Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

Eight letters and one photograph sent to I︠A︡kimovich. The letters were mostly written by White general Aleksandr P. Kutepov in 1926-29. The letters are brief and not very specific, except when Kutepov claims that all Bolsheviks are Jews. The photograph, of Kutepov, is autographed.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and printed materials of Georgiĭ P. Benningsen, brother of E.P. Benningsen and, in the emigration, an associate of Vladimir Burt︠s︡ev. Much of the correspondence consists of letters to Georgiĭ Benningsen by Burt︠s︡ev (69 letters from the 1920s). Manuscripts include Benningsen's memoirs about Burt︠s︡ev, copies of Burt︠s︡ev's (apparently published) memoirs, and notes. Printed materials are chiefly clippings on various topics. There are also scattered issues of 1917 Russian newspapers ("Nash Vek," "Russkoe Slovo"), and an autographed copy of Burt︠s︡ev's 1919 edition of Griboedov's "Gore ot uma."

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents and printed materials chiefly concerning members of the Koziul'kin and Butskovskii families, specifically Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Koziul'kina, nʹee Butskovskaia, her husband, Ippolit Arkad'evich Koziul'kin and her grandfather, Mikhail Andreevich Butskovskii, the governor of Lublin province 1860-1880. The cataloged materials, in an album, include notes, autographs and music manuscripts of such individuals as Mattia Battistini, Aleksandr Glazunov, Jules Massenet, Anna Pavlova and Edouard do Reszke. The correspondence consists of personal letters to members of the Koziul'kin and Chivilev families as well as business correspondence from the 1860-1881 period concerning M. A. Butskovskii's real estate affairs. The documents include a variety of official birth, death, marriage and graduation announcements; awards given to I. A. Koziul'kin in both St. Petersburg and at the Russian Embassy in Teheran; contracts; insurance forms; military orders (1884) and reports (1878); real estate documents and I. A. Koziul'kin's service records. The printed materials deal primarily with financial affairs (such as accounts from the Governor General of Warsaw, 1898-1901) and real estate matters associated with M. A. Butskovskii's entailed estate, "Raets," in Radom province, including "Maioraty v tsarstve pol'skom" (1911).

Typed memoirs entitled "Moĭ laret︠s︡." Germanova discusses in detail her childhood and education; work in the M.Kh.T. from the early years of the century to the 1917 Revolution; her departure from Moscow, and then from Russia during the Civil War; and the interwar years, during which she lived and worked chiefly in Prague but also in France, in other European countries, and then in New York. Also included are two autographed photographs of Germanova.

Collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, notes, documents, financial records, photographs, subject files and printed materials. There are notes from Evgeniĭ Chirikov and Aleksandr Kuprin, and the autographs of Mark Aldanov, Ivan Bunin, and Nikolaĭ I︠U︡denich. There are manuscripts and notes by Mashukov and others, chiefly on the Civil War. Subject files also touch on the Civil War, as does much of the printed material.

Correspondence, documents, and a photograph of members of the Nabokov family. Included are 6 letters, a photograph, and 4 school documents of Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Nabokov; birth, school, and marriage documents of his daughter, Sofii︠a︡ Dmitrievna Nabokova (Fasolt); letters to his brother Konstantin Dmitrievich Nabokov, 1 each from Sergeĭ Witte and Viscount Alfred Milner (photocopies); an autographed letter (1885) from Tsar Alexander III to Dmitriĭ Nikolaevich Nabokov (1827-1904); father of Dmitriĭ Dm. and Konstantin Dm.) asking for his resignation as Imperial Minister of Justice; and copies of an 1895 letter by Tsar Nicholas II to Dmitriĭ N. Nabokov.

Materials by A. N. Skriabin include: a brief letter to Usacheva; a poem he wrote to her; his autograph; piano exercises; and a brief composition. (All these appear to be in Skribin's hand.) There are also clippings and book (Aleknsandr Nikolaevich Skriabin, 195-1940: Sbornik k 25-letiiu so dnq smerti. M., L., 1940)about Skriabin. Also in the collection is a memoir by Usacheva about Usacheva's second husband, Il'ia Gurliand, who was an assistant of Petr Stolypin and also a journalist. There are also two postcards from M. A. Maklakovoi to Usacheva, materials about V. A. Maklakov.

Correspondence, diaries, documents, manuscripts, and printed materials. The collection consists chiefly of diaries, research materials, and his writings. Among the correspondents are: Mikhail Chekhov, Olga Chekhov, Roman Gul, Vladimir Ilin, Artur Luther, Sergei Melgunov, Bishop Serafim, Fedor Stepun, Ilia Surguchev, Alexandra Tolstoy, and Vladimir Zenzinov.

Papers of Petr S. Makhrov, consisting primarily of extensive manuscript memoirs. Emigrating to France, he became a leading figure in the "Soviet patriotic" movement during and after World War II. His memoirs, in thousands of pages, discuss all aspects of his career. The papers also include correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials. There are orders (prikazy) from World War I and the Civil War, and reports and telegrams from his time in Poland. There is a copy of "Russkie v Gallipoli" autographed by Wrangel, and a photograph album entitled "Russkai︠a︡ armii︠a︡ na Balkanakh." Also included is the 1841 report of the director of the Imperial Military Academy in St. Petersburg, General Sukhozanet.

The collection concerns the "Kornilov uprising" of August 1917 and the subsequent investigation. Raupakh was a member of the commission set up by the Provisional Government to investigate the uprising. Most of the collection consists of files with correspondence, manuscripts, and testimony gathered by the commission. Also included is a chapter from Raupakh's memoirs concerning the uprising; a memoir of Raupakh's life up to 1918, by Ekaterina Maĭdel;́ descriptions by Maĭdel ́of the collection, with brief comments on other related papers that have not survived; a file of correspondence from the 1920s concerning the uprising; a photograph and an autograph of Raupakh; and a book by A.R. Kerenskiĭ on the uprising, "Delo Kornilova" (1918).