Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Papers, 1898-2014
Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Papers, 1898-2014
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- BA#0528
- Bib ID:
- 7756884 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Kazem-Bek, Aleksandr, 1902-1977
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 39.98 linear feet (19 document boxes, 16 flat boxes)
- Language(s):
- English , Russian , French .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection has no access restrictions. The newspapers stored in oversize flat boxes shouldn't be removed from mylars.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Description
Description
The bulk of the collection comprises Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's professional and personal correspondence, his writings, documents and publications related to his professional academic work and his social and political activity as a leader of the Mladoross party, and an extensive collection of printed materials including Russian émigré periodicals. There are also personal documents, biographical materials, and photographs.
Kazem-Bek corresponded with many leaders of Russian emigration including scholars, political figures, writers, composers, etc. Among them are Mark Aldanov, Roman Jakobson, Mikhael Karpovich, Arthur Lourie, Philip Mosely, De Witt Clinton Poole, John R. Mott, and others.
The collection contains Kazem-Bek's writing including published and unpublished books, autobiography and memoires, articles for various periodicals, lectures, interviews, etc. Files include drafts, notes, and research materials. There are also writings by other authors, among which manuscripts of Nikolai Berdiaev, Boris Likhachev, Nikolai Vakar, and others.
There are also personal documents of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek and members of his family, as well as biographical materials.
A significant part of these papers is the materials related to the Mladoross party ("Union of Young Russia"). Among them are the party's publications, governing and operating documents, including the rare ones, and extensive collection of periodicals.
Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's name has several spelling variations – he is often referred to as Alexander Kazem-Bek, Alexander Kazem-Beg, or Alexandre Kazem Beg.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in eight series.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection has no access restrictions. The newspapers stored in oversize flat boxes shouldn't be removed from mylars.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accrual
Addition was received in 2014.
No further accruals are expected.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Acquisition
Acquisition, 1960s
Addition: Gift, 2014
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
March, 2009: Papers processed and finding aid written by Alexandra Kotar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Slavic Department, Class of 2010
May-July 2018: Addition of 2014 was incorporated and the collection was reprocessed by Katia Davidenko. New materials were checked against the existing papers and multiply copies were discarded. Newspapers were placed in mylars and rehoused due to their fragile condition. Possibility of use of the newspaper part of the collection is limited. Further preservation and conservation actions are needed.
Finding aid was re-written accordingly in July 2018 by Katia Davidenko.
Revision Description
2010-05-08 File created.
2018-07-18 EAD updated during reprocessing.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographical / Historical
Aleksandr L'vovich Kazem-Bek, Russian émigré social and political activist, founder and leader of the "Union of Young Russia" ("Mladorossy"), professor of Russian language and literature, journalist, was born in Kazan on the 15th (2nd old style) of February, 1902, into an old noble family of Persian (Azeri) origin. His great grandfather, the first Aleksandr Kazem-Bek, was one of the founders of Oriental studies in Russia, professor of Kazan and St. Petersburg universities. His father, Lev Kazem-Bek, a graduate of the Corp of Pages, was a Director of the State Bank in Kaluga and the Peasants' Land Bank in Reval (Tallinn).
In 1919, during the civil war, Aleksandr Kazem-Bek joined the White Army, and after the collapse of the White movement, left Russia with his family in 1920. He lived in Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Poland and eventually settled in France.
In 1921 he married Svetlana Ellis and had two children – daughter Nadine (1926) and son Aleksandr (1930).
In Munich, the "Union of Young Russia" was established in 1923 and Aleksandr Kazem-Bek was elected its president. The members of the Union were called "Mladorossy" and its slogan was "Neither Reds, nor Whites, but Russian". Kazem-Bek was reelected as a president of the movement in 1924 and held this post until the Mladoross party was dissolved in 1940. The movement had branches in many countries, including France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and others.
Before emigration, Aleksandr Kazem-Bek studied law at the University of Rostov. He continued his education emigration and did post-graduate study at the University of Belgrade; Technische Hochschule in Munich (1922-1923) and then in Paris at the Hautes Etudes Sociales et Politiques (1924-1925). From 1930 to 1932 he attended the Academy of Religion and Philosophy in Paris, which was led by Nikolai Berdiaev.
For several years Kazem-Bek worked at the Foreign Exchange department of the Credit Foncier de Monaco in Monte Carlo, until his return to Paris in 1929 as an established political activist of Europe's Russian émigré community. Besides being a head of the Mladoross movement, he played a leading role in youth organizations such as Russian Student Christian Movement (Russian YMCA), Boy Scouts, etc. He directed the publication of Russian language magazines and newspapers and was an active contributor to various notable émigré newspapers, including Mladoross' publications, such as Bodrost', Mladorosskaia Iskra, and others.
From the beginning of the World War II Kazem-Bek was an outspoken critic of Hitler. After the fall of France he was arrested and imprisoned in a concentration camp in Vernet. He was released in October 1940 and in 1941 he and his family left Europe and arrived to the United States. First Kazem-Bek worked at the Bank of America in San-Francisco (1942-1943) and later he commenced his career in academic circles, first as Russian language instructor at the Army Specialized Training Program at Yale University. In 1944-1946 he was a head of the Book Department of the YMCA's War Prisoners Aid program. In 1946 he became a member of the faculty of Connecticut College (New London) as Assistant Professor in Russian. He was a visiting professor of Russian language in the summer school of Middlebury College in Vermont. In 1954 he was a lecturing professor at the Government of India School of Foreign Language at New Delhi.
In the US Aleksandr Kazem-Bek continued his activity as social, political, and religious leader of the emigration. Among fulfilling other duties, he edited and published hundreds of essays and articles in periodical publications (mainly in Russian), including in the San Francisco-based Russian émigré newspaper Novaia Zaria.
In 1957 Kazem-Bek unexpectedly returned to the Soviet Union. Upon his arrival to Moscow, newspaper Pravda published his letter of contrition with anti-American statements. During the last twenty years of his life, Kazem-Bek worked for the Moscow Patriarchate both in the area of public relations and as a staff member of the Zhurnal Moskovskoi Patriarkhii.
Aleksandr Kazem-Bek died in the Soviet Union on February 21, 1977, and is buried near the Church of the Transfiguration in Lukino (village near Moscow).
Subject Headings
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Series I: Correspondence, 1924-1993
The series consists of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's personal and professional correspondence with various people and organizations, as well as family and subject correspondence. It also includes correspondence of Svetlana Kazem-Bek with various persons and organizations.
Contains professional and personal letters (some with Kazem-Bek's replies) of prominent scholars, writers, composers, and public figures. Arranged alphabetically.
Box 1 Folder 1
(1 autograph letter signed, 2 typed letters signed)
Box 1 Folder 2
(2 handwritten letters signed, also included 2 letters from Avinoff's wife)
Box 1 Folder 3
(1 telegram)
Box 1 Folder 4
(1 typed letter signed with handwritten notes)
Box 1 Folder 5
(1 typed letter signed with handwritten notes, 1 handwritten postcard signed)
Box 1 Folder 6
(2 typed letters signed, with 2 Kazem-Bek's responses)
Box 1 Folder 7
(2 typed letters signed with Kazem-Bek's responses)
Box 1 Folder 8
(1 handwritten letter signed, 13 typed letters signed, 2 telegrams, 1 wedding invitations, related materials. Khunpffer's correspondence with Svetlana Kazem-Bek see: Svetlana Kazem-Bek Correspondence)
Box 1 Folder 9
(1 typed letter to A. L. Tolstaya)
Box 1 Folder 10
(32 handwritten letters signed)
Box 1 Folder 11
(2 handwritten letters signed)
Box 1 Folder 12
(1 typed letter signed, with Kazem-Bek's response)
Box 12 Folder 1
(1 typed letter signed, related materials. Correspondents with John R. Mott is a part of Series V: Professional Activity -- Subseries V.2: YMCA)
Box 1 Folder 13
(1 handwritten letter signed)
Box 3 Folder 8
(4 typed letters signed, 2 telegrams, with Kazem-Bek's responses. Correspondents with De Witt Clinton Poole is a part of the subject correspondence folder "U.S. War Department")
Box 1 Folder 14
(part of Sablin's correspondence folder)
(Marc Raeff's correspondence is a part of Series III: Documents -- Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's Documents and Biographical Materials -- Mireille Massip Correspondence)
Box 9 Folder 11-13
Box 10 Folder 1-2
Box 1 Folder 14
(2 typed letters, 2 telegrams, with related materials. Also included a note from Natalie Rachmaninoff)
Box 1 Folder 15
(1 autograph letter signed, 1 typed letter signed; related item)
Box 1 Folder 16
(2 handwritten letters signed, 1 typed letter signed; photocopies of his poetry)
Box 1 Folder 17
(1 typed letter signed)
Box 1 Folder 18
(2 handwritten letters signed, 1 typed letter signed, typed autobiography, list of publications)
Box 1 Folder 19
(1 handwritten letter signed)
Box 1 Folder 20
(22 handwritten letters signed and 23 typed letters signed, 2 handwritten post cards signed. Also included 1 letter from Vakar's wife)
Box 1 Folder 21
(2 autograph letters signed, 1 copy of autograph letter. Zenkovsky's correspondence with Svetlana Kazem-Bek see: Svetlana Kazem-Bek Correspondence)
Consists of correspondence with various people and organizations. Selected correspondence with individuals that contains a significant number of letters is arranged alphabetically. The rest is arranged in chronological order. This subseries also includes Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's outgoing letters.
Box 14 Folder 18
(Correspondence with Paul Anderson is a part of Series V: Professional Activity -- Subseries V.2: YMCA)
Box 14 Folder 6
(correspondence with Panteleon Avsenev is a part of Series VI: Social and Political Activity: Mladorosskaia partiia--Subseries VI. 4: Mladoross members personal files)
Box 1 Folder 22
(Correspondence with Aleksandr Kazem-Bek. Bakh's correspondence with Svetlana Kazem-Bek see: Svetlana Kazem-Bek Correspondence)
Box 1 Folder 23
Box 1 Folder 24
Box 1 Folder 25
Box 1 Folder 26
Box 1 Folder 27
Box 1 Folder 28
Box 1 Folder 29
Box 1 Folder 30
Box 1 Folder 31
Box 1 Folder 32
Box 1 Folder 33
Box 2 Folder 1
Box 2 Folder 2
Box 2 Folder 3
Box 2 Folder 4
Box 2 Folder 5
Consists of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's correspondence with his wife and daughter. Also includes his and Svetlana Kazem-Bek's correspondence with various family members.
Box 2 Folder 6
Box 2 Folder 7
Box 2 Folder 8
Box 2 Folder 9
Box 2 Folder 10
Box 2 Folder 11
Box 2 Folder 12
(Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's daughter. Includes her correspondence with Aleksandr Kazem-Bek and Mara Chavchavadze)
Box 2 Folder 13
(Aleksandr and Svetlana Kazem-Bek's correspondence with various family members)
Consists mostly of correspondence with various institutions and organizations, including churches and religious organizations, publishers, universities, and the U.S. War Department. There is also letters from Kazem-Bek's students, as well as invitations to various receptions, exhibits, and so on.
Box 3 Folder 1
(professional and personal correspondence with clerics and members of various religious organizations such as the Fellowship of Sts. Alban and Sergius, the World Council of Churches, etc.)
Box 3 Folder 2
(invitations, thank you notes, greeting cards, good wishes, etc.)
Box 3 Folder 3
(receptions, exhibitions, weddings, lectures invitations)
(correspondence with editors and publishers, requests for articles, invoices, reciets, etc.)
Box 3 Folder 4
(see also: Series II: Writings--History of Russian Colonization, box 5 folder 22)
Box 3 Folder 5
Box 3 Folder 6
Box 3 Folder 7
(Columbia, Harvard, Middlebury, Smith College, Vassar College, Yale, et al. Employment opportunities, invitations to conferences, personal and official correspondence with professors, etc. Correspondence with Connecticut College see in Series V: Professional Acitivity: Teaching--Subseries V.3: Connecticut College, box 11, folders 9-10)
Box 3 Folder 8
(Including correspondence with Boris Bakhmetieff, DeWitt Clinton Poole, Lovering Hill, Edward G. Lansdale, Edward L. Barlow. Also includes queries concerning employment opportunities, notes and memos, submission of articles, personal correspondence with U.S. War Department staff, etc.)
Contains Svetlana Kazem-Bek's personal and professional correspondence with various people (including some prominent figures) and organizations. Also includes personal correspondence with family members and her outgoing letters. Correspondence with prominent figures and selected correspondence with individuals that contains a significant number of letters are arranged in alphabetical order. The rest is arranged chronologically.
Box 3 Folder 9
(1 typed letter signed with handwritten notes)
Box 3 Folder 10
(1 handwritten letter signed, 2 typed letters signed)
Box 3 Folder 11
(1 typed letter signed, with Svetlana Kazem-Bek's letters of various years)
(selected correspondence with various people that contains significant number of letters; arranged in alphabetical order)
Box 3 Folder 12
Box 14 Folder 6
(correspondence with Panteleon Avsenev is a part of Series VI: Social and Political Activity: Mladorosskaia partiia--Subseries VI. 4: Mladorosskaia partiia's members personal files)
Box 3 Folder 13
Box 3 Folder 14
Box 3 Folder 15
Box 3 Folder 16
Box 3 Folder 17
Box 3 Folder 18
Box 3 Folder 19
Box 3 Folder 20
Box 3 Folder 21
Box 3 Folder 22
Box 3 Folder 23
Box 4 Folder 1
Box 4 Folder 2
Box 4 Folder 3
Box 4 Folder 4
Box 4 Folder 5
Box 4 Folder 6
(correspondence with various family members)
Series II: Writings, 1906-1973
The series comprises published and unpublished works of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek, including articles, monographs, talks memoire, etc. There are also writings of other authors. Arranged in five subseries.
Drafts, manuscripts, and typescripts of Kazem-Bek's published and unpublished works "History of Russia", "History of the Russian Church", "History of Russian Colonization", and "K zhizneopisaniu Sviateishego Patriarkha Moskovskogo i Vseia Rusi Aleksiia".
(Drafts of unpublished book. Typescripts with handwritten corrections, notes)
Box 4 Folder 7
Box 4 Folder 7
Box 4 Folder 7
Box 4 Folder 7
Box 4 Folder 7
Box 4 Folder 7
Box 4 Folder 7
Box 4 Folder 8
Box 4 Folder 9
Box 4 Folder 9
Box 4 Folder 9
Box 4 Folder 10
Box 4 Folder 10
Box 4 Folder 10
Box 4 Folder 11
(Drafts of unpublished book. Typescripts, handwritten notes)
Box 4 Folder 12
Box 4 Folder 12
Box 4 Folder 12
Box 4 Folder 12
Box 4 Folder 12
Box 4 Folder 13
(Drafts, notes, plan of the book. Also includes related correspondence with publisher, contract, research materials, bibliography)
Box 5 Folder 1
Box 5 Folder 1
Box 5 Folder 2
Box 5 Folder 3
Box 5 Folder 4
Box 5 Folder 5
Box 5 Folder 6
Box 5 Folder 7
Box 5 Folder 8
Box 5 Folder 9
Box 5 Folder 10
Box 5 Folder 11
Box 5 Folder 12
Box 5 Folder 13
Box 5 Folder 14
Box 5 Folder 15
Box 5 Folder 16
Box 5 Folder 17
Box 5 Folder 18
Box 5 Folder 19
Box 5 Folder 20
Box 5 Folder 21
Box 5 Folder 22
Box 5 Folder 23
Box 6 Folder 1-5
Box 6 Folder 6
Drafts and notes to Kazem-Bek's autobiography and photocopy of typescript of memoire piece.
Box 6 Folder 7
(drafts, notes)
Box 6 Folder 8
(photocopy of typescript)
Typescripts, handwritten notes, research materials; clippings and various newspapers with Kazem-Bek's printed articles in Russian, English, and French.
Box 6 Folder 9
Box 6 Folder 9
Box 6 Folder 9
Box 6 Folder 10
Box 6 Folder 10
Box 6 Folder 10
Box 6 Folder 11
Box 6 Folder 11
Box 6 Folder 11
Box 6 Folder 12
(also included brochure "John R. Mott" by Ruth Rouse)
Box 6 Folder 13
Box 6 Folder 13
Box 6 Folder 13
Box 6 Folder 13
Box 6 Folder 13
Box 6 Folder 13
Box 6 Folder 14
(also included English translation)
Box 6 Folder 15
Box 6 Folder 15
Box 6 Folder 16
Box 7 Folder 1
(See also: Series VIII: Printed Materials -- Subseries VIII.2: Periodicals -- Novaia Zaria; boxes 28-34)
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 3
(Articles printed in various Russian newspapers:Bodrost', Novaia Zaria, Novoe russkoe slovo, Russkii golos, Svet, and others)
Box 19 Folder 1-9
Box 20-34 OS
(oversize flat boxes)
Box 7 Folder 4
Box 7 Folder 4
(notes)
Box 7 Folder 5
Box 7 Folder 6
(article for Collier&Son encyclopedia)
Box 7 Folder 7
Box 7 Folder 7
Box 7 Folder 7
Box 7 Folder 7
Box 7 Folder 8
Box 7 Folder 9
Box 7 Folder 9
Box 7 Folder 10
Box 7 Folder 10
Box 7 Folder 10
Box 7 Folder 10
Box 7 Folder 10
Box 7 Folder 10
Box 7 Folder 10
Box 7 Folder 11
Typescripts, drafts and notes of addresses, lectures, talks, interviews, reviews, memoranda, sermons.
Box 7 Folder 12
Box 7 Folder 12
Box 7 Folder 12
Box 7 Folder 12
Box 12 Folder 17
(collection of speeches and talks)
Box 7 Folder 12
Box 7 Folder 13
Box 7 Folder 14
Box 3 Folder 8
(part of the "U.S. War Department" folder of the Series I: Correspondence -- Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence)
Box 12 Folder 16
(typescript of confidential memorandum prepared for the San-Francisco Office Military Intelligence Service)
Box 7 Folder 15
(with related materials)
Box 7 Folder 16
(in English and Russian)
Box 3 Folder 8
(part of the "U.S. War Department" folder of the Series I: Correspondence -- Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence)
Box 7 Folder 17
(in English and Russian)
Manuscripts and typescripts of works by various authors, including manuscripts of such prominent authors as Nikolai Berdiaev, Boris Likhachev, Nikolai Vakar, and others. Printed works of various authors are part of the Series VIII: Printed Materials.
Box 8 Folder 1
(handwritten manuscript)
Box 8 Folder 2
(broadcast)
Box 8 Folder 3
(handwritten manuscript)
Box 8 Folder 4
(speech)
Box 8 Folder 5
(address)
Box 8 Folder 6
Box 8 Folder 7
Box 8 Folder 7
(handwritten draft)
Box 8 Folder 7
Box 8 Folder 8
Box 8 Folder 9
Box 8 Folder 10
Box 8 Folder 11
Box 8 Folder 12
Series III: Documents and Biographical Materials, 1902-2014
Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's and his family members' personal documents and Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's biographical materials.
Contains Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's certificates, IDs, immigration papers, travel documents, passports, CVs, financial and legal documents, business cards, contacts, etc.
Box 8 Folder 13
Box 8 Folder 14
Box 8 Folder 15
(identification and membership cards, and business cards)
Box 8 Folder 16
(originals and photocopies)
Box 8 Folder 17
Box 8 Folder 18
Box 8 Folder 19
Box 8 Folder 20
Box 8 Folder 21
(itineraries, travel insurances, tickets, reservations, etc. Oversized travel insurance documents are stored in oversize flat box 20, folder 1)
Box 8 Folder 22
(War ration book, lists of Russian intellectuals leaving for the USA, change of addresses, notes, application forms, etc.)
(business and personal contact lists, business cards, index cards, address books)
Box 8 Folder 23
Box 8 Folder 24
Box 8 Folder 25
Box 8 Folder 26
(2 items)
Biographical materials include CVs and biographical statements, genealogical notes, letters of recommendation, publications about Kazem-Bek, and Mireille Massip's extensive correspondence with various people related to her work on Kazem-Bek's biography.
Box 9 Folder 1
Box 9 Folder 2
Box 9 Folder 3
Box 9 Folder 4
(newspaper clippings)
Box 9 Folder 5
Box 9 Folder 6
(V. Leonov. "K ot'ezdu"; V. Nikitin. Untitled)
Box 9 Folder 7
(letters, clippings)
Box 9 Folder 8
(clippings, letters, memos)
Box 9 Folder 9
Box 9 Folder 10
Box 9 Folder 11
Box 9 Folder 12
Box 9 Folder 13
Box 10 Folder 1
Box 10 Folder 2
Box 10 Folder 3
Box 10 Folder 4
Box 10 Folder 5
Box 18
(three microfilm reels with materials from the National Archives of the United States; were ordered by Mireille Massip and may conteain materials related to her research work on Kazem-Bek's biography)
Documents of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's wife, children, and father.
Box 10 Folder 6
(certificates, imigration documents, visas, Nansen passport, war ration book, IDs, obituaries, etc.)
Box 10 Folder 7
Box 10 Folder 8
Box 10 Folder 9
Box 10 Folder 10
Box 10 Folder 11
(materials related to teaching Russian at the Yale University)
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.
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
(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
Box 10 Folder 14
Box 10 Folder 15
(see more in the folders "Mladoross movement photographs" and "Family photographs")
Box 10 Folder 16
Box 10 Folder 17
(third party photos)
Box 10 Folder 18
Box 10 Folder 19
Box 10 Folder 20
Series V: Professional Activity, 1941-1965
The series comprises materials related to Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's teaching work and his work at YMCA.
Correspondence, documents, curriculum and teaching materials, lectures notes, newspapers and clippings related to Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's work at the Connecticut College, his activity as a member of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), his appointment as a visiting Russian lecturer and educational expert with the government of India and Pakistan.
Box 11 Folder 1
Box 11 Folder 2
Box 11 Folder 3
Box 11 Folder 4
Box 11 Folder 5
Box 11 Folder 6
Box 11 Folder 7
Box 11 Folder 8
(materials related to Kazem-Bek's appointment as a visiting Russian lecturer and educational expert with the government of India and Pakistan)
(correspondence, reports, meetings, teaching materials, curriculum, Russian Club, cultural events, clippings)
Box 11 Folder 9
Box 11 Folder 10
Box 11 Folder 11
(reports, meetings, lists)
Box 11 Folder 12
Box 11 Folder 13
Box 11 Folder 14
Box 27 OS Folder 1
(oversize flat box)
Box 27 OS Folder 1
(oversize flat box)
Box 11 Folder 15
Box 11 Folder 16
Box 11 Folder 17
Box 11 Folder 18-20
(notes on Russian language and literature classes)
Box 12 Folder 1-2
Series VI: Social and Political Activity: Mladorosskaia partiia, 1921-1954
This series contains materials related to Aleksandr Kazem-Bek's role as the founder and head of the Mladorosskaia partiia and to the party's activities. Photographs of the party's members see: Series IV: Photographs and Drawings.
Statute, program, resolutions, memos, internal publications, bulletins, and other documents and materials of the Mladorosskaia party.
Box 12 Folder 3
(statute, program, resolutions of the First Congress, articles and speeches explaining Mladoross movement idea, mladoross handbook, etc)
Box 12 Folder 4
Box 12 Folder 5
Box 12 Folder 6
Box 12 Folder 7
Box 12 Folder 8
Box 12 Folder 9
Box 12 Folder 10
Box 12 Folder 11
Box 12 Folder 12
Box 12 Folder 13
Box 12 Folder 14
(appeals to Russian monarchists, Manifestos of Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov, clippings. Voskresenie Rossii, newspaper of Russian monarchists, of November 7, 1933 see: Series VIII: Printed Materials -- Subseries VIII.2: Periodicals)
Box 12 Folder 15
Box 12 Folder 16
(typescript of confidential memorandum prepared for the San-Francisco Office Military Intelligence Service)
Box 12 Folder 17
(collection of speeches and talks)
Books, brochures, pamphlets, and periodicals published by the Mladorosskaya partiia.
Box 13 Folder 1
Box 13 Folder 2
Box 13 Folder 2
Box 13 Folder 3
Box 13 Folder 4
Box 13 Folder 5
Box 13 Folder 5
(mostly incomplete sets)
Box 20-26 OS
(oversize flat boxes)
Box 20 OS Folder 3-6
Box 21 OS Folder 1-4
Box 22 OS Folder 1-2
Box 22 OS Folder 3-4
Box 23 OS Folder 1-3
Box 24 OS Folder 1-3
Box 25 OS Folder 1-2
Box 25 OS Folder 3-4
Box 26 OS Folder 1-3
Box 26 OS Folder 3
Box 13 Folder 6-7
Box 27 OS Folder 2
(incomplete set; oversize flat box)
Box 13 Folder 8-9
Box 27 OS Folder 3-5
(oversize flat box)
Box 14 Folder 1
Box 14 Folder 2
(photographs of selected issues)
Box 14 Folder 3
(photographs of selected issues)
Box 35 OS Folder 1
(oversize flat box)
Box 14 Folder 4
(selected issues)
Box 14 Folder 5
(photocopy)
Box 14 Folder 6
(clippings with articles about Mladoross party)
Files of three members of the Mladorosskaia partiia contain personal documents, correspondence, materials related to life in camps Rolland Garos and Vernet d'Ariege.
Box 14 Folder 7
(personal documents, IDs, correspondence with Aleksandr Kazem-Bek and Svetlana Kazem-Bek, drawing, notes)
Box 14 Folder 8
(copies of drawings of life scenes of camps Rolland Garos and Vernet d'Ariege)
Box 14 Folder 9
(copies of personal documents, materials related to camp Vernet d'Ariege, etc.)
Series VII: Subject Files, 1935-1976
Materials about Archbishop Aleksei's and Metropolitan Nikolai's visits to the USA and St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church affair. Also includes publications of the Sviateishii Pravitel'stvuiushchii Sinod and various materials related to the Local Assembly of Russian Orthodox Church and World Council of Churches.
Box 14 Folder 10
(correpospondence, documents, photographs, clippings, and other materials related to the visit of Archbishop Aleksei of the Moscow Patriarchate to USA. See also: Series IV: Photographs and Drawings, box 10, folder 16)
Box 14 Folder 11
(materials related to election of the Patriarch of Moscow and of all Russia)
Box 14 Folder 12
(programs, clippings)
Box 14 Folder 13
(materials related to St. Nicholas Church affair and 50th anniversary of the church)
Box 14 Folder 14-15
Box 14 Folder 16
(leaflets, poster, programs)
Research materials on Charles De Gaulle. Correspondence, photograph, bio notes and other materials related to General Spiridovich, chief of Emperor Nicholas II personal guard. Materials related to Tolstoi's case against UN irregularities in the conduct of the examination for Russian translators.
Box 14 Folder 17
(bio note, printed materials, clippings, postcard)
Box 14 Folder 18
(correspondence, photograph, bio notes and other materials related to General Spiridovich, chief of Emperor Nicholas II personal guard)
Box 14 Folder 19
(typed copies of Tolstoi's letter against UN irregularities in the conduct of the examination for Russian translators; Tolstoi's autograph note)
Box 14 Folder 20
(galleys and other materials related to the first issue)
Box 14 Folder 21
(autographs of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, Vladimir Kirillovich, Dmitrii Pavlovich; notes and printed materials)
Series VIII: Printed Materials, 1928-1989
Books, brochures, articles, periodicals, journals, offprints, newspapers in Russian, English, French.
Box 15 Folder 1
Box 15 Folder 1
(2 copies; one with inscription)
Box 15 Folder 2
(with inscription)
Box 15 Folder 3
(offprint)
Box 15 Folder 3
Box 15 Folder 4
Box 15 Folder 5
Box 15 Folder 6
Box 15 Folder 7
Box 15 Folder 8
Box 15 Folder 9
Box 15 Folder 10
Box 15 Folder 11
Box 15 Folder 12
Box 15 Folder 13
(with inscription)
Box 15 Folder 14
(with inscription)
Box 15 Folder 15
(with inscription)
Box 15 Folder 16
Box 15 Folder 16
Box 15 Folder 16
Box 16 Folder 1-2
(incomplete set, in Russian and English)
Box 16 Folder 3
(No. 1 and 22)
Box 16 Folder 4
Box 28-34 OS
(oversize flat boxes)
Box 28 OS Folder 1-3
Box 29 OS Folder 1-4
Box 30 OS Folder 1-4
Box 31 OS Folder 1-4
Box 32 OS Folder 1
Box 32 OS Folder 1-4
Box 33 OS Folder 1
Box 33 OS Folder 2
Box 33 OS Folder 3-4
Box 34 OS Folder 1
Box 34 OS Folder 2
Box 34 OS Folder 2-4
Box 16 Folder 5
(photocopies of 5 issues)
Box 16 Folder 6
(photocopy)
Box 16 Folder 7
Box 16 Folder 8
(in Russian - 1946, issue 1, with inscription; in English - 1947, issue 3; in French - 1947, issue 2)
Box 16 Folder 9
(No. 1, 2)
Box 17 Folder 1
(No. 24)
Box 35 Folder 3
(oversize flat box)
Box 17 Folder 2-3
(1961: No. 1-4; 1965: No. 1-2; 1966: No. 4; 1968: No. 4; 1975: No. 6)
(selected issues)
Box 35 Folder 4
(oversize flat box)
Box 35 Folder 4
(oversize flat box)
Box 35 Folder 4
(oversize flat box)
Box 35 Folder 4
(oversize flat box)
Box 17 Folder 4
(3 issues)
Box 17 Folder 5
(4 issues)
Box 17 Folder 5
Box 35 OS Folder 2
(oversize flat box)
Box 16 Folder 8
Box 17 Folder 6
(No. 1, 2)
Box 17 Folder 7
(No. 9,13)
Box 18
(incomplete set)
Box 16 Folder 10
(No. 24)
Box 16 Folder 8
Box 18 Folder 1
Box 18 Folder 2
(shows, concerts, auctions, receptions)
Clippings with research and reference materials on various subjects.
Box 19 Folder 10
Box 19 Folder 11
Box 19 Folder 12
Box 35 OS Folder 5-6
(oversize flat box)