi Partii, prozhivaiushchim v Soedinennykh Shtatakh", 1942

Box 7 Folder 12 "Chem grozila by russkomu narodu pobeda Germanii", undated


Box 12 Folder 17 "Rossiia, mladorossy i emigratsiia", [1935]

(collection of speeches and talks)


Box 7 Folder 12 To Russian groups. Detroit, Chicago, 1942

Box 7 Folder 13 Book Review: On Paul Anderson book

Box 7 Folder 14 Interviews, 1937-1942

Memoranda, 1942-1943


Box 3 Folder 8 Etude Destinee au Military Intelligence Service, War Department, undated

(part of the "U.S. War Department" folder of the Series I: Correspondence -- Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence)


Box 12 Folder 16 "Mladoross Movement", 1943

(typescript of confidential memorandum prepared for the San-Francisco Office Military Intelligence Service)


Box 7 Folder 15 On Radio Broadcasts in the Russian Language to the Soviet Union, 1942

(with related materials)

Box 7 Folder 16 On the Ukrainian Emigration, 1942

(in English and Russian)


Box 3 Folder 8 Some notes on Russia, 1943

(part of the "U.S. War Department" folder of the Series I: Correspondence -- Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence)


Box 7 Folder 17 Sermons, 1945-1948

(in English and Russian)

Subseries II.5: Writings by other authors, 1906-1953

Manuscripts and typescripts of works by various authors, including manuscripts of such prominent authors as Nikolai Berdiaev, Boris Likhachev, Nikolai Vakar, and others. Printed works of various authors are part of the Series VIII: Printed Materials.


Box 8 Folder 1 Aleksii, Arkhiepiskop Iaroslavskii (Sergeev). "Sviatyie patrioty", undated

(handwritten manuscript)

Box 8 Folder 2 Anderson, Paul B. "What is France's Future", 1945

(broadcast)

Box 8 Folder 3 Berdiaev, Nikolai. "Razdor mira i khristianstvo", undated

(handwritten manuscript)

Box 8 Folder 4 Cameron, W. J., "Russia", 1942

(speech)

Box 8 Folder 5 Canan, Bromley. "He Came Too Soon, This Christ", undated

(address)

Box 8 Folder 6 Durksen, E. "Russische Emigration am Scheideweg", 1938

Likhachev, Boris

Box 8 Folder 7 "Quelques Reflexions sur des Themes Monarchiques", 1952

Box 8 Folder 7 "Russian Problem: Idealogical Factor in the Fight against the Communism", 1953

(handwritten draft)

Box 8 Folder 7 "Russian Problem: Vulnerable point of the Sovietic regime at the present moment", 1953

Box 8 Folder 8 Presniakov, Aleksandr: "Nash tserkovnyi vopros,", [1906]

Box 8 Folder 9 Smirnov, N.P. "Sinteticheskii obzor I problemy metodov v fenologicheskikh issledovaniiakh", undated

Box 8 Folder 10 Vakar, Nikolai. "Rossiia - Slavianam: 75 let tomu nazad", undated

Box 8 Folder 11 Woodhouse, C. M. "Dostoievsky as Prophet", undated

Box 8 Folder 12 Unidentified

Series III: Documents and Biographical Materials, 1902-2014

Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's and his family members' personal documents and Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's biographical materials.

Subseries III.1: Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's documents, 1902-1967

Contains Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's certificates, IDs, immigration papers, travel documents, passports, CVs, financial and legal documents, business cards, contacts, etc.

Box 8 Folder 13 Certificates: Birth certificate, Nobility certificate, 1902

Box 8 Folder 14 Nansen Passport (photocopy), 1941

Box 8 Folder 15 IDs and business cards, 1932-1946

(identification and membership cards, and business cards)

Box 8 Folder 16 French visas and other French documents, 1925-1941

(originals and photocopies)

Box 8 Folder 17 USA naturalization related documents, 1940-1944

Box 8 Folder 18 Affidavits of support, 1942-1950

Box 8 Folder 19 Financial and Legal documents, 1940-1967

Box 8 Folder 20 Medical documents, 1953-1954

Box 8 Folder 21 Travel documents, 1949-1955

(itineraries, travel insurances, tickets, reservations, etc. Oversized travel insurance documents are stored in oversize flat box 20, folder 1)

Box 8 Folder 22 Various documents, 1923-1948

(War ration book, lists of Russian intellectuals leaving for the USA, change of addresses, notes, application forms, etc.)

Contacts

(business and personal contact lists, business cards, index cards, address books)

Box 8 Folder 23 Business cards

Box 8 Folder 24 Lists of contacts

Box 8 Folder 25 Index cards A-Z

Box 8 Folder 26 Address books

(2 items)

Subseries III.2: Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's Biographical Materials, 1939-2014

Biographical materials include CVs and biographical statements, genealogical notes, letters of recommendation, publications about Kazem-Bek, and Mireille Massip's extensive correspondence with various people related to her work on Kazem-Bek's biography.


Box 9 Folder 1 Biographical statements and CVs, [1940s-1950s]

Box 9 Folder 2 Genealogy

Box 9 Folder 3 Letters of recommendation and introduction, 1940-1946

Box 9 Folder 4 Lectures announcement, 1939-1942, undated

Publications about A. Kazem-Bek, 1941-1989

(newspaper clippings)

Box 9 Folder 5 Clippings, 1941-1945

Box 9 Folder 6 Poems dedicated to A. Kazem-Bek, 1944, 1989

(V. Leonov. "K ot'ezdu"; V. Nikitin. Untitled)

Box 9 Folder 7 False death rumors, 1955

(letters, clippings)

Box 9 Folder 8 Return to USSR, 1957-1958

(clippings, letters, memos)

Box 9 Folder 9 Obituaries and In memoria, 1977-1979

Box 9 Folder 10 Various notes

Mireille Massip correspondence related to her work on Kazem-Bek's biography, 1956-2014

Correspondence with various persons

Box 9 Folder 11 1988-1990

Box 9 Folder 12 1991-1993

Box 9 Folder 13 1994-1997


Box 10 Folder 1 1998-2000

Box 10 Folder 2 2001-2014

Box 10 Folder 3 Correspondence with Svetlana Kazem-Bek, 1956-1989, undated

Box 10 Folder 4 Correspondence with Nadine Marquies, 1988-1995

Box 10 Folder 5 Mireille Massip's notes with information about various individuals related to Kazem-Bek


Box 18 Microfilms

(three microfilm reels with materials from the National Archives of the United States; were ordered by Mireille Massip and may conteain materials related to her research work on Kazem-Bek's biography)

Subseries III.3: Kazem-Bek's Family Documents, 1898-1994

Documents of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's wife, children, and father.

Svetlana Kazem-Bek's documents, 1975-1986


Box 10 Folder 6 Pesonal documents, 1898-1994

(certificates, imigration documents, visas, Nansen passport, war ration book, IDs, obituaries, etc.)

Box 10 Folder 7 Claims: Social Security, death benefits, retirement, 1975-1986

Box 10 Folder 8 Various documents and notes, 1923-1949, undated

Box 10 Folder 9 Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Jr. documents, 1930s-1959

Box 10 Folder 10 Lev Kazem-Bek's documents, 1923, undated

Box 10 Folder 11 Nadine Kazem-Bek's documents, 1944

(materials related to teaching Russian at the Yale University)

Series IV: Photographs and Drawings, 1904-1970s, undated

Photographs of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek, his friends and family, students and colleagues from Connecticut and Middlebury colleges, members of the Mladoross movement and scenes from the party's events, the Royal Family, the Russian Orthodox Patriarch and other clerics, etc. The series also includes Kazem-Bek's original drawings-sketches and photographs of his paintings.

Subseries IV.1: Photographs, 1904-1970s

Black and white and color photographs. Notable names include: Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov, Grand Duke Vsevolod, Grand Duke Dmitrii Pavlovich, Grand Duchess Victoria Romanova, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich Romanov, Patriarch Aleksii of Moscow and All Russia, Patriarch Sergii of Moscow and All Russia, Archbishop Aleksei, Metropolitan Benjamin of North America, Alexander Grechaninov. Also portrayed are main members of the Mladorossy: Pantaleon Avsenev, Serge Boulatzel, Grigorii Butakov, Count Igor' Caruso, Prince Mikhail Chavchavadze, Kirill Chevich, Boris Demidov, Helen Didriks, Garald Graf, Anatolii Karamosko, Prince Vladimir Krassinskii, Andrei Nekrasov, George Otvinovskii, Sergei Otvinovskii, Alexander Ugrimov, Anatolii Shteiger, Platon Stefanovich, Maximilian Strenger, Pierre Vasil'ev, Kirill Wilezhkovskii, Sergei Zbychevskii, and others. One especially notable photograph portrays Aleksandr Kazem-Bek as a child, with his parents and officers from the aboard the frigate "Pallada".

Box 10 Folder 12 Individual photographs

(One oversized group photo of students and faculty of the Middlbury summer program is stored in oversize flat box 20, folder 2)

Box 10 Folder 13 Family photogrpahs

Box 10 Folder 14 Mladoross movement

Box 10 Folder 15 Royal family

(see more in the folders "Mladoross movement photographs" and "Family photographs")

Box 10 Folder 16 Clerics

Box 10 Folder 17 Various photographs

(third party photos)

Movie stills

Box 10 Folder 18 "Ivan the Terrible"

Box 10 Folder 19 "Pageant of Russia"

Subseries IV.2: Drawings by Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's, undated

Box 10 Folder 20 3 original drawings and photographs of Kazem-Bek's paintings

Series V: Professional Activity, 1941-1965

The series comprises materials related to Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's teaching work and his work at YMCA.

Subseries V.1: Teaching, 1943-1965

Correspondence, documents, curriculum and teaching materials, lectures notes, newspapers and clippings related to Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's work at the Connecticut College, his activity as a member of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), his appointment as a visiting Russian lecturer and educational expert with the government of India and Pakistan.

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), 1943-1951


Box 11 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1944-1949

Box 11 Folder 2 Members, Meetings, 1946-1948

Box 11 Folder 3 Russian language programs, 1943-1951

Bulletin of the AATSEEL, 1944-1949

Box 11 Folder 4 1944-1945

Box 11 Folder 5 1946

Box 11 Folder 6 1947-1949

Box 11 Folder 7 Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 8 Appointment to India and Pakistan, 1951-1954

(materials related to Kazem-Bek's appointment as a visiting Russian lecturer and educational expert with the government of India and Pakistan)

Connecticut College, 1946-1965

(correspondence, reports, meetings, teaching materials, curriculum, Russian Club, cultural events, clippings)

Correspondence, 1947-1959

Box 11 Folder 9 1947-1950

Box 11 Folder 10 1951-1959

Box 11 Folder 11 Faculty Matters, 1947-1951

(reports, meetings, lists)

Box 11 Folder 12 Course curriculum and teaching materials, 1948-1954

Box 11 Folder 13 Russian Club, 1947-1965

Box 11 Folder 14 Cultural events, 1946-1965

Newspapers and clippings, 1946-1965


Box 27 OS Folder 1 Conn Census, , 1965 May 13

(oversize flat box)

Box 27 OS Folder 1 Connecticut College News , 1949-1954

(oversize flat box)


Box 11 Folder 15 Clippings regarding A. Kazem-Bek, 1947-1954

Box 11 Folder 16 General clippings, 1946-1965

Box 11 Folder 17 Grants of the Ford Foundation, 1952-1955

Box 11 Folder 18-20 Lectures notes, undated

(notes on Russian language and literature classes)

Subseries V.2: YMCA, 1941-1956


Box 12 Folder 1-2 Correspondence with Paul Anderson and John Mott; Kazem-Bek's and Anderson's writings, notes, documents and other materials related to Kazem-Bek's work with the War Prisoner's Aid of the Young Men's Christian Association.

Series VI: Social and Political Activity: Mladorosskaia partiia, 1921-1954

This series contains materials related to Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's role as the founder and head of the Mladorosskaia partiia and to the party's activities. Photographs of the party's members see: Series IV: Photographs and Drawings.

Subseries VI.1: Documents and publications, 1921-1954

Statute, program, resolutions, memos, internal publications, bulletins, and other documents and materials of the Mladorosskaia party.

Box 12 Folder 3 Governing documents, 1923-1934

(statute, program, resolutions of the First Congress, articles and speeches explaining Mladoross movement idea, mladoross handbook, etc)

Box 12 Folder 4 General'nyi Sekretariat: memos and publications, 1936-1939

Box 12 Folder 5 Rukovodiashchii Tsentr: memo and "Vedomosti Rukovodiashchego Tsentra Mladorosskoi Partii", 1937, undated

Box 12 Folder 6 Otdel Podgotovki Kadrov: internal publications, 1924-1935

Box 12 Folder 7 "Khronika", 1936, undated

French Branch, 1923-1940

Box 12 Folder 8 "Bulletin d'Information du Parti Jeune-Russe", 1935-1936

Box 12 Folder 9 "Opoveshchenie Parizhskogo Ochaga Mladorossov" and "Opoveshchenie Predstavitel'stva na Frantsii Glavnago Soveta Ob'edinennoi Russkoi Molodezhi", 1923-1933

Box 12 Folder 10 "Vestnik predstavitel'stva na Frantsiiu", 1938

Box 12 Folder 11 Various, 1931-1940, undated

Branding of the Mladorosskaia partiia

Box 12 Folder 12 Postcards with emblems and pins, postage stamps, folder with hand-drawn emblem, greeting cards

Box 12 Folder 13 Mladoross' songs

Box 12 Folder 14 Russian monarchists' documents, 1921-1931

(appeals to Russian monarchists, Manifestos of Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov, clippings. Voskresenie Rossii, newspaper of Russian monarchists, of November 7, 1933 see: Series VIII: Printed Materials -- Subseries VIII.2: Periodicals)

Box 12 Folder 15 Various, 1937,1954, undated

Subseries VI.2: Kazem-Bek's Writings on Mladoross Movement, [1935], 1943

Box 12 Folder 16 "Mladoross Movement", memorandum, 1943

(typescript of confidential memorandum prepared for the San-Francisco Office Military Intelligence Service)

Box 12 Folder 17 "Rossiia, mladorossy i emigratsiia", [1935]

(collection of speeches and talks)

Subseries VI.3: Printed Materials, 1928-1940

Books, brochures, pamphlets, and periodicals published by the Mladorosskaya partiia.

Books, brochures, pamphlets, 1928-1939, undated


Box 13 Folder 1 Dydymov, Aleksandr. Puti i tseli. Shankhai, 1939

Box 13 Folder 2 Elita-Vil'chkovskii, Kirill. O mladorosskoi ideologii

Box 13 Folder 2 Elita-Vil'chkovskii, Kirill. O natsional'noi revoliutsii

Box 13 Folder 3 K molodoi Rossii… Sbornik Mladorossov. 1928

Box 13 Folder 4 Lishin, N. Paralleli

Box 13 Folder 5 Put' k pobede. Belgrad, 1934

Box 13 Folder 5 Young Russia. 1933

Periodicals, 1922-1940

(mostly incomplete sets)

Bodrost' , 1934-1940


Box 20-26 OS Originals, 1934-1939

(oversize flat boxes)


Box 20 OS Folder 3-6 1934-1935


Box 21 OS Folder 1-4 1936: Jan-Aug


Box 22 OS Folder 1-2 1936: Sept-Dec

Box 22 OS Folder 3-4 1937: Jan-May


Box 23 OS Folder 1-3 1937: June-Dec


Box 24 OS Folder 1-3 1938: Jan-Aug


Box 25 OS Folder 1-2 1938: Sept-Dec

Box 25 OS Folder 3-4 1939: Jan-Apr


Box 26 OS Folder 1-3 1939: May-June

Box 26 OS Folder 3 1940


Box 13 Folder 6-7 Photographs of the newspaper, 1934-1940


Box 27 OS Folder 2 Kazachii Nabat, , 1934-1940

(incomplete set; oversize flat box)


Box 13 Folder 8-9 Mladoross, , 1930-1932

Mladorosskaia Iskra, , 1931-1940


Box 27 OS Folder 3-5 Originals

(oversize flat box)


Box 14 Folder 1 Photographs of the newspaper

Box 14 Folder 2 Mladorosskii Bulletin, , 1936-1937

(photographs of selected issues)

Box 14 Folder 3 Na rassvete, , 1937-1939

(photographs of selected issues)

Nabat Kazachestva: see Kazachii Nabat


Box 35 OS Folder 1 Novyi Put', , 1934 November

(oversize flat box)


Box 14 Folder 4 Russie (bulletin d'information), , 1937-1939

(selected issues)

Box 14 Folder 5 Russkoe delo, , 1940, January 9

(photocopy)

Box 14 Folder 6 Various clippings, 1922, undated

(clippings with articles about Mladoross party)

Subseries VI. 4: Mladorosskaia partiia's members personal files, 1934-1965

Files of three members of the Mladorosskaia partiia contain personal documents, correspondence, materials related to life in camps Rolland Garos and Vernet d'Ariege.

Box 14 Folder 7 Avsenev, Pantaleon, 1942-1965

(personal documents, IDs, correspondence with Aleksandr Kazem-Bek and Svetlana Kazem-Bek, drawing, notes)

Box 14 Folder 8 Chaika, F., 1940, undated

(copies of drawings of life scenes of camps Rolland Garos and Vernet d'Ariege)

Box 14 Folder 9 Stefanovich, Platon, 1934-1942

(copies of personal documents, materials related to camp Vernet d'Ariege, etc.)

Series VII: Subject Files, 1935-1976

Subseries VII.1: Church related, 1945-1956

Materials about Archbishop Aleksei's and Metropolitan Nikolai's visits to the USA and St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church affair. Also includes publications of the Sviateishii Pravitel'stvuiushchii Sinod and various materials related to the Local Assembly of Russian Orthodox Church and World Council of Churches.

Box 14 Folder 10 Archbishop Aleksei's visit to the USA, 1945-1946

(correpospondence, documents, photographs, clippings, and other materials related to the visit of Archbishop Aleksei of the Moscow Patriarchate to USA. See also: Series IV: Photographs and Drawings, box 10, folder 16)

Box 14 Folder 11 Local Assembly of Russian Orthodox Church, 1945

(materials related to election of the Patriarch of Moscow and of all Russia)

Box 14 Folder 12 Metropolitan Nikolai's Visit to the USA, 1956

(programs, clippings)

Box 14 Folder 13 St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, 1945-1955

(materials related to St. Nicholas Church affair and 50th anniversary of the church)

Box 14 Folder 14-15 Publications of the Sviateishii Pravitel'stvuiushchii Sinod, [1917]

Box 14 Folder 16 World Council of Churches, 1954

(leaflets, poster, programs)

Subseries VII.2: Personalia, 1944-1970, undated

Research materials on Charles De Gaulle. Correspondence, photograph, bio notes and other materials related to General Spiridovich, chief of Emperor Nicholas II personal guard. Materials related to Tolstoi's case against UN irregularities in the conduct of the examination for Russian translators.

Box 14 Folder 17 De Gaulle, Charles, 1944-1970

(bio note, printed materials, clippings, postcard)

Box 14 Folder 18 Spiridovich, Aleksandr, 1952, undated

(correspondence, photograph, bio notes and other materials related to General Spiridovich, chief of Emperor Nicholas II personal guard)

Box 14 Folder 19 Tolstoi, Andrei, 1949, undated

(typed copies of Tolstoi's letter against UN irregularities in the conduct of the examination for Russian translators; Tolstoi's autograph note)

Subseries VII.3: Various Subjects, 1901-1960s

Box 14 Folder 20 "Nasha Oborona", 1942

(galleys and other materials related to the first issue)

Box 14 Folder 21 Russian Imperial family, 1901-1960s

(autographs of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, Vladimir Kirillovich, Dmitrii Pavlovich; notes and printed materials)

Series VIII: Printed Materials, 1928-1989

Books, brochures, articles, periodicals, journals, offprints, newspapers in Russian, English, French.

Subseries VIII.1: Books, brochures, and reprints, 1931-1989

Graf, G. K. (Garald Karlovich)


Box 15 Folder 1 Iz putevykh zametok, 1931

Box 15 Folder 1 Vospominaniia o Eia Velichestve Gosudaryne Imperatritse Viktorii Fedorovne, [1938]

(2 copies; one with inscription)

Box 15 Folder 2 Hafkesbrink, Hanna. Ernst Junger's quest for a new faith, 1951

(with inscription)

Jakobson, Roman

Box 15 Folder 3 Archetype of the First Edition of the Igor Tale, 1952

(offprint)

Box 15 Folder 3 Bibliography of the Publications of Roman Jacobson on Language, Literature, and Culture, 1951

Box 15 Folder 4 Kartashev, A. V. Vetkhozavetnaia bibleiskaia kritika, 1947

Box 15 Folder 5 Losskii, N. Dialekticheskii materializm v SSSR, 1934

Box 15 Folder 6 Na pamiat' iz Pochaevskoi Lavry

Box 15 Folder 7 Orion: literaturnyi al'manakh. Paris, 1947

Box 15 Folder 8 Oswiecim, camp of death (underground report), [1944]

Box 15 Folder 9 Poole, De Witt Clinton. Russia and the United States

Publications of the Moscow Patriarchate Publishing House

Box 15 Folder 10 Polozhenie ob upravlenii Russkoi Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi, 1945

Box 15 Folder 11 Sviateishii Patriarkh Moskovskii i Vseia Rusi Aleksii, 1966

Box 15 Folder 12 Eglise Orthodoxe Russe: Organization, Situation, Activite, 1958

Box 15 Folder 13 Rzaev, A. K. Mukhammed Ali M. Kazem-Bek, 1989

(with inscription)

Box 15 Folder 14 Soloukhin, Vladimir. Venok sonetov, 1976

(with inscription)

Box 15 Folder 15 Wasson, R. Gordon. Toward a Russian Policy: a second look at some popular beliefs about Russia and the Soviet Union, 1951

(with inscription)

Zenkovsky, Serge A.

Box 15 Folder 16 Century of Tatar Revival, 1953

Box 15 Folder 16 Ideological Deviation in Soviet Central Asia

Box 15 Folder 16 Kulturkampf in Pre-Revolutionary Central Asia

Subseries VIII.2: Periodicals, 1933-1975

Russian


Box 16 Folder 1-2 Edinaia Tserkov' (One Church), , 1953-1962

(incomplete set, in Russian and English)

Box 16 Folder 3 Khronika zhizni Russkoi Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi v Zapadnoi Evrope , 1958, undated

(No. 1 and 22)

Box 16 Folder 4 Nezavisimyi golos, , [1947]


Box 28-34 OS Novaia Zaria, , 1944-1956

(oversize flat boxes)


Box 28 OS Folder 1-3 1944: Jan-Feb


Box 29 OS Folder 1-4 1944: March-Apr


Box 30 OS Folder 1-4 1944: May-June


Box 31 OS Folder 1-4 1944: Sept-Dec


Box 32 OS Folder 1 1945-1946

Box 32 OS Folder 1-4 1947


Box 33 OS Folder 1 1948

Box 33 OS Folder 2 1949

Box 33 OS Folder 3-4 1950


Box 34 OS Folder 1 1951-1952

Box 34 OS Folder 2 1953

Box 34 OS Folder 2-4 1954-1956


Box 16 Folder 5 Novoe Slovo, , 1933-1935

(photocopies of 5 issues)

Box 16 Folder 6 Novosti Tolstovskogo Fonda, , May, 1951

(photocopy)

Box 16 Folder 7 Pravoslavnaia Rus', , April, 1948

Box 16 Folder 8 Tretii Chas, , 1946

(in Russian - 1946, issue 1, with inscription; in English - 1947, issue 3; in French - 1947, issue 2)

Box 16 Folder 9 Vestnik Russkikh Dobrovol'tsev, Partizan i Uchastnikov Soprotivleniia vo Frantsii, , 1946-1947

(No. 1, 2)


Box 17 Folder 1 Vestnik Ruskogo Zapadno-Evropeiskogo Patriarshego Ekzarkhata, , 1955

(No. 24)


Box 35 Folder 3 Voskresenie Rossii, , 1933, Nov. 7

(oversize flat box)


Box 17 Folder 2-3 Zhurnal Moskovskoi Patriarkhii, , 1961-1975

(1961: No. 1-4; 1965: No. 1-2; 1966: No. 4; 1968: No. 4; 1975: No. 6)

Soviet newspapers, 1944-1945

(selected issues)


Box 35 Folder 4 Izvestiia, , 1945, February 3-6

(oversize flat box)

Box 35 Folder 4 Literatura i iskusstvo, , 1944, February 5

(oversize flat box)

Box 35 Folder 4 Pravda, , 1944, June 10; 1945, February 7

(oversize flat box)

Box 35 Folder 4 Sovetskoe iskusstvo, , 1945, July-August

(oversize flat box)

English


Box 17 Folder 4 Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Information Bulletin, , 1944-1945

(3 issues)

Box 17 Folder 5 Living Church, , 1948

(4 issues)

Box 17 Folder 5 National Council Outlook, , 1952 February


Box 35 OS Folder 2 Student Federalist, , 1946, October

(oversize flat box)


Box 16 Folder 8 Third Hour, , 1947

French


Box 17 Folder 6 Cahiers de la Nouvelle Époque: Problèmes du Monde Nouveau Occident et Russie, No. 1-2. Paris, 1945

(No. 1, 2)

Box 17 Folder 7 Education Nationale, , 1952

(No. 9,13)


Box 18 Vie Intellectuelle, , 1947-1948

(incomplete set)


Box 16 Folder 10 Messager de l'Exarchat du Patriarche Russe en Europe Occidentale, , 1955

(No. 24)

Box 16 Folder 8 Troisieme Heure, , 1947

Subseries VIII.3: Various printed materials, 1952-1955, undated


Box 18 Folder 1 Postcards

Box 18 Folder 2 Programs, 1952-1955, undated

(shows, concerts, auctions, receptions)

Subseries VIII.4: Clippings, 1938-1976

Clippings with research and reference materials on various subjects.


Box 19 Folder 10 Russian

Box 19 Folder 11 English

Box 19 Folder 12 French


Box 35 OS Folder 5-6 Oversized (Russian, English, French)

(oversize flat box)