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  • Title: Ekaterina Ivanovna Murav'eva papers
    Date (inclusive): 1916-1948
    Collection Number: 49004
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: Russian
    Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes (2.0 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, memoirs, and notes, relating to the Russian Revolution and political events in Russia and abroad. Correspondents include V. A. Maklakov, P. N. Miliukov, Ekaterina Kuskova, Vera Figner and other leading Russian political figures.
    Creator: Murav'eva, Ekaterina Ivanovna, -1948
    Creator: Figner, Vera, 1852-1942
    Creator: Kuskova, Ekaterina Dmitrievna, 1869-
    Creator: Maklakov, V. A. (Vasiliĭ Alekseevich), 1870-1957
    Creator: Mili͡ukov, P. N. (Pavel Nikolaevich), 1859-1943
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Ekaterina Ivanovna Murav'eva papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    Ekaterina Murav'eva was the wife of Nikolai Murav'ev, member of a group of progressive lawyers (including Vasilii Maklakov), active in the defense of radical political causes in pre-revolutionary Russia. After the February revolution he was appointed chairman of the committee investigating officials of the Imperial government. Between 1917 and 1922, both he and his wife were active in the Politicheskii Krasnyi Krest (Political Red Cross). In 1923, Ekaterina Murav'eva emigrated to Paris where she lived until her death in 1948. Nikolai Murav'ev remained in the Soviet Union.

    Scope and Content

    This collection consists mainly of Ekaterina Murav'eva's private correspondence. Of special interest is Ekaterina Murav'eva's correspondence with colleagues and friends from the pre-revolutionary period, both in the emigration and the Soviet Union, including politically prominent figures such as Vera Figner, Ekaterina Kuskova and Vasilii Maklakov and representatives of culture such as the artist Konstantin Somov. Also of interest is the extensive correspondence from Moscow, of her daughter Tatiana Volkova, a literary scholar and author of several works on Leo Tolstoy and his literary circle.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Refugees
    Revolutionaries -- Russia
    Russians -- France
    Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Refugees