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Alexander Sumerkin Papers, 1977-2006

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Series II: Subject files

Subseries II.1: Brodsky, Joseph

Sub-subseries II.1.1: Correspondence relating to Brodsky by author and by subject


Box 6 Folder 1 Brodsky, J. (copy of outgoing correspondence)

Box 6 Folder 2 Glushanok, G.

Box 6 Folder 3 Goldberg, L.

Box 6 Folder 4 Golyshev, V.

Box 6 Folder 5 Gordin, Ya.

Box 6 Folder 6 Jangfeldt, B.

Box 6 Folder 7 Kjellberg, A. correspondence relating to Brodsky

Box 6 Folder 8 Kjellberg, A. correspondence related to memorial fellowship fund

Box 6 Folder 9 Loseff, L.

Box 6 Folder 10 Morozova, O.

Box 6 Folder 11 Pann, L.

Box 6 Folder 12 Proffer, E.

Box 6 Folder 13 Schweitzer, V.

Box 6 Folder 14 Shvidkaia, S. (for Khrzhanovskii, A.)

Box 6 Folder 15 Slavskii, G.

Box 6 Folder 16 Vail, P.

Box 6 Folder 17 Veit, E.

Box 6 Folder 18 Wilbur, R.

Box 6 Folder 19 "Masterpieces of the Russian Underground," correspondence with Maria Brodsky, 2002-2003

Box 6 Folder 20 "Masterpieces of the Russian Underground," The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, 2003

Sub-subseries I.1.2: Drafts, typescripts and copies


Box 7 Folder 1 Polukhina, V., ed. "Bolshaia Kniga Interview Iosifa Brodskogo", 2000

Box 7 Folder 2 Ukazatel' Literatury: Iosif Brodsky, 1997

Box 7 Folder 3 Pushkinskii Fond, Sochineniia Brodskogo Vol. VII

Box 7 Folder 4 Pushkinskii Fond, Sochineniia Brodskogo Vol. II, 1992

Box 7 Folder 5 Brodsky, J., ed., Collected Works of Constantine Cavafy, translated by G. Smakov.

Box 7 Folder 6 Brodsky, J., Other materials about Cafavy

Box 7 Folder 7 Brodsky, J. Vzgliad s karuseli, 1990

Box 7 Folder 8 Brodsky notes

Box 7 Folder 9 Brodsky typescripts-poetry unsorted, 1991-1996

Box 7 Folder 10 Brodsky, J., Vyzdoravlivaiushemu volosiku

Box 7 Folder 11 Brodsky, J., Na nezavisimost' Ukrainy

Box 7 Folder 12 Brodsky, J., A Song, 1989

Box 7 Folder 13 Brodsky, J., V gorakh

Box 7 Folder 14 Brodsky, J., Tochka vsegda obozrimei…

Box 7 Folder 15 Brodsky, J., Polonez: Variatsiia

Box 7 Folder 16 Brodsky, J., Posviashchaetsia stulu, 1987

Box 7 Folder 17 Brodsky, J., Stoletniaia voyna, 1963

Box 7 Folder 18 Brodsky, J., F. F. Morton, translations of Tsvetaeva

Box 7 Folder 19 Brodsky, J., Pis'ma k Viktoru Golyshevu

Box 7 Folder 20 Brodsky, J., Speech about spilled milk, 1967

Box 7 Folder 21 Brodsky, J., To Peter Viereck's Tide and Continuities, 1993

Box 7 Folder 22 Brodsky, J., Altra Ego

Box 7 Folder 23 Brodsky, J., Pis'ma k Goratsiiu

Box 7 Folder 24 Brodsky, J., Na storone Kavafisa

Box 7 Folder 25 Brodsky, J., On Grief and Reason

Box 7 Folder 26 Brodsky, J., S myrom derzhavnym ia byl…, 1991

Box 7 Folder 27 Brodsky, J., Pomni Yeye

Box 7 Folder 28 Brodsky, J., On Sergei Dovlatov

Box 7 Folder 29 Brodsky, J., Talk: Primechanie k kommentariiu

Box 7 Folder 30 Brodsky, J., Looking Back, New York Times Magazine, 1972

Box 7 Folder 31 Brodsky, J., On Richard Wilbur

Box 7 Folder 32 Brodsky, J., Shum priboia

Box 7 Folder 33 Brodsky, J., Kollektsionnyi ekzempliar

Box 7 Folder 34 Sumerkin, A. "Tomu podobnoe" (Review of "So Forth")


Box 8 Folder 1 Brodsky, J., Peizazh s navodneniem, Ardis, 1995 (typescripts and drafts), 1995

Box 8 Folder 2 Brodsky, J., Peizazh s navodneniem, Ardis, 1995 (Ardis correspondence and proofs), 1995

Box 8 Folder 3 Brodsky, J., Peizazh s navodneniem, Ardis, 1995 (full draft), 1995

Box 8 Folder 4 Brodsky dedicated poetry

Sub-subseries I.1.3: Materials relating to Joseph Brodsky

Box 8 Folder 5 Brodsky memorial service documents

Box 8 Folder 6 Brodsky memorial service photographs

Box 8 Folder 7 Brodsky-related Varia

Box 8 Folder 8 Writings about Brodsky

Box 8 Folder 9 Newspaper and journal clippings

Box 8 Folder 10 Articles on Brodsky


Box 9 Folder 1 Joseph Brodsky Estate

Box 9 Folder 2 Materials on posthumous publication of Brodsky's writings

Box 9 Folder 3 Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund documents

Box 9 Folder 4 Correspondence on multivolume edition of Brodsky's writings

Box 9 Folder 5 Edited drafts of Brodsky publications

Subseries I.2: Tsvetaeva, Marina

Sub-subseries I.2.1: Scholarship and articles


Box 10 Folder 1 Bakhrakh, Aleksandr. Pis'ma Mariny Tsvetaevoi., 1960

Box 10 Folder 1 Bogomolov, N. Pis'mo B. Pasternaka Iu. Iurkunu

Box 10 Folder 1 Chukhovskaia, Lidiia. Predsmertie., 1981

Box 10 Folder 1 Efron, Arianda. Pis'ma Mariny Tsvetaevoi.

Box 10 Folder 1 Efron, Arianda. Ustnye rasskazy. Zvezda, 1988

Box 10 Folder 1 Gasparov, M. L. "Poema Vozdukha" Mariny Tsvetaevoi: Opyt interpretatsii., 1982

Box 10 Folder 1 Gifford, Henry. Marina Tsvetaeva (Review of prose works in 2 volumes). Times

Box 10 Folder 1 Literary Supplement, 1981

Box 10 Folder 1 Iz perepiski Ril'ke, Tsvetaevoi i Pasternaka v 1926 godu. Voprosy Literatury, 1978, 1926, 1978

Box 10 Folder 1 Kemball, Robin. Depositum Marina Zwetajeva (at Basel University).

Box 10 Folder 1 Knigi i rukopisy v sobranii M. S. Lesmana., 1989

Box 10 Folder 2 Kudrova, Irma. List'ia i korni. Zvezda, 1976

Box 10 Folder 2 Kudrova, Irma. Poslednee "delo" Sergeia Efrona.

Box 10 Folder 2 Kudrova, Irma. Stranitsy zhizni Mariny Tsvetaevoi. Oktiabr', 1988

Box 10 Folder 2 Lavrin, A. "Slyshnee vsekh razluk…" Literaturnaia Rossiia, 1987

Box 10 Folder 2 Malmstad, John. Tsvetaeva v pis'makh. Literaturnoe obozrenie, 1990.

Box 10 Folder 2 Mnukhin, L. A. Marina Tsvetaeva. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' literatury o zhizni I deiatel'nosti. Weiner Slawistischer Almanach, 1989

Box 10 Folder 2 "Ne na bumage," Neizvestnye pis'ma iz arkhivov NKVD. Literaturnaia Gazeta, 1992

Box 10 Folder 2 Pis'ma B. Pasternaka M. Gor'komu.

Box 10 Folder 2 Pis'ma M. Tsvetaevoi B. Bulgakovu 1925-1927 Praga, Muzei Cheshskoi Literatury, 1992, 1925-1927, 1992

Box 10 Folder 2 Pis'ma M. I. Tsvetaevoi k A. B. Bakhrakhu. Annotated draft typescript.

Box 10 Folder 3 Pis'ma M. Tsvetaevoi k R. Guliu, 1922-1924

Box 10 Folder 3 Pis'mo M. Tsvetaevoi v TsEKUBU 1922 G. Istoricheskii Arkhiv, 2002, 1922, 2002

Box 10 Folder 3 Pshavela, Vasha. Eteri. Perevod Mariny Tstvetaevoi.

Box 10 Folder 3 Saakiants, Anna. Dusha, ne znaiushchaia mery. Poeziia, 1978

Box 10 Folder 3 Saakiants, Anna. "Ia vliublena v rabotu." Literaturnaia Gazeta, 1982

Box 10 Folder 3 Saakiants, Anna. Iz knig Mariny Tsvetaevoi., 1982

Box 10 Folder 3 Schmidt, Paul. Russian Poets. The Nation., 1984

Box 10 Folder 3 Shaginian, M. "Samaia nastoiashchaia poeziia." Voprosy Literatury, 1983

Box 10 Folder 3 Schweitzer, Viktoria. Pis'mo M. I. Tsvetaevoi B. L. Pasternaku. Vestnik RKhD, 1979

Box 10 Folder 3 Schweitzer, Viktoria. Otkrytoe pis'mo Anastasii Tsvetaevoi, 1981

Box 10 Folder 3 Schweitzer, Viktoria. Vozvrashchenie domoi, 2001

Box 10 Folder 4 Slonim, Mark. O Marine Tsvetaevoi. 1970.

Box 10 Folder 4 Starikova, E. V svoi krai, v svoi vek, v svoi chas… (Review of M. Belkina's

Box 10 Folder 4 Skreshchenie sudeb.) Znamia, 1989

Box 10 Folder 4 Struve, Gleb. Iz pisem Mariny Tsvetaevoi k Salomee Andronikovoi--Gal'pern.

Box 10 Folder 4 Struve, Gleb and Iurii Ivask. Predislovie k "Lebedinomu stanu."

Box 10 Folder 4 Sumerkin, Aleksandr. Opyt izdaniia Tsvetaevskoi poezii: problemy i resheniia

Box 10 Folder 4 Presentation at "International Tsvetaeva Centennial Symposium," Amherst Center for Russian Culture., 1992

Box 10 Folder 4 Sumerkin, Aleksandr. Tsvetaeva i Brodskii-svoevol'nye poety veka. Presentation at "Marina Tsvetaeva i Frantsiia," Université Paris, Sorbonne (Paris IV)., 2000

Box 10 Folder 4 Svetlova, Elena. Anastasiiushka. Novoe Russkoe Slovo, 2001

Box 10 Folder 5 Tolstaia, Tatiana. Draft preface.

Box 10 Folder 5 Tsvetaeva, Anastasiia. Korni i plody. Zvezda, 1979

Box 10 Folder 5 Tsvetaeva, Anastasiia. Marinin dom. Zvezda, 1981

Box 10 Folder 5 Tsvetaeva, Anastasiia. Iav' i stikhi. Oktiabr', 1982

Box 10 Folder 5 Tsvetaeva, Marina. Florentiiskie nochi. Predislovie A. Saakiants.

Box 10 Folder 5 Tsvetaeva, Marina. Neopublikovannye pis'ma 1940 goda. Publikatsiia i predislovie I. Shenfel'd. Grani, 1990., 1940

Box 10 Folder 5 Tsvetaeva, Marina. Pis'mo k amazonke.

Box 10 Folder 5 Tsvetaeva, Marina. Zemnye primety. Predislovie I. Grivnina. Perevod A. Stoffel.

Box 10 Folder 5 Vasil'eva, Larisa. Salomeia, ili solominka ne sognutaia vekom., 1988

Box 10 Folder 5 Vil'chkovskii, Kirill. Perepiska Mariny Tsvetaevoi s Anatoliem Shteigerom., 1955

Box 10 Folder 5 Yel'nitskaia, Svetlana. "Vozvyshaiushchii obman": Mirotvorchestvo i mifotvorchestvo Tsvetaevoi., 1992

Box 10 Folder 6 Correspondence with Jamey Gambrell on translating Tsvetaeva, 2000.


Box 11 Folder 1 "Past and Thoughts" event program and poster, Saint Petersburg Culture Fund, 1991

Box 11 Folder 2 La Pensée Russe materials on manuscripts on Tsvetaeva

Sub-subseries I.2.2: Photographed manuscript

Box 11 Folder 3 Tsvetaeva, Marina. Chernoviki p'es, tetrad' vtoraia, konets marta 1919 goda. Kamennyi angel i konets Kazanovy, 1919