Register to the Vladimir Konkordovich Abdank-Kossovskii Papers

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Biographical File, 1954-1985.

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Includes family correspondence, obituaries, and refugee questionnaire. Arranged by physical form

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Family correspondence, 1962-1985 and undated.

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Includes letters from V. K. Abdank-Kossovskii to Svetlana and Venedikt Kossovsky (photocopy), from Venedikt Kossovsky to Sergei P. Polonsky, and condolence letter from Grand Duke Vladmir Kirillovich (photocopy)

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Obituaries, 1962.

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Clippings

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Questionnaire from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Refugee department, 1954 and undated.

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Includes biographical data

Correspondence, 1934-1960 and undated.

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See also Biographical File

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Letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

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Unidentified, undated

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Bulatsel', Sergei Sergeevich, 1956-1960.

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Includes "V persidskoi kazachei ego velichestva Shakha divizii," 1957. Holograph

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Danilevich, Tatiana Nikolaevna, 1956.

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Includes "Pod vpechatleniem," 1956, "Rus' bogatyrskaia i radost' bytiia," 1956, "Spiashchaia krasavitsa," 1954. Typescript

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De Clapiers Collongues, Olga, 1944-1956

Gornyi, Sergei.

General note

See Otsup, Aleksandr

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Gogina, Ol'ga Vasilievna, 1935

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Isaenko, Evgeniia S., 1958

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Kletnova, Ekaterina Nikolaevna, 1934

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Markov, Anatolii L'vovich, 1951-1956

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Nikulins, Teopont E., 1956

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Otsup, Aleksandr (pseudonym Sergei Gornyi), 1934

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Pastac, Isaak Abramovich, 1944

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Rantanen, N., 1944

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Savin, N., 1957

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Strakhovsky, Leonid Ivanovich, undated

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Sviatoslavskii, N., undated

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Volzhenskii, Aleksei Mitrofanovich, 1944

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Vuich, Georgii Ivanovich, 1944

Speeches and Writings, 1947-1957 and undated.

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Arranged chronologically by title

General

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Newspaper articles, 1947 and undated.

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Published mainly in Rossiia

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Notes, 1956 and undated

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"Anna Iaroslavna v Sandisie," undated.

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Typescript

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"Chudo chelovecheskikh predpriiatii," undated.

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Typescript

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"Ko dniu proslavleniia sv. kniazia Vladimira," undated.

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Typescript

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"Ko dniu sv. ravnoaposol'nago kniazia Vladimira," undated.

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Typescript

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"Mozhno bylo terpiet' stavku Batyia, no 'Leningrad' nel'zia preterpiet'," undated.

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Typescript

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"O russkom ofitsere," undated.

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Typescript

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"O tom kak tsar' Ivan Vasil'evich Groznyi gotovilsia emigrirovat' v Angliiu," undated.

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Typescript, incomplete. Includes newspaper clipping related to topic

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"O voinie," undated.

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Typescript with handwritten notes

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"O zachatii i zdanii tsarstvuiushchago grada S.-Peterburga v lieto ot pervago dnia Adama 7211 po Rozhdestvie Iisusa Khrista 1703 goda," undated.

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Typescript

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"Paradiz Petra," undated.

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Typescripts

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"Peterburgu byt' pustu," undated.

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Typescript

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"Vasil'evskii ostrov," undated.

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Holograph

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"K predstoiashchemu iubileiu Sankt-Peterburga," 1953.

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Typescript

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"Fevral'skoe prestuplenie 1917-1957," 1957.

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Typescript

Zarubezhnaia Rus' File, 1916-1961.

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Materials chronicle the life of Russian émigrés in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America. Includes author's catalog of exhibit, description, chronological and subject files, advertisements, calling (visiting) cards, clippings, concert programs and announcements, consular documents, correspondence, drawings, food and rations cards, fundraising documents, obituaries, personal identification documents, printed matter, signed orders (by White Army generals Petr N. Vrangel', Evgenii K. Miller and others), photographs, and travel documents

General

Catalog, undated

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Part I

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Part II

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List of periodicals and print materials originally held as part of V. K. Abdank-Kossovskii's "Zarubezhnaia Rus'" collection, but not part of the present papers, undated

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Unkovskii, Vladimir N. Description of "Zarubezhnaia Rus'" exhibit, 1944.

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Printed copy

Negatives (8) of exhibit, undated.

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See Photographs

Chronological file

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1916-1920.

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Materials chronicle the fate of the Russian White Army in the North as well as the evacuation from the Crimea and refugee life. Also includes materials on Empress Maria Feodorovna

Box: 3

1921.

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Includes materials on Russian refugee camps at Gallipoli, Lemnos, Sidi-Bishr (Egypt), the activities of the Russian Press Office and the Russian Consulate in Constantinople, the Russian Red Cross, the Russian National University in Paris, life at the sanatorium of the Russian Red Cross on the Adriatic Sea. Also includes original photographs of generals Petr N. Vrangel', Aleksandr P. Kutepov, Vladimir K. Vitkovksii, a signed photograph of General A. P. Bogaevskii

Box: 4

1922-1924.

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Includes materials on Grand Dukes Nikolai Nikolaevich and Kirill Vladimirovich, Zinaida N. Gippius and Dmitri S. Merezhkovskii, documents signed by generals Petr N. Vrangel' and Aleksandr P. Kutepov

Box: 5

1925-1927.

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Includes materials on the Institut St. Serge in Paris, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Boris S. Koverda, Ivan S. Shmelev, Reverend Innokentii Seryshev, documents signed by generals Petr N. Vrangel' and Evgenii K. Miller, letters from Prince Vladimir A. Krasinskii to Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii

Box: 6

1928-1929.

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Includes materials on the editorial board of Vozrozhdenie, the Russian Christian Student Movement, the Gallipoli Society and other veterans organizations, cadet corps, Cossack dzhigit groups, Russian opera and theatre in Paris, Russian parishes in Belgrade, Boulogne-Biancoure and Ugine (France). Also includes clippings on the death and funerals of Empress Maria Feodorovna, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, and General Petr N. Vrangel'

Box: 7

1929-1930.

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Includes materials on the Brotherhood of Russian Truth (Bratstvo Russkoi Pravdy), Russian ballet in Rio de Janeiro, cinema, Russian secondary schools, Russian chamber of commerce in Paris. Also includes materials on the kidnapping of General Aleksandr P. Kutepov, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, and rare photos of Metropolitan Antonii (Khrapovitskii) visiting a Russian Cadet Corps

Box: 8

1930-1931.

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Includes materials on the Gallipoli Society, cadet corps, Russian soldiers in the French Foreign Legion, fundraising documents for the search for General Aleksandr P. Kutepov and his kidnappers, Alexander I. Kuprin's novel Iunkera, including a handwritten and signed excerpt from the novel

Box: 9

1931-1932.

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Includes materials on the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), Russian soldiers in the French Foreign Legion. Also includes a letter signed by Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna

Box: 10

1932-1933.

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Includes materials on Vozrozhdenie, Bishop Vladimir (Tikhonitskii), Rev. Innokentii Seryshev, Ivan A. Bunin (receipt of the Nobel Prize), Nikolai N. Golovin

Box: 11

1934.

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Includes materials on Russian scouting organizations, Russian fascists in Brazil, the Sokol movement. Also includes materials on the murder of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia

Box: 12

1934.

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Includes materials on literary circles in France and Eastern Europe, Nikolai K. Roerich, Rev. Innokentii Seryshev

Box: 13

1934-1935.

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Includes materials on the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), Count Mikhail N. Grabbe, Aleksander L. Kazem-Bek and the Mladorossy (Young Russians), Metropolitan Evlogii (Georgievskii)

Box: 14

1935.

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Includes materials on the Kondakov Institute in Prague, and a memorial gathering in memory of Admiral Aleksandr V. Kolchak, attended by generals Anton I. Denikin and Evgenii K. Miller

Box: 15

1935-1936.

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Includes a photograph of members of Platoff's Don Cossack choir with Metropolitan Evlogii (Georgievskii) and General Evgenii K. Miller

Box: 16

1936-1937.

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Includes materials on Nikolai P. Afonskii's choir, Platoff's Don Cossack Choir, the Miss Russia pageant, Olga I. Preobrazhenskaia's ballet studio in Paris, the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), the Russian Nobility Association in Paris. Also includes materials on the kidnapping of General Evgenii K. Miller, and the role of General Nikolai V. Skoblin and his wife Nadezhda V. Plevitskaia

Box: 17

1937.

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Includes materials on Metropolitan Evlogii (Georgievskii), the kidnapping of General Evgenii K. Miller, General Nikolai V. Skoblin, Sergei N. Tretiakov

Box: 18

1937-1938.

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Includes materials on orphanages, the Russian cathedral in Shanghai, the Russian Church in China, General Dmitrii L. Khorvat, the kidnapping of General Evgenii K. Miller, and the court proceedings against Nadezhda V. Plevitskaia; Iakov L. Rubinshtein, Rev. Innokentii Seryshev

Box: 19

1938-1939.

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Includes materials on celebrations of the 950th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', the Russian cemetery at St. Genevieve-des-Bois near Paris. Also includes materials on grand dukes Kirill Vladimirovich and Vladimir Kirillovich, the funeral of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, Russian soldiers in General Francisco Franco's army

Box: 20

1939-1940.

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Includes materials on the Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Paris, the Russian colony in Kharbin, Russian officers in the French Army, Russian writers in the diaspora. Also includes materials on Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, Pavel N. Miliukov, Anastasii A. Vonsiatskii

Box: 21

1940-1942.

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Includes materials on the official representation of Russian émigrés in France, the Russian nursing home "Maison Russe". Also includes materials on Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii's project "Zarubezhnaia Rus'", Andrei F. Meiendorff, an original letter by Aleksei M. Remizov

Box: 22

1942-1944.

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Includes Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii's article "Rossiia v izgnanii", materials on Cossack divisions in the German army, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in Vienna, descendants of Tsar Nicholas I in the diaspora, famous Russian émigrés deceased in France during the German occupation, Russian émigrés in the German Army, the Russian Liberation Army (ROA). Also includes materials on Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, generals Petr N. Krasnov and Andrei A. Vlasov, Ekaterina P. Dostoevskaia, Iurii L. Voitsekhovskii

Box: 23

1944-1946.

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Includes materials on Cossack divisions in the German army, Russian gypsies in France, the Russian Liberation Army (ROA). Also includes materials on Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii, generals Anton I. Denikin, Petr N. Krasnov and Andrei A. Vlasov, metropolitans Anastasii (Gribanovskii), and Evlogii (Georgievskii).

Box: 24

1946-1948.

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Includes materials on displaced persons camps, the Russian Museum in Prague, the Russian Orthodox parish in Vanves near Paris, Russian émigrés in the French resistance. Also includes materials on Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii's arrest, Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich

Box: 25

1948-1949.

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Includes materials on the Museum and Archives of Russian Culture in San Francisco, the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), the Russian Orthodox Church in Palestine, Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii's exhibit "Zarubezhnaia Rus'", Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich

Box: 26

1949-1950.

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Includes materials on Archbishop Ioann (Maksimovich), the Orthodox Church in America, the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in the Holy Land

Box: 27

1950-1951.

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Includes materials on displaced persons camps in Kellerberg and Schleissheim, the Eighth All American Sobor of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, and the Union of Russian Engineers in France. Also includes materials on Boris M. Chetverukhin, Prince Aleksandr N. Iskander, Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna, and Ivan S. Shmelev

Box: 28

1951-1952.

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Includes materials on the Hermitage of Our Lady of Kursk in Mahopac, N.Y., the House of Free Russia, Inc., the Russian Anticommunist Center in New York, and Pavel A. Savich

Box: 29

1952-1954.

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Includes materials on Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii's exhibit "Zarubezhnaia Rus'," General Konstantin K. Agoev, M. A. Bozhenko-Karneeva, Russian cadet corps, Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, N.Y., Prince Aleksandr N. Iskander, Resurrection Russian Orthodox Church in Meudon, France, ROVA Farms in New Jersey, and Russian veterans in Nice, France

Box: 30

1954-1958.

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Includes materials on the Diocesan Assembly of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in May 1954, the Gallipoli Society, the Hermitage of Our Lady of Kursk, Holy Trinity Monastery, House of Free Russia in New York, Metropolitan Anastasii (Gribanovskii), General Viacheslav G. Naumenko, P. A. Savichs

Box: 31

1954-1955.

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Includes materials on Archbishop Vitalii (Maksimenko), Bikhop Nikon (Rklitskii), Grand Duke Gavriil Konstantinovich, General Viacheslav G. Naumenko

Box: 32

1956, 1958.

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Includes materials on Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, Vladimir M. Despotuli, Georgii D. Grebenshchikov, Boris S. Koverda, Vsevolod K. Levashev (Dubrovskii), and the Tolstoy Foundation

Box: 33

1959-1961.

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Includes materials on the consecration of the Synodal Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in New York, and Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna

Box: 34

Subject file.

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Includes clippings from émigré periodical publications, original documents, photographs, and other materials

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Atlantis

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Byzantium

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Calendar reform

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Carpatho-Rusyns

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Cossacks

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Den' Neprimiromosti

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Displaced persons

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Eichmann, Adolf. Relates to his trial in Jerusalem in 1961

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France

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Freemasons

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Grebenshchikov, Georgii Dmitrievich

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Iskander, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, Prince.

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Includes biographical sketch, calling cards, correspondence

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Katyn' Forest massacre

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Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia

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Monarchy

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Monarchy

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Narodno-Trudovoi Soiuz

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Nicholas II, 1894-1917

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Nicholas II

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Numismatics

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Ob"edinenie russkikh dvorian

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Occult

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Performing Arts

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Philately

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Red Cross

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Romanov, House of.

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Includes materials on Imperial Family members in the diaspora

Russia

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General

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Anthropology

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Anthropology

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Cadet corps

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Censorship, printing

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Colonization of America

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Feasts

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National symbols

Russia--History--Revolution, 1917-1921

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General

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Intellectuals

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Russia (Territory under White Armies, 1918-1920). North Russia. Orders and other documents signed by General Evgenii K. Miller

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Russian Boy Scouts

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Russian discoverers and inventors

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Russian émigré organizations

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General

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Official forms

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Russian émigré press

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Russian fascists

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Russian intelligentsia

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Russian language.

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Includes materials on old orthography

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Russian literature.

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Includes materials on Dostoevsky, Khomiakov, Pushkin, Tolstoy

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Russian military émigrés

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Russian Revolutionary Forces

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Russian women

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Russian youth organizations

Russians--Foreign countries

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General

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General

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Albania

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Africa.

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Includes materials on Abyssinia, Algeria, Egypt, South Africa, Tunis

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Asia

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Australia

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Austria

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Baltic states.

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Includes materials on Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

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Belgium

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Bulgaria

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China.

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