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Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries of a well-known émigré art historian Grigorii Ostrovskii.

Most of the papers, which consist of correspondence and documents, concern the period 1911-1913 when Halle, then a student at the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the University of Vienna, went to Russia to study art history. The cataloged correspondence in this collection consists of letters from the following scholars: Boris Denike, Louis Rʹeau, Iakov Smirnov, Praskov'ia Uvarova, Josef Strzygowski, and Valentin Zubov. Arranged correspondence includes letters from various people and organizations, such as Imperatorskoe Moskovskoe Arkheologicheskoe obshchestvo, Imperatorskoe Stroganovskoe Tsentral'noe khudozhestvenno-promyshlennoe uchilishche, Kunsthistorisches Institut. Among documents are library IDs, including Biblioteka Istoricheskogo muzeia and Imperatorskaia Publichnaia biblioteka; member card of the Piatnadtsatyi Arkheologicheskii s"ezd v Novgorode; credential of the Vladimirskaia Dukhovnaia Konsistoriia; and list of publications provided by Imperatorskaia Akademiia Khudozhestv.

The collection includes V. P. Zubov's memoirs "Souvenirs de la revolution russe (1917-1925)"; Zubov's biography of Paul I "La fin de l'Empereur Paul". There is also the original manuscript of "Istoriia zhizni Ivana Iakubovskago" (ca. 1850) by Ivan Iakubovskii, and Zubov's foreword, comments and name index prepared for publication of the manuscript. There are two books and one offprint by Zubov in the collection: Zar Paul I: Mensch un Schicksal; Karlik favorita: Istoriia zhizni Ivana Iakubovskogo; and a portion of Zubov's memoirs about the Institut istorii iskusstv, from almanac "Mosty".