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The collection consists of correspondence and manuscripts. The correspondence, both incoming and outgoing (copies), spans the years 1921-1938, and includes both personal and official letters as well as such ancillary materials as financial accounts, reports, clippings, circulars, etc. It deals with the activities of the White army at the end of the Civil War (Crimea, Gallipoli, Bulgaria) and with the policies and programs of the Russkiĭ Obshche-Voinskiĭ Soiuz (ROVS) in the emigration. The manuscripts are in the form of memoirs, both General Shatilov's and his wife's; there is also a memoir by an unidentified author. There are two copies of General Shatilov's 2,000 page manuscript. In it he recounts his childhood and military education, his participation in the Russo-Japanese War, and his role in World War I, the Civil War, and subsequently in the emigration in Europe, through World War II.

The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, subject files, photographs, and printed materials. Correspondence in the collection includes 1 item from Ivan Bunin, 2 from Vladimir Davydov, and many from G. A. Alekseev. Mendeleev's extensive memoirs, "Svet i teni v moei zhizni," discuss his childhood and youth, government service, World War I, the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War, and life in the emigration up to 1933. Subject files in this collection concern the Prague Russian Archive, the Union of the Russian Nobility, the Russian Imperial family in the emigration, and other topics. Printed materials include an almost complete set of the weekly "Parizhskii Vestnik" (1942-1944).

The manuscript concerns the adventures of an Armenian fugitive and partisan in the Caucasus mountains, before and during World War I. It is not clear how much of the story is fiction or non-fiction.

Typescript memoir describes Landerman's experiences in Soviet prisons in 1963-65, after he was convicted of killing someone in an automobile accident. The manuscript was apparently prepared by George Feifer from an interview he had with Landerman concerning the latter's experiences.

Pletnev's typescript memoirs include the following: His autobiography"Nikchemnai︠a︡ zhizn"́ (475 p.); "Den ́v Peterburge" (48 p.), with a description of St. Petersburg and in particular its cultural life before World War I; "U mori︠a︡" (5 p.), on the author's dacha near St. Petersburg; and "Den ́v Gaage" (30 p.), on his visits to a friend in the Hague in the years after the 1917 revolution. The manuscripts are in the third person; the central figure, Oborin, is Pletnev.

Manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials of General Tomilov. The collectin includes an extensive manuscript by Tomilov entitled"Severo-zapadnyĭ front grazhdanskoĭ voĭny v Rossii 1919 goda." There is also a brief memoir by Tomilov's wife , Natalii︠a︡. There are photographs of an Imperial Army hospital unit in 1914, and one of the 1924 class of the School for the Liquidation of Illiteracy in Volkhovstroĭ.

The manuscripts are chiefly memoirs which recount Petr Sushilńikov's experiences in the regiment. The collection consists of one long narrative account entitled "Astrakhanskie grenadery v boi︠u︡ i bytu, 1900-1920," ten brief sketches, and a list of regiment officers, doctors and other military functionaries at the time of the mobilization in 1914.

The manuscripts, all of which are by Sobolev, include historical essays, such as "Legenda drevni︠a︡go Novgoroda" and Sobolev's memoirs"Zapiski zhurnalista." Sobolev's memoirs cover his childhood in Novgorod, the 1905 and 1917 Revolutions, World War I (during which Sobolev was active in the Imperial Army) and the Civil War, in which Sobolev participated in White Army campaigns in Onega, Murmansk and Arkhangelśk. Sobolev also discusses a number of newspapers with which he was associated, particularly "Novoe vremi︠a︡" "Russkoe slovo" and "Birzhevye vedomosti." The printed materials consist of a few newspaper clippings.

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, subject files, and printed materials of Bark. Cataloged materials in this collection include letters from Metropolitan Evlogiĭ, Boris Bakhmeteff, and Petr Struve, and Bark's extensive memoirs. Much of the correspondence concerns the Civil War and attempts to gain Allied support for the White forces, and also Bark's career as an English in the 1930's. Subject files concern White governments in south Russia, and Bark's life. There are also two photographs of Bark.

Petr Pilśkiĭ's manuscripts include articles which are primarily essays on individual Russian writers of the late 19th and early 20th century, such as Belyĭ, Belinskiĭ, Bunin, Chekhov, Saltykov-Shchedrin etc. These manuscripts, most likely prepared initially to serve as introductions to publications of single or collected works, are typed carbons, apparently copied considerably later. The manuscripts of E.S. Pilśkai︠a︡ are chiefly memoirs, including recollections about her studies at the Imperial Theater School (Imperatorskoe Teatralńoe Uchilishche) in St. Petersburg, theater life in Russia, her stay in Odessa and Kiev during 1918-1919 and about the Soviet takeover of Latvia in 1940. Included in the collection are several articles about Pilśkiĭ by his wife and by A. Kuprin and A. Amfiteatrov.