Collection Overview

Summary
Arrangement
Description
Using the Collection
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Subject Headings

Collection Contents

View All
Series III: Diaries, Notebooks, Calendars, Notes, 1917-1936, undated
Series V: Memorabilia, undated
Series VI: Printed Materials and Postcards, 1912-1954, undated

Ol'ga Ivanovna Subbotina Papers, 1846-1954

After clicking 'Submit Request', users will login with their UNI and password (Columbia affiliates) or their special collections account (external users). Appointments are required and will be arranged according to each individual repository's policy.

Series I: Correspondence, 1876-1947

Arranged in three sub-series. More letters see in Series II: Documents.

Subseries I.1: Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress of Russia, 1912-1916


Box 1 Folder 1 Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress of Russia letters and telegrams to Mariia Sergeevna Benkendorff (3 autograph letters and 2 telegrams), 1912-1916

Subseries I.2: Family Correspondence, 1886-1939, undated

Benkendorff, Mariia Sergeevna correspondence, 1915-1928

Box 1 Folder 2 with Ol'ga Subbotina, 1916-1921, undated

Box 1 Folder 3 with Elizaveta Taube, 1915-1928, undated

Box 1 Folder 4 with Mitropolit Evlogii and Archbishop Vladimir, 1927, undated

Box 1 Folder 5 Dolgorukaia, Varvara: letters to Mariia Sergeevna Benkendorff, undated

Box 1 Folder 6 Dolgorukii, Aleksandr Sergeevich: letters to Mariia Benkendorff and Elizaveta Taube, 1920-1921, undated

Dolgorukov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich letters

Box 1 Folder 7 to Mariia Sergeevna Benkendorff, his mother, 1913-1919, undated

Box 1 Folder 8 to Pavel Konstantinovich Benkendorff, his stepfather, 1917

Box 1 Folder 9 to Ol'ga Subbotina, 1916-1918

Box 1 Folder 10-11 to Elizaveta Taube, 1910-1918

Box 1 Folder 12 to Harold Roberts, 1914

Box 1 Folder 12 to Petia [?], 1919

Dolgorukov, Vasilii Aleksandrovich letters

Box 1 Folder 13 to Mariia Sergeevna Benkendorff, his mother, 1900-1918, undated

Box 1 Folder 14 to Pavel Konstantinovich Benkendorff, his stepfather (also included a plan of the house in Tobol'sk where Imperial family stayed in exile), 1913-1918

Box 1 Folder 15 to Elizaveta Taube, 1917

Box 1 Folder 16 Hatzfeldt, Natalie: letters to Mariia Benkendorff and Ol'ga Subbotina, 1926-1935

Box 1 Folder 17 Obolenskii, Aleksei: to Anna Saltykova, [1917]

Box 1 Folder 18 Subbotin, Nikolai: letters to Ol'ga Subbotina, 1924-1930

Subbotina, Ol'ga correspondence:

Box 1 Folder 19 with Elizaveta Taube, 1913-1936

Box 1 Folder 20 letters to Harold Roberts, 1923, 1933

Box 1 Folder 21 letter to Margarita Zorina, 1932

Box 1 Folder 21 letters to unidentified, undated

Various family members letters

Box 1 Folder 22 to Mariia Sergeevna Benkendorff (including letters from Saltykova, and others), 1886-1928

to O'lga Subbotina, 1913-1938

Box 1 Folder 23-25 general letters (including from Sergei Aleksandrovich Dolgorukii, Sergei Taube, Iurii Taube, Kotik Taube, and others), 1922-1938, undated


Box 2 Folder 1 on Subbotina's divorce (also included Nikolai Subbotin's will), 1920-1939

Box 2 Folder 2 to Elizaveta Taube, 1913-1947

Subseries I.3: General and Subject Correspondence, 1876-1940, undated

Various persons letters to:

Box 2 Folder 3 Mariia Sergeevna Benkendorff (including invitations), 1876-1936

Box 2 Folder 4 Ol'ga Subbotina, 1925-1940

Box 2 Folder 5 Elizaveta Taube, 1910-1921

Box 2 Folder 6 Unidentified, undated

Box 2 Folder 7 Calling cards, undated

Subject correspondence

Box 2 Folder 8 Apponyi affair (includes letters from Apponyi, George Benkendorff, Mary Benkendorff, and others), 1930-1931

Series II: Documents, 1846-1948

Arranged in three sub-series. Contains personal, financial, legal documents, including photo IDs.

Subseries II.1: Personal Documents and Wills, 1846-1948

Benkendorff, Mariia Sergeevna, 1846-1933

Box 2 Folder 9 Identification documents (passport, birth certificate, marriage certificate, calling cards, other documents), 1846-1923


Flatbox 13 Folder 1 Oversize identification certificates, 1921


Box 2 Folder 10 Wills, 1923-1933

Box 2 Folder 11 Benkendorff, Pavel Konstantinovich (baptism certificate, marriage certificate, passports, pension book, death certificate, will, other documents), 1897-1921

Box 2 Folder 1 Subbotin, Nikolai: will, 1920

Subbotina, Ol'ga

Box 2 Folder 12 Registration ceritificate, residence permit, 1920, 1923


Flatbox 13 Folder 2 Oversize identification certificate, 1924


Box 2 Folder 13 Naturalization papers for Great Britain, 1939-1948

Box 2 Folder 14 Taube, Elizaveta (birth certificate, marriage certificate, registration documents, other), 1885-1919

Subseries II.2: Financial and Legal Documents, 1913-1936, undated

Benkendorff, Mariia Sergeevna

Box 2 Folder 15-16 Register books, account book, 1913-1919,


Box 3 Folder 1-2 Check books, checks, receipts, lists of assets and property, etc., 1914-1917, undated

Benkendorff's finances in Western Europe

Box 3 Folder 3 Letters and bank statements, 1921-1936


Flatbox 13 Folder 1 Memoranda of Agreement, 1933-1934


Box 3 Folder 4 Claim against Soviet authorities for assets left in Russia(appeals, lists of assets, letters, etc.), 1918-1923

Box 3 Folder 5-7 Claim against the National Bank of New York (affidevits, correspondence, etc.), 1923-1936

Box 3 Folder 8 Benkendorff, Pavel Konstantinovich (letters, receipts, other), 1917-1919

Box 3 Folder 9 Dolgorukov, Vasilii Aleksandrovich (check book, bank statement), 1918, undated

Other family members finances

Box 3 Folder 10 Fanny Dolgorukaia: inheritance of "Nashdom", 1922-1924

Box 3 Folder 11 Ivan Taube, Anna Saltykova, and others, 1907-1920

Subseries II.3: General Documents, 1917


Box 1 Folder 14 Plan of the house in Tobol'sk where Imperial family stayed in exile, 1917


Box 3 Folder 12 Plan of Benkendorff's house in St. Petersburg, 1917

Box 3 Folder 13 List of Nicolas II escort in his train after the abdication (copy), 1917

Box 3 Folder 14 Dinner menu; various, 1917

Series III: Diaries, Notebooks, Calendars, Notes, 1917-1936, undated


Box 4 Folder 1 Benkendorff, Mariia Sergeevna: diary and notebook, 1917-1928

Box 4 Folder 2 Benkendorff, Pavel Konstantinovich: notebook and address book, up to Jan. 1921

Box 4 Folder 3-4 Subbotina, Ol'ga: diaries and notebooks (6 items), 1929-1936


Box 5 Folder 1-2 Taube, Elizaveta: diary and notebook, 1919-1924, undated

Box 5 Folder 3 Unidentified various notes, undated

Series IV: Photographs and Prints, 1861-1936, undated

Arranged in three sub-series. Comprises original photographs and prints of immediate and extended family members, Nicholas II family, and European royalty.

Subseries IV.1: Royal Families, 1861-1924, undated

Box 5 Folder 4 Aleksandr II and Mariia Aleksandrovna, et al. (postcard), 1861

Edward VII, King of England, and Alexandra, Queen consort of England

Box 5 Folder 7 Group photo with Maria Fedorovna, 1908


Flatbox 11 Folder 1 Oversized group photo (framed), undated


Flatbox 12 Folder 1 Oversized portrait (framed), undated


Box 5 Folder 5 Elizaveta Fedorovna, Grand Duchess, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (portrait and framed group photo), undated

Box 5 Folder 6 Eugenia, Queen of Spain with her children (signed), 1917

Box 5 Folder 4 George V and Queen Mary, et al. (postcard; also included Prince and Princess Nicholas of Greece and others), undated

Box 5 Folder 4 George, Prince, Duke of Kent and Princess Marina (postcards), undated


Flatbox 11 Folder 2 Kseniia Aleksandrovna, Grand Duchess, daughter of Alexander III, Emperor of Russia, undated

Flatbox 11 Folder 3 Maria, Queen of Romania (print), undated

Mariia Fedorovna, Empress, consort of Alexander III, Emperor of Russia


Box 5 Folder 7 Group photo and postcard, 1908, 1924


Flatbox 11 Folder 2 Oversized group photo (framed), undated


Box 5 Folder 4 Marina, Princess of Greece (postcards), undated

Nicholas II family

Nicholas II


Box 6 Folder 1-3 Portraits and group photographs and postcards, 1915, undated


Flatbox 12 Folder 2 Lithography, undated


Box 6 Folder 2 Alexandra Fedorovna (portraits and group photographs and postcards), undated

Box 6 Folder 2-3 Anastasiia Nikolaevna, Mariia Nikolaevna, Ol'ga Nikolaevna, Tatiana Nikolaevna (portraits and group photographs and postcards; 2 photos are framed in one frame), 1911, 1915, undated

Aleksei Nikolaevich, Czarevitch

Box 6 Folder 2-3 Portraits and group photographs and postcards, undated


Box 7 Folder 2 In Tobol'sk, 1917


Box 6 Folder 4 Imperial household, undated

Box 6 Folder 5 Palaces (interior and exterior views), undated


Box 5 Folder 8 Romanova, Irina Aleksandrovna, Princess of Russia, 1932

Box 5 Folder 4 Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke, and Leonida Georgievna, Grand Duchess (postcards), undated

Subseries IV.2: Family Photographs, 1883-1936, undated


Box 6 Folder 6 Apraksina, Mariia Aleksandrovna, undated

Benkendorff, Mariia Sergeevna

Box 6 Folder 7 Portraits, undated

Box 6 Folder 8 Group photos with various people (including Subbotina, Taube, Ol'ga Benkendorff, and others), undated


Box 7 Folder 1 Group photo with Vasilii Dolgorukov, undated


Flatbox 12 Folder 4 Oversized portrait (framed print from photo of Levitskii), undated

Flatbox 12 Folder 3 Funeral of Mariia Sergeevna Benkendorff, 1936

Benkendorff, Ol'ga Konstantinovna (Marchesa Guiccoli), undated


Box 6 Folder 9 Individual photographs

Box 6 Folder 8 Group photographs

Benkendorff, Pavel Konstantinovich

Box 6 Folder 10 Individual photographs and portraits, undated


Box 7 Folder 1 Group photograph, 1917


Flatbox 12 Folder 5 Oversized portrait (print from photo of Levitskii), undated

Dolgorukaia, Francis (Fanny)


Box 6 Folder 11-12 Cabinet photo and other photographs, undated


Flatbox 11 Folder 1 Oversize group photo, undated

Dolgorukii, Alexis Sergeevich


Flatbox 13 Folder 5 Portrait


Flatbox 11 Folder 1 Group photo, undated


Box 7 Folder 5 Dolgorukii, Serge, undated


Box 6 Folder 13 Dolgorukov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, undated

Box 6 Folder 14 Dolgorukov, Aleksandr Sergeevich, undated

Box 6 Folder 15 Dolgorukov, Nikolai Sergeevich, undated

Dolgorukov, Vasilii Aleksandrovich


Box 7 Folder 1 Portraits and group photo, undated

Box 7 Folder 2 In Tobol'sk, 1917

Box 7 Folder 3 Group cabinet photo, undated

Dolgorukova, Ol'ga Aleksandrovna (Ol'ga Aleksandrovna Taube)

Box 7 Folder 8 Portraits, undated


Flatbox 13 Folder 4 Oversized, 1883


Box 7 Folder 4 Roberts, Halord, 1936, undated

Subbotina, Ol'ga


Box 6 Folder 8 Group photos, undated


Box 7 Folder 4 Group photos, 1936, undated

Taube, Elizaveta

Box 7 Folder 4-6 Portraits and group photos, undated


Box 6 Folder 8 Group photos, undated


Box 7 Folder 7 Taube, Georgii Ivanovich, undated

Taube, Ivan Ferdinandovich

Box 7 Folder 8 Portraits, undated


Flatbox 13 Folder 4 Oversized (framed), 1883


Flatbox 14 Wilson, Pellew Fleetwood (father of Frances Dolgorukaia; framed lithography), undated


Box 7 Folder 9 Unidentified (portraits and group photographs), undated

Subseries IV.3: General Photographs, 1905-1917, undated

Personalia

Box 7 Folder 1, 10 Buxhoeveden, Sophie (Sofiia Karlovna Buksgeveden), 1917, undated

Box 7 Folder 1, 3 Gilliard, Pierre, 1917

Box 7 Folder 1-3 Gendrikova, Anastasiia Vasil'evna, 1917

Box 7 Folder 12 Keppel, Sir Henry, undated

Musakhan, prince


Box 6 Folder 8 Group photos, undated


Box 7 Folder 4, 10 Individual and group photos, undated

Box 7 Folder 4, 10 Saltykov, prince, undated

Box 7 Folder 3 Shneider, Ekaterina Adol'fovna, 1917

Box 7 Folder 3 Tatishchev, Il'ia Leonidovich, 1917

Box 7 Folder 9 Unidentified (portraits and group photographs), undated

Box 7 Folder 11 Imperial Guards Horse Regiment parade, 1908


Flatbox 11 Folder 4 Russian crouser "Askol'd", 1905

Scenes


Box 7 Folder 11 Villa Sforza (Rome), undated

Box 7 Folder 11 Russian scences, 1909, undated

Series V: Memorabilia, undated

Includes family and Alexandra Fedorovna's, Empress of Russia, memorabilia.

Royal memorabilia, undated


Flatbox 15 Alexandra Fedorovna's, Empress of Russia, parasol and cushion

Family memorabilia, undated


Box 8 Album

Box 8 Leather box

Box 8 Leather case

Box 8 Leaser folder

Box 8 Picture frames (2)

Series VI: Printed Materials and Postcards, 1912-1954, undated

Comprise pamphlets, journals, newspapers, clippings and postcards.

Books and pamphlets


Box 9 Folder 1 Pamiatnaia knizhka na 1917 g. (belonged to Pavel Konstantinovich Benkendorff), 1917

Box 9 Folder 2 Russian Experience of the Soviet Regime, undated

Periodicals and newspapers

Box 9 Folder 3 Reviews of Soviet press (typescripts), 1921

Box 9 Folder 4 "Chasovoi" (2 issues), 1938

Box 9 Folder 5 "Country Life" (1 issue), 1912


Flatbox 10 Folder 1 "Graphic" (clippings), 1917-1919

Flatbox 10 Folder 2 "Illustrated London News" (clippings), 1919-1921


Box 9 Folder 6 "Listener" (1 issue), 1954


Flatbox 10 Folder 3 "Russkii invalid" (1 issue), 1933

Flatbox 10 Folder 4 "Times: Russian Supplement" (bound), 1913-1917


Flatbox 13 Folder 3 Vozrozhdenie, 1938


Box 9 Folder 7 Clippings, undated

Box 9 Folder 8 Postcards: St. Petersburg and Moscow, undated