This collection is located on-site.
The collection includes cataloged photographs (Nicholas II, Grigoriĭ Semenov) and arranged correspondence to both Semchevskiĭ and his wife. The main item in the collection is Semchevskiĭ's eight-part memoir which describes his childhood in Tbilisi, his service as kamer-pazh (page of the bedchamber) to Nicholas II and his military career in World War I and the Civil War. It also describes Semchevskiĭ's life as an emigre in Berlin, where he ran a bookstore, in England, where he manufactured motorcycles, in Austria, where he worked at an oil refinery, and eventually in the United States. There are also documents (such as military records and passports) and a photograph of Semchevskiĭ and his wife taken in 1921.
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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.
Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1975.
Papers: Source of acquisition--K. V. Semchevskiĭ. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1976.
Papers: Source of acquisition--K. V. Semchevskiĭ. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1977.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Accessioned 1975.
Papers Accessioned 1976.
Papers Accessioned 1977.
Papers Processed 06/--/81.
2009-06-26 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
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