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Vera Nikolaevna Pavlova Memoirs, 1940-1945

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:	BAR Gen Ms Coll/V.N. Pavlova
Bib ID	4077936 View CLIO record
Creator(s)	Pavlova, Vera Nikolaevna, b. 1874
Title	Vera Nikolaevna Pavlova Memoirs, 1940-1945
Physical Description	201 pages (201 pages)
Language(s)	Russian .
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.

Description

Summary

The typescript memoirs "Vospominaniia: Zhizn' i rabota v Khudozhestvennom Teatre" discuss her childhood, education, theatrical career, personal life, the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War, and the emigration in Germany in the 1920s. Persons appearing more or less briefly in the memoirs include Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Konstantin Stanislavskii-Alekseev, Sergei Diagilev, Savva Morozov, Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, and Ol'ga Knipper. However, the memoirs are chiefly personal in nature, and provide relatively little information on Pavlova's theatrical career or the Khudozhestvennyi Teatr in particular. A sizeable part concerns the period of the Civil War and its immediate aftermath (1918-22) in the Ukraine and the Crimea.

Using the Collection

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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

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1971.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Memoirs Accessioned 1971.

Memoirs Processed 10/--/80.

Revision Description

2020-04-28 PDF removed. jg

Subject Headings

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Heading	"CUL Archives:" "Portal"	"CUL Collections:" "CLIO"	"Nat'l / Int'l Archives:" "ArchivedGRID"
Memoirs	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

Subject

Heading	"CUL Archives:" "Portal"	"CUL Collections:" "CLIO"	"Nat'l / Int'l Archives:" "ArchivedGRID"
Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Morozov, Savva	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vasiliĭ Ivanovich, 1845-1936	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 1863-1938	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Theater -- Soviet Union	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Biographical sketch

An actress, Pavlova worked in Nemirovich-Danchenko's and Stanislavskii-Alekseev's Moskovskii Khudozhestvennyi Teatr (Moscow Art Theatre) from the late 1890s to the time of the Russian Civil War.