Michail Mikhailovhich Karpovich Correspondence, 1900-1959.

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Michail Mikhailovhich Karpovich Correspondence, 1900-1959.

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Correspondence and subject files of Russian-American historian Michael Karpovich include letters from former ministers of the Russian Provisional Government Alexander Kerensky, Aleksandr Guchkov, and the Provisional Government's ambassador to the United States, Boris Bakhmeteff. There are letters from Social Revolutionaries Nikolai Avksentʹev and Vladimir Zenzinov, Menshiviks Boris Nikolaevsky and Nikolaĭ Vol'skiĭ, and extensive correspondence with contemporary historians such as Michael Florinsky, Sergeĭ Pushkarev, George Vernadsky, and Karpovich's students who included Marc Raeff and Richard Pipes. Much of the correspondence concerns Karpovich's involvement in emigre affairs and the promotion of Russian studies in the United States including such institutions as the Bakhmeteff Archive, the "Novyĭ zhurnal" and the Chekhov Publishing House. There is correspondence with prominent authors and literary critics including Mark Aldanov, Ivan Bunin, Alekseĭ Remizov, Gleb Struve and Roman Gulʹ. Of special importance are letters and poems by Vladimir Nabokov. The subject files concern Boris Bakhmeteff, Alexander Kerensky, Vladimir Nabokov and Karpovich's work as editor of Pavel Mili︠u︡kov's books.

ca. 3000 items (7 boxes)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7335134

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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