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The collection consists of correspondence, a diary, manuscripts, memoirs, notes, a subject file, photographs and printed materials. Correspondence is primarilly addressed to Orlov and his wife. Manuscripts and memoirs, chiefly by Orlov, deal with Civil War topics. Orlov's diary covers the years 1918-1921. Notes are on World War II, and the subject file concerns the death of Orlov. Photographs include a group picture of a Gallipoli Society meeting in Prague. Printed materials include clippings, mimeographed materials, pamphlets and copies of periodicals, all relating to the Gallipoli Society.

The collection includes a letter to Shiri︠a︡ev, documents from his career and from his life as a refugee after World War II, his curriculum vitae and a brief biography. Also included are printed works by him, about him, or about his field.

Typed memoirs entitled "Moĭ laret︠s︡." Germanova discusses in detail her childhood and education; work in the M.Kh.T. from the early years of the century to the 1917 Revolution; her departure from Moscow, and then from Russia during the Civil War; and the interwar years, during which she lived and worked chiefly in Prague but also in France, in other European countries, and then in New York. Also included are two autographed photographs of Germanova.

Cataloged photographs are of Antonʹin Sv̌ehla and Edvard Beneš/ Other photographs portray a convalescent home, a secondary school, the Zemgor library in Prague, the Zemgor staff, and the staff of the Russkiĭ Zagranichnyĭ Istorichesskiĭ Arkhiv (Russian Historical Archive Abroad). Also included are charts of contributions and programs, and a caricature apparently of Russian activists in Czechoslovakia.