Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, documents, and photographs, chiefly form the third quarter of the nineteenth century. There are also letters from Fedor Chechulin to his wife, from 1856-1865, in Swedish with later Russian translations; documents and other correspondence from 1847-1877; a manuscript about the family by Ekaterina Maĭdel;́ several family photographs; and a memoir by Polina Petrovna Chechulina about her experiences as a physical development instructor for the family of Grand Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich from about the end of the nineteenth century to World War I.

Papers include corespondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, a subject file, and printed materials. Correspondence includes a letter by Frank A. Golder. Manuscripts consist chiefly of extensive memoirs by Maĭdel,́ with many related documents, photographs, and other items appended. Her memoirs discuss her life up to 1919 in detail, with a great deal of coverage of her education. She studied at the Kronshtadskai︠a︡ Aleksandrinskai︠a︡ Zhenskai︠a︡ Gimnazii︠a︡, and then at the Imperatorskiĭ Zhenskiĭ Pedagogicheskiĭ Institut in St. Petersburg. Another memoir discusses her experiences in Petrozavodsk in 1941-44. There is a subject file concerning the Helsinki Aleksandrovskai︠a︡ Gimnazii︠a︡, with which Maĭdel ́was associated, in 1917-23. Printed materials include a book by E. Eĭkhgolt́s, "Ti︠u︡remnyĭ vrach i ego pat︠s︡ienty" (1916).

The collection concerns the "Kornilov uprising" of August 1917 and the subsequent investigation. Raupakh was a member of the commission set up by the Provisional Government to investigate the uprising. Most of the collection consists of files with correspondence, manuscripts, and testimony gathered by the commission. Also included is a chapter from Raupakh's memoirs concerning the uprising; a memoir of Raupakh's life up to 1918, by Ekaterina Maĭdel;́ descriptions by Maĭdel ́of the collection, with brief comments on other related papers that have not survived; a file of correspondence from the 1920s concerning the uprising; a photograph and an autograph of Raupakh; and a book by A.R. Kerenskiĭ on the uprising, "Delo Kornilova" (1918).

Letters by Spichukov-Zabolotnyĭ to his wife. The letters date from the 1920's and were written from Leningrad to his wife in Finland. They deal with Spichukov-Zabolotnyĭ's unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to Finland, and give an account of the period of War Communism and of NEP. The collection includes an explanatory note (43 p.) by Ekaterina Maĭdel ́on the correspondence.