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Evgenii Eduardovich Messner Papers, 1917-1974

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Call No.: BAR Ms Coll/Messner
Bib ID 4077822 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Messner, Evgeniĭ Ėduardovich, 1891-1975
Title Evgenii Eduardovich Messner Papers, 1917-1974
Physical Description 700 items (8 boxes)
Language(s) Russian .
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Scope and Content

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts by Messner and others, memoirs by Messner, photographs and printed materials. Manuscripts by Messner include a typescript (275 p.) entitled "Nekotorye prichiny porazhenii︠a︡ Germanii v voĭnu 1939-1945 g.g." Messner's memoirs (3293 p. and 350 p.) cover the years 1914-1973. Included among them are clippings, photographs, mimeographed materials and pamphlets. The majority of his memoirs concern World War I and the Civil War. Photographs are mostly copies. Printed materials consist mostly of clippings of articles by Messner in South American monarchist periodicals.

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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: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1957.

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Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1957.

Papers Processed 02/--/80.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

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

Subject Headings

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Heading "CUL Archives:"
"Portal"		 "CUL Collections:"
"CLIO"		 "Nat'l / Int'l Archives:"
"ArchivedGRID"
Articles Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Clippings (Information Artifacts) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Letters (correspondence) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Memoirs Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Pamphlets Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Periodicals Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Photographic prints Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

Subject

Heading "CUL Archives:"
"Portal"		 "CUL Collections:"
"CLIO"		 "Nat'l / Int'l Archives:"
"ArchivedGRID"
Emigration and immigration -- South America -- 20th century Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Emigration and immigration -- Soviet Union -- 20th century Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Russians -- South America Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
World War, 1914-1918 -- Soviet Union Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Biographical sketch

An officer in the White Army who emigrated to South America where he worked at the General N.N. Golovin Institute of Research on the Problems of War and Peace.

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Series I: Material by Messner


Box 1 Correspondence

Box 1 Memoranda

Manuscripts

Box 1 Autobiography

Box 1 "Iz pokoleniia v pokolenie"

Box 1 "izbrannye stat'i"

Box 1 "Kriticheskie mysli o pervoi vsemirnoi voine"

Box 1 MLik sovremennoi voiny"

Box 1 "Lutskii proryv"

Box 1 "Mir bez mira"

Box 1 "Nekotorye prichiny porazheniia Germanii v voinu 1939-1945 g.g.", 1939-1945

Box 1 "Nezamechennyi sovetami 'vtoroi front' vtoroi mirovoi voiny"


Box 2 "Partizanskoe voevanie"(by Messner and others)

Box 2 "Vzgliad snizu na voinu"

Box 2 A-Z

Memoirs by Messner


Box 3 "Memuary o segodnia"

Box 3 "Moi vospominaniia"(Parts I-V)


Box 4 "Moi vospominaniia"(Part VI and Afterword)

Box 4 "Odessa"

Box 4 "Shesf desiatiletii vsemirnoi revoliutsii"(Pages 1-1008)


Box 5 "Shesf.. ."(Pages 1009-2322)


Box 6 "Shesf... "(Pages 2291-3293)

Series II: Manuscripts by Others


Box 7 Abamelikov, Captain M.--"Epizod revoliutsionnoi iustitsii"

Box 7 Boiarintsev, Colonel--"Rodonachal'nik pokhoda protiv belogo dvizheniia"

Box 7 Dakhov, Lt.--"Sluchai Dakhova"

Box 7 Golovin, General N.N.(includes preface by Messner)--"Galitsiiskaia bitva 19l4 goda"

Box 7 Halaichuk, Bohdan--"Variaciones del Marxismo"

Kashpirin, Lt.Col. S.N.

Box 7 "Atomnaia epokha"

Box 7 "Nemetskii generalfnyi shtab: legenda i fakty"

Box 7 "Tsareubiitsy"(?)(Translation from Polish)

Box 7 Krylov, Captain V.--"Zolotoi vek"

Orekhov(?), B.L.

Box 7 Review of Lutskii proryv by Messner

Riabinskii, Colonel--"Pervyi pokhod"

Box 7 Vakar, Sergei

Box 7 "Anketa ob ofitserakh velikoi i grazhdanskoi voin"

Box 7 "Al'kazar"

Box 7 "Boi u derevni Zagrody, 19 maia 1915 goda", 1915

Box 7 "Epizod grazhdanskoi voiny"

Box 7 "Mysli po povodu knigi Vsemirnaia miatezhevoina Prof, Genn.-Sht. Polkovnika Messnera"

Box 7 "Shkola kolonnovozhatykh(1830-1970)"


Box 8 Photographs

Box 8 Printed Mateirals