Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas Papers, 1915-1987
Summary Information
Abstract
The papers comprise the correspondence of Agnes Kun (1915-1990), translator, and Antal Hidas (1899-1980), Hungarian poet, with prominent Russian poets and writers; Antal Hidas's memoirs; and manuscripts of translations from Hungarian and original poetry by famous Russian authors.
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- BA#0535
- Bib ID:
- 9189851 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Kun, Agnes; Hidas, Antal, 1899-
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 4 linear feet (5 archival document boxes and 1 flat box)
- Language(s):
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English
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- 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 is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Scope and Content
The collection consists of significant correspondence with prominent Russian poets and writers and manuscripts of translations from Hungarian and original poetry by famous Russian authors. Among authors whose letters and manuscripts are represented in the collection are: Margarita Aliger, Lili Brik, Kornei Chukovskii, Aleksandr Fadeev, Vera Inber, Lev Kopelev, Leonid Martynov, Boris Pasternak, Boris Polevoi, David Samoilov, Boris Slutskii, Nikolai Tikhonov, Nikolai Zabolotskii, and many others. Oversize materials stored in BAR Flat Box #5.
Arrangement
This collection is organized in four 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 is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of the Bakhmeteff Archive. The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accrual
No additons are expected
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1994.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Papers processed by Tanya Chebotarev.
Finding aid written by Katia Shraga November 2011.
Collection is processed to folder level.
Revision Description
2012-01-12 File created.
2012-01-13 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2012-04-16 XML document instance updated by Catherine C. Ricciardi
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History
Agnes Kun (January 21, 1915-October 19, 1990), translator and editor, daughter of Bela Kun, wife of Hungarian poet Antal Hidas (12.18.1899-01.22.1980), who in the 1920s immigrated to the Soviet Union. Both Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas went through the Gulag. Kun and Hidas became the main Soviet experts on Hungarian literature. It was under their leadership that many collections of Hungarian poetry were translated and published in the USSR in the 1950s. They returned to Hungary in 1959.
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| Genre/Form |
|---|
| Correspondence |
| Manuscripts (documents) |
| Memoirs |
| Translations (Documents) |
| Name |
|---|
| Abašiże, Grigol, 1914-1994 |
| Aliger, Margarita, 1915-1992 |
| Andronikov, Irakliĭ, 1908-1990 |
| Baz͡han, Mykola Platonovych, 1904-1983 |
| Bek, Aleksandr, 1903-1972 |
| Brik, Lili I︠U︡rʹevna |
| Budennyĭ, S. M (Semen Mikhaĭlovich), 1883-1973 |
| Chukovskiĭ, Korneĭ, 1882-1969 |
| Chukovskiĭ, Nikolaĭ |
| Fadeev, Aleksandr, 1901-1956 |
| Fedin, Konstantin, 1892-1977 |
| Hidas, Antal, 1899- |
| Inber, Vera |
| Isakovskiĭ, M (Mikhail), 1900-1973 |
| Kazakevich, Ėmmanuil, 1913-1962 |
| Kedrin, Dmitriĭ, 1907-1945 |
| Kirsanov, Semen, 1906-1972 |
| Knipovich, E. (Evgenii︠a︡) |
| Kopelev, Lev, 1912-1997 |
| Kun, Agnes |
| Larina, Anna |
| Levik, Vilʹgelʹm |
| Marshak, S (Samuil), 1887-1964 |
| Martynov, Leonid, 1905-1980 |
| Morit͡s, I͡Unna, 1937- |
| Orlova, R. D. (Raisa Davydovna) |
| Papernyĭ, Z (Zinoviĭ), 1919-1996 |
| Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 |
| Pervomaĭsʹkyĭ, Leonid, 1908-1973 |
| Petrovykh, Marii͡a, 1908-1979 |
| Polevoĭ, Boris |
| Prokofʹev, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1900-1971 |
| Rozhdestvenskiĭ, Robert, 1932- |
| Rozhdestvenskiĭ, Vsevolod, 1895-1977 |
| Rozov, Viktor, 1913-2004 |
| Samoĭlov, D (David) |
| Slut͡skiĭ, Boris, 1919-1986 |
| Stelʹmakh, M. P (Mykhaĭlo Panasovych) |
| Surkov, A. A (Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich), 1899-1983 |
| Tikhonov, Nikolaĭ, 1896-1979 |
| Turkov, A (Andreĭ) |
| Venclova, Antanas, 1906-1971 |
| Voznesenskiĭ, Andreĭ, 1933-2010 |
| Zharov, Aleksandr, 1904-1984 |
| Subject |
|---|
| Hungarian literature |
| Literature -- Translations into Russian |
| Russian literature -- 20th century |
The series consists mainly of letters to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas from prominent Russian authors.
Box 1 Folder 1
Abashidze, Grigol, to Antal Hidas, Tbilisi, 1951, (1 telegram)
Box 1 Folder 2
Aliger, Margarita, to Agnes Kun, Moscow, 1966, 1982, (2 autograph letters signed)
Box 1 Folder 3
Andronikov, Iraklii, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, Moscow, 1947, 1964, (1 autograph letter signed, 1 typed letter signed)
Box 1 Folder 4
Bazhan, Mykola and Nina, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1974, 1978, undated, (3 autograph letters signed, 14 autograph postcards signed)
Box 1 Folder 5
Bek, Aleksandr, to Agnes Kun, December 14, 1960, (1 autograph letter signed)
Box 1 Folder 6
Belkin, A., to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1961-1969, undated, 3 autograph letters signed, 4 autograph cards signed)
Borisov, Ivan, to Iren Kun, pos. Shemakhinskii, 1964
(see Series II: Writings--Subseries II.2: Writings by Others--Borisov (Box 3, Folder 28)
Box 1 Folder 7
Brik, Lili, to Agnes Kun, Moscow, 1965, (2 autograph letters signed, 1 envelope)
Chukovskaia, Marina
(see Chukovskii, Nikolai)
Box 1 Folder 8
Chukovskii, Kornei, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, Moscow, 1959, 1961, 1963, (2 autograph letters signed, 2 autograph postcards signed)
Box 1 Folder 9 to 12
Chukovskii, Nikolai and Marina, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1953-1973, (40 autograph letters signed, 1 typed letter signed, 19 autograph postcards signed, 2 telegrams)
Box 1 Folder 13
Fadeev, Aleksandr, to various persons, 1941-1944, undated, (2 autograph notes signed, 1 typed letter signed, 1 photocopy of a typed note, 2 envelopes)
Box 1 Folder 14
Fedin, Konstantin, to Antal Hidas, 1951, 1960, (2 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph postcard signed, 1 envelope)
Box 1 Folder 15
Inber, Vera, to Agnes Kun, Leningrad, April 2, 1949, (1 autograph letter signed, including manuscript of poetry translations)
Box 1 Folder 16
Isakovskii, Mikhail, to Agnes Kun, April 20, 1950, (1 typed letter signed)
Box 1 Folder 17
Ishov, Mikhail Mikhailovich, to Antal Hidas, Leningrad, undated, (1 autograph letter signed)
Box 1 Folder 18
Kazakevich, Ėmmanuil, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, Moscow, October 1, 1960, (1 typed letter signed)
Knipovich, Evgeniia:
Box 1 Folder 19 to 22
Letters to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1956-1978, undated, (37 autograph letters signed, 15 autograph postcards signed)
Box 1 Folder 23
Article on Antal Hidas's novel Gospodin Fitsek, undated, typescript
Box 1 Folder 24
Letters to Agnes Kun signed by Katia, 1963, 1973, undated
Box 1 Folder 25 to 27
Kopelev, Lev, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, [1957-1974], undated, (47 autograph letters signed, 2 typed letters signed, 12 autograph postcards signed, 1 telegram)
Kozlov Family, 1984
see Polevoi, Boris (Box 2, Folder 10)
Box 1 Folder 28
Levik, Vil'gel'm, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1960-1975, undated, (12 autograph letters signed, 5 autograph postcards signed, 2 telegrams)
Box 1 Folder 29
Marmazhov, Il'ia, Antal Hidas, 1954-1970, undated, (4 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph postcard signed, 1 telegrams)
Box 1 Folder 30
Marshak, Samuil, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, Ialta, July 27, 1963, (1 autograph letter signed)
Box 1 Folder 31 to 35
Martynov, Leonid and Nina (nee Popova), to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1951-1978, undated, (42 autograph letters signed, 17 autograph postcards signed)
Box 1 Folder 36
Mil'chakov, Aleksandr, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, Moscow, 1966-1969, (1 autograph letter signed, 4 autograph postcards signed)
Box 1 Folder 37
Morits, Iunna, to Agnes Kun, Moscow, [1955], (1 autograph letter signed)
Orlova, Raisa Davydovna
Otten, Petr:
Box 2 Folder 1
To Antal Hidas, Omsk, 1961-1975, undated, (5 autograph letters signed, 17 autograph postcards signed)
Box 2 Folder 1
To Eduard Otten from Antal Hidas, 1976, (1 autograph letter signed)
Box 2 Folder 2 to 3
Papernyi, Zinovii and Valeriia, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, Moscow, 1960-1976, undated, 42 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph postcard signed, 3 telegrams)
Pervomaiskii, Leonid:
Box 2 Folder 4 to 5
To Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, Kiev, Irpen', 1948-1975, undated, (8 autograph letters signed, 18 typed letters signed, 2 autograph postcards signed)
Box 2 Folder 5
Hidas, A. to Leonid Pervomaiskii, undated, (2 drafts of a letter)
Box 2 Folder 6 to 10
Polevoi, Boris, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1959-1984, undated, (44 autograph letters signed, 9 typed letters signed, 33 autograph postcards signed, 4 telegrams. )
There are also postcards from B. Polevoi's son Aleksei.
Box 2 Folder 11
Prokof'ev, Aleksandr, to Antal Hidas, Leningrad, 1961, (1 typed letter signed, 1 telegram)
Box 2 Folder 12
Rozhdestvenskii, Robert, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, undated, (1 autograph letter signed)
Box 2 Folder 13
Rozov, Viktor, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1964-1968, (3 autograph postcards signed)
Box 2 Folder 14
Samoilov, David, to Agnes Kun, [1960s], (8 autograph letters signed, 5 typed letters signed)
Box 2 Folder 15
Stel'makh, Mykhailo, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, [1959]-1974, (2 autograph letters signed, 2 autograph postcards signed)
Box 2 Folder 16
Surkov, Aleksei, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1960-[1976], (7 autograph letters signed, 1 typed letter signed, 8 autograph postcards signed, 7 telegrams)
Tikhonov, Nikolai, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas:
Box 2 Folder 17
Original letters, 1954-1973, undated, (6 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph postcard signed)
Box 2 Folder 18 to 20
Typed copies of letters, 1949-1976, (138 pages)
Box 2 Folder 21
Treneva, Natal'ia, to Agnes Kun, 1959-1968, undated, (5 autograph letters signed, 4 telegrams)
Box 2 Folder 22
Turkov, Andrei, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1964-1973, undated, (11 autograph letters signed, 4 autograph postcards signed)
Box 2 Folder 23
Venclova, Antanas, to Antal Hidas, 1953, 1963, (3 autograph letters signed)
Box 2 Folder 24
Zabolotskii-Kaverin Family, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, 1973, undated, (2 autograph letters signed, 2 autograph postcards signed)
Box 2 Folder 25
Zharov, Aleksandr, to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas, Moscow, December 31, 1959, (1 typed postcard signed)
The series comprises mainly manuscripts of Antal Hidas and famous Russian poets. Organized in two Subseries.
Subseries II.1: Antal Hidas's Writings, 1943-1968, undated
Contains typescript with holograph corrections of Hidas's memoirs. The memoirs are compilation of Hidas's essays written in various years. Arranged according to page numeration.
Memoirs, (carbon copy of typescript with holograph corrections):
Box 3 Folder 1
"Razgovor s samim soboi", undated
Box 3 Folder 2
"Kak ia liubliu vas, rebiata!", 1963
Box 3 Folder 3
"Nedostaet odnogo cheloveka", 1967
Box 3 Folder 4
"Samoe glavnoe" (about Gorkii), undated
Box 3 Folder 5
"Pered romanom", 1962
Box 3 Folder 6
"Dorogie moi… khoroshie…", undated
Box 3 Folder 7
"Pamflet i ego istoriia", 1968
Box 3 Folder 8
"Romanticheskii revoliutsioner", 1961-1967
Box 3 Folder 9
"Na den' rozhdeniia", undated
Box 3 Folder 10
"Byli i budut…", 1966
Box 3 Folder 11
"Avtoportret", 1943
Box 3 Folder 12
"Pobedil on - Miklosh Radnoti", undated
Box 3 Folder 13
"Slovo k molodym", undated
Box 3 Folder 14
"My pered nim v dolgu", undated
Box 3 Folder 15
"Mon Diue!", undated
Box 3 Folder 16
'Stroki, obletevshie mir", undated
Box 3 Folder 17
"Oblaka: rech', proiznesennaia v Borzhomi na soveshchanii poetov za kruglym stolom", 1966
Box 3 Folder 18
"Razgovor s chepel'tsami", undated
Box 3 Folder 19
"Dvorik ty moi dvorik: Bela Bartok v Moskve", undated
Box 3 Folder 20
"Seismograf i dvigatel' dushi", undated
Box 3 Folder 21
"Na strazhe dobra", undated
Box 3 Folder 22
"Moi otvet", undated
Box 3 Folder 23
"Perelistaem zimu", undated
Box 3 Folder 24
"Duet veterok s Dunaia", undated
Box 3 Folder 25
"Miniatiury", undated
Box 3 Folder 26
"Obeliski postaviat im", undated
Subseries II.2: Writings by Others, 1940-1987, undated
The Subseries contains mainly holograph manuscript and typescripts of original poetry and translations by famous Russian poets, such as Boris Pasternak, Nikolai Chukovskii, Mariia Petrovykh, Semen Kirsanov, Boris Slutskii, David Samoilov, Leonid Pervomaiskii, Leonid Martynov, Vsevolod Rozhdestvenskii, Andrei Voznesenskii, Nikolai Zabolotskii. Zabolotskii's writings include a bound typed manuscript "Stolbtsy i poemy. Stikhotvoreniia." N. Zabolotskii compiled this book of his poems in 1958 and considered it a complete edition of his poetry. This handmade book is one of seven copies. The Subseries also includes memoirs of Ivan Borisov and Ferenc Jancsik, and Semen Budennyi's essay on Bela Kun. There is also a photograph of Ivan Borisov, which remains with his memoirs, and three drawings of Leonid Martynov, which are stored along with his writings.
Box 3 Folder 27
Akhmatova, Anna. "Requiem", undated
(samizdat typescript received from A. Akhmatova)
Box 3 Folder 28 to 32
Borisov, Ivan Kuz'mich. "Tragicheskaia ispoved' Litvinova Vladimira Pavlovicha - zhivshego s 1892 goda po 1950", 1892, 1964, (typescript with holograph corrections; Borisov's photograph, [1918])
Box 4 Folder 1
Budennyi, Semen. "Nash drug Bela Kun", undated, (signed typescript, 5 pages)
Box 4 Folder 2
Chukovskii, Nikolai. Translation of Sandor Petofi's poem, undated, (typescript with holograph corrections of Agnes Kun, 4 pages)
Inber, Vera. Translation of Endre Ady's poems, holograph manuscript
see Series I: Correspondence--Inber (Box 1, Folder 15)
Box 4 Folder 3
Jancsik, Ferenc. "Ispoved' vengerskogo kommunista", 1987, (carbon copy of typescript, signed, 16 pages)
Box 4 Folder 4
Kedrin, Dmitrii. Translation of Sandor Petofi's poems, undated, (holograph manuscript, 32 pages)
Box 4 Folder 5
Kirsanov, Semen. Original poem and translation, 1962, undated, (typescript with holograph corrections; original poem is signed; 5 pages)
Knipovich, Evgeniia. Article on Antal Hidas's novel "Gospodin Fitsek", typescript with holograph corrections
see Series I: Correspondence--Knipovich (Box 1, Folder 23)
Kopelev, Lev:
Box 4 Folder 6
"Berlin. Nachalo vesny shest'desiat chetvertogo goda", undated, carbon copy of typescript with holograph corrections; 64 pages)
Box 4 Folder 7
"Poeziia muzhestva i dobra", undated, signed typescript with holograph corrections; 11 pages)
Box 4 Folder 8
"Sila i nezhnost'", undated, (typescript of synopsis of his book about Antal Hidas; 2 pages)
Box 4 Folder 9
Larina, Anna (aka Larina-Bukharina). Transcript of Nikolai Bukharin's letter of 1937 "Budushchim pokoleniiam rukovoditelei partii" with her foreword, 1937, 1987, (holograph manuscript; 4 pages)
Box 4 Folder 10
Levik, Vil'gel'm. Translation of Sandor Petofi's poem, undated, (typescript with holograph corrections; 1 page)
Martynov, Leonid:
Box 4 Folder 11 to 15
Translations of Janos Arany's, Endre Ady's, Attila Jozsef's, and Antal Hidas's poems, and Mihaly Vorosmarty's drama,, undated, typescripts and holograph manuscripts
Box 4 Folder 16
Poemy. Moskva: Sovetskii pisatel', 1940
(book with Martynov's inscription to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas)
Various poetry and translations
see Series I: Correspondence--Martynov (Box 1, Folders 31-35)
Box 4 Folder 17
Drawings, undated, (3 pencil drawings)
Box 4 Folder 18-20
Pasternak, Boris. Translations from Hungarian, undated, (typescripts with holograph corrections; total in three folders - 53 sheets; in folder 20 "Translations of Petefi" pages 18, 19, 30-35 are absent within consecutive numbering 1 through 38)
Pervomaiskii, Leonid. Draft of poem, 1972
see Series I: Correspondence--Pervomaiskii (Box 2, Folder 5)
Box 5 Folder 1
Petrovykh, Mariia. Translations of Sandor Petofi's poems, undated, (signed typescripts with holograph corrections; 4 pages)
Box 5 Folder 2
Rozhdestvenskii, Vsevolod. Translations of Sandor Petofi's poems, undated, (holograph manuscripts; 3 pages)
Box 5 Folder 3
Samoilov, David. "Detskii risunok", undated, (typescript of poem; 1 page)
Box 5 Folder 4
Slutskii, Boris. Translations of Antal Hidas's poems; article about Endre Ady; original poetry, undated, (typescripts and holograph manuscripts; 11 pages)
Box 5 Folder 5
Tikhonov, Nikolai. Translations of Sandor Petofi's and Antal Hidas's poems
, undated, (signed typescripts with holograph corrections; 6 pages)
Box 5 Folder 6
Voznesenskii, Andrei. Original poems, 1962, undated, (typescripts with holograph corrections; 21 pages)
Zabolotskii, Nikolai:
Box 5 Folder 7
"Stirka bel'ia", undated, (holograph manuscript of poem; 1 page)
Box 5 Folder 8
"Stolbtsy i poemy. Stikhotvoreniia"
(Bound typescript. This handmade book is one of seven copies. N. Zabolotskii compiled this book in 1958 and considered it as a complete edition of his poetry)
Box 5 Folder 9
"Stonet Dunai." Translations of Antal Hidas's poems, 1946, (holograph manuscript; 15 pages)
Series III: Printed Materials, 1917-1944, undated
The Series includes are edition of Maiakovskii's Liubliu (which is claimed to be from Lili Brik's personal library; Martynov' Poemy with inscription to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas; Communist and Soviet propaganda pamphlets, 1918-1944; and nine issues of the newspaper Edinstvo of 1917. The newspapers are stored in BAR Flat box #5. All items of this series are cataloged in CLIO.
Books:
Box 5 Folder 10
Maiakovskii, Vladimir. Liubliu, undated
(from Lili Brik's personal library)
Martynov, Leonid. Poemy. Moskva: Sovetskii pisatel', 1940
(book with Martynov's inscription to Agnes Kun and Antal Hidas)
see Series II: Writings--Subseries II.2: Writings by Others--Martynov (Box 4, Folder 16)
Box 5 Folder 11-13
Communist and Soviet propaganda pamphlets, 1918-1944
Periodicals:
Box Flat Box #5
Edinstvo: ezhednevnaia rabochaia gazeta, pod redaktsiei G. V. Plekhanova, 1917
no.13, 16-18, 26, 29, 34, 44, 47
Series IV: Third Parties Materials, 1915-1947
The Series comprises of personal documents (various IDs) of M. Martsinovich, E. Pokras, and A. Razorenova.
Box 5 Folder 14
Personal Documents of:
Martsinovich, Mariia, 1923-1942
Pokras, Evgeniia, 1929-1943
Razorenova, Aleksandra, 1915
Unidentified, 1947