Collections

The collection includes correspondence and manuscripts, as well as copies of documents. The correspondence of General Alekseev is represented by extracts from letters of the periord of the Russo-Japanese War, and by copies of both official and personal correspondence from 1917-1918. Also included are a few letters to K. V. Denikina answering requests for information about General Alekseev; these include 2 from his daughter V. M. Borel'. The largest part of the collection comprises manuscripts by M. K. Borel'; a lengthy memoir of the Civil War entitled "Za veru i vernost'". Other Civil War memoirs, a number of brief historical anecdotes and stories of an account of the battle of Mukden by a British journalist named Atteridge, and a memoir of 1917 Soviet Russia by Sergeĭ Novikov called "Konets rodnogo polka" complete the collection.

Manuscript memoirs of Boris Berin-Bei entitled "Zapiski sovetskogo kontslagernika" (143 p.). The memoirs concern his experiences in Soviet concentration camps in 1945-1956.

The longer of the three typescript memoirs (58 p.) discusses Puzanov's whole life; the two briefer ones (7 p. and 16 p.) concentrate on the atrocities and the investigation in Evpatorii︠a︡, largely repeating the information found in the longer work.

Manuscripts and related materials on the siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War, collected by Boris Ivanovich Bok. Included are diaries and memoirs by Russian participants in the siege: Dmitrii Grigor'evich Androsov (Diary), Oskar Fabianovich Berg (Memoirs), Vladimir Ferdinandovich Berg (Memoirs), Aleksandr Viktorovich Fok ("Zametki"), Nikolai Viktorovich Ienish (Memoirs), Aleksei Mikhailovich Iuzefovich (Memoirs), Vladimir Nikoalevich Nikitin (Diary), Aleksandr Apollonovich Vorob'ev (Memoirs). Some of the memoirs and diaries were published in: "Port-Arthur, Vospominaniia uchastnikov" (New York, 1955).

Collection consists of two letters, five essays, and one photograph. The essays are reminiscences of such topics as a World War I battle, the Corps of Cadets, Imperial hunts, and World War II. Photograph of Kiev Corps of Cadets (Kievskii kadetskii korpus).

Memoirs of Boris L'vovich Baikov. Included are: a manuscript memoir entitled "Skitaniia russkogo intelligenta v Persii", about his adventures there in 1920; an English translation of that work, entitled "My Adventures in Persia"; Baikov's published memoirs of the Civil War in the Transcaucasus "Vospominaniia o revoliutsii v Zakavkaz'i" (n.p., 1922?. Cataloged and removed from the collection: SEEC 2252 Folio); and a typescript by him entitled "The Aspirants for the Throne of the Tsars in the Russia of the Future."

Included are Gershun's manuscript memoirs, entitled "Vospominanii︠a︡ russkogo advokata" (843 p.), covering the 1890s to 1918; manuscripts and typescript of a work entitled "Essai sur la Profession dʹAdvocat"; a letter; two printed items which concern Gershun, and some newspaper clippings.

Typescript memoirs entitled "Vospominaniia i vpechatleniia" (159 p.) of B. M. Brofel'dt that touch on his service in World War I and with the White Army in Ukraine. Also covered is emigration in Berlin, England and France.

Papers of Boris N. Levenet︠s︡, and of his wife E.N. Levenet︠s︡. Included is a typescript copy of Boris' diary of military action in Romania in the fall of 1916; a folder of copies of military telegrams and documents concerning the surrender of the Tallinn (Reval or Revel)́ fortress to the Germans in February 1918 (one of the telegrams, dated 20 February, is signed by Lenin and Trotsky); and E. N. Levenet︠s︡ memoirs, which are mostly typed and in French. The memoirs deal with her youth, World War I, the Civil War, and emigration in Egypt.

Typescript memoirs (118 p.) concerning Beliaev's work with the Empress Aleksandra during World War I in the Vserossiiskoe obshchestvo zdravnits v pamiat' voiny 1914-1915 godov, of which she was the president and he the secretary. This organization worked to help war victims and their families. Also included is a pamphlet by Beliaev "Po voprosu ob organizatsii pomoshchi postradavshim na voine i ikh semiam" (Petrograd, 1915).