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Vera Aleksandrovna Popova Memoirs, 1960-1969
2 itemsPopova's disjointed memoirs "Popovskaia khronika" discuss her family and ancestors, artistic and cultural life in pre-revolutionary Moscow, and the emigration in France. Among the people who appear in these memors are Sergei Diagilev, Savva Mamontov, Maksim Gorky, Serafim Sud'binin, Mikhail Larionov, and Nataliia Goncharova. Also included is a typescript biography (29 p.) of her cousin, Pavel S. Popov (1892-1964), by an unidentified Soviet author. Popov, who married a granddaughter of Lev Tolstoi, was the author of "Istoriia logiki novogo vremeni" (1960), and taught philosophy at Moscow University. This manuscript touches on his family, education, professional career in the Soviet Union, and, in great detail, his family troubles in the last years of his life.
Sofiia Il'inichna Iakovleva Memoir, 1961
39 pagesManuscript memoir ""Posle vtoroi mirovoi voiny: polozhenie starikov v katolicheskikh monastyriakh Petites Soeurs des Pauvres" that discusses the situation of elderly Russian emigres in France after World War II.
Metropolitan Serafim Memoir, 1950-1953
947 pagesThe memoirs discuss Serafim's ecclesiastical work at various posts in Europe, the All-Russian Church Council of 1917-1918 and his position as titular Metropolitan in Finland. Serafim also describes his life in France during the 1940s.
Stanislaw Kot Manuscripts, 1950
5 itemsIncluded in this collection are two minor typescripts identified as being by Kot: "Memorandum sur la sauvegarde de la culture des pays soumis à la domination sovietique" and "Komunizovanie nauczania;" a brief typescript in English, with no author given, concerning Polish-American relations after the war; and biographical notes on Kot and on Jan Dabrowski, another Polish historian.
V. A. Kravtsov Papers, 1919-1940
41 itemsMost of the materials concern the Russian emigration in France in the 1920s, in particular such organizations as the Federatsiia soiuzov russkikh inzhenerov za granitsei (Federation of Unions of Russian Engineers Abroad) and the Rossiiskii zarubezhnyi s"ezd (Russian Congress Abroad) of 1926. There is also a file of materials on railroads in Russia and the Soviet Union.
Nina Sergeevna Don Memoirs, 1965-1974
10 itemsTypescript memoirs (220 p.) concerning pre-revolutionary Russia, her experiences during the Revolution and Civil War, and in the emigration in France.
Vitalii Fedorovich Ditianin Manuscripts, 1930
4 itemsThe manuscripts appear to have been prepared as lectures for "Days of Russian Culture" organized by the emigration in France; they concern Russian cultural history.
Pavel Afanas'evich Buryshkin Manuscripts, 1944, 1951
2 itemsThis collection consists of two typescripts. The first is Buryshkin's doctoral thesis for an unidentified French institution in 1944, entitled "Les Sociʹetʹes Russes Nationalisʹees." The second is his memoirs about S. N. Tret'iakov, who became a Soviet agent in the emigration, entitled "S. N. Tret'iakov. Glava iz vospominanii".
Aleksandr Andreevich Titov Papers, 1921-1958
2500 itemsThe collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, several photographs, documents, financial records, subject files and printed material. The correspondence is chiefly from the period 1925-1958 and includes letters from Mark Aldanov, Anton Denikin, Ivan Shmelev and one or two items each from Ivan Bunin, Pavel Mili︠u︡kov, Alekseĭ Remizov etc. The documents and financial records are primarily personal and the subject files include materials on a number of commemorative celebrations and on various exile organizations in France.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Vereshchagin Papers, 1916-1964
92 itemsCorrespondence and memoirs of Vereshchagin. Correspondence includes letters from a number of major emigre cultural figures, such as Ivan Bunin, Matild́a Ksheshinskai︠a︡, Vasiliĭ Nemirovich-Danchenko; there are also poems by Nemirovich-Danchenko and by Nadezhda Teffi. In addition, there are letters by members of the Imperial family in exile, particularly Grand Prince Vladimir Kirillovich. Vereshchagin's memoirs touch on such subjects as his childhood and family, the Imperial Corps of Pages, cultural life in St. Petersburg and Petrograd, and the early 1920's in Petrograd and Moscow. In addition, there is a pamphlet of poems by Vereshchagin"Stikhi" (1955).