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Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials. Correspondents include Nadezhda Teffi and Pierre Fresnay. There are manuscripts of stories, novels, plays, scenarios, and memoirs by Oks. Oks' memoirs touch on his legal career in Russia and meetings with Sarah Bernhardt and Fedor Shali︠a︡pin; the memoirs of his wife, Lidii︠a︡ Borshch, concern the period of the Revolution and Civil War in Russia and meetings with Maksim Gorḱiĭ in Italy in the 1920s. Among the printed materials are the first issue of the emigre literary journal "Chisla," theatrical newspapers from Petrograd in 1914-16, and issues of French periodicals with Oks' memoirs about his legal career in Russia, including contacts with Lenin and Trotsky.

The manuscript diaries, in 4 notebooks, cover from 1 September to 28 December 1939, and discuss events in the city.

Personal and professional correspondence, art exhibition catalogs, photographs, printed materials, bio-biographical materials on Russian artists including emigre artists based in the U.S. and Europe collected by Viktor Kholodkov (1948-2015), renowned art dealer and collector. This collection complements Bakhmeteff Archive's holdings on Russian emigre artists.

Correspondence, documents, and photographs of Viktor K. Leontovich. The correspondence and documents concern Leontovich's service with the police in Baku province and then as commandant of Novorossiisk. There are photographs from the Civil War period.

Video of Viktor Kravchenko and his son Valentin. Viktor Kravchenko was a well known Soviet defector who was apparently killed by the KGB in the late 1960s.

The collection -- composed of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed materials -- sheds light on the anti-Bolshevik campaign in the Kuban ́region, Siberia and the Far East. The correspondence is chiefly from the early 1920s and includes letters from Viktor Pokrovskiĭ to his brother Boris. Among the manuscripts are biographical sketches of Viktor Pokrovskiĭ, especially accounts of his assassination in Bulgaria in 1922; information circulars sent out by Ataman Grigoriĭ Semenov, "Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Armies;" and reports written by Boris Pokrovskiĭ on events in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe, and the Far East. The documents are comprised primarily of decrees (prigovory) from local Kuban ́Cossack groups and the photographs are chiefly portraits of Viktor Pokrovskiĭ. Included among the printed materials are clippings from the Russian and emigre press, a large number of Civil War broadsides and political pamphlets published in Siberia in 1919. Several of the latter are by and about Ataman Semenov.

Typescript history of Narodno-Trudovoi Soiuz, emigre political group, entitled Istoriia Soiuza (NTS). Zapiski ego predsedatelia s 1931 po 1955 god. Raskol 1955 goda i novye puti (65p.) by Viktor M. Baidalakov. Also included are 8 copies of the journals Vol'naia Mysl' (1957, 1960-1961) and Tetrad' Vol'noi Mysli (1964-1966) edited by Baidalakov. In addition there is a collection of NTS fliers and pamphlets from the 1950s.

The collection includes two copies of a brief memoir of events during the Civil War in 1920, and three obituaries of Chelishchev from the newspaper "Russkaia Zhizn'" ́(San Francisco).

Artworks and plates related to the hand-crafted limited-edition books published by the Manhattan-based press led by Vincent FitzGerald.