Series I: Correspondence

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Cataloged correspondents include: (to George and Nina Vernadsky) Boris Bakhmeteff, Roman Jakobson, Mikhail Karpovich, Nikolai Losskii, Vladimir Nabokov, Sergei Rakhmaninov, Geroid T. Robinson, Mikhail Rostovtsev, Petr Savitskii, and Aleksandr Vasil'ev; (to Vladimir Vernadskii) Henri Bergson and Petr Struve; and Ivan Turgenev. There are a great many letters by George and Nina Vernadsky's colleagues, friends, and relatives, including many historians, and members of the Bromberg, Il'inskii, Rodichev, Romberg, and Staritskii families. There are also many letters from Vladimir and Nataliia Vernadskii to their children. Other sizable groups of letters by various persons were written to Vladimir Vernadskii and Nataliia Vernadskaia in 1888-1896 and in the 1920s and 1930s, when they were staying intermittently in Western Europe; and to members of the Staritskii family, cousins of George Vernadsky. A number of files concern George Vernadsky's professional contacts with journals, conferences, organizations, and publishers, in the fields of Russian, Byzantine, and Asian history.

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