Elena Mogilat Papers, 1900-1981

Elena Mogilat Papers, 1900-1981

Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID:
4077850 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Mogilat, Elena Tikhonovna, 1892-1981; Mikeshina, Ariadna, 1900-1982; Struve, Gleb; Tolstoy, Alexandra, 1884-1979; Unbegaun, Boris Ottokar, 1898-1973
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
4500 items (18 boxes)
Language(s):
Russian .
Access:
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Description

Scope and Content

Papers include correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files, and printed materials. The extensive correspondence relates to Mogilat's personal and professional activities and includes letters from many of her students and colleagues. Correspondents include Gleb Struve, Alexandra Tolstoy and Boris Unbegaun. Of special interest are letters by her first husband Baron von Taube, written from the front during World War I, and correspondence with various Russian acqaintances about the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s in which they describe life in a communal apartment, and plans to rescue friends who have been arrested. Subject files concern Columbia's Russkiĭ Kruzhok and the Avtonomoff method of teaching Russian to Americans. There are letters, photographs, concert programs and music of Russian emigre composer and pianist Ariadna Mikeshina. Manuscripts are by various persons; most are by John Paul Mihaly, who had been Mogilat's student. There is also a manuscript of translations by Clarence Manning, "Four Poems by Blok." Documents and photographs concern Mogilat and her family, both before and after emigration. Printed materials consist mostly of off-prints of articles by Clarence Manning and others, primarily on literary topics. There are also books, mimeographed materials, periodicals, and clippings.

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged, remainder arranged.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Elena T. Mogilat, 1958, 1972; bequest via William Harkins, 1981, gift of Columbia University Slavic Languages Department via William Harkins, 1986.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Elena T. Mogilat. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1958.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Elena T. Mogilat. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1972.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Elena T. Mogilat via William Harkins. Method of acquisition--Bequest; Date of acquisition--1981.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Columbia University. Slavic Languages Department. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--10/02/86. Accession number--B-87-8-27.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Columbia University Slavic Languages Department via William Harkins. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--10/--/86. Accession number--B-87-9-25.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1958.

Papers Accessioned 1972.

Papers Accessioned 1981.

Papers Processed 03/--/80.

Papers Revised 10/--/81.

Papers Processed ejs 08/--/87.

Papers Processed ejs 08/--/87.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

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

Biographical sketch

A Teacher of Russian at Columbia University from 1921 to 1965, Mogilat helped organize the Slavonic Society of Columbia University and the Russkiĭ Kruzhok. Her first husband, Baron Alexis von Taube, was an officer in the imperial Russian army. Her second husband, George d'Hedberg, was also a Russian army officer, and later an engineer in New York City.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Articles
Clippings (Information Artifacts)
Letters (correspondence)
Periodicals
Photographic prints
Poems
Place
Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945
Subject
Books
Russian Language -- Study and teaching -- United States

Series I: Correspondence


Cataloged Correspondence


Box 1

Berezov, Rodion Mlkhailovich


Box 1

Gul', Roman Borisovich


Box 1

Ivask, Iurii Pavlovich


Box 1

Karpovich, Michael


Box 1

Khomitskii, Vsevolod Ivanovich


Box 1

Struve, Gleb Petrovich


Box 1

Tolstoy, Alexandra


Box 1

Unbegaun, Boris


Box 1

Weinbaum, Mark Efimovich


Arranged Correspondence, 1900-1940s


Box 1

A


Box 1

Alekseeva, E.


Box 1

Alimoff, Walter


Box 1

B


Box 1

Bennett, Astenok


Box 1

Bleklova, K.


Box 1

C-D


Box 1

Davis, Laura, (2 folders)


Box 1

E-H


Box 1

d'Hedberg, George, (2 folders)

(Notes by d'Hedberg and Mogilat)


Box 1

I-K


Box 2

Kalima, Martta


Box 2

Khmelnitskaia, Evgeniia.


Box 2

L


Box 2

LeRoy, H.


Box 2

Leuthold, Dorothy, (4 folders)


Box 2

Loomis, Olivia


Box 2

Lopatine, Mary


Box 3

M


Box 3

Malyscheff, E.


Box 3

Manning, Clarence


Box 3

Mogilat, Elena


Box 3

Moskoff, Eugene and Olga


Box 3

Muncell, Jean, (3 folders)


Box 4

N


Box 4

Navrotsky, E.


Box 4

0-P


Box 4

P.M.


Box 4

Peck, Peggy


Box 4

Plovushka, V.


Box 4

Pmosnik


Box 4

Pokrovskaia, M.


Box 4

Popoff, Nata


Box 4

R


Box 4

Raevsky, T.


Box 4

S


Box 4

Sazonoff, Dimitri


Box 4

Soramaripa, Alice


Box 4

Sukhareva-Franitch, Elisabeth N.


Box 4

T


Box 4

Taishoff, Asta


Box 4

Tasker, Gloria


Box 4

Tsiteman, Olga L'vovna


Box 5

Taube, Baron Alexis von, (9 folders)


Box 6

U-V


Box 6

Vidovsky, 01'ga


Box 6

W


Box 6

Ward, Hilda


Box 6

Y-Z


Box 6

"Zhenia"


Box 6

Zolotareff, Mikhail


Box 6

Unidentified


Arranged Correspondence, 1950s


Box 6

A-G


Box 7

H-M


Box 7

Mihaly, John


Box 7

Muncell, Jean, (2 folders)


Box 7

N


Box 7

P, (2 folders)


Box 8

R-Z


Arranged Correspondence, 1960s-1980s


Box 8

A


Box 8

Awner, Nina, (2 folders)


Box 8

B-C


Box 8

Columbia University. Slavic Languages Department


Box 9

D-F


Box 9

Feldinan, Vera


Box 9

Fontana, Elizabeth


Box 9

G


Box 9

Glad, John


Box 9

Gluck, Greta


Box 9

H-J


Box 9

Jaquith, Mary


Box 9

K


Box 9

"Ksana"


Box 9

L


Box 9

Lindstrom, Thais


Box 9

"Liudmilochka and Serezha"


Box 10

M


Box 10

Masley


Box 10

Maumenko, V


Box 10

Mogilat, Elena


Box 10

Muncell, Jean


Box 10

N


Box 10

Navrotsky, A. and M., (2 folders)


Box 10

0


Box 10

"Olia"


Box 10

P


Box 10

Pavlov, Walter


Box 10

R


Box 10

Russian Orthodox Church


Box 11

S


Box 11

Safonov, A.


Box 11

Stilman, G.


Box 11

T


Box 11

Tarydina, Tatiana


Box 11

U-V


Box 11

Verin, Layna


Box 11

W


Box 11

Yourkevitch, Olga


Box 11

Z


Box 11

Unidentified

Series II: Manuscripts and Documents


Box 12

Manuscripts


Box 12

Hershkowitz, H.-"Democratic Ideas in Turgenev's Works"


Box 12

Malyshev, E.-"Four Poems by Blok"


Box 12

Manning, Clarence A.-"Veter Vetku Klonit"


Box 12

Maximov, S.-"The Price of One of Stalin's Strolls"


Mihaly, John Paul


Box 12

"On American History"


Box 12

"Arise from Your Slumber, Ye


Box 12

Carpatho-Russians"


Box 12

"Bitterroots of Bellevue" (2 copies)


Box 12

"A Muscovite"


Box 12

Poems translated by Mihaly


Box 12

Translations


Box 12

"Treatment of Acute Lung Abscess"


Box 12

Untitled


Box 12

Mogilat, Elena-Miscellaneous manuscripts and translations


Box 12

Okenka, John P.-"Apologiia"


Box 12

"Countess S.V. Panina"


Box 12

Students' homework assignments


Box 12

Unidentified manuscripts


Box 13

Documents


Box 13

Photographs

Series III: Subject Files


Box 13

ATSEEL, (2 folders)


Box 13

"K.P."


Box 14

Mikeshina, Ariadna


Box 14

Correspondence, (4 folders)


Box 14

Photographs


Box 14

Concert Programs


Box 14

Clippings


Box 14

Sheet Music (Oversized)


Box 14

Mogilat, Elena


Box 14

Mogilat-Mihaly Fellowship for Study in the U.S.S.R.


Box 15

Russkii Kruzhok


Box 15

Activities


Box 15

Correspondence


Box 15

Financial Reports


Box 15

Miscellaneous


Box 16

Soviet Union in the 1920s-Correspondence


Box 16

Soviet Union in the 1930s-Correspondence


Box 16

Teaching Russian to Americans-N.P. Avtonomoff Method, (5 folders)


Box 17

Printed Material


Box 17

Clippings


Box 17

Offprints


Box 18

Miscellaneous