Viktor Gorenko Papers, 1890s-1990s

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 Folder 1 Akhmatova, Anna to Viktor Gorenko, 18 December 1964. (empty envelope)


Box 1 Folder 1 Akhmatova, Anna to Viktor Gorenko. undated (empty envelope), undated


Box 1 Folder 1 Chervinsky, Alexander to Joseph Carson, 11 December 1994.


Box 1 Folder 1 Gorenko, Andrew to Catherine Gorenko, 10 January 1955.


Box 1 Folder 1 Gorenko, Viktor to Sue Hyland and Margaret Carson, 30 December 1971.


Box 1 Folder 1 Gumilev, Lev to Viktor Gorenko. Postcard, 27 January 1974.


Box 1 Folder 1 Gumilev, Lev to Viktor Gorenko, undated (empty envelope), undated


Box 1 Folder 1 Ketchian, Sonia to Catherine Gorenko, 15 August 1983.


Box 1 Folder 1 Ketchian, Sonia to Catherine Gorenko, 21 February 1984. (1 duplicate copy)


Box 1 Folder 1 Proffer, Carl to Catherine Gorenko, Postcard 24 March 1976.


Box 1 Folder 1 Proffer, Carl to Catherine Gorenko, 20 October [1976].


Box 1 Folder 1 Strachan, John to Viktor Gorenko, 6 September 1967.


Box 1 Folder 1 Telegram to Viktor Gorenko on Anna Akhmatova's illness, 1 February 1966. (author not stated. 1 duplicate copy)

Series II: Photographs


Box 1 Folder 2 Anna Akhmatova, 13 September 1963 (with signed note to Viktor Gorenko), September 1963


Box 1 Folder 2 Anna Akhmatova receiving Etna-Taormina prize., 12 December 1964. (with signed note to Viktor Gorenko)


Box 1 Folder 2 Anna Akhmatova, undated (signed), undated


Box 1 Folder 2 Lev Gumilev at grave of Anna Akhmatova. 3 photographs.


Box 1 Folder 2 Andrew Gorenko (in uniform), undated


Box 1 Folder 2 Temple of Apteros Niki, Athens. (with signed note from Andrew Gorenko), undated


Box 1 Folder 2 Viktor Gorenko (age 2-3), undated


Box 1 Folder 2 Viktor Gorenko (adult). 2 photographs, undated


Box 1 Folder 2 Cadet corps diploma of Viktor Gorenko, 30 July 1916. 1 photograph and 1 negative.

Series III: Ephemera


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Sweetfood Manufacturing Co., Shanghai, 19 July 1932.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Russian Merchant Marine Association, Shanghai, 25 August 1932. (1 duplicate)


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Employment for Viktor Gorenko. Moller & Co., Shanghai, 12 September 1932.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Employment for Viktor Gorenko. James Neil & Co., Shanghai, 5 January 1933.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Moller & Co., Shanghai, 10 January 1933.


Box 1 Folder 3 Certificate of Discharge for Viktor Gorenko. Board of Trade, Shanghai, 12 January 1933.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Yung An Steam Navigation Co., Shanghai, 3 April 1933.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Employment for Viktor Gorenko. James Neil & Co., Shanghai, 5 April 1933.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Employment for Viktor Gorenko. James Neil & Co., Shanghai, 30 April 1940.


Box 1 Folder 3 Bank Pass-Book of Viktor Gorenko issued by Dai-Ichi Ginko, Yokohama, 22 May 1940.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Employment for Viktor Gorenko. James Neil & Co., Shanghai, 20 July 1940. (1 duplicate)


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Russian Mercantile Marine Association, Shanghai, 20 July 1940.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. H.M.S. Belfast, 24 November 1945.


Box 1 Folder 3 Stateless-Person Passport of Viktor Gorenko. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shanghai, 17 May 1946.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Ralli Brothers Ltd., Shanghai, 14 June 1946. (copy; original absent)


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Association of Former Russian Naval Officers in America, New York, 20 August 1947. (1 duplicate)


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Reuters, Ltd., Shanghai, 29 December 1947.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Vladimir C. Poletika, New York, 22 May 1948. (1 duplicate).


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. USAT "Cardinal O'Connell," Fort Mason, Calif, 2 June 1948.


Box 1 Folder 3 Affidavit of Witness in Application for Relief from Deportation Proceedings for Viktor Gorenko, signed by Albert Heikky, Seattle, 12 October 1948.


Box 1 Folder 3 Affidavit of Witness in Application for Relief from Deportation Proceedings for Viktor Gorenko, signed by Ernest Tingvall, Seattle, 12 October 1948.


Box 1 Folder 3 Affidavit of Witness in Application for Relief from Deportation Proceedings for Viktor Gorenko, signed by Vladimir Poletika, New York, 14 October 1948.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Employment for Viktor Gorenko. Northwest Protective Service, Seattle, 28 October 1948. (1 duplicate).


Box 1 Folder 3 Receipt of recommended decision in deportation proceedings for Viktor Gorenko. US Immigration and Nationalization Service, New York, 11 October 1950. (unsigned)


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Signed Anna Batchkovsky, Catherine Los-Olchensky, and Constantin C. Yavorsky, New York, 3 January 1951.


Box 1 Folder 3 Deportation Proceedings for Viktor Gorenko, US Immigration and Naturalization Service, 22 March1951.


Box 1 Folder 3 Report of Chest X-Ray of Viktor Gorenko, St. Luke's Hospital, 31 July 1952.


Box 1 Folder 3 Letter of Employment of Viktor Gorenko. Columbia University in the City of New York, 5 August 1954.


Box 1 Folder 3 Bank Account Statement of Viktor Gorenko. Flatbush Savings Bank, New York, 6 August 1954.


Box 1 Folder 3 Affidavit of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Signed Anna Batchkovsky, Constantin C. Yavorsky, and Catherine Los-Olchensky, New York, 7 August 1954. (1 duplicate)


Box 1 Folder 3 Brokerage Account Statement of Viktor Gorenko. McDonnell & Co., New York, 9 August 1954. (1 duplicate).


Box 1 Folder 3 Brokerage Account Statement of Viktor Gorenko. Bache & Co., New York, 11 August 1954.


Box 1 Folder 3 Affidavit of Reference for Viktor Gorenko. Signed Anna Batchkovsky, Constantin C. Yavorsky, and Catherine Los-Olchensky, New York, 7 August 1954. Notarized 10 February1956.


Box 1 Folder 3 Certificate of Naturalization of Viktor Gorenko, 9, June 1959


Box 1 Folder 4 7" vinyl audio recording. Anna Akhmatova Reads Lyric Poetry of 1913-1940 . Melodiia, 1963.


Box 1 Folder 5 "3 Soviet Writers Return to Favor". New York Times, 26 December 1954.


Box 1 Folder 5 "Stalinist Jailing of Poet's Son Told". New York Times, 9 January 1962.


Box 1 Folder 5 "Anna Akhmatova, Leading Soviet Poet, Is Dead". New York Times, 6 March1966.


Box 1 Folder 5 "Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poetess". Sunday Tribune, 6 March1966.


Box 1 Folder 5 "A Russian Sappho". New York Times, 9 March1966.


Box 1 Folder 5 "Soviet Annual Honors Silenced Poets". New York Times, 6 December 1972.


Box 1 Folder 5 "Cries and Whispers". Time, 23 July 1973.


Box 1 Folder 5 "Samizdat from a Basement in Ann Arbor". New York Times Book Review, 29 February1976.


Box 1 Folder 5 "A Russian Poet's Life and Poems". New York Times Book Review, 26 December 1976. (1 duplicate).


Box 1 Folder 5 "The Moscow Book Fair". American Educator, December 1977.


Box 1 Folder 5 "A-Soviet Rather Than Anti-Soviet" New York Times, 20 December 1981. (1 duplicate).


Box 1 Folder 5 "Poems with a Heroine". New York Review of Books, 19 January 1984.


Box 1 Folder 5 "Writing for the Nation". Times Literary Supplement, 9 March 1984.


Box 1 Folder 5 "Poetic Justice". Time, 5 September 1988. (1 duplicate).


Box 1 Folder 5 "Versing History: The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova". The Nation, 9 March 1992.


Box 1 Folder 5 "Russia's Cassandra, Russia's Antigone". New York Times Book Review, 1 January 1995.


Box 1 Folder 6 Papers of the Ethnographic Department. USSR Geographic Society. , Signed on the cover by Lev Gumilev to Viktor Gorenko in pencil, 1966


Box 1 Folder 6 Anna Akhmatova in Portraits and Photographs . State Literature Museum, 1989.


Box 1 Folder 7 Icon card in memory of Viktor Gorenko, 4 February 1976.


Box 1 Folder 7 Death notice of Viktor Gorenko New York Times, 6 February 1976.


Box 1 Folder 7 Funeral expenses of Viktor Gorenko, 7, February1976


Box 1 Folder 8 Appraisal of collection.


Box 1 Folder 8 Item list from donor.