Aleksandr Mikhailovich Nikolaev Papers, 1899-1967

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Nikolaev Papers, 1899-1967

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
BAR Ms Coll/A.M. Nikolaev
Bib ID:
4077867 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Nikolaev, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, 1876-1967; Florinsky, Michael T., 1894-1981; Robinson, Geroid Tanquary, 1892-1971; Kli︠u︡chevskiĭ, V. O. (Vasiliĭ Osipovich), 1841-1911
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
10 linear feet (20 boxes)
Language(s):
Russian .
Access:
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Description

Scope and Content

The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, memoirs, diaries, notes, subject files, documents, photographs, and printed materials. Most of the material in the collection concerns Nikolaev's tenure as military attachʹe at the Russian embassy in Washington. Cataloged correspondents include Mikhail T. Florinsky and Geroid T. Robinson. There is a typescript by Vasiliĭ O. Kli︠u︡chevskiĭ, "Kratkoe posobie po russkoĭ istorii." Among the correspondence are cablegrams and official communications to the Russian embassy during World War I and the revolutionary period. Manuscripts, mostly by Nikolaev, concern contemporary and historical military topics. Diaries and memoirs deal with Nikolaev's travels to Europe during World War I and his activities as military attachʹe. Among orders granted to Nikolaev is the "Order of the Sacred Treasure," signed and sealed by the Japanese Emperor Meiji (1911). Printed materials include many articles by Nikolaev.

Arrangement

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

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This collection is located on-site.

Accruals

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--A. M. Nikolaev. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1953.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1954.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1966.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1968.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1953.

Papers Accessioned 1954.

Papers Accessioned 1966.

Papers Processed 05/--/80.

Papers Accessioned 1968.

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

Colonel in the Imperial Army and military attachʹe at the Russian embassy in the United States until the Revolution. Following the Revolution, Nikolaev worked at the New York Public Library.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Articles
Diaries
Diaries
Memoirs
Notes (documents)
Orders (military records)
Photographic prints
Place
Russia -- Foreign relations -- 1894-1917
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Soviet Union -- Study and teaching -- United States
Subject
World War, 1914-1918 -- Soviet Union

Series I: Correspondence


Box 1

Cataloged Correspondence


Box 1

Aleksandrova, Vera


Box 1

Armstrong, Hamilton Fish


Box 1

Fisher, Harold H.


Box 1

Florinsky, Michael


Box 1

Karpovich, Mikhail Mikhailovieh


Box 1

Mosely, Philip E.


Box 1

Robinson, Geroid Tanquary


Arranged Correspondence


Box 1

American Military Institute


Box 1

Barclay, C.N.


Box 1

Candadian Defence Quarterly


Box 1

The Cavalry Journal


Box 1

The Coast Artillery Journal


Box 1

Danilov, Iurii


Box 1

Davis, Malcolm W.


Box 1

Domanevskii, V.N.


Box 1

Doughty, Sanford and Cynthia


Box 1

Drobashevskii, V.P.


Box 1

Gali ch-Goncharenko, G.


Box 1

Gilbert, Prentiss B.


Box 1

Gilder, J.B.


Box 1

Golovin, N.N.


Box 1

Guaranty Trust Company of New York


Box 1

The Infantry Journal


Box 1

Invitations


Box 1

Ionov, Aleksandr Mikhailovieh


Box 1

Jones, Lucile de Nevers (Russian Student Fund)


Box 2

Khrabrov, N.M.


Box 2

Larner, W. Angamar


Box 2

Library of Congress


Box 2

The Literary Review


Box 2

Lukomskii, A.


Box 2

New York Times Book Review


Box 2

New York Times Subscription Department


Box 2

Nikolaev, Aleksandr M.


Box 2

Nikolaev, Nikolai Mikhailovieh


Box 2

Nikolaeva, Marie


Box 2

The Outlook


Box 2

Pototskii, S.


Box 2

Rebinkova, P.F.


Box 2

Retirement '


Box 2

Riasinskii, Sergei N.


Box 2

Richardson, Robert C.


Box 2

Stern, Eva(Brookhaven National Laboratory)


Box 2

Sworakowskii, W.S.(The Hoover Institute)


Box 2

Tsingtao, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich


Box 2

Ughet, S.


Box 2

Vasil'ev, V.V.


Box 2

Volkonskii, A.M.


Box 2

Walter, C.


Box 2

Who's Who in America


Box 3

A-Z


Box 3

Unidentified Correspondence


Box 4

Correspondence as Military Attache, 1917-1928


Box 5

Cablegrams as Military Attache

Series II: Manuscripts


Box 1

Kliuchevskii, Vasilii 0.-"Kratkoe posobie po russkoi istorii"


Box 1

Meiji, Emperor of Japan-"Order of the Sacred Treasure"


Box 5

Manuscripts by Nikolaev


Box 5

"The Campaign in Switzerland"


Box 5

"Civil War in Russia"


Box 5

"Expansion of the German Army in the War of 19lU-l8"


Box 5

"The FebruaryRevolution and the Russian Army"


Box 5

"Grazhdanskaia voina v Rossii"


Box 5

"Kampaniia 1914 goda", 1914


Box 5

"Katalog aviatsionnoi biblioteki kantceliarii voennogo agenta v


Box 5

Soedinennykh shtatakh ameriki"


Box 5

"More Light on the Invasion of East Prussia"


Box 5

"Napoleon and 'General Winter' in the Russian Campaign"


Box 5

"Napoleon in Russia"


Box 6

"0 pol'skikh pritiazaniiakh na russkie zemli"


Box 6

"0 rechi Lloyd George'a"


Box 6

"0 Rumynii"


Box 6

"The People's Army at Samara"


Box 6

"Peter I or Peter the Great as a Military Leader 1709-1959"


Box 6

"Po voprosu o poteriakh russkoi armii vo vremia velikoi voiny"


Box 6

"A Russian Military Observer at Napoleon's Court before the Campaign of l8l2"


Box 6

"The Three Fateful Landmarks in Napoleon's Campaign in Russia"


Box 6

"The Time of Troubles in XVII Century Russia"


Box 6

"Tolstoi in the Light of a Russian Scholar"


Box 6

Translation into Russian of Ovid's "Metamorphoses"


Box 6

Translations into English and Russian


Box 6

"Universal Military Service in Russia and Western Europe from the l8th Century to the World Wars"


Box 6

"Who Started the First World War"


Box 6

Manuscript by Vasilii V. Vitkovskii, "Kurs geodezii"

Series III: Diaries and Memoirs


Box 7

Memoirs by Nikolaev


Box 7

"At the Front at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle"


Box 7

"Polveka tomu nazad..."


Box 7

"in Russia before the Revolution"


Box 7

"V poiskakh raboty"


Box 7

"Vtoroi god rossiiskoi grazhdanskoi voiny i poslednii god pervoi mirovoi voiny"


Box 7

"Years of War and Revolution"


Box 7

Memoirs by N.K. Borishchevskii


Box 7

"Zapiski o nedavnom proshlom"


Box 7

Unidentified Memoir

Series IV: Subject Files


Box 7

Antonina Borshchevskii


Box 7

Applications to Join the Russian Army


Box 7

Black Tom Terminal and Kingsland, N.J. Munitions Munitions Factory Explosion (1916)


Box 7

Employment


Box 7

Federation Interalliee des Anciens Combattants


Box 7

Joint Queensview Housing Project


Box 7

Knights of Malta


Box 7

Kuzfmin-Karavaev(pseud.-Kin), Evgenii M.


Box 7

Litigation vs. Metro-Goldwyn-May er


Box 7

Military Attache


Box 7

Retirement


Box 7

Trip to British Front in France, 1915

Series V: Documents and Printed Material


Box 9

Notes and Notebooks


Box 10

Documents


Box 10

Addresses


Box 10

Awards


Box 10

Financial Records


Box 10

Photographs


Box 11

Books


Box 12

Books


Box 13

Journals


Box 14

Journals


Box 15

Maps


Box 16

Clippings


Box 17

Clippings


Box 17

Mimeographed Materials


Box 18

Mimeographed Materials


Box 19

Pamphlets


Box 19

Off-prints


Box 20

Miscellaneous Printed Material


Box 20

Miscellaneous