Aleksei Vasil'evich Obolenskii Photographs & Printed Materials, 1900-1961

Summary Information

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Description

Summary

The photographs, taken before 1917, belonged to the Obshchestvo Okhrany Pami︠a︡tnikov Iskusstva i Stariny, and are mostly of Georgian religious art and architecture. The printed materials consist of a map of the Caucasus region and of Obolenskiĭ's memoirs: "Moi vospominanii︠a︡" (1953), and "Moi vospominanii︠a︡ i razmyshlenii︠a︡" (1961). Memoirs were cataloged and transfered to SEEC: see SEEC 1641gb (1953 edition) and SEEC 1642gb (1961 edtition).

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Aleksei Vasil'evich Obolenskii Photographs & Printed Materials; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1959.

Source of acquisition--A. V. Obolenskiĭ. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1961.

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

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Photographs and Printed Materials Accessioned 1959.

Photographs and Printed Materials Accessioned 1961.

Photographs and Printed Materials Accessioned 1966.

Photographs and Printed Materials Processed 06/--/80.

Printed memoirs were cataloged and transfered to SEEC. "Moi vospominanii︠a︡" (1953) see: SEEC 1641gb. "Moi vospominanii︠a︡ i razmyshlenii︠a︡" (1961) see: SEEC 1642gb.

Revision Description

04/11/2020 PDF removed (KSD)

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical sketch

Prince Aleksei Vasil'evich Obolenskiĭ (Obolenskīĭ, A. V., kni︠a︡zʹ, 1877-1969) served in the Imperial provincial and central governments, and worked with both Stolypin and Stürmer, and was a leader of the Octobrist Party.