Nikchemnai︠a︡ zhizn ́closed to 1 January 1986.
This collection is located on-site.
Pletnev's typescript memoirs include the following: His autobiography"Nikchemnai︠a︡ zhizn"́ (475 p.); "Den ́v Peterburge" (48 p.), with a description of St. Petersburg and in particular its cultural life before World War I; "U mori︠a︡" (5 p.), on the author's dacha near St. Petersburg; and "Den ́v Gaage" (30 p.), on his visits to a friend in the Hague in the years after the 1917 revolution. The manuscripts are in the third person; the central figure, Oborin, is Pletnev.
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Nikchemnai︠a︡ zhizn ́closed to 1 January 1986.
This collection is located on-site.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1966.
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1967.
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Memoirs Accessioned 1966.
Memoirs Processed 11/--/80.
Memoirs Revised 09/--/82.
Memoirs Accessioned 1967.
Grandson and namesake of a former rector of St. Petersburg University and friend of Aleksandr Pushkin.
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