Readers must use photocopy of "19 let na zemskoĭ sluzhbe.".
This collection is located on-site.
Mel'nikov's manuscripts include his memoirs, "19 let na zemskoi sluzhbe: avtobiograficheskie nabroski i vospominaniia" (371 p.), describing in detail his service in governmental posts. Several other manuscripts in the collection discuss general problems of Russian developments and also his views on a future, non-Soviet Russia.
Addition of 2023: typescript of Mel'nikov's speech "Russkoe zemstvo v proshlom i nekotorye mysli ob ego buushchem" (40 pages) delivered at the "Kruzhok k poznaniiu Rossii", Paris, Jan. 31, 1933
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Readers must use photocopy of "19 let na zemskoĭ sluzhbe.".
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.
Manuscripts: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1951.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Manuscripts Accessioned 1951.
Manuscripts Processed 02/--/80.
2009-06-26 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mel'nikov (1872 - 1951) served in the Kazan zemstvo in 1898-1917, and on the zemstvo movement in general. He was also an Octobrist who served in the 3rd State Duma.
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