Russian autograph collection, 1812-1959.

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Russian autograph collection, 1812-1959.

Compositions, letters, drawings and other items of various Russian authors,composers, and politicians of the 19th and 20th centuries.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6384431

Houghton Library

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Cournos, John, 1881-1966

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John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun (Иван Григорьевич Коршун; he himself used the form Johann Gregorevich for his original name) (6 March 1881 – 27 August 1966), was a writer and translator of Russian-Jewish background who spent his later life in exile. Cournos was born in Zhitomir, Russian Empire, and his first language was Yiddish; he studied Russian, German and Hebrew, with a tutor at home. When he was ten years old his family emigrated to Philadelphia, where he learned English. ...

Rodziński, Artur, 1892-1958

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Artur Rodzinski was born in Spalato, Dalmatia (now Croatia), in 1892. He studied music in Lwów, Poland before taking a law degree in Vienna. While in Austria, Rodzinski studied composition with Joseph Marx and Franz Schreker, conducting with Franz Schalk, and piano with Emil Sauer, a Liszt pupil. Rodzinski started as a choral conductor and then made his conducting debut with Ernani at the Lwów Opera in 1920. Leopold Stokowski invited Rodzinski to visit Philadelphia in 1925. He was a sought-aft...

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

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Russian novelist. From the description of Graf Leo Tolstoy miscellaneous papers, 1853-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868149 Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1828-1910), Russian novelist From the guide to the Lev Tolstoi papers, 1909-1984, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Russian novelist, philosopher and mystic. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1904 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id:...

Dargomyzhsky, Alexander

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Russian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : St. Petersburg, 15/27 August 1865, to [Arnold Joseph Blaes], 1865 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565377 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p., St. Petersburg, n.d., 1847], to Mme Blaes-Meerti, [1847]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565382 ...

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Taube

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Vladimir Aleksandrovich

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Tchaikovskii, Petr Il'ich, 1840-1893

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John Cournos

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V. Bogenhardt

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Nicholas II

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Nikolai AlekseevichMiliutin

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Gogol', Nikolai Vasil

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Remizov, Aleksei Mikhailovich, 1877-

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Elsa Goller

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Mordovt͡sev, D. L. (Daniil Lukich), 1830-1905

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Prince Dmitrii Petrovich Mirskii.

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Gogol, Nikolai Vasil'Evich, 1809-1852.

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Vereschagin, Vasilii Vasil'evich, 1824-1904

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L Kogan

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Mazepa-Koledinsky, Ivan Stepanovich, 1644? -1709

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Nikolai Jakovlevich

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Goremykin, Ivan Logginovič 1839-1917

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Lebedev, Vladimir Vasilevich, 1841-

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Harold T. White

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Friends of Russian Science

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Lermontov, Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich, 1814-1841

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Russian poet. These three albums are an excellent example of a well-to-do 19th century Russian family's literary and cultural tastes. Such albums were kept at home so that friends could record their sentiments. Known as "Vereshchagina Albums," only two actually belonged to the Vereschagina family, which was distantly related to the Lermontovs. The third album belonged to Varvara Lopukhina, a cousin of the Vereshchagina and one of Lermontov's early sweethearts. ...

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein[a] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Ukrainian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Trotskyism. Born to a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family in Yanovka (now Bereslavka), Trotsky embraced Marxism after moving to Nikolayev in 1896. In 1898, he was arrested for revolutionary activities and subsequently exiled to Siberia. He escaped from ...

Viktor Balabin

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Aivazovskii, Ivan Konstantinovich, 1817-1900.

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Iakov Abramovich Lipshits

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Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vasilii Ivanovich, 1845-1936

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Writer. From the description of Vasilii Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko Letter. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320408899 ...

Kilgour, Bayard Livingstone, Jr

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Fine Arts Libary

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Liebert, Herman W.

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Herman Wardwell ("Fritz") Liebert (1911-1994), Yale Class of 1933, was a bibliophile, literary scholar and collector, author of several works about Samuel Johnson, and the first Librarian of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. From the description of Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection, 1604-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79259317 From the description of Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection, 1604-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148485 ...

Young, James Carleton, 1856-1918

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F. Stravinskii

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Maria Ageevna Miliutina

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Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1880-1921

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Bal'mont, Konstantin Dmitrievich, 1867-1943

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Stahl, P.-J., 1814-1886

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French author and publisher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Albert de Wailly, 1864 Oct. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270471819 Hetzel was an editor and writer; his pseudonym was P.-J. Stahl (misidentified as J. B. Stahl on the album page by an unknown hand). From the description of Autographed commentary, ca. 1855-1856. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155887617 French author & publisher. ...

Gertruda Vakar

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Chenavard

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Mme. Stenbach-Fermor

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Polezhaev, Aleksandr Ivanovich, 1805-1838

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Simonov, Konstantin Mikhailovich, 1915-

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Kilgour, Bayard L., 1904-1984

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Kilgour earned his Harvard AB in 1927. From the description of Examinations in history, government, and economics, May 1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 543962333 ...

Pauline Viardot-Garcia.

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Committee for the Education of Russian Youth in Exile

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Annenkov, Ivan Vasil'evič (1812-1887).

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Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich, 1881-1970

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Full biographical histories of the individual members of the Kerensky family represented in this collection are included in the full catalogue at sub-fonds level: Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970) ; Olga Kerensky (1883-1975) ; their sons, Oleg Kerensky (1905-1984), civil engineer ; Gleb Kerensky (1907-1990), engineer ; and grandson, Oleg Kerensky (1930-1993), ballet critic . From the guide to the Kerensky Family Papers, [Late 19th century]-1991, (University of Birmingham, Cadbury Resear...

Augustin Petrovich Golitsyn

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Mme Chikonanov

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Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881-1950

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Dana earned his Harvard AB in 1903. From the description of Papers in English 5, 1902-1903. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074561 From the description of Notes in Economics 1, 1901-1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074474 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, also known as "Harry" Dana. Writer, lecturer. From the description of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana letters [manuscript], 1940, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat reco...

Bal'mont, Konstantin Dmitrievich

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Sidorov, A. A.

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Vakar, Nicholas P. (Nicholas Platonovich), 1894-1970

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Vakar was a Russian emigré writer and teacher of Russian. From the description of Nicholas P. Vakar papers, 1938-1941. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612375219 Vakar was a Russian emigré writer and teacher of Russian. From the guide to the Nicholas P. Vakar papers, 1938-1941., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Mikhail Vasil'evich Dmitrevskii

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Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837

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Mili︠u︡tin, Nikolaĭ Alekseevich, 1818-1872

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Miliutin was Acting Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. He helped draft legislation for the emancipation of Russian serfs in 1861, and was the architect of a broad program of reform legislation for Russian Poland, from 1864 to 1866. From the description of Mili︠u︡tin papers, 1860-1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80579286 From the description of Mili︠u︡tin papers, 1860-1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702147405 ...

Apukhtin, Aleksei Nikolaevich 1841-1893

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Isaac Levit

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Robert Hillyer.

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Hillyer, Robert

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Bestuzhev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1797-1837.

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One of the leaders of the Decembrists. From the description of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bestuzhev Poem, 1828 or 1829. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320410705 ...

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960

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Pasternak was a Russian poet, who declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 for his novel Doctor Zhivago. Reavey was an English surrealist poet. From the description of Letters to George Reavey, 1931-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77990740 From the guide to the Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Letters to George Reavey, 1931-1960., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960 ...

Chvany, Catherine V.

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James N. B. Hill, Esq.

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Cross, Samuel H. (Samuel Hazzard), 1891-1946

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Cross graduated from Harvard in 1912 and taught Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard. From the description of Lectures in Slavic 7 : the Russian theater, c. 1939-1940. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512195 From the description of Lectures in Slavic 1, c. 1938. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511906 From the description of Papers of Samuel Hazzard Cross, 1912-1947 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973013 ...

Perevoznikov, Ivan

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Zhukovskiĭ, Vasiliĭ Andreevich, 1783-1852

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Pavel Bestuzhev.

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Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gakkebush

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Gorkii, Maksim, 1868-1936.

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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.

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Anton Chekhov, playwright. From the description of Uncle Vanya : scenes from country life in four acts : typescript, 1988, 26 February. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122466752 From the description of Ivanov: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122486670 Anton Chekhov, playwright. Michael Henry Heim, translator. From the description of Uncle Vanya: typescript, 1976. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id...

Mrs. Katherine Benedict

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Zakharkin, Stepan

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Viazemskii, Petr Andreevich, kniaz', 1792-1878

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Zhikarev

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Juliette Adam

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Iurii Ivask

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Derzhavin, Gavril Romanovich, 1743-1816

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Burt︠s︡ev, V. L. (Vladimir Lʹvovich), 1862-1942

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J. Hetzel.

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Dobuzhinskiĭ, Mstislav Valerianovich, 1875-1957

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Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinskiĭ (1875-1957) was a Russian-born stage designer and painter who lived in New York City. From the description of Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinskiĭ papers, ca. 1914-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122314057 Painter and stage designer. From the description of Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinskii Papers, ca. 1910-1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320409492 Mstislav Valerianovich...

Efron, Marina Ivanovna, 1892-1941

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Kilgour, Bayard

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Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883

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Ivan Turgenev, playwright. From the description of A month in the country : a comedy : typescript, 1988, 14 July. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122364035 Russian author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bade, to an unidentified recipient, 1868 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573545 Russian writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Madame Bohomoletz, [n.d.]. (Unknown). Worl...

Frances E. Anderson

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Shostokovich, Dimitri Dimitrievich, 1906-

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Yulia Ivanovna Igumnova, d. 1940

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