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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Nikolaev Papers, 1899-1967
10 linear feetThe collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, memoirs, diaries, notes, subject files, documents, photographs, and printed materials. Most of the material in the collection concerns Nikolaev's tenure as military attachʹe at the Russian embassy in Washington. Cataloged correspondents include Mikhail T. Florinsky and Geroid T. Robinson. There is a typescript by Vasiliĭ O. Kli︠u︡chevskiĭ, "Kratkoe posobie po russkoĭ istorii." Among the correspondence are cablegrams and official communications to the Russian embassy during World War I and the revolutionary period. Manuscripts, mostly by Nikolaev, concern contemporary and historical military topics. Diaries and memoirs deal with Nikolaev's travels to Europe during World War I and his activities as military attachʹe. Among orders granted to Nikolaev is the "Order of the Sacred Treasure," signed and sealed by the Japanese Emperor Meiji (1911). Printed materials include many articles by Nikolaev.
News bulletins from India, 1946-1954
1 manuscript boxMayer's news bulletins, with some related correspondence, 1946-1954, some undated, contain descriptions of his work on city planning, rural development, architectural, and engineering projects in India, particularly the rural development projects at Etawah and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh. Also, Mayer's impressions of India, his colleagues, Jawaharal Nehru and other Indian government officials, Indian-American relations, and personal matters.
Hubert Ripka Manuscript, 1949
27 pagesThis manuscript is entitled "Les causes et les effets du coup d'etat communiste a Prague en fevrier 1948."
Evgenii Vasil'evich Sablin Papers, 1886-1949
29.5 linear feetThe collection includes copies of official communiques sent and received by the Russian Imperial Embassy in London for the period 1886-1890 and 1919-1922; copies of reports forwarded by E.V. Sablin to the Council of Ambassadors in Paris, for the period 1922-1937; correspondence grouped around specific subjects; "case files" containing letters from and on behalf of individual Russian emigres wishing to enter Great Britain or to adjust their immigrant status; and letters received by E.V. Sablin and his wife Nadezhda Ivanovna from various persons, together with carbon copies of their replies. The most voluminous correspondence is between E.V. Sablin and V.A. Maklakov, V. Dobuzhinskiĭ, Joseph P. Kennedy, Aleksandr F. Kerenskiĭ, Vladimir V. Nabokov, Fedor I. Shali︠a︡pin, Petr and Gleb Struve, Adri︠a︡na V. Trykova-Williams etc. The remainder of the collection consists of manuscripts of articles and speeches both by Sablin and by others; public statements issued by Sablin in mimeograph form; miscellaneous mimeo material; clippings from both the Russian emigre press and British and French newspapers of articles by and about Sablin; as well as miscellaneous clippings, books, booklets, leaflets, performance programs, newsletters, Russian language newspapers published in England, photographs and several drawings and watercolor sketches.
S. Tukholka Memoirs, 1914
2 itemsMemoirs of Tukholka. Tukholka discusses his twenty-year service in the Imperial Russian consular service in Turkey, including his positions in Constantinople (1898), Jedetheh (1901), Prizren (1902), Mitrovica (1907) and Üsküp (1913). The memoirs also describe Turkish history and culture, the persecution of Armenians and Greeks, the role of women in Turkish society, and various political figures, notably Alexander Karageorgevich. The 103-page English typescript is accompanied by a 22-page partial Russian translation.
Nicholas Publishing Company records, 1971-2003
0.42 Linear FeetSvetozar Pribicevic Microfilms, 1895-1944
6 itemsThe documents in this collection span the inter-war years but cluster around the 1930-1936 period when Pribičeviʹc was living in exile in France and Czechoslovakia. They consist primarily of correspondence, police reports, foreign mission dossiers, clippings and speeches and shed light on Pribičeviʹc's public life. These materials are part of the holdings of the archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the National Museum and the Office of the President of the Republic, and were microfilmed in 1967 at the request of Stoyan Pribichevich, the son of Svetozar Pribičeviʹc.
Finansovoe Agentstvo v S.Sh.A. Typescript, 1925
1 itemMimeographed typescript "Sbornik zapisok otnosiashchikhsia k russkomu snabzheniiu v velikuiu voinu", by the Russian Finance Agency in the U.S. (Finansovoe Agenstvo v S.Sh.A.), published in 1925.
Nicholas Poggenpohl Diary, 1897
2 itemsPoggenpohl's diary is in French, and concerns the visits of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and the French President Felix Faure to Russia in July and August, 1897. There is also a typed transcription of the diary.
E. Francis Riggs Papers, 1917-1919
96 itemsCollection includes correspondence and reports on military matters in Russia from December 1917 to April 1919. Among these are Riggs' notes on conversations with Lev Trotskiĭ and general Bonch-Bruevich in March 1918, and a number of the items concerning North Russia in 1918-1919. Also included is a report on the situation in Russia, September 1918, by Commander Lelong, French military attachʹe.