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Bekker's personal documents, most of which are of an educational and military nature. There is also a handwritten poem "Karl Marks v R.S.F.S.R. (misticheskaia poema)."
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nikolai Nikolaevich Bekker Documents; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Documents: Method of acquisition--Transfer from Harriman Institute; Date of acquisition--1983.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Documents Accessioned 1983.
Documents Processed 07/--/83.
Formerly part of Bakhmeteff (BAR) General Ms Collection with Coll No. BAR Gen Ms Coll/Bekker, Nikolai.
2020-02-26 PDF removed. jg
2021-10-06 new collection number was assigned as a part of the project of integrating BAR Gen Ms into BAR manuscript collection; record updated; notes revised and expanded, bio note added. ksd
Nikolai Nikolaevich Bekker (1877-1962), painter, graphic artist, scene-designer. He was born to family of an architect and academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts Nikolai Fedorovich Bekker. Graduated of the Engineering Institute of the Ministry of Communications (Institut Inzhenerov Putei Soobshcheniia). After the revolution he emigrated to Constantinople, then moved to Paris where he continued his career as a portrait painter. In 1924-1932 he exhibited at the salon of the National Society of Fine Arts (member of the salon since 1925). He worked for a long time in London and Madrid, having painted many portraits of representatives of the English and Spanish nobility. Buried in Nice.
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