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Typescript memoir ""Poezdka v Tobolsk" that discusses Ievreĭnov's travel to Tobolśk in 1918 as part of a conspiracy to free the Imperial family.

Typescript essay "Imperatorakaia Rossiia i ee otnoshenie k Lifliandskomu dvorianstvu i nemetsko-baltiiskomu natsionalizmu" discusses Russo-Baltic German relations during tsarist times until the reign of Nicholas II and World War I.

The collection consists of 26 scrapbooks of clippings, mostly concerning military and naval history and the Imperial family. There are issues of "Morskoĭ zhurnal" from 1930-39, and several books on military and naval history.

Poggenpohl's diary is in French, and concerns the visits of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and the French President Felix Faure to Russia in July and August, 1897. There is also a typed transcription of the diary.

The diary contains information on the tsaritsa and the court. Additions to the typescript include photographs of the diary and a facsimile of a note from the tsaritsa.

The memoirs primarily concern aristocratic life and the Imperial court in St. Petersburg in the early 20th century. A version of Geiden's memoirs has been published as Heyden, Marina de "Les rubis portent malheur", Monte-Carlo, Regain [1967], 315 pp.

Manuscript memoirs, entitled "Perezhitoe" (11 p.). One manuscript gives general autobiographical facts and the author's political views. The other manuscript describes life on his family's estate during the early 20th century.

Shaĭkevich's (neʹe Ostrovskai︠a︡) handwritten memoirs (fifteen small notebooks) discuss her family and guests at her home, including Prince Sergeĭ Volkonskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Berdi︠a︡ev, and Maksimili︠a︡n Voloshin. She also discusses prominent Russian and Jewish families at the turn of the century. The memoirs conclude with her emigration to Latvia, Germany, and France. The essay "Poslednii︠a︡ stranichki" and her minor manuscripts are also autobiographical in nature.

The collection primarily consists of her typescript memoirs (65 p.) which cover events from 1917 to her husband's death at the hands of the Bolsheviks. Also included is correspondence, and her obituary from a newspaper in Nice.

Typescript memoirs that discuss such topics as her childhood on her parents' estate; World War I; 1917 in Petrograd; 1918 in the Ukraine; the Civil War and the emigration in Constantinople, Germany, and Poland; and World War II in Poland.