Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

The memoirs "Moe postuplenie i 7-letnee prebyvanie v Voronezhskom Velikogo Kniazia Mikhaila Pavlovicha kadetskon korpuse" concern his military education.

Liu's typescript "The Zemstvos: Role in the Development of Elementary Schools" was written as a master's thesis for the University of Maryland in 1972.

Typescript memoirs that concern Grebenshchikov's years at the Pavlovskoe Voennoe Uchilishche (Pavlovsk Military Academy) from 1909-1911. Inserted throughout the memoirs are a number of photographs.

Typescript memoirs "Proizvodstvo v ofitsery" by Boris N. Treti︠́a︡kov. The memoirs recount the ceremony in 1911 whereby Treti︠́a︡kov, having completed his military education in the Imperial Corps of Pages, became an army officer.

Manuscripts from his "Stoletniĭ putʹ russkoĭ derevni", on the development of one Russian village from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s, and manuscripts on education and literacy in the USSR.

Typescript memoir "Ekskursiia 51-ogo vypuska Gelsingforskoi Aleksandrovskoi Gimnazii v Estoniiu, 1927 god" that concerns Russian education in Finland and Estonia in the interwar period.

Dmitriev's manuscript memoirs (57 p.) and his calling card.

Rachinskai︠a︡'s manuscript memoirs discuss her childhood in Samara, and her education in Khvalynsk in the Saratov Oblast and Moscow. The collection includes a photograph of Rachinskai︠a︡ dated 1976 and a brief manuscript entitled "Otryvki iz moeĭ tetradi." (6 p.).

Bound typescript of Kokovt︠s︡ov's memoirs "Vospominaniia detstva i litseiskoi pory Grafa V.N.Kokovtseva" discuss his childhood and education as well as his early years in government service in the late 19th century.

The collection includes three documents relating to Safonova (nʹee Bystrova): a 1912 certificate from the Moskovskoe dvori︠a︡nskoe deputatskoe sobranie; a 1913 diploma from the Rizhskai︠a︣ zhenskai︠a︡ gimnazii︠a︡; and a teaching certificate dated 1915, Riga. Also included are a passport for Safonova's father, Vladimir N. Bystrova and a service record for Safonova's husband, Matveĭ S. Safonov.