Register of the Irina Grivnina papers
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Title: Irina Grivnina papers
Date (inclusive): 1928-2013
Collection Number: 2018C13
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian, English and Dutch
Physical Description:
12 manuscript boxes, 11 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders
(13.05 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoirs, other writings, printed matter, photographs, visual materials, and sound and video recordings relating
to civil liberties in the Soviet Union, and especially to misuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union.
Creator:
Grivnina, Irina
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2016.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Irina Grivnina papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Irina Grivnina (b. 1945) received her education in electronics and mathematics at the Aeronautics University in Moscow and
had worked as a mathematician for eleven years. In 1977 she started participating in the publication of the Samizdat ("self-publishing")
magazine revealing psychiatric repression in the Soviet Union. Grivnina was a member of the Moscow Helsinki group. In 1980
she was arrested by the KGB and spent fourteen months in the Lefortovo prison. The court trial resulted in sentencing her
to exile in Kazakhstan, where she spent two years. In 1983 Grivnina returned to Moscow and in 1985 she emigrated with her
family to the Netherlands. Since then she has lived in Amsterdam, writing and translating for Dutch, American, and Russian
newspapers and magazines and for the BBC Russian Service programs. Irina Grivnina is the author of six books published in
the Netherlands; two of them were also published in Russian.
Scope and Content of Collection
The documents in Irina Grivnina papers reflect her participation in the dissident movement, arrest, prison term and internal
exile, and fight for emigration. Her archive also documents her work as journalist and writer.
The collection is divided into ten series; some of them are described below.
The
Biographical file consists mostly of Grivnina's trial documents and a number of complaints filed by Grivnina and her husband Vladimir Neplekhovich,
in connections with her arrest, imprisonment, and especially exile. (In exile Irina was pregnant, and local KGB authorities
insisted that she terminate her pregnancy.) The file also includes personal documents of Vladimir Neplekhovich reflecting
complications he encountered at work because of Grivnina's dissident activities and arrest.
The
Correspondence series contains conventional and electronic mail from Grivnina's family and friends. Attention should be paid to letters
from Daniel Jaffe (an American law student/writer/lawyer) who met and befriended Grivnina in Moscow. Their correspondence
lasted for twenty years, from 1978 to 1998.
Irina Grivnina wrote six novels in Russian; most of them were translated into Dutch and published in the Netherlands. Only
one of her novels was published in Russian. Russian language novels and memoirs, mostly unpublished, are included in this
collection. As a journalist, Irina Grivnina wrote extensively on political and cultural issues for newspapers and magazines
and interviewed many prominent political and cultural figures from various countries for her BBC programs. These materials,
as well as her translations, book reviews, lectures, and speeches on various occasions make
Speeches and Writings series a valuable research resource.
The
Writings by Others series includes stage adaptations by famous Russian theater director Mikhail Levitin (typescripts, unpublished); two plays
by bard, dissident, and poet Yulii Kim; an essay by Vladimir Bukovskii.
In emigration Grivnina continued human rights activities participating in various conferences and congresses as a presenter
or accredited journalist. The
Congresses and Conferences series includes working materials of such events highlighting this side of Grivnina's activities.
The
Subject File consists of personal documents of Grivnina's grandparents including work evaluation and KPSS member assessment of her grandfather,
Colonel Pavel Al'tshuller, and Soviet military staff maps of the Stalingrad battle that he collected, and material gathered
by Grivnina for a book she planned to write about Andeĭ Saklharov.
Photographs and slides in the
Visual Materials contain images of famous Soviet and foreign writers, poets, and political figures (Vladimir Voinovich, Semen Lipkin, Inna
Lisnianskaia, Venedikt Erofeev, Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Kendzaburō Ōe, Gunter Grass, Pavel Kohout, Václav Havel, and others)
and of Soviet human rights activists (Mustafa Dzhemilev, Viacheslav Bakhmin, Vladimir Bukovskii, Aleksandr Podrabinek, and
others), as well as photo reports from the Poésie International festival in Rotterdam, Pushkin conference in Bonn, Prague
conference of dissidents residing in Russia and abroad, and the Glasnost' and Perstroika Congress. The series also includes
photographs depicting Irina and her family in exile and in emigration.
The
Sound and Video Recordings consist of interviews conducted by Grivnina or interviews of her.
While in prison, Grivnina worked hard to stay strong. For that purpose, in violation of prison rules, she knitted a sweater
for herself and sewed a night gown out of her husband's shirt. She also treasured a pair of ears created for the Poésie International
festival and signed by famous Russian writers and poets. When she emigrated to the Netherlands she was met by people holding
textile signs "Irina Grivnina, Workers on Human Rights most welcome" and "Irina Grivnina Released." These items and other
memorabilia can be found in the
Memorabilia series.
Related Collection(s)
Aleksandr Ginzburg papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives;
Vladimir Bukovskii papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives;
Valentin Turchin papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives;
Yuri Yarim-Agaev papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives;
A.S. Esenin-Vol'pin papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Dissenters -- Soviet Union
Civil rights -- Soviet Union
Psychiatry -- Soviet Union
Russians -- Netherlands
Biographical File
1953
1979-1985
undated
box 1, folder 1
Court trial
1979-1981
General
Includes search reports, indictment, sentence, and cassation. Also includes Grivnina's school record, 1953.
box 1, folder 2
Appeals, open letters, and complaints filed by Irina Grivnina
1982-1985
undated
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically by year.
box 1, folder 3-6
Appeals, open letters, and complaints filed by Vladimir Neplekhovich, Grivnina's husband
1979-1985
General
Includes some personal documents of Vladimir Neplekhovich.
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically by year.
box 1, folder 7
International campaign in defense of Irina Grivnina
1979-1985
Scope and Contents
Invitations sent to Grivnina and her family; appeals and open letters to Soviet authorities and international communities,
and other documents.
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically by year.
Speeches and Writings
1985-2003
undated
General'skaia doch'
circa 1994
General
Published in 1994 in Amsterdam and in 2005 in Moscow.
box 2, folder 7-8
The General's Daughter
undated
General
This is the Russian language novel
General'skaia doch' translated into English.
"Mertvyi gorod," typescript
circa 1992
General
Published in 1992 in Amsterdam.
box 2, folder 9-12
Drafts with research materials
undated
box 3, folder 1
Research materials
undated
box 3, folder 2
"Moskva - mertvyi gorod," typescript
circa 1990
General
This typescript is a version of a novel "Mertvyi gorod"
box 3, folder 4
"The Dead Town," typescript
undated
General
Russian language novel "Mertvyi gorod" translated into English.
box 3, folder 5-7
"Kto Vy, gospodin Gorbachev: Iznanka 'glasnosti' i 'perestroiki'"
undated
General
Includes research material and cover for the Dutch version of the book (
Wie bent u mijnheer Gorbatsjov? De Keerzijde van perestroika en glasnost)
box 3, folder 8-10
"Ulitsa Mandel'shtama," typescript
2003
undated
General
Includes plans, notes, drafts, and a final version of the novel.
box 4, folder 1-6
"Ulitsa Mandel'shtama," typescript (cont.)
2003
undated
box 4, folder 7
"Pamiati Rossii," typescript
undated
General
Collection of poems.
box 4, folder 7
"Svidanie" (The Meeting), typescript
undated
General
In Russian and English. Translated into English by Daniel M. Jaffe.
box 4, folder 8
"Interv'iu," typescript
undated
box 4, folder 9-10
Translations
1988-2000
General
Publications in periodicals and typescripts.
box 4, folder 11
"Nekotorye razmyshlenia o moei antisovetskoi deiatel'nosti," typescript
1984
box 4, folder 11
"Posviashchaetsia moemu muzhu," typescript
circa 1984
General
Dedicated to Grivnina's husband, Vladimir Neplechovich. Includes draft.
box 4, folder 11
Untitled (Neschastnye grazhdane kapitalistiheskikh stran), typescript
1984
box 4, folder 11
Untitled (Segodnia mne khochetsia pozdravit' kolleg iz televideniia Frantsii), typescript
early 1980s
General
Related to human rights under Gorbachev.
box 4, folder 11
Untitled (Udivitel'naia eto shtuka - perestroika!), holograph
1984
General
Includes letter from Dr. Wolfgang Nuyken of 26 October 1984.
box 4, folder 11
"Chto nas zhdet?" typescript
1984-1985
box 5, folder 1
"Govoriat russkie emigranty," typescript with holograph notes
ca 1985
box 5, folder 1
"K voprosu ob okhrane detstva i materinstva v Sovetskom Soiuze," typescript
1985
box 5, folder 1
"O festivale," holograph
1985
box 5, folder 1
"Ot Moskvy do Amsterdama," typescript
1985
box 5, folder 1
"Rozhdestvo v Rossii," typescript and clipping
1985
General
In Russian and Dutch. Dutch version was published in
Elsevier magazine.
box 5, folder 1
"Stoker," clipping
1985
General
Publication in
De Volkskrant of 5 November 1985. Includes the "Moskou schrijft" article by Stoker (clipping) and the Russian language draft of the publication
(holograph).
box 5, folder 1
"Voennaia taina" (Le Secret Militaire), holograph and clipping
1985-1986
General
In Russian, holograph. The essay was read by phone from Moscow for Belgian
Capital & Business magazine (in French, clipping).
box 5, folder 1
Untitled (Boius', professional'nye zhurnalisty vsego mira...), typescript and holograph notes
ca 1985
General
Relates to the publication by B. Antonov in the
Novoe vremia journal of 6 September 1985.
box 5, folder 2
"Het Leven op Het Plateland in de USSR," typescript
1986
General
Relates to reorganizations in agriculture in the Soviet Union. In Dutch and Russian (untitled).
box 5, folder 2
"Iazyki i perestroika," typescript
circa 1986
box 5, folder 2
"Leonard Peltier," typescript
1986
General
In Russian and Dutch. Includes holograph notes.
box 5, folder 2
"Oleg Tumanov," typescript
1986
General
Includes a holograph draft and a clipping.
box 5, folder 2
"Russkaia emigratsiia," typescript
1986
box 5, folder 3
"Voslenskii," typescript
1986
box 5, folder 3
Untitled (Dlia sovetskogo cheloveka...), typescript
ca 1986
box 5, folder 3
Untitled (Gollandiia - traditsionno otkrytaia strana), typescript
1986
box 5, folder 3
Untitled (Ia ne vstrechala zdes'...), typescript
1986
General
Relates to Andrei Sakharov.
box 5, folder 3
Untitled (Letom 1983 goda...) typescript and holograph
1986
General
Relates to Gorbachev's measures to reduce consumption of alcoholic beverages by the population of the Soviet Union.
box 5, folder 3
Untitled (Organizatsiia "Za mirnuiu politiku" ob"ediniaet liudei...) typescript
1986
box 5, folder 3
Untitled (pages from the diary) typescript
ca 1986
General
Describes one week in life of Grivnina's family in the Netherlands.
box 5, folder 3
Untitled (V SSSR proizoshlo udivitel'noe sobytie...), holograph
circa 1987
General
Relates to Andrei Sakharov.
box 5, folder 4
"Avtomatizatsiia na Volge," typescript
1987
box 5, folder 4
"Razmyshleniia o svobode, glasnosti i mirnom sosushchestvovanii," typescript
1987
box 5, folder 4
"Russische Tonbandkultur: Liedermacher in der Sowjetunion," clipping
1987
General
Published in the newspaper
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, no. 124, 1 June 1987. Includes original Russian version (typescript) and a letter from Irma Bregna.
box 5, folder 4
Untitled (21-22 maia 1987 g. v Amsterdame proshel 5-i Sakharovskii kongress...), typescript
1987
box 5, folder 4
"Doktor Zhivago, razreshen!," typescript
1988
box 5, folder 4
Untitled (17-i kinofestival' v Rotterdame...)
1988
General
Relates to film director Sergei Paradzhanov. Includes photographs depicting Sergei Paradzhanov and Lilia Brik.
box 5, folder 4
"Chitaia sovetskie gazety," typescript
1988
box 5, folder 4
"Natan Eidel'man," typescript
1989
box 5, folder 5
"Amsterdam - Warschau - Moskou," typescript
circa 1990
box 5, folder 5
"Irina Grivnina razgovarivaet s Donom Askarianom," typescript
1990
General
See also Box 6, folder...
box 5, folder 5
"Literatura i kommertsiia," typescript
1990
box 5, folder 5
"Liubimye druz'ia," typescript
ca 1990
box 5, folder 5
"Perezhivet li Gorbachev god 2000-i? Popytka prognoza," typescript
circa 1990
box 5, folder 5
"Pochemu Vy ne khotite vernut'sia?," typescript
1990
General
In Russian and English.
box 5, folder 6
"Poetom mozhesh' ty ne byt'," typescript
ca 1990
box 5, folder 6
"Postroivshii zamok," typescript
circa 1990
box 5, folder 6
"Problemy narkomanii," typescript
1990
General
In Russian and Czech. Czech version published in the
Lidové noviny magazine of 11 January 1990 (included). Includes a leaflet and pamphlet relating to drug abuse.
box 5, folder 6
"Stikhi k Chekhii,' typescript
1990
General
Published in the almanac
Panorama of June 22-29, 1990 (clipping included).
box 5, folder 7
"V dni radio," typescript
circa 1990
box 5, folder 7
"Vologodskii," typescript with holograph notes
ca 1990
box 5, folder 7
"Save Gorby? No! - Replace Gorby? Yes!," typescript
1990
General
In Russian and English. Russian text is untitled. Translated from Russian into English by Marianne Neplechovitsj
box 5, folder 7
Untitled (16 maia v Amsterdamskom svbodnom universitete sostoialas' diskussiia...), typescript
circa 1990
General
Essays relates to the discussion held at the Amsterdam Free University about the situation in the Soviet Union.
box 5, folder 7
Untitled (Leo Geerts rodilsia v 1935 godu...), typescript
circa 1990
box 5, folder 7
Untitled (Leonid Batkin, odin iz samykh izvestnykh publitsistov SSSR), typescript
1990
box 5, folder 7
Untitled (Govoriat, mirom praviat idei...), typescript
circa 1990
box 5, folder 8
"Deti Akhmatovoi," typescript
1991
box 5, folder 8
"Dozhivet li Gorbi do 2000-go goda?," typescript
1991
box 5, folder 8
"If the World is Ready for the New Revolution in Russia," typescript
1990s
box 5, folder 8
"Komu nuzhny arkhivy KGB," typescript
circa 1991
box 5, folder 8
"Paruir," typescript
circa 1991
box 5, folder 8
"Poeziia i politika (beseda s Iunoi Morits)," typescript
1991
box 5, folder 8
"Slava Sysoev: 'Ia vsegda risoval eti khari partiinye: tol'ko pogliadite na nikh, eto zhe urody...'," typescript
1991-1992
box 5, folder 8
"Spasibo perestroike! Teper' nas puskaiut v 'valiutnye' bary," typescript
1991
General
See also box 5, folder...
box 5, folder 9
"Budushchii president Rossii?" typescript
1992
box 5, folder 9
"Kak fashizm ni nazovi...," typescript
1992
box 5, folder 9
"
Komitas, een film van Don Askarjan," typescript
1992
General
Includes notes, a clipping, and related correspondence (1992-1993)
box 5, folder 9
"Pamiati Iana Palakha," typescript
1993
box 5, folder 9
"Popytka memuarov," typescript
1993
box 5, folder 9
"Pamiati Mariny," draft
ca 1994
box 5, folder 9
"Serp i molot," typescript
1994 (1995)
box 5, folder 10
"Chechenskaia voina i 'Memorial'," clipping
1995
General
Published in the almanac
Panorama of September 13-19, 1995.
box 5, folder 10
"Poet i vechnost' (pamiati Iosifa Brodskogo)," typescript
1996
box 5, folder 10
"Progulki s d'iavolom (Melkie 'besy' v
Mastere i Margarite Mikhaila Bulgakova)," typescript
1996
box 5, folder 10
"Vbegaet mertvyi gospodin...," typescript
1997
box 5, folder 10
"Amsterdam Heeft't!" typescript
1998
box 5, folder 10
Untitled (My priekhali v Amasterdam 15 let nazad...), typescript
2000
General
Includes a printout of an e-mail letter from Margreet Strijbosch of 17 August 2000.
box 5, folder 10
"Mastera i marodery," typescript
2001
General
Short version was published in the newspaper
Novoe russkoe slovo in 2001.
box 5, folder 10
"Ōe Kenzaburō," typescript
undated
BBC programs, typescripts
1986-1991
undated
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically.
box 6, folder 5
Book reviews
1987
1992
General
Includes reviews of
Spravochnik po Gulagu by Jacques Rossi,
Oni (Them: Stalin's Polish Puppets) by Teresa Torańska,
Antisovetskii Sovetskii Soiuz by Vladimir Voinovich, and
Byt i bytie Mariny Tsvetaevoi.
box 6, folder 6
Interviews of Irina Grivnina
1985
1989
2000
General
Includes interviews of Irina Grivnina at the Moscow Youth Festival, and by the Belgian TV and TELEAK (the Netherlands)
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically
Interviews by Irina Grivnina
1986-1997
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically
box 6, folder 7
Viktor Anpilov
circa 1991
box 6, folder 10
Viktor Anpilov
circa 1991
box 6, folder 8
Transcripts of recorded interviews
1997
General
Includes interviews of Viacheslav Bakhmin, Feliks Serebrov, and Leonard Ternovskyi.
box 6, folder 9
Lectures and presentations
1986-1992
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically
General
Includes lectures on Russian women, Russian literature, and Russian intelligentsia and speeches for KRO-TV on disintegration
of the Soviet Union and for VOKS on the danger of dictatorship of the far rights in Russia; and on the Gorbachev perestroika
at the De Wereld van Morgen (The world of tomorrow) conference.
Writings by Others
1929-2013
Arrangement Statement
Arranged alphabetically by name.
box 6, folder 10
Agushevich, A., poems, holograph
1929-1931
General
Notebook. Included Agushevich's payment record.
box 6, folder 10
Akhmatova, Anna, "Rekviem", typescript
undated
Arrangement Statement
Typed underground copy confiscated by the KGB and later recovered by Irina Grivnina.
box 6, folder 10
Bek, Tat'iana, poems, typescript and photocopies
undated
General
See also photographs of Tat'iana Bek in Box 11.
box 6, folder 10
Brodsky, Joseph, "In Praise of Cleo" typescript with editor's corrections
undated
General
See also photographs of Joseph Brodsky in Box 11.
Glotzer, Vladimir
1989
1993
General
Photocopies, signed by the author for Irina Grivnina in 1994. Includes an essay by Petrov, V. N., "Daniil Kharms," in the
Panorama iskusstv series, with the 1994 inscription to Irina Grivnina by Vladimir Glotser, photocopy.
box 6, folder 11
"Kharms sobiraet knigu," in the
Russkaia literatura journal, no. 1, 1989, photocopy
1989
box 6, folder 11
"Ob odnoi bukve u Daniila Kharmsa," in the
Russkaia literatura journal, no. 1, 1993, photocopy
1993
General
Signed by author for Irina Grivnina.
box 6, folder 11
Golitsyn, Vladimir, two poems on the occasion of Grivnina's family emigration, holograph,
1985
Iudkovskaia, Irina
circa 2003
2013
box 6, folder 11
Untitled (Seichas menia, konechno, smeshat liudi...), typescript
circa 2003
box 6, folder 11
"V Rossii u menia takikh vozmozhnostei ne bylo..., " typescript
circa 2013
box 7, folder 1
Kim, Iulii, and Vladimir Dashkevich, "Klop,"opera libretto after Mayakovsky plays, typescript (photocopy)
undated
box 7, folder 1
Kim, Iulii, "Professor Faust," play in four parts, typescript
1985
General
Signed by author for Irina Grivnina.
box 7, folder 2-3
Leont'ev, Dmitrii, "Dnevnik v chetyrekh glavakh," typescript
1978
General
Dmitrii Leont'ev, musician and dissident, worked for the Solzhenitsyn Foundation. He committed suicide in 1982.
Levitin, Mikhail. Stage adaptations
1986-1989
General
Includes posters and brochures advertising productions of the Ermitazh theater directed by Mikhail Levitin.
box 7, folder 4-5
Olesha, Iurii, "Nishchii ili smert' Zanda," draft play, typescript
1986
General
Includes research materials (clippings) and Ermitazh theater bills and catalogs.
box 7, folder 6
Vvedenskii, Aleksandr, Nikolai Oleinikov and Nikolai Zabolotskii. "Vecher v sumasshedshem dome," typescript
1989
box 7, folder 7
Lisnianskaia, Inna, Various publications (clippings),
1990
General
Includes a clipping with inscription from the author to Irina Grivnina.
box 7, folder 7
Miller, Larisa. "Pogovorim o strannostiakh liubvi," typescript,
1990
box 7, folder 8
Morits, Iuna, "Katorga, kakaia blagodat'! (Boris Pasternak - ispytanie zhizneliubiem)," typescript, photocopy,
circa 1990
box 7, folder 8
Nekipelov, Viktor, Untitled poem (Ot naviazshikh slov, ot istlevshikh idei...), typescript
undated
box 7, folder 8
Podrabinek Aleksandr, interview transcript
1997
box 7, folder 8
Temchin, Evgenii, "Chuzhoi," typescript
1970s
Conferences and Congresses
1987-1989
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically.
box 7, folder 9
Conference of the International Parliamentary Group for Human Rights in the Soviet Union, Berlin
November 1987
General
Includes program materials, correspondence, and printed matter.
box 7, folder 9
Perestroika: Opportunities for Real Détente? Third International Round Table Conference, working materials
September 1988
General
Includes program, list of participants, interview of M. Tatu and Vladimir Bukovskii, and BBC program prepared by Irina Grivnina.
box 7, folder 10-11
Fifty Third PEN Club Congress, Maastricht
May 1989
General
Includes working materials; international secretary report; draft resolutions; speeches by Michael Scammell, Andrei Bitov,
Anatolii Rybakov, Algirdas Landsbergis, and Rudy Kousbroek; and Grivnina's report and notes.
Elena and Pavel Al'tshuller
1928-1976
box 8, folder 1
Correspondence
1940-1941
1971
undated
General
Letters from D.A. Lukhmanov and Kseniia Lukhmanova, a postcard from Irina Grivnina, and a greeting card and a telegram.
box 8, folder 2
Personal documents of Elena Al'tshuller
1928-1961
undated
General
Includes work records, certificates, membership cards, and other documents.
Personal documents of Pavel Al'tshuller
1931-1970
General
Includes KPSS member assessment, officer's evaluation, identification and membership cards, certificates of appreciation and
other certificates, financial documents, drawings, appointment orders, retirement papers, and other documents.
Andrei Sakharov project
1973
1984-1993
box 8, folder 5
A.D. Sakharov memorial events
1990-1991
General
Includes documents relating to A.D. Sakharov memorial congresses and a memorial lecture by Boris Al'tshuller in the University
of Oslo (typescript, signed for Irina Grivnina).
box 8, folder 5-9
Research material
1973
1989-1991
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically.
General
Includes printed matter and clippings.
box 12, folder 3
Research material (cont.)
1973
1989-1991
box 9, folder 2-4
Brochures, pamphlets and leaflets
1980-1997
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically.
box 9, folder 5-6
Boekovski Berichten
1982-1986
undated
General
Published by the Bukovsky Foundation in Amsterdam.
box 9, folder 7
Bloch, Sidney and Peter Reddaway. Diagnoz: Inakomyslie
1981
box 9, folder 8
Bukovsky papers, no. 1 and no. 9, Amsterdam
1983
1985
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Contents note
In English and Dutch.
box 9, folder 9
Pochta v SSSR, informatsionnyi biulleten' organizatsii Freedom of Communications
1987-1990
box 9, folder 10
Clippings
1988-1994
Arrangement Statement
Includes articles about or by Irina Grivnina.
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically.
Photographs
1920s-1998
undated 1920
Arrangement Statement
Arranged by physical form and then chronologically.
Photographic prints
1920s-1998
Scope and Contents note
Arranged by groups, with variable arrangement within each group.
box 10
Featuring Irina Grivnina with her family, friends, and political figures
1950s-1986
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically.
General
Includes postcards depicting Irina Grivnina, with appeal to M. Gorbachev and the USSR Prosecutor General to free Grivnina.
box 11, folder 1
Featuring Irina Grivnina with her family, friends, and political figures (cont.)
1950s-1986
box 10
Dissidents
1970s-1986
Arrangement Statement
Arranged alphabetically by name.
General
Includes photographs depicting Viacheslav Bakhmin, Larisa Bogoraz, Iurii Belov, Mustafa Dzhemilev, Vladimir Golitsyn, Irina
Iakir, Ivan Kovalev, Tat'iana Osipova, Aleksandr Podrabinek, Marina Ruminskaia, Natan Shcharanskii, Iurii Shikhanovich, Iosyp
Terelia, Leonard Ternovskyi, Tat'iana Velikanova, Aleksandr Voloshanovich, and other
box 10
Cultural and political figures
1980s-1990s
Arrangement Statement
Arranged alphabetically by name.
General
Includes photographs depicting Don Askarian and frames from his film
Comitas, Bella Akhmadulina, Andrei Ariev, Sergei Averintsev, Tatiana Bek, Joseph Brodsky, Efim Etkind, Václav Havel, with members
of the Czechoslovak government, Iurii Karabchievskii, Iulii KIm, Evgenii Lagutin, Semen Lipkin, Inna Lisnianskaia, Larisa
Miller, Tat'iana Morozova, Olesia Nikolaeva, Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Viktoriia Shveitzer, Kurt Vonnegut, Aleksandr Zinov'ev,
and others.
box 11, folder 2-3
Cultural and political figures (cont.)
1980s-1990s
Views of various countries
1964-1998
Arrangement Statement
Arranged alphabeticaly by country.
General
Includes photographs of everyday life in Armenia; street views in Russia; views of Prague, Paris, and Switzerland associated
with Tsvetaeva, Nabokov, and Rilke.
box 10
Prints from Tamara's album
1920s-1957
1983
undated 1920
General
Tamara was known to Grivnina by her first name. Her album with photographs, a couple of poems, a letter, and postcards. she
received by chance but preserved because the photographs document the life of a family for a period of almost 40 years.
Film strips
1970s-1990
undated 1970
Arrangement Statement
Arranged chronologically.
box 11, folder 6
Soviet prisons and psychiatric hospitals
1970s
box 11, folder 7
Pushkin Congress, Bonn
1987
box 11, folder 7
Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam
1989
box 11, folder 8
Glasnost' Congress, Amsterdam
1990
box 11, folder 8
Road to Freedom, Cato Institute conference
1990
box 11, folder 9
Undated
General
Includes photographs depicting the Amnesty International Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, and dissidents and Russian writers.
box 11, folder 10-12
Slides
1989-1990
undated
General
Depict Prague Spring and Irina's trip to Russia (Moscow) and other countries.
Memorabilia
1937-1998
Scope and Contents note
Includes press cards, Soviet currency and food coupons, button pins, a postcard by the writer Konstantin Paustovskii (holograph),
a handkerchief hand-painted by Grivnina's co-prisoner, night gown and sweater made by Grivnina in prison in violation of prison
rules, two textile posters with hand-written inscription in support of Irina Grivnina, and other objects. Also includes plastic
ears made at the Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, 1990, placed on a board signed by poets Bella Akhmadulina, Evgenii
Rein, Oliver Reynolds, Natan Zach, Duo Duo, and by Boris Messerer.
Sound and Video Recordings
1980-2002
Sound recordings
1980-2002
General
155 sound tape reels.
Recordings of individuals
1980-2002
Arrangement Statement
Arranged alphabetically by name.
General
Recordings of interviews, presentations, speeches, etc.. Also included are concerts either by human rights activists, or connected
with political events. Some tapes include recording of two people listed by name of the first person.
box 15
Airikian, Paruir, and Don Askarian
undated
box 15
Akhmadulina, Bella
circa 1989
box 15
Ar'ev, Andrei, Joseph Brodsky, and Arsenii Roginskii
undated
box 15
Askarian, Don, three cassettes
1989
1993.
box 15
Averintsev, Sergei, two cassettes
undated
box 15
Babenysheva, Inna
undated
box 15
Bakhmin, Viacheslav, two cassettes
undated
box 15
Batkin, Leonid, two cassettes
undated
box 15
Bek, Tat'iana, Andrei Vorontsov, and Evgenii Lagutin
undated
box 15
Bitov, Andrei, and Anatolii Rybakov
1989
undated
General
One cassette with Bitov recording only, and another one with Bitov and Rybakov recordings.
box 15
Brodsky, Joseph, three cassettes
1988
1991
undated
box 15
Bukovskii, Vladimir
undated
box 15
Chudakov and Natan Eidel'man
undated
box 15
Eidel'man, Natan, and Efim Etkind
undated
box 15
Eidel'man, Natan, two cassettes
undated
box 15
Edel'man, Natan, and Veniamin Smekhov
undated
box 15
Yeltsin, Boris, two cassettes
undated
box 15
Glotzer, Vladimir, two cassettes
1993-1994
box 16
Gorin, Grigorii, two cassettes
undated
box 16
Grivnina, Irina, report from the Ragan-Gorbachev Summit in Geneva
1985
1988
General
Includes interview of Genrikh(?) Ioffe about Mikhail Gorbachev, 1988.
box 16
Gvozditskii, Viktor
undated
box 16
Havel, Václav, press-conference
undated
box 16
Iskander, Fazil', five cassettes
1994
undated
General
Also includes recordings of Viktoriia Tokareva and of unidentified people.
box 16
Khardzhiev, Nikolai
undated
box 16
Kichikhin, Aleksandr(?), and Georgii Khatsenkov
1990
box 16
Kim, Iulii, sixteen cassettes
1980-2002
box 17
Kliamkin, Igor', two cassettes
undated
box 17
Lennon, John, Prague
undated
box 17
Lifshits, Sofia (wife of Lev Slavin)
undated
box 17
McCartney, Paul, interview and concert
undated
box 17
Mikhailov, Aleksandr, KGB press-center
undated
box 17
Miller, Larisa, and Iurii Karabchievskii
undated
box 17
Nemtsova, Dana (maybe Dina)
undated
box 17
Nikolaeva, Olesia
ca 1989
box 17
Petrushevskaia, Liudmila, two cassettes
1989-1990
box 17
Plisetskii, German, two cassettes
undated
box 17
Polonskaia, Veronika
undated
box 17
Rein, Evgenii, and Bella Akhmadulina
1989
box 17
Reve, Karel van het, two cassettes
1996
box 17
Roginskii, Arsenii, and Marietta Chudakova
unated
box 17
Roginskii, Arsenii, three cassettes
1992-1994
box 17
Rybakov, Anatolii, and Vladimir Voinovich
undated
box 17
Rybakov, Anatolii, Frankfurt
1981
box 18
Shaitanov, Igor', two cassettes
undated
box 18
Shcharannskii, Anatolii (Natan)
1986
1988
box 18
Shveitser, Viktoriia
1995
box 18
Smelianskii, Anatolii
1994
box 18
Strelianyi, Anatolii
1990
box 18
Tolstaia, Tat'iana, three cassetes
undated
box 18
Urban, Ian, two interviews
undated
box 18
Voinovich, Vladimir, two cassettes
circa 1986
box 18
Vozdvizhenskii, Viacheslav
undated
box 18
Vysotskii, Vladimir
undated
box 18
Yeltsyn, Boris, two cassettes
undated
box 18
Zhirinovskii, Vladimir, two cassettes
1992
undated
General
Includes interview of Zhyrinovskii's press - attaché.
box 18
Zholkovskii, Aleksandr
1997
Recordings of events
1987-ca 2000
Arrangement Statement
Arranged alphabetically.
box 18
Day (Den') newspaper
undated
box 18
Copenhagen conference,
1987
box 18
Israeli-Palestinian relations, three cassettes,
ca 2000
box 18
Mayakovsky museum, by Muza Nemirova,
undated
box 18
Memorial Society, four cassettes,
1992
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes materials by Mark Deich, Arsenii Roginskii, and others on Soviet archives, Iakov (?) Ettinger, etc.
box 19
Memorial Society, four cassettes,
1992
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes materials by Mark Deich, Arsenii Roginskii, and others on Soviet archives, Iakov (?) Ettinger, etc.
box 19
Občanské fórum (Civic Forum), Czechoslovakia,
undated
box 19
Poetry International festival, Rotterdam,
1997
box 19
Rock groups in the Soviet Union,
undated
box 19
Zakharov theater (Lenkom), by Mikhail Levitin
undated
box 19
Unidentified recordings
1996
undated
Video recordings, four video cassettes (VHS)
1986
1998
undated
box 20
Death of Poet: "Give me another Life!" Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1946
undated
box 20
Tijdsein 'Irina Grivnina'
1986
box 20
Iulii Kim na kontserte v DK "Meridian", two cassettes
1996
box 21
Film reels
undated
General
Depict Irina Grivnina; her husband, Vladimir Neplekhovich; and human rights activists Genrikh Altunian, Viacheslav Bakhmin,
Iurii Belov, Viktor Erofeev, Tat'iana Osipova, Aleksandr Podrabinek, the Polikanov family, the Ruminskii family, Leonard Ternovskyi,
Valentin Turchin, Yuri Yarim-Agaev, Irina Zisel's, and others. Includes photocopies of legal papers.
Oversize Material
1942-1943
2002-2013
drawer J09
Thirteen posters issued by the Moscow Memorial Society for All-Russian Competition of High School Students in History,
2002-2013
General
Also includes a Dom Turbinykh poster and a Fakko & Sakko caricature sheet.
box 22
Four Soviet Army military staff maps from the Stalingrad battle
1942-1943
General
The maps were collected by Grivnina's grandfather, Pavel Al'tshuller, participant of the Stalingrad battle.
