4078289Nikolai Vasil'evich Zaretskii Papers4078289Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-07-10 20:12:14 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.aapm2020-04-30PDF finding aid converted to EAD and biographical note revised by CLB and KSD. Rare Book and Manuscript Library Nikolai Vasil'evich Zaretskii Papers Zaret︠s︡kiĭ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1876-1959 Eliasberg, Alexander, 1878-1924 4078289 BA#0515 Russian , French , Czech . /repositories/2/resources/2129 3500 items 13 boxes; 5 oversized folders; 1 crate 1795-1959 Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files, and printed materials belonging to Russian émigré artist and collector Nikolai Vasil'evich Zaretskii (1876-1959). The collection is a mixture of materials created by or for Zaretskii, and materials collected by him. Restrictions on Access

This collection is located on-site.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection has no restrictions.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1954.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1957.

Arrangement

Materials are arranged in five series. Selected material cataloged; remainder arranged.

Biographical note

Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Zaret︠s︡kiĭ (1876-1959) was an artist and collector of materials related to 19th and 20th century Russian culture. After the end of the Russian Civil War, he lived in the émigré communities in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and France. While in Prague, he worked as the last director of the Russkii Kul'turno-Istoricheskii Muzei (Russian Cultural-Historical Museum).

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nikolai Vasil'evich Zaretskii Papers; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1954.

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1957.

Processing Information

Papers Processed 03/--/82. Materials formerly in the A. S. and Z. N. Eliasberg Album of Autographs of Russian Writers were removed for cataloging and placed among cataloged correspondence in boxes 1 and 2.

Related Materials

Roman Gulʹ papers: contains photographs and correspondence with Zaretskii. At the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Related Materials

Vladimir Teteriatnikov Scrapbook Collection: Box 5, Folder 2 contains articles on Russian art in European collections, including the N. V. Zaretskii collection. At the New York Public Library General Research Division.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files, and printed materials belonging to artist and collector Nikolai V. Zaretskii (1876-1959). The collection is a mixture of materials created by or for Zaretskii, and materials collected by him. Zaretskii collected materials in the field of 19th and 20th century Russian culture, and his collection includes items by such figures as: Sergei Diagilev, Sergei Esenin, Mikhail Pogodin, Afanasii Shenshin (Fet), Petr Viazemskii, Maksimilian Voloshin, and Andrei Zhukovskii. The collection also includes materials from an album of autograph letters from Russian writers to the literary historian and translator Alexander Eliasberg (1878-1924), presumably acquired by Zaretskii.

Scope and Contents

There are letters to Zaretskii from Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, Vasilii Kandinskii, Boris Panteleimonov, and Aleksei Remizov, and one letter each from Vladislav Khodasevich and Evgenii Zamiatin. There are also "gramoty" prepared by Remizov for Zaretskii.

Scope and Contents

The collection also includes Zaretskii's personal and professional correspondence from the 1920s through the 1950s; manuscripts and notes by Zaretskii; his personal documents; materials on exhibits arranged by Zaretskii, on such topics as Aleksandr Pushkin, drawings by Russian writers, and Russian soldiers as authors; and inscribed books by Remizov and Viazemskii.

Existence and Location of Copies

Microfilm 96-2026-1: Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich Usobitsa (tsikl o terrore 1920-1921 gg.) v.p., 1920-1922 a.ms.s., 12p. (poems; with Voloshin's Usobitsa: Stikhi o revoliutsii, and another related printed item)

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Books Drawings (visual works) Letters (correspondence) Photographic prints Notes (documents) Dobuzhinskiĭ, Mstislav Valerianovich, 1875-1957 Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944 Panteleĭmonov, Boris, 1888-1950 Remizov, Alekseĭ, 1877-1957 Pogodin, M. P. (Mikhail Petrovich), 1800-1875 Vi︠a︡zemskiĭ, Petr Andreevich, kni︠a︡zʹ, 1792-1878 Khodasevich, V. F. (Vladislav Felit͡sianovich), 1886-1939 Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich, 1884-1937 Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929 Esenin, Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich, 1895-1925 Fet, A. A. (Afanasiĭ Afanasʹevich), 1820-1892 Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich, 1877-1932 Zhukovskiĭ, A. T. (Andri︠e︡ĭ Timofi︠e︡evich) Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 Balʹmont, Konstantin Dmitrievich, 1867-1942 Series I: Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1190935Subseries I.1: Cataloged correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1190936Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich/repositories/2/archival_objects/11909371Andreev, Nikolai Efimovich/repositories/2/archival_objects/11909381Bal'mont, Elena postcard to Alexander Eliasberg/repositories/2/archival_objects/1190939undated1Processing Information