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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.

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Serge Prokofiev Archive, 1917-2012

294 linear feet
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Serge Prokofiev (1891–1953) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, and seminal figure in the history of twentieth-century music. The Serge Prokofiev Archive (SPA) contains 58 original music manuscripts and over 10,000 letters and documents primarily from 1918-1936, the years Prokofiev spent in the West. The SPA also includes an expansive collection of music manuscript copies, published scores, concert programs, scholarly books and articles, photographs, and audio and video material, making it the premier research collection for studying Prokofiev's life, work and legacy.

George Vernadsky Papers, circa 1500-1973, bulk circa 1918-1973

100 linear feet
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Papers of George Vernadsky (Georgii Vladimirovich Vernadskii, 1887-1973), Yale University professor of Russian history. The collection also includes materials from the Vernadsky/Vernadskii family, especially George Vernadsky's wife, Nina Vernadsky, his parents, Vladimir Vernadskii and Nataliia Vernadskaia, and his sister, Nina Toll'.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpovich Papers, 1900-1959

17 linear feet
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Correspondence, manuscripts, lectures, lecture notes, and subject files of Russian-American historian Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpovich (1888-1959). Karpovich was an employee of the embassy of the Russian Provisional Government in Washington, D.C., Professor Emeritus of Russian History and Literature at Harvard University, and founding editor of Novyĭ zhurnal.
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Finliandskii Leib Gvardii Polk Records, 1815-1974

1200 items
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Materials relating to the history of the Finland Regiment of the Imperial Russian Guards and to the activities of the emigre Finland Regiment Association (Obe̋dinenie Finli︠a︡ndskago Polka), an organization of former officers of the regiment, including correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials. Although the regiment was founded in 1806, almost all the materials date from the 20th century. The voluminous correspondence largely consists of letters to Dmitriĭ I. Khodnev and leaders of the regimental association in the emigration. Manuscripts include a long memoir by Khodnev concerning his service in the regiment

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Vasilii L'vovich Davydov Papers, 1826-1964

16 items
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Collection includes two letters written by V. L. Davydov in 1826, one to his brother Petr and one to Nikolai Raevskii; there is also a third letter from 1826 by an unidentified person to Raevskii, concerning V. Davydov. Also included are prints - portraits of V. L. Davydov and his wife Aleksandra Ivanovna Davydova (nee Potapova), Davydov's estate in Kamenka, and others; a photograph of Vera Vasil'evna Dutakova (nee Davydova), grandmother of E. G. Garina; and biographical notes relating to Davydov and his family.

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Nikolai Ivanovich Lorer Memoirs, 1860-1965

27 items
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Memoirs include a bound contemporary manuscript copy of the second part of Lorer's memoirs, entitled "Zapiski moego vremeni. Vospominanie o proshlom" (84 p.). There are also typed copies of two other parts of his memoirs: "Kampanii︠a︡ 1814-go goda" in "Les oeuvres libres" n. 134. Aug. 1932); and "Moi vospominanii︠a︡" (82 p.). In addition the collection includes notes and other materials relating to Lorer, his descendents, and the Decembrist movement.

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Research Program on the USSR Manuscripts, 1950-1955

24 linear feet
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Manuscripts and publications produced by the Research Program on the USSR (1950-1955). The RP-USSR, based at Columbia University, commissioned manuscripts by exiled Soviet intellectuals on various aspects of the history and development of the USSR.
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Marc Raeff papers, 1941-2008

38.2 linear feet
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Correspondence, research materials, and personal papers of Marc Isaakovich Raeff (1926-2008), a Russian history scholar and Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian Studies at Columbia University.
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Reviews of Marc Raeff's books and articles, undated Box 90, Folder 7

Nadezhda Grotthuss-Foelkersam Memoirs, 1930

309 pages
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Typescript memoirs ""Erinnerungen der Baronin Nadeshda von Grotthuss-Foelkersam"

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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bestuzhev Poem, 1828

1 item
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Autograph signed manuscript of A. A. Bestuzhev (Marlinskii) poem "V den' imenin", Ikautiia, May 18, 182[?].

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