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Typescript entitled "The Ukraine after the October Revolution" (252 p.), attributed by an unknown person to Elsa Bernaut. It deals with the history of the Ukraine from 1917 to the late 1940s.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Elsa Bernaut Manuscript; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Manuscript: Source of acquisition--Alexander Dallin. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1964.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Manuscript Accessioned 1964.
Manuscript Processed 02/--/79.
Formerly part of Bakhmeteff (BAR) General Ms Collection with Coll No. BAR Gen Ms Coll/Bernaut.
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Elsa Bernaut (1989-1978), aka Else Bernaut, Elisabeth Poretsky, Elisabeth K. Poretsky, Elsa Reiss. She was wife of Ignace Reiss (aka Ignace Poretsky), a Russian spy who was assassinated by NKVD team in Switzerland on September 4, 1937, a few weeks after he declared his defection in a letter addressed to Stalin. Elsa Bernaut managed to escape first to Holland and then to the USA.
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