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The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, and printed materials. Correspondence includes letters by Vladimir Kokovt︠s︡ov, and letters concerning the posthumous publication of Kryzhanovskiĭ's memoirs. Manuscripts include drafts of these memoirs and other items by Kryzhanovskiĭ. There are also manuscripts, chiefly memoirs, by other persons; most were evidently sent to Kryzhanovskiĭ as editor of the emigre journal "Russkai︠a︡ Letopis"́ in the 1920s, but were never published. They deal with such topics as the Imperial police and government and the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War. There is a large group of manuscripts and related printed items, evidently prepared by Kryzhanovskiĭ, on the projected governmental system of a post-Bolshevik Russia. Subject files deal with the 1917 Revolution, emigre monarchism, and other topics.

Plotnikov's handwritten memoir "Nikolaevskoe Inzhenernoe Uchilishche, zhizn' i tvorchestvo" is in part based on his recollections of three years spent as a cadet at the Nikolai Engineering School (Nikolaevskoe Inzhenernoe Uchilishche) in St. Petersburg in the early 1890s. He discusses in detail the academic, social, moral and religious life of the students, describes the organization of the school and talks about the teaching staff, administrators and alumni.

Collection includes Dvigubskiĭ's memoirs of his experiences as a military cadet; the service record of General Mikhail A. Davydov (b. 1837); an inscribed photograph of the composer Aleksandr P. Borodin, and photographs of "Russian types" from about the turn of the century.

One manuscript, entitled "Vesna ne pridet" (20 p.), chiefly concerns his efforts to get permission to emigrate. The other"I v Khrista i v Boga" (45 p.) disagrees with Aleksandr Solzhenit︠s︡yn's views on the relation between Russia and Communism.

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and subject files of Witte. The correspondents include Ivan S. Aksakov, Tsar Aleksander III, Tsar Nicholas II, Konstantin P. Pobedonost︠s︡ev, I︠U︡riĭ Samarin, Lev N. Tolstoĭ and Kaiser Wilhelm II. The manuscripts, which constitute over half of the collection, consist of Witte's memoirs and of his work on the Russo-Japanese War, and include a signed typescript essay by Lev N. Tolstoĭ. The photographs depict the signing of the Portsmouth Treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War (Portsmouth, N.H.). The subject files, which are primarily typescript copies of documents, refer to such topics as the various assassination attempts on the tsars, questions of agrarian reform, relations with Germany, and the siege of Port Arthur. There is also a framed pen and ink drawing depicting an event in Witte's public career.

The collection consists primarily of manuscripts and clippings of articles and stories Bel'deninov wrote in the 1950s and 1960s and published in such emigre periodicals as "Russkii Put'", "Nashe Vremia" and "Rossiia". Several memoirs by Bel'deninov touch on such topics as his education in Irkutsk and St. Petersburg, his legal practice before and during the revolutionary period, and the Civil War in Siberia.

Typescript memoirs discuss Ili︠́u︡shkin's army career, including his role in the supression of the 1905 Revolution.

Mamontov's typescript memoirs consist primarily of a single manuscript entitled "Mes chevaux et chevauchees" (317 p.); there are also several short pieces. The memoirs discuss primarily Mamontov's military experiences in the White Army in the period 1917-1920.

Correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, and printed materials of Voĭt︠s︡ekhovskiĭ. Correspondents include Tati︠́a︡na Dubrovskai︠a︡, Nikolaĭ Obruchev, Vasiliĭ Orekhov, Igor ́Sikorskiĭ, Boris Solonevich, and many others; there are also memoirs by Voĭt︠s︡ekhovskiĭ on emigres whom he knew. There are files on the Rossiĭskiĭ Politicheskiĭ Komitet (Russian Political Committee) in New York; on the Pushkin Fund; extensive materials concerning emigre monarchist and anti-Communist groups (for example, the Solidarists); and reviews of the Russian emigre press ("Obzor pressy") prepared by Voĭt︠s︡ekhovskiĭ in 1962-1975.