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Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Papers, 1898-2014

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Series I: Correspondence, 1924-1993
Series II: Writings, 1906-1973
Series III: Documents and Biographical Materials, 1902-2014
Series IV: Photographs and Drawings, 1904-1970s, undated
Series V: Professional Activity, 1941-1965
Series VI: Social and Political Activity: Mladorosskaia partiia, 1921-1954
Series VII: Subject Files, 1935-1976
Series VIII: Printed Materials, 1928-1989

Series IV: Photographs and Drawings, 1904-1970s, undated

Photographs of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek, his friends and family, students and colleagues from Connecticut and Middlebury colleges, members of the Mladoross movement and scenes from the party's events, the Royal Family, the Russian Orthodox Patriarch and other clerics, etc. The series also includes Kazem-Bek's original drawings-sketches and photographs of his paintings.

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Subseries IV.1: Photographs, 1904-1970s

Black and white and color photographs. Notable names include: Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov, Grand Duke Vsevolod, Grand Duke Dmitrii Pavlovich, Grand Duchess Victoria Romanova, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich Romanov, Patriarch Aleksii of Moscow and All Russia, Patriarch Sergii of Moscow and All Russia, Archbishop Aleksei, Metropolitan Benjamin of North America, Alexander Grechaninov. Also portrayed are main members of the Mladorossy: Pantaleon Avsenev, Serge Boulatzel, Grigorii Butakov, Count Igor' Caruso, Prince Mikhail Chavchavadze, Kirill Chevich, Boris Demidov, Helen Didriks, Garald Graf, Anatolii Karamosko, Prince Vladimir Krassinskii, Andrei Nekrasov, George Otvinovskii, Sergei Otvinovskii, Alexander Ugrimov, Anatolii Shteiger, Platon Stefanovich, Maximilian Strenger, Pierre Vasil'ev, Kirill Wilezhkovskii, Sergei Zbychevskii, and others. One especially notable photograph portrays Aleksandr Kazem-Bek as a child, with his parents and officers from the aboard the frigate "Pallada".


Box 10 Folder 12 Individual photographs

(One oversized group photo of students and faculty of the Middlbury summer program is stored in oversize flat box 20, folder 2)

Box 10 Folder 13 Family photogrpahs

Box 10 Folder 14 Mladoross movement

Box 10 Folder 15 Royal family

(see more in the folders "Mladoross movement photographs" and "Family photographs")

Box 10 Folder 16 Clerics

Box 10 Folder 17 Various photographs

(third party photos)

Movie stills

Box 10 Folder 18 "Ivan the Terrible"

Box 10 Folder 19 "Pageant of Russia"

Subseries IV.2: Drawings by Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's, undated

Box 10 Folder 20 3 original drawings and photographs of Kazem-Bek's paintings