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Ivanov's manuscripts under collective title "Iz zapisok voennogo topografa" discuss his travels to Russian Central Asia in 1900-1902; describing such places as Bukhara, Tashkent, and the Semirechʹe area. (These are not his original notes, but copies made subsequently by his granddaughter.)

Papers include correspondence and manuscripts. There is a transcription of nine letters written by Erenburg-Manotti from Central Asia to her family in 1910; a brief biography of her brother, Ili︠́a︡ L. Erenburg (not the writer Ili︠́a︡ G. Erenburg); and brief autobiographical essays and excerpts, entitled "Desi︠a︡t ́let vospominanii︠a︡ (1919-1929)""Avtobiografii︠a︡, and "J'ai 88 ans.".

The memoirs of Smugge, nʹee Gori︠a︡chkina, which cover the 1880-1955 period, begin with a vivid description of her early life in Irkut︠s︡k. She then chronicles the years she lived and studied in Geneva and Paris before returning to Siberia and thence moving to Harbin, Port Arthur and, in 1902, to Vladivostok. The next section of the manuscript deals with her marriage to Evgeniĭ M. Smugge, a railroad engineer, and their life and work in Turkestan (1907-1910) and Odessa (1910-1911 and 1916-1920). The memoirs then turn to the Civil War period and the Smugges' evacuation via Constantinople to Yugoslavia where they lived until 1925. Following a description of the 1926-1944 period, when the Smugges lived in Riga, the memoirs end with the evacuation to Germany and their life there. A few revised sections are appended to the very end of the manuscript. The memoirs are in 5 notebooks and total ca. 250 pages.

Two typescript memoirs (in all 14 p.) - "Poezdka Grafa Palena..v Amu-Darínskiĭ otdel i Khivinskoe Khanstvo" and "Vremennoe Pravitelśtvo i ego vysochestvo Emir Seid-Alim Bukhary Blagorodnoĭ" (concerns a visit by representatives of the Provisonal government to the Emir of Bukhara in April 1917).

The memoirs are both in manuscript (68 notebooks, over 3,800 pages), and in a typescript copy (944 p.). They cover Khagondokov's youth and military education; service in the Far East and in Central Asia; service in World War I, mostly on the Caucasian front; his experiences during 1917 in the Far East and Petrograd (where he met with A.I. Guchkov and other members of the Provisional Government); and the Civil War in the Caucasus region, Georgia, and Azerbaidzhan.