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Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, subject files, and printed materials of Evgenii Aleksandrovich Vechorin, chiefly concerning alumni of the St. Petersburg Polytechnical Institute. The catalogued correspondence includes letters from Nikolai Andreev, Petr Savitskii, Igor ́Sikorskii, Gleb Struve, and Alfred Swann, and other prominent figures. Much of the arranged correspondence is from fellow graduates of the Institute, and concerns alumni affairs. Most of the manuscripts are likewise by fellow graduates; many are memoirs, such as those by Vechorin himself, while others concern technical subjects. Among the subject files are biographical sketches of Institute graduates and files on such individuals as Petr Savitskii, Igor ́Sikorskii, and Alfred Swann. There are several photographs taken at the Institute ca. 1900 as well as photographs of Vechorin and his colleagues after emigration. The printed materials include clippings and excerpts, miscellaneous journals, and books by Vechorin and S. P. Timoshenko.
Collection is arranged in six series.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Evgenii Aleksandrovich Vechorin Papers; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
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Papers: Source of acquisition--M.D. Gagarina. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1957.
Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1969.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Accessioned 1957.
Papers Accessioned 1969.
Papers Processed 02/--/82.
Materials were intellectually arranged in six series at the same time the finding aid was converted to EAD. Notes were revised, updated and expanded. Authorities were expanded. Nothing in the collection was physically rearranged.
2021-05-11 PDF finding aid converted to EAD; authorities and notes revised, updated and expanded. KSD.
Evgenii Aleksandrovich Vechorin (1884-1969), engineer, member of the City Duma of Petrograd, chairman of the Paris Association of Graduates of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, participated in the work of Obshchestvo okhraneniia russkikh kul'turnykh tsennostei (Society for the Preservation of Russian Cultural Values).
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