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Typescript memoirs entitled "Vospominaniia i vpechatleniia" (159 p.) of B. M. Brofel'dt that touch on his service in World War I and with the White Army in Ukraine. Also covered is emigration in Berlin, England and France.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Boris Mortimerovich Brofel'dt Memoirs; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1954.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Memoirs Accessioned 1954.
Memoirs Processed 01/--/79.
Formerly part of Bakhmeteff (BAR) General Ms Collection with Coll No. BAR Gen Ms Coll/B. Brofel'dt.
2020-02-28 PDF removed. jg
2021-08-30 authorities revised, notes revised and expanded, bio note added. ksd
Boris Mortimerovich Brofel'dt (1887-1969), Colonel of the Leib-Gvardii Izmailovskii regiment. Fought in the Dobrovol'cheskaia army. In emigration in Germany, as per October 1, 1921 member of the Obshchestvo vzaimopomoshchi ofitserov byvshikh Rossiiskikh armii i flota; as per November 1951 Chairman of the Soiuz Izmailovtsev in France.
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