This collection is located on-site.
A major part of the collection is von Meck's autobiography (660 p.), covering up to the latter part of World War II, when she left Russia for the West. This autobiography primarily discusses her life in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s; her father was executed and she herself was imprisoned in Soviet concentration camps. There are five brief essays discussing railroads in Russia and the USSR, and a photograph of her grandmother, Anna Merkling. Also icluded is von Meck's translation of 681 letters written by P.I. Tchaikovsky to his family during the period March 1861 to September 1893.
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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.
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1968.
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1973.
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1970.
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1974.
Correspondence: Source of acquisition--Mrs. Geoffrey Courtney. Method of acquisition--gift; Date of acquisition--09/--/86. Accession number--B-86-11-3.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Memoirs Accessioned 1968.
Memoirs Accessioned 1973.
Memoirs Processed 01/--/80.
Memoirs Accessioned 1970.
Memoirs Processed 01/--/80.
Correspondence Processed 09/--/86.
Grandniece of composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, and granddaughter of his patroness Nadezhda von Meck.
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