Asta Aristova Papers, 1916-2004

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Series I: Writings by Aristova, 1969, 2001, 2003, undated

Autobigraphical writings

Essays

(typescripts and copies of photocopies of publications about her experiences travelling in the Soviet Union)

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Box 1 Folder 1 Amerikanskii bar

Box 1 Folder 1 Polet v SSSR

Box 1 Folder 1 Puteshestvie v pis'makh, 1969

(six issues of the newspaper "Russkaia zhizn'" with these publications were cataloged to SEEC in 2021 (call #SEEC 2523). Aristova's articles published there were photocopied and stored here)

Box 1 Folder 1 Voskresnaia vylazka

Memoirs

(about life in Germany 1945-1949)

Chto sokhranila pamiat'

Box 1 Folder 2 Self published copy, 2001

Box 1 Folder 3 Printed book, 2003

Series II: Russian Scout Movement, 1916-2004

Materials of Organizatsiia rossiiskikh iunykh razvedchikov and others

Subseries II.1: Organizatsiia rossiiskikh iunykh razvedchikov, 1940s-2004, undated

(records, documents, photographs, publications)

Druzhina "Nizhnii Novgorod"

Box 1 Folder 4-5 Notebooks with the squad's records: plans, activities, members, photographs, history, 1940s-1960s

(covers the periods of activity in Regensburg (1945-1950) and in Los Angeles (1951-1960s))

Box 1 Folder 6-7 "Pervyi razriad" (publication), 1971,1974

Regensburg

Box 1 Folder 8 Handwritten certificate issued to Pavel Nekrasov, 1931

Box 1 Folder 8 Order (signed typescript), 1948

Zapadno-Amerikanskii otdel, San Francisco

Box 1 Folder 9 Konspekt sostiazanii mezhdu zven'iami, 1986

Box 1 Folder 9 Clippings and order, 2002-2003

Publications

Box 1 Folder 10 "Besedy u kostra", undated

Box 1 Folder 11 "Calendar", 1972-1973

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Box 2 Folder 1 "Spravochnik rukovoditelia" (photocopy), 1964

Box 2 Folder 2 "Vestnik rukovoditelia" (Organ sviazi razvedcheskikh rukovoditelei ORUR), 2004

Subseries II.2: General publications on scautism, 1916-2000, undated

Box 2 Folder 3 Evgenii Bobrov. "Konspekt po sledopytstvu", undated

Box 2 Folder 4 "Russkii skaut." Informatsionnyi Biulleten', No. 8 (Izdanie Tsentral'nogo Shtaba Natsional'noi Organizatsii Russkikh Skautov), 1973

Box 2 Folder 5 "Skauizm v Rossii: Trudy Pervago S"ezda po skautizmu 26-30 dekabria 1915 g. v Petrograde", 1916

Bound photocopy of the edition published by Obshchestvo "Russkii Skaut v Petrograde"

Series III: Publications related to Aristova, 1970, 2000

Box 2 Folder 6 "Gimnaziia im. M. V. Lomonosova (pri lagere "Menkhegof") 1945-1947", 2000, with inscription to Aristova and her husband

Box 2 Folder 6 Childress, Harold M. "A Visit to Moscow", 1970

clipping of an article about his trip to Moscow with handwritten notes assumably by Aristova.

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