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The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, a photograph and printed materials. Several of the manuscripts deal with World War I, noting campaigns in Austria and Poland, the Lubenskiĕ Gusary unit, and such individuals as General Rennenkampf and the ballerina Kshesinska, to whom Sakhno-Ustimovich was related. Other manuscripts concern the Civil War. There is one copy of "Rossiĭskoe edinstvo" (New Jersey, 1966) which contains Sakhno-Ustimovich's article"Vozvrashchenie s fronta.".

Correspondence and memoirs of Vereshchagin. Correspondence includes letters from a number of major emigre cultural figures, such as Ivan Bunin, Matild́a Ksheshinskai︠a︡, Vasiliĭ Nemirovich-Danchenko; there are also poems by Nemirovich-Danchenko and by Nadezhda Teffi. In addition, there are letters by members of the Imperial family in exile, particularly Grand Prince Vladimir Kirillovich. Vereshchagin's memoirs touch on such subjects as his childhood and family, the Imperial Corps of Pages, cultural life in St. Petersburg and Petrograd, and the early 1920's in Petrograd and Moscow. In addition, there is a pamphlet of poems by Vereshchagin"Stikhi" (1955).