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Memoirs of Boris L'vovich Baikov. Included are: a manuscript memoir entitled "Skitaniia russkogo intelligenta v Persii", about his adventures there in 1920; an English translation of that work, entitled "My Adventures in Persia"; Baikov's published memoirs of the Civil War in the Transcaucasus "Vospominaniia o revoliutsii v Zakavkaz'i" (n.p., 1922?. Cataloged and removed from the collection: SEEC 2252 Folio); and a typescript by him entitled "The Aspirants for the Throne of the Tsars in the Russia of the Future."
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Boris L'vovich Baikov Manuscripts; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Manuscripts: Source of acquisition--Eugenie (Evgenii︠a︡ Konstantinovna) Leontovich. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1961.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Manuscripts Accessioned 1961.
Manuscripts Processed 12/--/79.
Formerly part of Bakhmeteff (BAR) General Ms Collection with Coll No. BAR Gen Ms Coll/Baikov.
Baikov Boris Lvovich (d. 1928) - member and a leader of the Russkii Natsional'nyi Sovet v Baku (Russian National Council in Baku), in 1919-1920, attorney at law of the Tiflisskoi sudebnoi palaty, member of the Constitutional Democratic Party. For several years he headed the Russian community in the Transcaucasus. Published the newspaper of the Russian community "Edinaia Rossiia" ("United Russia").
Graduated from the Imperatorskoe uchilishche pravovedeniia (Imperial School of Jurisprudence) in 1889. He served in the Armed Forces of the South of Russia. In 1918-1919 - a leader of the Russkii Natsional'nyi Sovet v Baku. In 1919-1920 - served in OSVAG. After the establishment of Soviet power in the Caucasus, he emigrated to Constantinople, then moved to the United States, where he died in 1928.
He published his memoirs "Memories of the Revolution in the Transcaucasus", in the "Archive of the Russian Revolution", in Berlin in 1923.
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