This collection is located on-site.
Papers of Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskoi include correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, postcards and printed materials. Correspondence include five postcards addressed to A. A. Bobrinskoi. Manuscripts consist of typescripts of A. A. Bobrinskoi's writings, including bio and memoir piece about his father; his radio scripts, article and letter of protest. Among the documents there are materials relating to the reimbursement to British citizens for debts and losses contracted in Russia, Russkii Natsional'nyi Komitet v Londone, medical prescriptions, business cards. Photographs include pictures of Benckendorff and Dolgorukii family members. Printed materials include genealogy of the Bobrinskoi family, periodicals, flyers, poster, clippings.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskoi Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Related materials on Benckendorff and Dolgorukii families see in Ol'ga Ivanovna Subbotina Papers.
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Papers: Source of acquisition--A. A. Bobrinskoĭ. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1952.
Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1967.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Accessioned 1952.
Papers Accessioned 1967.
Papers Processed 01/--/79.
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Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskoi (October 16, 1893, St. Petersburg - February 6, 1971, London), Count, son of Aleksey Alexandrovich Bobrinskoi and Nadezhda Aleksandrovna (nee Polovtsova). He studied in Oxford. Emigrated to England after the revolution of 1917. Belonged to Masons. Was an actor, known for I Am a Camera (1955), The Mulberry Accelerator (1955), Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Anastasia (1956)Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (1957), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), A Weekend with Lulu (1961).
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