This collection is located on-site.
Most of the collection consists of manuscripts by Lebedev and others on Russian and East European literary and political topics from about 1914 to the 1930s. There are three microfilm reels of materials on Gavrilo Princip and the asassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914. Correspondents include Hamilton Fish Armstrong and George F. Kennan. There are several drafts of articles by Mark Slonim and materials on the Socialist Revolutionaries in the emigration from about 1930. Lebedev's personal documents cover from his army service (the Russo-Japanese War), through the 1917 Revolution and Civil War, and his later life in Europe and the United States. There are photographs from interwar Albania and Bulgaria, including ones of Aleksandŭr Stamboliski. Printed materials include a copy of Lebedev's book "Novym putem" and issues of "Voli︠a︡ Rossii.".
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This collection is located on-site.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Irina Kolʹ (Coll). Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1958.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Grigoriĭ Aronson. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1965.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Accessioned 1958.
Papers Accessioned 1965.
Papers Processed 11/--/79.
Papers Revised 01/--/83.
Socialist Minister of the Navy in the 1917 Provisional Government and journalist and writer (one of the editors of "Voli︠a︡ Rossii") in Europe and the United States.