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Georgii Viktorovich Adamovich Letters, 1952-1972 200 items
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- France -- Emigration and immigration
- Creator
- Adamovich, Georgiĭ
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Over 100 letters by Georgii Adamovich to Lidiia Chervinskaia. The letters are on both personal and professional topics. They cover the years 1952-1972, but most are from the 1950's. Related items in the collection include several poem manuscripts by Adamovich, and newspaper announcements of his death. In addition, there is a letter to Chervinskaia by another emigre writer, Georgii Ivanov.
Sergei Aleksandrovich Toporkov Papers, 1919-1959 6500 items
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- France -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century
- Creator
- Toporkov, Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich, 1880-
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Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials of Toporkov. Much of the collection consists of materials Toporkov collected and used for a three-volume history of the Fifth Hussar Regiment (Pi︠a︡tĭ gusarskiĭ aleksandri ĭskiĭ polk), of which he had been a member. There are also materials concerning members of the regiment who emigrated after the 1917 Revolution. The correspondence (1919-1952) includes letters to and from members of several emigre military organizations. the manuscripts include essays and memoirs about the regiment during World War I and the Civil War (including several by Toporkov himself) as well as Toporkov's three-volume history of his regiment from the eighteenth century through 1929, the regiment museum, individual members of the regiment, regiment celebrations (1926-1935), the Court of Honor, and regiment financial affairs (1925-1948). Among the printed materials are clippings and materials relating to a number of emigre organizations.