Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

Typescript memoirs entitled "Tiurḿy, ssylki i kontslageri︠a︡ SSSR" (152 p.). It deals with her experiences in Soviet prisons and concentration camps.

The memoirs "Zhemchuzhina zapoliaria" concern the Vorkuta concentration camp in the 1930s, discussing in particular prisoners whom the author met. Among the prisoners he discusses were 1,300 "Trotskii-ite" prisoners who arrived at the camp in 1936. They went on a mass hunger strike, and in 1938 were massacred by the authorities. (Page 54 of the manuscript is missing.).

Collection includes a manuscript by Lishin entitled "Bolśhevizm i religii︠a︡" (11 p.); a copy of "Perekovka" (15 January 1936), published by the administration of the "Belbaltkombinat" (the NKVD body running the construction of the White-Baltic Sea Canal using prisoner labor); and a copy of "Stalinskai︠a︡ Trassa" (16 December 1935, first two pages only), published by the same body.

Maryshev's handwritten memoirs (200 p.) deal with his childhood and education as well as his later experiences. There are also materials relating to his work in the Russian Orthodox Church in Western Europe after the war.

A major part of the collection is von Meck's autobiography (660 p.), covering up to the latter part of World War II, when she left Russia for the West. This autobiography primarily discusses her life in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s; her father was executed and she herself was imprisoned in Soviet concentration camps. There are five brief essays discussing railroads in Russia and the USSR, and a photograph of her grandmother, Anna Merkling. Also icluded is von Meck's translation of 681 letters written by P.I. Tchaikovsky to his family during the period March 1861 to September 1893.

Typescript and manuscript memoirs that concern Belov's military education, his service in World War I, his forcible repatriation to the Soviet Union after World War II and his subsequent experiences in Soviet concentration camps.