Alyce Batchelder collection of George Grebenstchikoff, 1898-1995.

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Alyce Batchelder collection of George Grebenstchikoff, 1898-1995.

The papers in this collection document the work of Alyce Batchelder as well as the correspondence and writings of George Grebenstchikoff (in Russian, Georgii Grebenshchikov). Alyce Batchelder's correspondence documents her work as literary executor for the George Grebenstchikoff estate after Grebenschikoff's death. George Grebenstchikoff's papers include professional correspondence and a collection of Russian medals. Correspondents include Dmitri Alexandrow, Pearl S. Buck (letters related to the Russian writer Ivan Bunin), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, George Sabo, Igor Sikorsky and Maurice J. and Lilli Swetland. The collection also contains a few early letters to George Grebenstchikoff's wife Tatiana that date from the years before her emigration to the United States. Realia in the collection include Russian military and religious medals.

4.69 linear feet (7 boxes)

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Swetland, Maurice J.

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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953

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Virginia Taylor McCormick (1873-1957), of Norfolk, Virginia was a poet, literary critic, essayist, lecturer, and the editor of The Lyric, 1921-1929. From the guide to the Virginia Taylor McCormick Papers, 1887-1953., (Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary) In 1931, Scribner published two of Rawlings' short stories, Jacob's ladder and Cracker chidlins, both describing poor, backcountry Florida. Some of Rawlings' neighbors were angered by wh...

Grebenshchikov, Georgīĭ, 1882-1964

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Georgīĭ Grebenshchikov was a Russian writer. In 1925 he established Russian community "Churaevka" in Southbury, Connecticut. From the description of Georgīĭ Grebenshchikov papers, 1928-1935 and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612843179 Grebenshchikov was a Russian novelist. He emigrated to the United States in the 1920s, and became professor at Florida Southern College. From the description of Postcard, 1945 August 4, Lakeland, Fla., to Mr. & Mrs....

Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972

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Engineer and inventor. From the description of Papers of Igor Ivan Sikorsky, 1913-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80153906 A renowned aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, Russian-American Igor Sikorsky immigrated to the United States in 1919 and founded the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation in 1923 (now the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation). By the 1930s, he had developed the "flying boats" of Pan American Airways. He continued his work with he...

Alexandrow, Dmitri.

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 1870-1953

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Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953) was a Russian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933, and a member of the post-revolutionary Russian migr community in France From the guide to the Ivan Bunin papers, 1887-1998, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953) was a Russian writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933, and a member of the post-revolutionary Russian migr community in France From the guide...

Batchelder, Alyce,

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Alyce Batchelder befriended George and Tatiana Grebenstchikoff in Lakeland, Florida and became the literary executor for the George Grebenstchikoff estate in 1965. George Grebenstchikoff (1883-1964) was born in the Tomsk Oblast of Russia. He published segments of his serialized novel Churaevy before emigrating to Paris (1920) and then the United States (1924). In 1925 he and Ilia Tolstoi founded the Churaevka artists' colony in Southbury, Connecticut, where Grebenstchiko...

Swetland, Lilli.

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Sabo, George

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Grebenstchikoff, Tatiana.

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