The memoirs "Moe postuplenie i 7-letnee prebyvanie v Voronezhskom Velikogo Kniazia Mikhaila Pavlovicha kadetskon korpuse" concern his military education.
Typescript memoirs "Proizvodstvo v ofitsery" by Boris N. Treti︠́a︡kov. The memoirs recount the ceremony in 1911 whereby Treti︠́a︡kov, having completed his military education in the Imperial Corps of Pages, became an army officer.
Typescript memoirs that concern Grebenshchikov's years at the Pavlovskoe Voennoe Uchilishche (Pavlovsk Military Academy) from 1909-1911. Inserted throughout the memoirs are a number of photographs.
Plotnikov's handwritten memoir "Nikolaevskoe Inzhenernoe Uchilishche, zhizn' i tvorchestvo" is in part based on his recollections of three years spent as a cadet at the Nikolai Engineering School (Nikolaevskoe Inzhenernoe Uchilishche) in St. Petersburg in the early 1890s. He discusses in detail the academic, social, moral and religious life of the students, describes the organization of the school and talks about the teaching staff, administrators and alumni.
The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials. Manuscripts include notes taken on a speechby General Lavr Kornilov in August 1917; Kolchinskiĭ's writings on the history of the Pavlovsk Military Academy (including a published book by him); and his diaries from the early 1950s. Also included are Kolchinskiĭ's Russian army documents; items relating to his work in the Belgian Congo during World War II; and several photographs of army officers during World War I.
The collection consists of memoirs, notes and photographs. The memoirs mostly concern Nosovich's service in the Imperial Army during World War I and military education in Russia. Notes contain explanations to his memoirs. Photographs mostly are of Nosovich: included among them is a photograph of Grand Prince Mikhail Aleksandrovich in a group picture.
Collection includes Dvigubskiĭ's memoirs of his experiences as a military cadet; the service record of General Mikhail A. Davydov (b. 1837); an inscribed photograph of the composer Aleksandr P. Borodin, and photographs of "Russian types" from about the turn of the century.