Search

Correspondence, a diary, documents, subject files and printed materials of Ivan P. Budanov. Correspondence includes both personal letters and items concerning the Cossacks in the emigration. Many of the documents relate to Budanov's legal practice in the Don region, ca. 1910-17. Subject files deal with the Don Cossacks in the Civil War, Cossack emigre groups, and the elections to the post of Ataman of the Don Cossacks in the emigration in the 1930s. Printed materials include maps, a copy of volume 1 of Budanov's "Don i Moskva" and miscellaneous emigre publications and clippings.

Diary kept by Carey while she was traveling in the Soviet Union in 1929; among the topics it deals with is Soviet law.

The collection consists primarily of manuscripts and clippings of articles and stories Bel'deninov wrote in the 1950s and 1960s and published in such emigre periodicals as "Russkii Put'", "Nashe Vremia" and "Rossiia". Several memoirs by Bel'deninov touch on such topics as his education in Irkutsk and St. Petersburg, his legal practice before and during the revolutionary period, and the Civil War in Siberia.

Two almost identical typescripts entitled "Zapiski sovet︠s︡kago advokata" (120 and 126 p.), either by Vladimir N. Salatko, or obtained by him from Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kalishevskiĭ. These memoirs describe the author's experiences on the Board of Counsels in the Kuban region from 1923 to 1945. They discuss various aspects of the criminal law code, laws regarding marriages and guardianship and the basic aspects of the Soviet legal system at the time.