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Martynov's typescript memoirs (in all 1000 p.) discuss the Civil War and his life in China in 1923-1948. There are also Martynov's diaries from the early 1950s. Printed materials include issues of emigre periodicals published in China in the 1930s ("Parus," "Rubezh"), and issues of "Chasovoĭ" from the 1950s.

The manuscript memoirs (in all 248 p.) discuss Mikhaĭlov's education in Nezhin and at Kiev University; and the Revolution and Civil War in Siberia, particularly Orenburg in 1917 and later with Admiral Kolchak. Also included are third-person memoirs, prepared by Mikhaĭlov, of a police agent, E.F. Mishchuk (touching on the Belis case), and of General P.K. Popov (on Nicholas II). Printed materials include Russian picture postcards; a photograph book"Vidy Kryma" (Stockholm, n.d.); and K.I. Zaĭtsev, ed."Pushkin i ego vremi︠a︡" (Harbin, 1938).

The collection -- composed of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed materials -- sheds light on the anti-Bolshevik campaign in the Kuban ́region, Siberia and the Far East. The correspondence is chiefly from the early 1920s and includes letters from Viktor Pokrovskiĭ to his brother Boris. Among the manuscripts are biographical sketches of Viktor Pokrovskiĭ, especially accounts of his assassination in Bulgaria in 1922; information circulars sent out by Ataman Grigoriĭ Semenov, "Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Armies;" and reports written by Boris Pokrovskiĭ on events in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe, and the Far East. The documents are comprised primarily of decrees (prigovory) from local Kuban ́Cossack groups and the photographs are chiefly portraits of Viktor Pokrovskiĭ. Included among the printed materials are clippings from the Russian and emigre press, a large number of Civil War broadsides and political pamphlets published in Siberia in 1919. Several of the latter are by and about Ataman Semenov.