Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmeteff Papers, 1914-1951.

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Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmeteff Papers, 1914-1951.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320410957

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, subject files and printed materials. The greater part of the collection concerns the period 1917-22, with a substantial amount of material on the Humanities Fund and Bakhmeteff's friendships with prominent Americans. Cataloged materials include 50 or more letters from John Spargo, Vasilii Maklakov, Ekaterina Kuskova, Frederic Coudert, Georgii L'vov and Michael Karpovich (the last largely concerning the Humanities Fund); there are also a few items by Louis Brandeis, John Foster Dulles, Samuel Gompers, Colonel Edward House, Charles Lindbergh, and Thomas Masaryk. Extensive files of arranged materials include hundreds of letters by Arkadii Zak (who headed the Russian Information Bureau in New York, 1917-22), items to and by Sergei Uget, and official telegrams from 1917-22. There are manuscripts in the collection by Bakhmeteff, Spargo, Uget and Sergei Prokopovich. Subject files chiefly cover the Civil War period, the Paris Peace Conference, the Humanities Fund and Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. Printed materials include pamphlets, journals and clippings. There are also bound reports by different departments of the Russian embassy and mission from 1917 through the 1920s. In addition, the collection contains an oil portrait of Bakhmeteff by the artist Nicolas Becker.

ca. 34,000 items (86 boxes, 53 volumes, 2 awards, 1 oil painting).

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 7335154

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

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Spargo, John, 1876-1966

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British socialist, author. From the description of Reminiscences of John Spargo : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309739101 John Spargo was an author and social activist, perhaps best known for his exposé, The Bitter Cry of Children. Born in Cornwall, he apprenticed with a stonecutter and became a lay Methodist minister; he was also an active Socialist in England before emigrating to the United States in 1901, where he ...

Coudert, Frederic Renʹe, 1898-1972.

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Bakhmeteff, Boris Aleksandrovich, 1880-1951.

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Ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States (1917-22), engineer, Columbia professor, businessman, and founder of the Humanities Fund. From the description of Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmeteff Papers, 1914-1951. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320410957 ...

Kuskova, Ekaterina Dmitrievna.

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Karpovich, Michael, 1888-1959

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Karpovich worked in the Russian embassy in Washington in 1917-1922, and later spent many years as a history professor at Harvard University. From the description of Papers, ca. 1920-1939. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309749109 Karpovich taught history and Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Michael Karpovich, 1943. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973084 Michael K...

Zak, Arkadii Iosifovich.

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Becker, Nicolas

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L'vov, Georgii Evgenevich.

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Maklakov, Vasilii Alekseevich.

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