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Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpovich Papers, 1900-1959
17 linear feetSergei Grigor'evich Svatikov Papers, 1860-1950
40000 itemsCorrespondence, manuscripts, photographs, documents, subject files and printed materials of Sergei Grigor'evich Svatikov (1878/1880?-1942), Russian lawyer, historian, publicist, and public figure. The correspondence includes letters from Mark Aldanov, Vladimir Burtsev, Ivan Efremov, Georgii Grebenshchikov, Grigorii Lozinskii, Sergei Mel'gunov, Nikolai Rubakin, George Vernadsky and Mark Vishniak. There is a notebook that belonged to Vera Zasulich. Among the photographs are pictures of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Sergei Mel'gunov, and Aleksander Wielopolski. The manuscripts include several by Svatikov as well as many notes, lists and bibliographical compendia relating to his oeuvre. The subject files cover such areas as the Russian Reading Hall in Heidelberg, the Turgenev Library in Paris, and the Russkii akademicheskii soiuz (Groupe academique russe), also in Paris. The printed materials include clippings, materials from the Institute d'ʹetudes slaves, and a number of books by Svatikov.
Socialist-Revolutionary Party Records, 1904-1939
2000 itemsThe contents of the collection include: correspondence, manuscripts, minutes of "Zagranichnai︠a︡ Delegat︠s︡i︠a︡" meetings from the 1920s, and financial records both from the Party organization in Russia (1908-1915) and from its Estonian and Finnish affiliates (1922). The collection's subject files are particularly rich in materials on S.R. groups in foreign countries and on Party infiltrators ("provokatory"), including E.F. Azef. The collection also contains photographs of several prominent S.R.s, including Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskai︠a︡; printed materials, including the first five issues of "Sot︠s︡ialist Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ioner (1927-1932); and seals from the offices of the "Zagranichnai︠a︡ Delegat︠s︡i︠a︡." Correspondents which figure prominently in the collection are: Nikolaĭ D. Avksentév, Viktor M. Chernov, Ili︠́a︡ I. Fondaminskiĭ, Osip S. Minor and Vladimir M. Zenzinov; there is one letter by Azef. Much of the pre-1920 correspondence is addressed to Mark A. Natanson; after 1922 a large number of the letters are addressed to Sergeĭ P. Rostnikov.