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Collection includes Kugusheva's memoirs, discussing her family and youth; excerpts from her diaries, touching on in particular Vladivostok in 1920; transcription of the memories of Vera Al'tovskaia about Alesha Prokof'ev, a revolutionary; manuscripts about the banker Vladimir Isakovich; and a copy of a letter from Kugusheva to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, offering to help in his research.
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This collection is located on-site.
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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Vera Georgievna Kugusheva Manuscripts; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
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Manuscripts: Source of acquisition--V. G. Kugusheva. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1977.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Manuscripts Accessioned 1977.
Manuscripts Processed 11/--/79.
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Vera Georgievna Kugusheva (Burnasheva in her second marriage), painter and graphic artist. Was born September 7, 1899, Slobodskaia Vyatka Gubernia, now Kirov Region.
In emigration in France. Member of the salons: Winter (1954-1956), the Union of French Artists (1956, 1958), Independent (1960, 1963, 1965-1967).
Died June 27, 1979 (France) and buried in the cemetery of Cormeilles-en-Parisis, near Paris.
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