Sergei Viktorovich Potresov Papers, 1906-1963

Sergei Viktorovich Potresov Papers, 1906-1963

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
BAR Ms Coll/Potresov
Bib ID:
4077954 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Potresov, S. V. (Sergi︠e︡ĭ Viktorovich), 1870-1953
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
900 items (5 boxes)
Language(s):
Russian .
Access:
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Description

Scope and Content

The papers consist of correspondence, autograph books, manuscripts, photographs and printed materials. There are letters from Mark Aldanov, Ivan Bunin, Antonin Ladinskiĭ, Vasiliĭ Nemirovich-Danchenko, Alekseĭ Remizov, Ivan Shmelev, Nadezhda Teffi and Boris Zaĭt︠s︡ev, as well as one letter each from Konstantin Balʹmont, Aleksandr Grechaninov, Vladislav Khodasevich, Aleksandr Kuprin, and Vladimir Nabokov. The autograph albums (owned by Marii︠a︡ A. Berman and Potresov) cover the years 1906-1907 and 1913-1948, respectively, and have entries by Balʹmont, Ivan Bilibin, Bunin, Nabokov, and Maksimili︠a︡n Voloshin, among others. The manuscripts include a poem by Mother Marii︠a︡ and articles, diaries, and a play by Potresov. The printed materials primarily consist of clippings of Potresov's articles in newspapers and journals. In addition to the loose clippings, there are six scrapbooks with clippings of Potresov's articles pasted in.

Arrangement

Using the Collection

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

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Existence and Location of Copies

Microfilm 96-2026-1: Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich "Brestskii mir" Ekaterinodar, Russia, 25 June 1919 a.ms.s., lp. (poem; in Potresov autograph album, p.41

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1960.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1960.

Papers Processed 03/--/81.

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

Russian writer and critic who used the pseudonym Sergeĭ I︠A︡blonovskiĭ.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Articles
Autographs (manuscripts)
Clippings (Information Artifacts)
Diaries
Letters (correspondence)
Manuscripts (documents)
Photographic prints
Poems
Subject
Ballet -- Soviet Union
Emigration and immigration -- France -- 20th century
Emigration and immigration -- Soviet Union -- 20th century
Russian literature
Scrapbooks
Theater -- Soviet Union

Series I: Correspondence


Box 1

AikenvalTd, Iulii Isaevich


Box 1

Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich


Box 1

Bal'mont, Konstantin Dmitrievich


Box 1

Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich


Box 1

Bunina, Vera Nikolaevna


Box 1

Burtsev, Vladimir L'vovich


Box 1

Chirikov, Evgenii Nikolaevich


Box 1

Dolgorukov, Petr Dmitrievich


Box 1

Efremov, Ivan Nikolaevich


Box 1

Evreinov, Boris Alekseevich


Box 1

Fedorov, Mikhail Mikhailovich


Box 1

Fondaminskii, Ilfia Isidorovich (pseudonym-Bunakov, I.)


Box 1

Gel'tser, Ekaterina


Box 1

Gessen, Iosif Vladimirovich


Box 1

Grebenshchikov, Georgii Dmitrievich


Box 1

Grechaninov, Aleksandr Tikhonovich


Box 1

Kartashev, Anton Vladimirovich


Box 1

Khodasevich, Vladislav Felitsianovich


Box 1

Kizevetter, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich


Box 1

Kovalevskii, Efgrav Petrovich


Box 1

Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich


Box 1

Ladinskii, Antonin Petrovich


Box 1

Maklakov, Vasilii Alekseevich


Box 1

Malinin, Vladimir Fedorovich


Box 1

Mel*gunov, Sergei Petrovich


Box 1

Mogilianskii, N. M.


Box 1

Munshtein, Leonid Grigor'evich (pseudonym-Lolo)


Box 1

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich


Box 1

Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vasilii Ivanovich


Box 1

Obolenskii, Vladimir Andreevich


Box 1

Pleshcheev, Aleksandr Alekseevich


Box 1

Polner, Tikhon Ivanovich


Box 1

Remizov, Aleksei Mikhailovich


Box 1

Repin, II'ia Efimovich


Box 1

Roshchin, Nikolai Petrovich


Box 1

Roshchina-Insarova, Ekaterina Nikolaevna


Box 1

Ryss, Petr Iakovlevich


Box 1

Shakhovskoi, Dmitrii Alekseevich (secular name of Archbishop Ioann)


Box 1

Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich


Box 1

Shpolianskii, Aminad Petrovich (pseudonym-Don Aminado)


Box 1

Shtern, Sergei F.


Box 1

Svatikov, Sergei Grigor'evich


Box 1

Teffi, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna


Box 1

Teslenko, Nikolai Vasil'evich


Box 1

Tolstoi, Aleksei Nikolaevich


Box 1

Zaitsev, Boris Konstantinovich


Box 1

Zeeler, Vladimir Feofilovich


Box 2

A-Z


Box 2

Unidentified


Box 2

Letters from Potresov

Series II: Photographs and Autograph Albums


Box 2

Photographs


Box 2

Bal'mont, Konstantin Dmitrievich


Box 2

Potresov, Sergei Viktorovich


Box 2

Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich


Autograph Albums


Berman, Mariia Abramovna


Box 2

Bal'mont, Konstantin Dmitrievich


Box 2

Kamenskii, Vasilii Vasil'evich


Box 2

Knipper-Chekhova, 0l'ga


Potresov, Sergei Viktorovich


Box 2

Astrov, Nikolai Ivanovich


Box 2

Bal'mont, Kosstantin Dmitrievich


Box 2

Bilibin, Ivan Iakovlevich


Box 2

Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich


Box 2

Dolgorukov, Pavel Dmitrievich


Box 2

Gessen, Iosif Vladimirovich


Box 2

Grebenshchikov, Georgii Dmitrievich


Box 2

Kartashev, Anton Vladimirovich


Box 2

Ladinskii, Antonin Petrovich


Box 2

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich


Box 2

Shakhovskoi, Dmitrii Alekseevich


Box 2

Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich

Series III: Manuscripts


Box 1

Mariia, Mother, Dva triugol'nika, zvezda (poem)


Box 3

Articles A-Z, (8 folders)


Box 3

Articles untltled


Box 3

Diaries


Box 3

Play, "Azra"


Box 3

Poems, (2 folders)


Box 3

Manuscripts by others

Series IV: Printed Mateiral


Box 3

Printed Materials


Box 3

Clippings, (3 folders)


Box 3

Miscellaneous printed materials


Box 4

Scrapbooks of Clippings

(These scrapbooks consist primarily of Potresov's articles from various newspapers and journals. There are also articles by others as veil as Potresov's obituaries added by his widow)


Box 5

Scrapbooks of Clippings

(These scrapbooks consist primarily of Potresov's articles from various newspapers and journals. There are also articles by others as veil as Potresov's obituaries added by his widow)