Series 1: General Correspondence, ca. 1929-1985.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Adamovich, Georgy
SEE: Russian Writers' Guild of California
Aldanov, Mark (Nice, France) 1955
Allen, Hervey (Oxford, Maryland).
Re: translation of his poem, "Saga of Leif the
Lucky"
1935-1936
Amfiteatrov, Alexandr Valentinovich (Levanto, Italy).
Includes 1984 article by
Balakshin
1934-1936
Aufderhaar, Ursula (professor at University of Gottingen, Germany).
Re: Baron
Ungern of Mongolia
1977-1978
Baratynsky, Ol'ga Aleksandrovna.
SEE: Iliyn, Ol'ga Aleksandrovna
Bem, A. L. (writer and literary critic; Prague, Czechoslovakia) 1937
Bicilli, P. (writer and literary critic; Sofia, Bulgaria).
Includes letters by
A. Gomolitsky (poet, editor of the
Anthology of Russian Poetry in Poland;
Warsaw, Poland) and Alex Sokolovsky (poet; Jasst, Rumania)
1935-1937
Bolotine, Cleopatra Mikhaylovna, (writer; New York, N.Y.) 1985
Botsaris, Elena Vitol'dovna (professor of Russian literature and history, University of Madrid, Spain) 1974-1978
Botsaris, Elena Vitol'dovna
SEE: Gorny, Sergey
Bourkoun, Tamara Markovna (London, England).
Re: "Finale in China"
1978-1982
Bourov, Alexandre (Amsterdam, Holland).
Includes Book Review by Balakshin
1956
Chamberlin, Sonya
SEE: Chamberlin, William Henry
Chamberlin, William Henry (editor of
The Russian Review; New
York).
Includes letter from his wife, Sonya (San Francisco, Calif.)
1936-1943
Crowley, Joe (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Re: situation in Shanghai
1983
Crueger, John R. (professor of Turko-Mongolian languages, University of Indiana) 1984-1985
Daniels, Camilla (writer and translator; Carmel, Calif.: translated Volkov`s manuscript on Mongolia and some of Balakshin`s stories) 1933-1937, 1964
Fabritsius, Lev Evgenievich (writer, associate of the magazine
Sovremennik;
Toronto, Canada).
Re: contributing to the magazine
1975-1978
Fisher, H. H. (Chairman, Committee on Russian Research, Stanford University).
Re: literary works by J. Kolyschko, Stanford University
1936
Frankenstein, Alfred ("San Francisco Chronicle"; San Francisco, Calif.).
Re:
Victor Harmann, painter
1936-1937
Gidoni, Aleksandr Grigorievich (writer, poet, associate of the magazine
Sovremennik, its last editor; Toronto, Canada).
Re: contribution to
the magazine
1976-1977
Ginrich, Arnold (Editor of Esquire Publishing Co.; Chicago, Illinois).
Re:
translation of Langston Hughes' "The Folks at Home". Includes letters by Hughes
1936
Glagolin, Boris Sergeyevich (artist of the Moscow Art Theatre; Los Angeles, Calif.) 1935-1940
Gomolitsky, A.
SEE: Bicilli, P.
Gorny, Sergey (pseudonym), (Berlin, Germany).
Includes letters by Aleksander
Otsup (his brother) and E. Botsaris (on Gorny in Spain), and the 1984 article by Balakshin:
"The Other Side Of A Binocular"
1934-1937
Goul, Roman Borisovich (writer and editor of New Review; New York, N.Y.) 1974-1985
Grebenshchikoff, Gregory Dmitrievich,
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The
Shaman in Pattented Shoes"
1934-1935
Homitzky, Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich (playwright; New York, N.Y.) 1977-1980
Hughes, Langston
SEE: Ginrich, Arnold
Iliyn, Ol'ga Aleksandrovna (writer and poetess; San Francisco, Calif.) 1972-1985
Kaufman, Evgeny Samilovich (Harbin, Manchuria).
Includes 1984 article by
Balakshin: "The Newspaper Trust"
1940
Kelly, Galina (journalist; Monterey, Calif.).
Re: "Finale in China"
1978
Khaindrova, Lidiya Yulianova (poetess), letters from Harbin, Manchuria
1936-1939
Khaindrova, Lidiya Yulianova (poetess), letters from Krasnodar, USSR
1970-1980
Kochurova Shandor, Viktoriya Ivanovna
SEE: Ktorova, Alla
Kolyshko, Iosif Iosifovich (Nice, France).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin:
"The Big Man"
1934-1936
Kolyshko, Iosif Iosifovich
SEE: Fisher, H. H.
Kostrukoff, Nicolas (director and conductor of the Platoff Don Cossak Choir; Chicago & Los Angeles) 1939
Krusenstern Peterets, Yustina Vladimirovna (writer, journalist, script writer for 2 Voice of America, format editor of Russian Life; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), re: "Finale in China" 1959
Ktorova, Alla (writer, several books, published in many emigre publications; Washington, D.C.) 1975-1976
La Farge, Olivier (writer; New York, N. Y.) 1937
Landau, Mark
SEE: Aldanov, Mark
The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) 1957, 1979, 1982
Lichtman, Z. G.
SEE: Roerich, Nikolay
Lilienthal, Philip E. (University of California Press; Berkeley, Calif.).
Re:
"Finale in China"
1963
Ljoschin, Wasilij Ivanovich (writer; Unterhaching, Germany) 1974-1975
Loukashkin, Anatoliy Stepanovich (prominent leader of the Russian community of San
Francisco, one of the creators of the Museum of Russian Culture)
research materials for
"Finale in China" and its distribution in Calif.
1952-1973
Lukins, Garold
SEE: Roerich, Nikolay
Maevsky, Vl. (professor, author of books on history of Russia; Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York) 1966-1967
Mantulin, Valentin Nikolaevich (Pearl River, New York).
Re: restaging operas
"Life for the Tzar" and "Boris Godunov"
1985
Mazurova, Aleksandra Nikolaevna (writer, lecturer, one time a mentor in literature to Yehudi Menuhin; Florida) 1930-1945
McKeehan, Irina Vladimirovna (American Concert Management; New York, N.Y.)
Re:
life and art of the Russian singer Dmitry Alekseyevich Smirnov
1982-1984
Mendelson, Ernst Ellion (Israel) 1980
Miller, Boris Georgievich (associate of
Posiev and book distributor in
England; London, England).
Re: book distribution
1979-1985
Miloradovich, S.
SEE: Shakhovskaya, Zinaida
Nesmelov, Arseny (pseudonym) (Harbin, Manchuria).
Includes 1984 article by
Balakshin: "Singing Yearning"
1930-1936
O'Brien, John William, Maj. Gen. (Military Attache, Australian Embassy; Washington,
D.C.).
Re: manuscript on life of Japanese Admiral Toyoda
1951-1953
Official Documents and Commendation on work as Military Historian with Gen.
MacArthur's Staff in Japan
1945-1978
Orloff, Aleksandr Serteyevich (actor of the Malay Theater in Moscow and director of the dramatic theater of San Francisco; San Francisco, Calif.) 1970-1980
Osorgin, Mikhail Andreevich (Paris, France).
Re: unlawful reprints, includes
1984 article by Balakshin: "Literary Poachers"
1934
Otsup, Aleksandr Avdeyevich
SEE: Gorny, Sergey
Otsup, Sergio
SEE: Aleksandr Avdeyevich
Pereleshin, Sentyavina Sinitskaya
SEE: Pereleshin, Valery Frantsevich
Pereleshin, Valery Frantsevich (poet, translator of poems from foreign languages; Rio
de Janeiro, Brasil).
Includes some letters by Sentyavina Sinitskaya (his mother)
1974-1977
Petlin, Nikolay Nikolaywvich (former editor of
Russian Life; San
Francisco, Calif.).
Re: the newspaper
Russian Life
1977-1983
Pil'sky, Pyotr (Riga, Latvia)
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The Riga Pulp
Literature"
1934
Poznyakova, Irina Vladimirovna
SEE: McKeehan, Irina Vladimirovna
Rachinskaya, Elizaveta Nikolaevna (writer, of "Migratory Birds", radio script writer for the BBC, London), letters from Harbin, Manchuria and London, England 1936, 1937, 1983
Rahr, Lev Aleksandrovivh (publisher of
Possev-Verlag; Frankfurt,
Germany).
Re: book publishing
1975-1978
Reznikova, Nataliya (Harbin, Manchuria) 1936
Riasanovsky, Valentin Alexandrovich (professor, scholar on Mongolia; San Francisco,
Calif.).
Re: "Finale in China"
1950-1964
Rittenberg, C. (Coeditor of
Sodrujestva; Vipuri, Finland).
Includes letters by Michael Shcherbakov (Editor of
Vrata, literary magazine;
Shanghai, China) and Vasilieff (Editor of
The Modern Woman; Shanghai, China)
1934, 1937
Roerich, Nikolay (Kulu, Pundjab, India).
Includes letters from the Roerich
Museum, signed by Z. G. Lichtman, Richard Rudritis and Garold Lukins; also includes 1984
article by Balakshin: "News From The Himalaya"
1935-1937
Roger, Conrad (St. Catherine College; Oxford, England).
Re: "Finale in China"
and persons mentioned in the work
1966
Rossi, Angelo (Mayor of San Francisco; San Francisco, Calif.) 1940
Roudneff, Vadim (Editor of Annales Contemporaines; Paris, France) 1936
Rudritis, Richard
SEE: Roerich, Nikolay
Russian Historical Archive (Prague, Czechoslovakia)
Russian Writers' Guild of California (Campaign of a group of Russian writers,
organized by Peter Balakshin, to protect literary rights of Russian Emigre writers; San
Francisco, Calif.)
Includes letters by Georgy Adamovich (Nice, France) and Andrey
Sedykh (Paris, France); other letters by writers interested in protecting their works from
unlawful reprints, are scattered through other folders
1933-1934
Samarin, Vladimir Dmitrievich (former associate of an emigre's publication in the
Soviet Union during World War II; Milford, Connecticut).
Re: his case of collaboration
with Nazi and forth coming trial
1982
Savin, V.
SEE:
Sovremennik
Sedykh, Andrey
SEE: Russian Writers' Guild of California
Shakovskaya, Zinaida (Editor, La Pensée Russe; Paris, France).
Includes letter by S. Miloradovich (her associate)
1973
Shakhovskoy, John (Archbishop of the American Orthodox Church; Santa Barbara,
Calif.).
Re: Gay Parade in San Francisco
1982
Shcherbakov, Michael
SEE: Rittenberg, C.
Sladko Petrishchev
SEE: Pereleshin, Valery Frantsevich
Sokolovsky, Alex
SEE: Bicilli, P.
Soljenitsyn, Aleksandr (Editor of the newspaper Russian Life; Paris, France). Includes copies of letters and other material re: the newspaper 1976
Sollogub, Apollon Aleksandrovich (Editor of the newspaper
Russian Life;
San Francisco).
Includes copies of letters and other material re: the newspaper
1983-1985
Sovremennik (magazine of literature and art; Toronto, Canada).
Includes correspondence with V. Savin (its editor)
1974
Speransky, Valentin (Paris, France).
Includes letters by Yuri Terapiano (Paris,
France), references to Maris Vega, and 1984 article by Balakshin: "Parisian Meetings"
1956-1973
Struve, Gleb Petrovich (Professor of University of California; Berkeley,
Calif.):
short letter exchange
1983
Tahir, M. (Ankara, Turkey).
Re: "Finale in China"
1972
Terapiano, Yury
SEE: Speransky, Valentin
Teffi, Nadejda (Paris, France).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The Silver
Sailboat"
1934
Timochenko, V. P.
SEE: Vernadsky, George
Tolstaya, Aleksandra L'vovna (The Tolstoy Foundation) 1940
Tzvetaeva, Marina (Vanves, France).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The
Guests of Some Other Evenings"
1936
Vasilieff
SEE: Rittenberg, C.
Vega, Maris
SEE: Speransky, Valentin
Vernadsky, George (professor, Yale University).
Includes letter by V. P.
Timochenko (professor, Stanford University)
1936-1937
Volkov, Boris (poet, author of extensive study on Mongolia Manuscript at Hoover Library, Stanford University) 1937
Volkowysski, Nikolay Moiseyevich (editor of Russian newspaper
Mech in
Warsaw and correspondent of
Segodnya, Russian newspaper in Riga, Latvia),
letters from Warsaw, Poland
1936
Weinbaum, Mark Efimovich (editor of the Russian language New York daily Novoye Russkoye Slovo; New York, N.Y.) 1934-1941
Werner, Artur Mikhailovich (director of Russische Andrej Sacharow Akademie e. V.;
Keln, Germany)
Re: translation of "Finale in China" into German
1983
Wetjen, Albert Richard (writer; Portland, Oregon; New York, N.Y., San Francisco,
Calif.).
Re: permission to translate his stories in Russian
1935
Yanovsky, Vasily Semenovich (Paris, France) 1936
Zurov, Leonid Feodorovich (Grasse, France).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin:
"Letters From Bunin's Estate"
1929-1936
Series 2: Correspondence and Papers re "Finale in China," ca. 1942-1978.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Bogunsky, Nikolai Filippovich (contributor to the story of the White Russian
Emigration in China; San Francisco, Calif.).
Copies of letters mailed to him in
connection with his material on political events in the Far East, involving some leaders of
the White Russian communities in China
1957-1960
Butow, Georgy Ivanovich (publisher; Munchen, Germany).
Copies of letters to him
in connection with the publishing of two volumes of "Finale in China"
1956 1960
Cheremshansky, George
SEE: Cheremshansky, Yury Apollonovich
Cheremshansky, Yury Apollonovich (policeman and latter detective of the Shanghai
Municipal Police prior to World War II, informer of CIA on Russian affairs, contributor to
the morbid story of "Finale in China"; Washington, D.C., Tokyo).
Copies of letters to
him
1956 1966
Fomichev, Mikhail Filippovich (writer, newspaperman, contributor to the story of the
White Russian Emigration in China; Toronto, Canada)
Valuable material on various
aspects of the emigre life in China and on Tubabao, Philippines
1959-1960
Guinkh, Nikolay Sergeevich (Victoria, Australia).
Comments on "Finale in China"
from Australia
1962
Goble, Paul A. (historian, modern history of Russia; Chicago, Illinois)
A letter
on Baron Ungern and search of his life and activities in Mongolia
1978
Golubeff, Nikolai Pavlovich, M. D. (Sydney, Australia).
Correspondence in
connection with his claim of defamation in "Finale in China"
1960
Karpoff, Vladimit Ivanovich (contributor to the story of the White Russian Emigration
in China; Aarhus, Denmark)
Valuable material on political situation, excesses,
lawliness faced by the emigres in their ordinary life
1948-1961
Kaznoff, Ivan Petrovich (contributor to the story of the White Russian Emigration in China, victim of torture at the hands of the Emigre Secret Police in Harbin, considered by some as a double agent; Blangies (Hainout), Belguim) 1955-1959
Ivanovsky, Alex A. (writer, publisher; Brooklyn, New York)
Letter on "Finale in
China" and inquiry about someone from Harbin
1962
Kamkin, Victor Petrovich (publisher and bookseller, owner of Victor Kamkin, Inc., bookstore in Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.), correspondence in connection with publishing and distribution of "Finale in China" 1958-1969
Kurohasi, Tosio (captain of the Kempetai, Japanese Gendarmery, interpreter, fluent in
Russian, so called the Black Angel of the Russian emigre community of Shanghai; Tosio,
Tokyo, Japan).
Copies of letters to him
1957-1959
Kuroki, K.
SEE: Kurohasi, Tosio
Loukashkin, Anatoly Stepanovich (member of the Museum of Russian Culture, Inc., San
Francisco; San Francisco, Calif.).
Correspondence in connection with "Finale in China",
preparation, publishing, distribution
1955-1960
Martynoff, Nikolay Andreevich (served in the Chinese Police in Harbin and with the
Japanese kempetai gendar mery, inhabitant of an old people's home for Russian refugees in
Blangies (Hainout), Belguim).
Copies of letters to him in connection with his work as a
contributor to the "Finale in China" narration
1955-1961
Morozova, Olga Aleksandrovna (contributor to the chronicle of Russian emigrants on
Tubabao Island, Philippines, former residents of Shanghai, China, her article "Notes on
Tubabao" became an important part of the second volume of "Finale in China"; Alhambra,
Calif.).
Correspondence
1959-1960
Orekhoff, V. V. (editor of magazine "Sentinel"; Brussels, Belguim).
Copies of
letters to him
1956-1960
Perekrestenko, Vladimir (chairman of the Association of Russian Writers and
Journalists in Belguim; Brussels, Belguim).
Correspondence on research for material in
connection with White Russian Emigration in China
1959
Potebnya, Yuri (Seattle, Washington).
His notes on the readers' response and
effects of "Finale in China" on various groups of the Russian emigre. Also, Balakshin's
reply to his letters
1959
Pojdestvensky, Serafim Pavlovich (member of the NLU, a political Russian anti
communist organization, publishers of the newspaper "Posiev" and literary magazine "Grani";
Frankfurt a/Main, Germany).
Comments on "Finale in China" in connection with his review
of the story of White Russian Emigration in China
1959
Roudenko, V. (Sydney, Australia).
A letter describing the execution of his two
sons by the Japanese gendarmery on false suspicion that they were Soviet spies
1961
Sapelkin, Veniamin Vasil'evich (writer and journalist, author of works on Pushkin and
Dostoyevsky; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Copies of letters to him in search of material on
China and the White Russian emigration
1957
Serebriannikova, A. (staff writer for "
Russian Life"; San Francisco,
Calif.).
Notes and comments on "Finale in China", her reply to Balakshin's letter about
Red China, an article she wrote in "Russian Life"
1957
Shabalin, A. P. (New York, New York), letter on "Finale in China" 1960
Shevchenko, David, Rev. (priest of the Russian Greek Orthodox Church; Tubabao,
Philippines).
Appeals from Tubabao, Philippines, to various persons on behalf of the
emigres, its residents, formerly of Shanghai, China
1942-1952
Spassovsky, Mikhail Mikhaylovich (editor of the Chinese Russian newspaper in
Shanghai, writer, journalist, lecturer; Wentworthville, Australia, formerly of Shanghai,
China).
Correspondence in connection with the story of "Finale in China"
1957-1960
Terapiano, Yuri ("La Pensée Russe"; Paris, France).
Copy of letter to
him
1960
Zondervan, Felox, M. D. (Vancouver, Canada, formerly of Harbin, Manchuria).
Correspondence regarding emigre's life in China as depicted in "Finale in China"
1961
Press Reviews on "Finale in China"
Letters of University Presses 1963-1973
Synopsis of "Finale in China"
Letter to Publishers, copy
"A Bough of Lilac".
Reply to some reviewers
1955
Letters to possible contributors, their last names not remembered, copy 1957-1960
Photographs of some people appearing in "Finale in China"
Supplement: General Correspondence, 1934-1989
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arens-Pulawski, Veronika correspondence on P. Balashin's work 1985-1988
Bobrova-Zuckert, Ella Russian-Canadian writer, poetress lecturer 1975-1986
Zuckert, Evsay
Concertmeister with leading symphony orchestras, conductor,
composer
Congress of Russian-American, Inc. 1988
Cool, Valery
Bibliographer
1988
Despotuli, Valdmir
Editor of "Nowoje Slowo" (New Word)
1934
Fabricius, Lev
Editor of Sovremenni K, Russian magazine, Toronto, Canada
1975-1978
Fallenberg
N. Russian National Center
1937
Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii 1987
Litvinoff, Boris
Newspaperman, essayist, script writer for Radio Free Europe,
Muchen, Germany Litvinoff, Natalie member of the national Labor Union, Frankfurt, Germany
1959-1983
Mazurova, Aleksandra
Writer, lecturer, once a mentor of Yehudi, Menuhin
1951-1963
Nasha Gazeta (Our Newspaper)
Russian-Canadian Newspaper,
Maz Roiz,
publisher and editor
1987-1988
Orekhoff, Vasily
Publisher and editor of "Chasovoy" (La Sentinelle), Brussels,
Belgium
1959
Russian Life,
Russian language daily newspaper correspondence on
improving the paper, its contents and appearance
1986-1988
Solzenitsyn, Aleksandr
Writer
1976
Solovieff, Michail
Newspaperman, writer. Once a foreign correspondent of Pravada
and Izvestiya, Soviet Union, captured by Germans, 1962 Head of Radio Our
1957-1960
Soh, Jin C
Korean diplomat and historian, Institute of East Asian Studies,
University of California, Berkeley
1986
Stephan, John J.
Professor of History, University of Hawaii
1987-1989
Svirsky, Gregory
Soviet writer, author of several books of Anti-Soviet trend.
Forbidden to publish more books in the Soviet Union. Immigrated to Canada
1987-1988
Voos, (Psakian), Karina V.
Newspaper writer, once co-editor of "Russian Life",
San Francisco
1964-1988
Zalewski, Woiciech
Librarian, Green Library, Stanford University
1989