This collection is located on-site.
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, subject files and printed materials. The greater part of the collection concerns the period 1917-22, with a substantial amount of material on the Humanities Fund and Bakhmeteff's friendships with prominent Americans. Cataloged materials include 50 or more letters from John Spargo, Vasilii Maklakov, Ekaterina Kuskova, Frederic Coudert, Georgii L'vov and Michael Karpovich (the last largely concerning the Humanities Fund); there are also a few items by Louis Brandeis, John Foster Dulles, Samuel Gompers, Colonel Edward House, Charles Lindbergh, and Thomas Masaryk. Extensive files of arranged materials include hundreds of letters by Arkadii Zak (who headed the Russian Information Bureau in New York, 1917-22), items to and by Sergei Uget, and official telegrams from 1917-22. There are manuscripts in the collection by Bakhmeteff, Spargo, Uget and Sergei Prokopovich. Subject files chiefly cover the Civil War period, the Paris Peace Conference, the Humanities Fund and Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. Printed materials include pamphlets, journals and clippings. There are also bound reports by different departments of the Russian embassy and mission from 1917 through the 1920s. In addition, the collection contains an oil portrait of Bakhmeteff by the artist Nicolas Becker.
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
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This collection is located on-site.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Humanities Fund via firm of Coudert Bros. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1974.
Books: Source of acquisition--Carol Herrera. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1984.
Oil painting: Source of acquisition--Julia A. Bazavoff. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1982.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Processed 03/--/83.
Papers Revised 04/--/86.
Books Revised 04/--/86.
Oil painting Revised 03/--/83.
2009-06-26 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States (1917-22), engineer, Columbia professor, businessman, and founder of the Humanities Fund.
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