N.A. Gorchakov Papers, 1956

N.A. Gorchakov Papers, 1956

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
BAR Ms Coll/Gorchakov.
Bib ID:
4077560 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Gorchakov, N. A. (Nikolaĭ Aleksandrovich), 1901-
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
5 linear feet (10 boxes)
Language(s):
Russian .
Access:
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Description

Scope and Content

Correspondence, diaries, documents, manuscripts, and printed materials. The collection consists chiefly of diaries, research materials, and his writings. Among the correspondents are: Mikhail Chekhov, Olga Chekhov, Roman Gul, Vladimir Ilin, Artur Luther, Sergei Melgunov, Bishop Serafim, Fedor Stepun, Ilia Surguchev, Alexandra Tolstoy, and Vladimir Zenzinov

Arrangement

Material is arranged into four series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

Accruals

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Manuscript: Source of acquisition--Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1956.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Manuscript Accessioned 1956.

Manuscript Processed 05/--/79.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

History

Russian playwright, journalist, artists, and teacher. He was born in 1901 in St. Petersburg. From 1918 to 1920 he attended classes in theater design with Konstantin Yelev and Alexandra Exter. He began to write plays while still a student of Vsevolod Meyerkhold and Alexander Tairov at the Drama School in Moscow. He left the Soviet Union in early 1942. He then lived and worked chiefly in Munich. In addition to plays, he was also involved in the production of ballets, operas, and movies. He died in Germany in 1985. Gorchakov's most successful single play was Gasparino, first staged in Germany. He also wrote extensively on censorship and theater history, including The Theater in Soviet Russia (New York, 1957).

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Memoirs
Subject
Theater -- Soviet Union

Series I: Correspondence


Box 1

Chekhov, Mikhail, 1949


Box 1

Chekhova, Ol'ga, 1951


Box 1

Goul', Roman, 1949


Box 1

Il'jin, Vladimir, 1952


Box 1

Luther, Artur, 1949-1950


Box 1

Mel'gunov, Sergei, 1949-1954


Box 1

Serafim, Bishop, 1948-1950


Box 1

Stepun, Fiodor


Box 1

Surguchev, Il'ja


Box 1

Tolstaia, Aleksandra, 1947-1955


Box 1

Zenzinov, Vladimir, 1953


Box 1

Unidentified


Box 1

B-E


Box 1

Buhler, Vilma (with Gorchakov's responses)


Box 1

Drexler, Marianna


Box 1

Ehinger, Madeleine


Box 1

F


Box 1

Fevr, Nikolai (with Gorchakov's responses)


Box 1

G-K


Box 1

Gorchakov, Nikolai


Box 1

L


Box 1

Long, Lotta


Box 1

M-T


Box 1

Orem, Semion

Series II: Manuscripts


Box 1

Aphorisms, (4 folders)


Articles


Box 1

"Dobro i zlo bogatstva"


Box 1

"Zakat nashei tsivilizatsii"


Box 1

"Krizis sovremennogo teatra"


Box 1

"Krizis chelovechestva nashikh dnei"


Box 1

"O bednosti"


Box 1

"Opasnye iavleniia na kul'tumom fronte Ul'brikhtovskogo sotsializma"


Box 1

"O sovetskom kino"


Box 1

"O sovetskom teatre"


Box 1

"Pis'mo bez povoda i tseli"


Box 1

"Premudrye otkryvateli davno otkrytykh istin"


Box 1

"Reabilitatsiia Galileo GaUleia"


Box 1

"Sovetskie tovary"


Box 1

"Strakh pered pesenkami iz stran NATO"


Box 1

"U nashikh vragov..."


Box 1

Drafts and scrap notes


Box 2

Books


History of Censorship:


Box 2

Draft notes (folders 1, 2)


Box 2

"Sovetskaia tsenzura" (folder 3)


Box 2

"Tragediia Inakomysliia" (folders 4--8)


Box 2

The Theater in Soviet Russia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1957--Typescript for typesetting, in Russian (folders 1-4)


Box 3

Polnoe opasnostei puteshestvie Doktora filosofii Epigulia v Alidu-stranu dobrykh, (3 folders)


Box 3

Voice of America Broadcasts, (6 folders)


Box 3

Diaries, 1947-1985


Box 4

Memoirs, 1939-1985


Box 4

Liudi na moiom puti, undated


Novels


Box 4

Khodzha Nasreddin


Box 4

Moskovskie nochi


Box 4

Paganini


Box 4

Tainstvennaia professiia gospodina Komera


Box 4

Veronskie komedianty


Box 5

Plays


Box 5

Agaspher (folder 1)


Box 5

Gasparino (folder 2)


Box 5

Khodzha Nasreddin (folder 3)


Box 5

Pokhishchenie Muzy. libretto (folder 3 a)


Box 5

Tsar David with related correspondence (folder 4)


Box 5

Veronskie komedianty (folders 5, 6)


Screenplays


Box 5

Koko I Kokistv (folder 1)


Box 5

Pechbombe (folder 2)


Box 5

Revnost' Bamobasa (folder 3)


Box 5

Servantes (folders 4-7)


Box 5

Shil'biurgerv (folder 8)


Box 5

Skazanie o gluptsakh iz Shildy (folder 9)


Box 5

Tainstvennaia professiia gospodina Komera (folder 10)


Box 5

Trivial'naia istoriia (folder 11)


Box 6

Short Stories


Box 6

"Bambadon" (folder 1)


Box 6

"Est'veshchi..."(folder 1)


Box 6

"Koba" (folder 1)


Box 6

"Krest Marabu" (folder 2)


Box 6

"Masha" (folder 3)


Box 6

"Natasha" (folder 3)


Box 6

"Rokovaia genealogiia" (folder 4)


Box 6

"Rukovodstvo po lovle ... (folder 4)


Box 6

"Rukovodstva i posobiia" (folder 5)


Box 6

"Serenada Drigo" (folder 6)


Box 6

"Smeshnoi sluchai" (folder 7)


Box 6

"Strakh" (folder 7)


Box 6

"Taina doiarki" (folder 7)


Box 6

"Taina Alexeia Andronaki " (folders 8-10)


Box 6

"V teni kashtanov (folder 11)


Material in English, French and German


Box 6

"Apollo! Rette der Kunst.... (folder 1)


Box 6

"Dumme Geschichte" (folders 2, 3)


Box 6

"Die Hochzeit Anno 1898" (folder 4)


Box 6

"Hodscha Nasreddin" (folder 5)


Box 6

"The Jinx" (folder 6)


Box 6

"Marabu-Kreis" (folder 7)


Box 6

"Monsieur X" (folders 8-10)


Box 6

"MoskauerNachte" (folder 11)


Box 6

"Noch Schrecklicheres als Berberlowen" (folder 12)


Box 6

"Die Pechbombe" (folder 13)


Box 7

"Prozessakte im Grunen Umschlag" (folder 1)


Box 7

"Zuchthaus-Sozialismus" (folder 2)


Box 7

"Wenn die Nacht sich uber Schwabing hemiedersenkt" (folder 3)


Box 7

"Wenn die Ueben Eltern wussten!" (folder 3)


Printed Material


Box 7

Clippings (folder 4)


Box 7

Newspaper articles by N. Gorchakov (folder 5)


Box 7

Page proofs of Teatr kak takovoi (folder 6)


Box 7

Vosem' rasskazov by N. Gorchakov, Munich, 1948 (folder 7), 1948

Series III: Research Material


Box 7

Lecture notes, general (folder 8)


Box 7

Lectures on film acting (folders 9,10)


Box 7

Lectures on cinematography (folders 11-14)


Box 7

Lectures on theater (folder 15)


Box 8

Lectures on theater (folders 1-8)


Box 8

Research notes, general (folder 9)


Box 8

Research notes and clippings, general (folder 10)


Box 8

Research notes on theater (folders 11-13)


Box 8

Research notes on Mikhail Chekhov (folder 14)


Box 8

Research notes on Nikolai Evreinov (folders 15,16)


Box 8

Research notes on Vsevolod Meyerkhold (folder 17)


Box 9

Research notes on Vsevolod Meyerkhold (folders 1, 2)


Box 9

Research notes Nikolai Okhlopkov (folder 3)


Box 9

Research notes on Andrei Popov (folder 4)


Box 9

Research notes on Konstantin Stanislavskii (folder 5)


Box 9

Research notes on Aleksandr Tairov (folder 6)


Box 9

Research notes on Evgenii Vakhtangov (folder 7)


Box 9

Research notes on Boris Zakhava (folder 8)


Box 9

Research notes on Stalin for Krasnaia Kniga (folders 9-12)


Box 9

VARJA-autobiography, bibliography, clippings (folders 13-19)

Series IV: Subject Folders


Box 10

Anecdotes (folders 1, 2)


Box 10

Battola (folder 3)


Box 10

Clippings on Human Rights, letter fi^om Ol'ga Chekhova


Box 10

(folder 4)


Box 10

Humor and Politics (folder 5)


Box 10

"Skomorokh", (journal published by Gorchakov), editorial and two copies of issue #1 (folders 6, 7)


Box 10

Society of pokhuists (folder 8)


Box 10

Songs by others (folder 9)


Box 10

Vaudeville by Anton Chekhov (folders 10, 11, 12)


Box 10

Obsolete notes (folder 13)