Abram Saulovich Kagan Papers, 1909-1952

Call No.:	BAR Ms Coll/Kagan
Bib ID	4077638 View CLIO record
Creator(s)	Kagan, Abram Saulovich, 1888-1984 ; Khodasevich, V. F. (Vladislav Felit͡sianovich), 1886-1939 ; Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 ; Osorgin, Mikhail Andreevich, 1878-1942 ; Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 1870-1953 ; Fedin, Konstantin, 1892-1977 ; Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich, 1884-1937 ; Berdi︠a︡ev, Nikolaĭ, 1874-1948 ; Karsavin, L. P. (Lev Platonovich), 1882-1952
Title	Abram Saulovich Kagan Papers, 1909-1952
Physical Description	190 items (6 boxes)
Language(s)	Russian .
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. Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized.

Arrangement

Description

Scope and Content

Papers include Kagan's correspondence, photographs, printed materials and audio tapes. All letters in the collection date from 1938-39, when he had moved his Petropolis operations to Brussels; there are items by Vladislav Khodasevich, Vladimir Nabokov, and Mikhail Osorgin, and others. Among the photographs are pictures of Ivan Bunin, Konstantin Fedin, and Evgeniĭ Zami︠a︡tin. Printed materials consist chiefly of books published by his firms; some of the books are inscribed, for example by Nikolaĭ Berdi︠a︡ev and Lev Karsavin. Included is a lengthy taped interview of Kagan by Marc Raeff in which Kagan discuses his life and publishing activities.

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.

Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--A. S. Kagan. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1981.

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

Subject Headings

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical sketch

A publisher who was the founder of the Petropolis publishing firm in Berlin in the 1920s, and also of other publishing houses.

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