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    <unittitle>Petr L'vovich Bark Papers</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92068197" source="naf">Bark, Petr Lv́ovich, 1869-1937</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92067209" rules="dacs" source="naf">Evlogiĭ, Metropolitan of Western Europe, 1868-1946</persname>
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    <unitid>4078296</unitid>
    <unitid>BA#0028</unitid>
    <langmaterial>
      <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
.    </langmaterial>
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    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1000 items</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">4 boxes</extent>
    </physdesc>
    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1914/1937" type="inclusive">1914-1937</unitdate>
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  <scopecontent id="aspace_7ff23e23327a4a0bcbfb51acbbf96aba">
    <head>Summary</head>
<p>Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, subject files, and printed materials of Bark. Cataloged materials in this collection include letters from Metropolitan Evlogiĭ, Boris Bakhmeteff, and Petr Struve, and Bark's extensive memoirs. Much of the correspondence concerns the Civil War and attempts to gain Allied support for the White forces, and also Bark's career as an English in the 1930's. Subject files concern White governments in south Russia, and Bark's life. There are also two photographs of Bark.</p>  </scopecontent>
  <originalsloc id="aspace_dd136bb019ed410e5b09ec0fc588c50c">
    <head>Location of Originals Note</head>
<p>Bakhmeteff Archive. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University.</p>  </originalsloc>
  <acqinfo id="aspace_417acf41942e76b023ffaa61db8ca6c8">
    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1958.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <acqinfo id="aspace_b29b608c90ad89f084971f04e5ac5f38">
    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1974.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <acqinfo id="aspace_2ba2ed5efa43af87396078ea66a58c5b">
    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1976.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <bioghist id="aspace_b8c618898591850cb01ef53ef757e888">
    <head>Biographical sketch</head>
<p>Entered the service of the Russian Imperial government in 1892, and in 1914-17 was the last Finance Minister of the Empire. After the 1917 revolution he lived in England, where he became managing director of the Anglo-International Bank, and was knighted in 1935.</p>  </bioghist>
  <processinfo id="aspace_aae41286f4ee7ac1e42e9d3e7ced0a13">
    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Papers Accessioned 1958.</p>  </processinfo>
  <processinfo id="aspace_6e30e6ac93b6df0ecdee4cfed42251a7">
    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Papers Accessioned 1974.</p>  </processinfo>
  <processinfo id="aspace_76a6960de652a3ab3e367241b9d9cc85">
    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Papers Accessioned 1976.</p>  </processinfo>
  <processinfo id="aspace_77f458601f53bc26b0326260e386cc89">
    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Papers Processed 12/--/78.</p>  </processinfo>
  <processinfo id="aspace_3f8ff11491ae07b4c0e883669166b145">
    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Papers Processed 04/--/82.</p>  </processinfo>
  <accessrestrict id="aspace_bdfb53e68f65e77e02d3cc3f1968357c">
    <head>Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
  <accruals id="aspace_50bad638216feb9ee482e7afafaae4dd">
    <head>Accruals</head>
<p>Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.</p>  </accruals>
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    <head>Other Finding Aids</head>
<p>Collection inventory is available as <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/ldpd_bak_4078296.pdf">a PDF file</extref>. Collection can be requested through <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4078296">CLIO</extref>.</p>  </otherfindaid>
  <controlaccess>
    <subject source="lcsh">Emigration and immigration -- Soviet Union -- 20th century</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Emigration and immigraton -- England -- 20th century</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011609" source="lcsh">Banks and banking</subject>
    <geogname source="lcsh">Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1921</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125842" source="lcsh">Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917</geogname>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300026879" source="aat">Letters (correspondence)</genreform>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300202559" source="aat">Memoirs</genreform>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300127104" source="aat">Photographic prints</genreform>
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