This collection is located on-site.
Collection includes correspondence and reports on military matters in Russia from December 1917 to April 1919. Among these are Riggs' notes on conversations with Lev Trotskiĭ and general Bonch-Bruevich in March 1918, and a number of the items concerning North Russia in 1918-1919. Also included is a report on the situation in Russia, September 1918, by Commander Lelong, French military attachʹe.
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Papers: Source of acquisition--Leonid I. Strakhovskiĭ. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1967.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Accessioned 1967.
Papers Processed 11/--/81.
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An American army captain who was in the U.S. Military Mission in Petrograd and Moscow in 1917-1918, and then was U.S. military attachʹe in Archangel, 1918-1919.