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Manuscript memoirs of Artur Georgievich Bitenbinder concerning his military education, the 1905 Revolution, World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Civil War.

The manuscript memoir "Dni moei zhizni" by Ayaz Ishaki Bey is apparently the first chapter of an unfinished work. It deals with such topics as governmental policies towards the Moslem Tatars, the author's education in Kazań his literary and political activities, and the effects of the 1905 Revolution on the Tatars and Moslems.

Two letters written by Dmitrii Grigor'evich Bogrov, the assassin of Petr Stolypin, to his parents. One letter was written shortly before the assassination and another the day prior to his execution.

The memoir "Trekhsotletie doma Romanovykh (lz tsikla, shto pamiat' moia pomnit)" concerns the celebration in 1913 of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Romanov dynasty in an unidentified town in western Russia.

Papers include personal and professional correspondence, documents, manuscripts, photographs, drawings, printed materials. Most of the collection consists of Al'tschuler's personal and professional papers and letters from colleagues, patients and friends. Materials of the collection deal with professional affairs, revolution and civil war in Crimea, Al'tschuller's sanatorium in Yalta, emigration to Constantinople, Germany, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, activity of such organizations as Russkii zagranichnyi istoricheskii arkhiv and Vserossiiskii zemskii soiuz.

Manuscript memoirs "Zapiski emigrantki" that cover Kachalova's childhood in Warsaw, life in St. Petersburg up to the 1917 Revolution, and the Civil War.