Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams Papers, 1897-1961

After clicking 'Submit Request', users will login with their UNI and password (Columbia affiliates) or their special collections account (external users). Appointments are required and will be arranged according to each individual repository's policy.


Series I: Correspondence

Organized in three subseries: cataloged correspondence, arranged correspondence, and correspondence with family members.


Subseries I.1: Cataloged correspondence

Correspondence with prominent people.

Organized in alphabetical order.



Box 1 Aleksandrova, Vera


Box 1 Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr Valentinovich


Box 1 Anderson, Paul B.


Box 1 Andreev, Leonid Nikolaevich


Box 1 Arsen'ev, Nikolai Sergeevich


Box 1 Astor, John Jacob


Box 1 Astor, Waldorf, 2nd Viscount Astor


Box 1 Astrov, Nikolai Ivanovich


Box 1 Bakhmeteff, Boris Aleksandrovich


Box 1 Barrie, James Matthew


Box 1 Bell, George Kennedy Allen


Box 1 Bely, Andrey


Box 1 Bibesco, (Lady) Elizabeth Asquith


Bugaev, Boris Nikolaevich: see Bely


Box 1 Bulgakov, Sergei Nikolaevich


Box 1 Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich


Box 1 Burtsev, Vladimir L'vovich


Box 1 Cecil of Chelwood, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount


Box 1 Chamberlin, William Henry


Box 1 Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron


Box 1 Chernov, Victor Mikhailovich


Box 1 Denikin, Anton Ivanovich


Box 1 Dobuzhinskii, Mstislav Valerianovich


Box 1 Dolgorukov, Pavel Dmitrievich


Box 1 Dolgorukov, Petr Dmitrievich


Box 1 Evlogii, Metropolitan


Box 1 Fedorov, Mikhail Mikhailovich


Box 1 Filosofov, Dmitrii Vladimirovich


Box 1 Gessen, Iosif Vladimirovich


Box 1 Gippius, Zinaida Nikolaevna


Box 1 Golder, Frank A.


Box 1 Gore, Charles (1853-1932)


Box 1 Gor'kii, Maksim

Also available on microfilm: BAR MN#: 89 - 2027.


Box 1 Grigor'ev, Boris Dmitrievich


Box 1 Gronskii, Pavel Pavlovich


Box 1 Guchkov, Aleksandr Ivanovich


Box 1 Gul', Roman Borisovich


Box 1 Harper, Samuel N.


Box 1 Hoare, Samuel John Gurney, Viscount Templewood


Box 1 Hu Shih


Box 1 Il'in, Vladimir Nikolaevich


Box 1 Ivanov, Vsevolod Viacheslavovich


Box 1 Jabotinsky, Vladimir


Box 1 Karpovich, Mikhail Mikhailovich


Box 1 Karrik, Valerian Vil'iamovich


Box 1 Kartashev, Anton Vladimirovich


Box 1 Khodasevich, Vladislav Felitsianovich


Box 1 Krasnov, Petr Nikolaevich


Box 1 Kuskova, Ekaterina Dmitrievna

Wife of Sergei Prokopovich.


Box 1 Kutepov, Aleksandr Pavlovich



Box 2 Lanceray, Evgenii Evgen'evich


Box 2 L'vov, Georgii Evgen'evich


Box 2 Lukash, Ivan Sozontovich


Box 2 Maklakov, Vasilii Alekseevich


Box 2 Masaryk, Jan Garrigue


Box 2 Mel'gunov, Sergei Petrovich


Box 2 Merezhkovskii, Dmitrii Sergeevich


Box 2 Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich


Box 2 Miller, Evgenii Karlovich


Box 2 Murray, Gilbert


Box 2 Nabokov, Konstantin Dmitrievich


Box 2 Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich


Box 2 Narokov, Nikolai


Box 2 Nikolaevskii, Boris Ivanovich


Box 2 Nol'de, Boris Emmanuilovich


Box 2 Obolenskii, Vladimir Andreevich


Box 2 Ol'denburg, Sergei Sergeevich


Box 2 Paget, Lady Muriel Evelyn Vernon


Box 2 Panina, Sofiia Vladimirovna


Box 2 Pares, Bernard


Box 2 Remizov, Aleksei Mikhailovich


Box 2 Rostovtsev, Mikhail Ivanovich



Box 3 Sadler, (Sir) Michael Ernst


Box 3 Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich


Box 3 Sazonov, Sergei Dmitrievich


Box 3 Semenov, Iulii Fedorovich


Box 3 Seton-Watson, Robert William


Box 3 Shakhovskaia, Zinaida Alekseevna


Box 3 Shakhovskoi, Dmitrii Alekseevich


Box 3 Shklovskii, Isaak Vladimirovich


Box 3 Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich


Box 3 Sikorskii, Igor' Ivanovich


Box 3 Snowden, Philip, 1st Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw


Box 3 Spargo, John


Box 3 Stelletskii, Dmitrii Semenovich


Box 3 Stewart-Murray, Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl


Box 3 Struve, Gleb Petrovich


Box 3 Struve, Petr Berngardovich


Box 3 Sviatopolk-Mirskii, Dmitrii Petrovich


Box 3 Swinnerton, Frank


Box 3 Teffi, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna


Box 3 Teslenko, Nikolai Vasil'evich


Box 3 Tkhorzhevskii, Ivan Ivanovich


Box 3 Tolstaia, Aleksandra L'vovna


Box 3 Tsurikov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich


Box 3 Tsvibak, Iakov Moiseevich


Box 3 Ul'ianov, Nikolai Ivanovich


Box 3 Vansittart, Robert Gilbert (Baron Vansittart)


Box 3 Varshavskii, Sergei Ivanovich


Box 3 Vernadsky, George


Box 3 Vishniak, Mark Veniaminovich


Box 3 Von Mohrenschildt, Dimitri Sergius


Box 3 Vysheslavtsev, Boris Petrovich


Box 3 Vysheslavtseva, Natal'ia Nikolaevna

Wife of Boris Petrovich Vysheslavtsev.


Box 3 Weinbaum, Mark Efimovich


Box 3 Weizmann, Chaim


Box 3 Wells, Herbert George


Box 3 Wrangel, Petr Nikolaevich


Box 3 Zaitsev, Boris Konstantinovich


Box 3 Zaitsev, Kirill Iosifovich


Box 3 Zaretskii, Nikolai Vasil'evich


Box 3 Zeeler, Vladimir Feofilovich


Subseries I.2: Arranged correspondence

Correspondence with various people. Subject correspondence on Tyrkova-Williams' 80th birthday and re: subsidy to "Russkaia mysl'"; unidentified letters to A. Tyrkova-Williams; A. Tyrkova-Williams to various persons; letters neither to nor from A. Tyrkova-Williams; and miscellaneous fragments are stored at the end of this subseries.

Arranged in alphabetical order.



Box 4 A


Box 4 Alekseev, Grigorii


Box 4 Anastasii, Metropolitan


Box 4 B


Box 4 Bibikov, Sofiia


Box 4 Brainkova, E.


Box 4 C-D


Box 4 Denikina, Kseniia


Box 4 Dolgorukov, Mikhail


Box 4 Dzhurdzhiev, Georgii


Box 4 E


Box 4 Evdokiia, Mat'


Box 4 F



Box 5 G


Box 5 Golstein, Aleksandra


Box 5 Grimm, I.


Box 5 Gukasov, Abram


Box 5 H


Box 5 Hoare, Maud (Viscountess Templewood), 2 folders


Box 5 I


Box 5 K



Box 6 L


Box 6 Lodyzhenskii, Iurii


Box 6 M


Box 6 Meyendorff, Aleksandr


Box 6 Milevskaia, S.


Box 6 N


Box 6 Novikov, V.


Box 6 Novitskii, G., M. & E.


Box 6 O-R


Box 6 Rodicheva, Aleksandra



Box 7 S


Box 7 Sablin, Evgenii & Nadezhda, 2 folders


Box 7 Stenfield, Boris


Box 7 T


Box 7 Theokritov, Vladimir Rev.


Box 7 Turchinovich, S.


Box 7 U-V


Box 7 Vladimir, Metropolitan


Box 7 Voitsekhovskii, S.


Box 7 W



Box 8 Z


Box 8 Zernova, Sofiia


Box 8 Zhekulina, A.



Box 9 Letters to A. Tyrkova-Williams on 80th birthday, 1949


Box 9 Letters to A. Tyrkova-Williams re: subsidy for Russkaia mysl'


Box 9 Unidentified letters to A. Tyrkova-Williams



Box 10 A. Tyrkova-Williams to various persons (carbons and drafts), 2 folders



Box 12 Letters neither to nor from A. Tyrkova-Williams


Box 12 Miscellaneous letter fragments


Subseries I.3: Correspondence with family members

Incoming and outgoing correspondence of A. Tyrkova-Williams' son Arkadii Borman, her husband Harold Williams, her mother Sofiia Tyrkova, and other relatives with her and other people.


Borman, Arkadii correspondence


A. Tyrkova-Williams to Arkadiĭ Borman



Box 10 1919-1939, 9 folders

(transcribed and edited by Arkadiĭ Borman)



Box 11 1945-1961, 2 folders

(transcribed and edited by Arkadiĭ Borman)



Box 12 Various persons to Arkadiĭ Borman


Box 12 Borman, Natasha: letters to parents, 1947-1953

(transcribed and edited by Arkadiĭ Borman)


Box 12 Tyrkova, Sofiia: incoming correspondence from various persons

Mother of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams.


Williams, Harold correspondence


Williams correspondence with A. Tyrkova-Williams



Box 7 1918



Box 8 1919-1928, 7 folders


Box 8 Telegrams



Box 11 A. Tyrkova-Williams to Harold Williams: letters and telegrams, 1916-1928, undated, 7 folders



Box 12 Letters to Macie Lovell-Smith, transcribed and edited


Box 12 Various persons to Harold Williams, 2 folders



Box 9 Various relatives to A. Tyrkova-Williams, 4 folders