Vladimir Feofilovich Zeeler Papers, 1870-1950

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Series I: Correspondence

Series includes letters of major cultural figures in the Russian emigration, including poets, writers, artists, composers, musicians, and political figures. There is also general and subject correspondence organized in Subseries I.2: Arranged correspondence.


Subseries I.1: Cataloged correspondence

Correspondence with prominent persons. Some of the correspondence in this subseries concerns Il'ia Repin. However, correspondence between Zeeler, Repin, and Repin's children is located in Series V: Materials relating to Il'ia Repin and family.



Box 1 Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich


Box 1 Aleksandrova, Vera


Box 1 Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr Valentinovich


Box 1 Anderson, Paul


Box 1 Astrov, Nikolai Ivanovich


Box 1 Avksent'ev, Nikolai Dmitrievich


Box 1 Bal'mont, Konstantin Dmitrievich


Box 1 Benois, Al'bert A.


Box 1 Benois, Aleksandr Nikolaevich


Box 1 Benua, Al'bert Nikolaevich


Box 1 Bilibin, Ivan


Box 1 Bogdanov-Bel'skii, Nikolai Petrovich


Box 1 Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich


Box 1 Burtsev, Vladimir L'vovich


Box 1 Chagall, Marc


Chernyi, Sasha: see Glikberg, Aleksandr Mikhailovich


Box 1 Chirikov, Evgenii Nikolaevich


Box 1 Denikina, Kseniia Vasil'evna


Box 1 Dobuzhinskii, Mstislav Valer'ianovich


Don Aminado: see Shpolianskii


Box 1 Evreinov, Nikolai Nikolaevich


Box 1 Fabergé, Eugene


Box 1 Fedorov, Aleksandr Mitrofanovich


Box 1 Fedorov, Mikhail Mikhailovich


Box 1 Fokin, Mikhail


Box 1 Gershun, Boris L'vovich


Box 1 Girs, Mikhail Nikolaevich


Box 1 Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich


Box 1 Glikberg, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (Sasha Chernyi)


Box 1 Grebenshchikov, Georgii Dmitrievich


Box 1 Grigor'ev, Boris


Box 1 Gruzenberg, Oskar Osipovich


Iablonovskii, Sergei: see Potresov, Sergei Viktorovich


Box 1 Iakovlev, Aleksandr Evgen'evich


Box 1 Hamsun, Knut


Box 1 Kharitonov, Nikolai


Box 1 Khodasevich, Vladislav Felitsianovich


Box 1 Kipling, Rudyard


Box 1 Kizevetter, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich


Box 1 Kokovtsev, Vladimir Nikolaevich


Box 1 Korovin, Konstantin Alekseevich


Box 1 Kovarskii, Il'ia Nikolaevich


Box 1 Kramář, Karel


Box 1 Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich


Box 1 Kusevitskii, Sergei Aleksandrovich



Box 2 Lakhovskii, Arnol'd


Box 2 Lifar', Sergei Mikhailovich


Lolo: see Munshtein, Leonid


Box 2 Lukomskii, Georgii Kreskent'evich


Box 2 L'vov, Lollii Ivanovich


Box 2 Maklakov, Vasilii Alekseevich


Box 2 Merezhkovskii, Dmitrii Sergeevich


Box 2 Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich


Box 2 Munshtein, Leonid Grigor'evich (Lolo)


Box 2 Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich


Box 2 Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vasilii Ivanovich


Box 2 Nikolaevskii, Boris Ivanovich


Box 2 Panina, Sofiia Vladimirovna


Box 2 Pasternak, Leonid Osipovich


Box 2 Pleshcheev, Aleksandr Alekseevich


Box 2 Potresov, Sergei Viktorovich (Iablonovskii)


Box 2 Rakhmaninov, Sergei Vasil'evich


Box 2 Remizov, Aleksei Mikhailovich


Box 2 Repin, Il'ia Efimovich



Box 3 Rodichev, Fedor Izmailovich


Box 3 Rodicheva, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna


Box 3 Roerich, Nikolai Konstantinovich


Box 3 Shaliapin, Fedor Ivanovich


Box 3 Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich


Box 3 Shpolianskii, Aminad Petrovich (Don Aminado)

Pseudonym - Don Aminado.


Box 3 Sorin, Savelli Abramovich


Box 3 Stelletskii, Dmitrii Semenovich


Box 3 Struve, Petr Berngardovich


Box 3 Teffi, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna


Box 3 Teslenko, Nikolai Vasil'evich


Box 3 Tyrkova-Williams, Ariadna Vladimirovna


Box 3 Zaitsev, Boris Konstantinovich


Box 3 Zenzinov, Vladimir Mikhailovich


Subseries I.2: Arranged correspondence

General and subject correspondence, including correspondence related to Bal'mont, Markov, Pleshcheev, Shmelev and Russkii zagranichnyi istoricheskii arkhiv.



Box 10 General correspondence


Box 10 Bal'mont, Elena


Box 10 Correspondence relating to K. D. Bal'mont


Box 10 "K. D. Bal'mont" album

(contents was removed and cataloged)


Box 10 "Arkhiv N. I. Markova"


Box 10 Correspondence relating to A. A. Pleshcheev


Box 10 Correspondence relating to Russkii zagranichnyi istoricheskii arkhiv


Box 10 Correspondence about I. S. Shmelev

Series II: Manuscripts

Series includes poems by Konstantin Bal'mont, stories by Aleksandr Kuprin, writings by Il'ia Repin, Ivan Shmelev and other prominent authors. There is also a nearly-complete manuscript of Pami︠a︡ti pogibshikh (1929), a collection dedicated to the memory of Kadet Party members who had died in 1917-1921, edited by Zeeler and others.


Subseries II.1: Cataloged manuscripts



Box 4 Astrov, Nikolai Ivanovich. Poems


Bal'mont, Konstantin Dmitrievich


Box 4 "Byl Vladimir..." (poem)


Box 4 "D. N. Krachkovskomu" (poem)


Box 4 "Nelomkomu" (poem)


Box 4 "Nezabyvaemoe" (poem)


Box 4 "Otkuda vashe imia?..." (poem)


Box 4 "Solntse poiushchee"; "Umirotvorenie" (poems)


Box 4 Sonet Vladimiru Feofilovichu Zeeleru, Varvare Mikhailovne Zeeler (poem)


Box 4 "Sorok let liubvi i bolee" (poem)


Box 4 "V. F. Zeeleru" (poem), 1932


Box 4 "V. F. Zeeleru" (poem), 1934


Box 4 "V. F. Zeeleru" (poem), 1935


Box 4 "V. F. Zeeleru" (poem), 1938


Box 4 "Vladimiru Feofilovichu Zeeleru" (poem)


Box 4 "Vladimiru Ozernomu" (poem)


Box 4 "Za stolom u V. F. Zeelera, v ego otsutstvie" (poem)


Box 4 "Zavetnoe slovo. Vladimiru Feofilovichu Zeeleru" (poem)


Box 4 Gusev-Orenburgskii, Sergei Ivanovich. "Kniaziu Obolenskomu" (poem)


Box 4 Korovin, Konstantin Alekseevich. "Luna" (story)


Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich


Box 4 "Koleso zhizni" (story)


Box 4 "Malye dela" (story)


Box 4 "Tolstoi-sapozhnik" (story)


Box 4 Lazarevskii, Boris Aleksandrovich. "Illiustratory Ukrainy" (essay)


Box 4 Obolenskii, Vladimir Andreevich. Poems


Box 4 Pleshcheev, Aleksandr Alekseevich. "E. N. Roshchina-Insarova" (biography)


Repin, Il'ia Efimovich


Box 4 [Note about his portrait of Igor' V. Voinov]


Box 4 [Note about his painting "Bol'sheviki otnimaiut khleb u devochki"]


Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich


Box 4 Autobiography and list of publications


Box 4 "Den' russkogo rebenka" (essay)


Box 4 "Niania iz Moskvy" (novel)


Box 4 "Priiatnaia progulka" (story)


Box 4 "O Dostoevskom" (essay)



Box 5 "Puti nebesnye" (novel)


Box 5 "Rozhdestvo v Moskve" (story)


Box 5 "Solntse mertvykh" (first 8 chapters of novel, and draft fragments of novel, 2 copies)


Box 5 "Tvorchestvo A. P. Chekhova" (essay)


Box 5 [Will]


Box 5 Manuscript fragments


Subseries II.2: Arranged manuscripts



Box 10 Pamiati pogibshikh


Box 10 Miscellaneous manuscripts

Series III: Photographs and caricatures


Subseries III.1: Cataloged photographs and Caricatures

Series contains many photographs, some inscribed, of major cultural figures in the Russian emigration. There is also a group of caricatures by Valerian Vil'iamovich Karrik which are filed in Box 6, after his photographs.



Box 6 Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich


Box 6 Alekhin, Aleksandr А.


Box 6 Aleksandrovich, Aleksandr D.


Box 6 Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr Valentinovich


Box 6 Andreev, Leonid Nikolaevich


Box 6 Avksent'ev, Nikolai Dmitrievich


Box 6 Bal'mont, Konstantin D


Box 6 Bartenev, Sergei A.


Box 6 Benois, Al'bert A.


Box 6 Benois, Al'bert Nikolaevich


Box 6 Berdiaev, Nikolai


Box 6 Bilibin, Ivan


Box 6 Bogdanov-Bel'skii, Nikolai Petrovich


Box 6 Braz, Osip Emmanuilovich


Box 6 Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich


Box 6 Burd-Voskhodov, Aleksandr Pavlovich (Burov, Aleksandr)


Box 6 Burtsev, Vladimir L'vovich


Box 6 Chekunov, Ivan Stepanovich


Chernyi, Sasha: see Glikberg, Aleksandr Mikhailovich


Box 6 Denikin, Anton Ivanovich


Box 6 Dobuzhinskii, Mstislav Valer'ianovich


Box 6 Dolgorukov, Pavel Dmitrievich


Dymov, Osip: see Perel'man, Osip Isidorovich


Box 6 Fedorov, Mikhail Mikhailovich


Box 6 Fedorov, Nikolai Iakovlevich


Box 6 Fokin, Mikhail


Box 6 Gessen, Iosif Vladimirovich


Box 6 Gessen, Vladimir Iosifovich


Box 6 Gippius, Zinaida Nikolaevna


Box 6 Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich


Box 6 Glikberg, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (Sasha Chernyi)


Box 6 Gor'kii, Maksim


Gornyi, Sergei: see Otsup, Aleksandr Avdeevich


Box 6 Grabbe, Mikhail Nikolaevich


Box 6 Grebenshchikov, Georgii Dmitrievich


Box 6 Grechaninov, Aleksandr Tikhonovich


Box 6 Grigor'ev, Boris


Box 6 Guchkov, Aleksandr Ivanovich


Box 6 Iuzhnyi, Iakov


Box 6 Ivanov, Sergei


Karrik, Valerian Vil'iamovich


Box 6 Photographs


Box 6 Caricatures


Box 6 Kartashev, Anton Vladimirovich


Box 6 Kedrov, Nikolai


Box 6 Kiselevskii, Georgii Mitrofanovich


Box 6 Kizevetter, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich


Box 6 Kokovtsov, Vladimir Nikolaevich


Box 6 Konovalov, Aleksandr Ivanovich


Box 6 Korovin, Konstantin Alekseevich


Box 6 Kramář, Karel


Box 6 Kshesinskaia, Matil'da Feliksovna


Box 6 Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich


Box 6 Kuznetsova, Galina Nikolaevna


Box 6 Lazarevskii, Boris Aleksandrovich


Box 6 Lifar', Sergei Mikhailovich


Lolo: see Munshtein, Leonid Grigor'evich


Box 6 Lukomskii, Georgii Kreskent'evich


Box 6 L'vov, Georgii Evgen'evich


Box 6 L'vov, Lollii Ivanovich


Box 6 Maklakov, Vasilii Alekseevich


Box 6 Maliavin, Filipp Andreevich


Box 6 Merezhkovskii, Dmitrii Sergeevich


Box 6 Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich


Box 6 Minor, Osip Solomonovich


Box 6 Munshtein, Leonid Grigor'evich (Lolo)


Box 6 Muratov, Pavel Pavlovich


Box 6 Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich


Box 6 Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vasilii Ivanovich


Box 6 Orlov, Nikolai


Box 6 Otsup, Aleksandr Avdeevich


Box 6 Pasternak, Leonid Osipovich


Box 6 Pastukhov, Boris


Box 6 Paul, Prince Regent of Yugoslavia


Box 6 Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich


Box 6 Perel'man, Osip Isidorovich


Box 6 Piatigorskii, Grigorii


Box 6 Pleshcheev, Aleksandr Alekseevich


Box 6 Plevitskaia, Nadezhda Vasil'evna


Box 6 Rakhmaninov, Sergei Vasil'evich



Box 7 Remizov, Aleksei Mikhailovich


Box 7 Repin, Il'ia Efimovich


Box 7 Rodichev, Fedor Izmailovich


Roshchin, Nikolai: see Fedorov, Nikolai Iakovlevich


Box 7 Ryzhkov, Viktor Aleksandrovich


Box 7 Sanin, Aleksandr Akimovich


Box 7 Shaliapin, Fedor Ivanovich


Box 7 Shaliapin, Boris Fedorovich


Box 7 Shcherbatov, Sergei


Box 7 Shebeko, Nikolai Nikolaevich


Box 7 Shervashidze, Aleksandr Konstantinovich


Box 7 Shingarev, Andrei Ivanovich


Box 7 Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich


Box 7 Shukhaev, Vasilii


Box 7 Sikorskii, Igor'


Box 7 Sliozberg, Genrikh Borisovich


Box 7 Sorin, Savelli Abramovich


Box 7 Speranskii, Valentin


Box 7 Spesivtseva, Ol'ga Aleksandrovna


Box 7 Stasov, Vladimir Vasil'evich


Box 7 Stelletskii, Dmitrii Semenovich


Box 7 Stepun, Fedor Avgustovich


Box 7 Struve, Mikhail Aleksandrovich


Box 7 Struve, Petr Berngardovich


Box 7 Surguchev, Il'ia Dmitrievich


Box 7 Teffi, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna


Box 7 Teslenko, Nikolai Vasil'evich


Box 7 Tkhorzhevskii, Ivan Ivanovich


Box 7 Tolstoi, Il'ia L'vovich


Box 7 Trefilova,Vera


Box 7 Unkovskii, Vladimir Nikolaevich


Box 7 Vinogradov, Sergei


Box 7 Vishniak, Mark Veniaminovich


Box 7 Volkov, Aleksandr


Box 7 Zaitsev, Boris Konstantinovich


Box 7 Zeeler, Vladimir Feofilovich


Box 7 Zurov, Leonid Fedorovich


Subseries III.2: Arranged photographs



Box 11 Individual Photographs


Box 11 Civil war


Box 11 Front-Stalag 122, Compiègne, 1941-1942


Box 11 Ivan Shmelev (related photographs)


Box 11 Miscellaneous photographs from the emigration, 1921-1948


Box 11 Photographs relating to the Orthodox Church


Box 11 Russkii Kul'turno-istoricheskii muzei

Series IV: Cataloged Documents



Box 5 L'vov, Lollii Ivanovich


Box 5 Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich

Series V: Materials relating to Il'ia Repin and family

Series includes letters to Zeeler from Repin and his children, photographs of Repin, as well as memorabilia including Repin's brushes and paints.


Subseries V.1: Correspondence



Box 8 Repin family correspondence (various family members)


Box 8 Tat'iana Il'inichna Iazeva (née Repina)


Box 8 Iurii Il'ich Repin


Box 8 Vera Il'inichna Repina


Box 8 Correspondence relating to Il'ia Efimovich Repin


Subseries V.2: Other materials



Box 9 Clippings about Repin


Box 9 Clippings of articles and letters by Repin


Box 9 Komitet po uvekovecheniiu pamiati I. E. Repina


Box 9 Lists of works by and about Repin


Box 9 Manuscripts by V. F. Zeeler on Repin


Box 9 Miscellaneous materials


Box 9 Newspaper reproductions of Repin's works


Box 9 Photographs of II'ia Repin's family and home (Penaty)


Box 9 Reproductions of Repin's works (prints, photographs)


Box 9 Repin's brushes, paints, crayons

Series VI: Subject Files and Miscellaneous

Series VI is a group of materials mostly related to Den' russkoi kul'tury (Day of Russian Culture) and Ob"edinenie russkikh advokatov vo Frantsii (Union of Russian Lawyers in France), and Bal pressy in 1936.


Subject Files



Box 10 "Bal pressy, 1936"



Box 11 Den' russkoi kul'tury

Correspondence, minutes, notes, printed items, miscellaneous.


Box 11 Ob"edinenie russkikh advokatov vo Frantsii

Constitution, 1930 printed report, financial materials, Starynkevich vs. Levashkevich


Box 11 Miscellaneous