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Most of the collection concerns the Cossacks in the emigration in the 1920s. Correspondents include Petr Krasnov, Aleksandr Lukomskiĭ, Afrikan Bogaevskiĭ, and Grand Duke Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich. There are White intelligence reports from the Civil War in the south, and manuscripts, correspondence, and mimeographed bulletins relating to the Cossacks in Europe in the 1920s. Printed materials consist of anti-Semitic Russian publications, including issues of "Nat︠s︡ii︠a︡" and "Zhidoved" from the 1930s.

Correspondence, 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.