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    Sergei Rachmaninoff archive, Catalog Record Only The Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive contains material related to his life and career after he and his family left Russia in 1917 to establish themselves in the United States. Of particular importance are Rachmaninoff's holograph music manuscript scores and sketches, representing his compositional process and creative thought during the last half of his life. These scores include not only manuscript and published scores of Rachmaninoff's...
    • Contributor: Satina, Sophia - Rachmaninoff, Sergei - Rachmaninoff, Natalie - Bertensson, Sergei
    • Date: 1872
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    Joseph Brodsky correspondence,
    Joseph Brodsky papers Catalog Record Only
    Letters from Brodsky to Kira Fedorovna Samosi︠u︡k reflecting their friendship as well as documenting broader aspects of life in the Soviet Union. Some of the letters include Brodsky's unpublished poetry and drawings.
    • Contributor: Brodsky, Joseph
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    European Mission and Cooperative Acquisitions Project series, Library of Congress archives,
    Library of Congress archives, European Mission and Cooperative Acquisitions Project series | Library of Congress. European Mission records | Library of Congress. Cooperative Acquisitions Project records Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, memoranda, lists of publications, index cards, printed matter, and other records documenting the efforts of the Library of Congress European Mission (Mission to Germany) and the Cooperative Acquisitions Project to collect, review, and acquire publications in Europe during and immediately following World War II as well as to organize the distribution and shipment of these materials to participating libraries in the United States....
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress Mission to Germany - Library of Congress. Cooperative Acquisitions Project
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    Clearance pass of the ship Hamilton, Catalog Record Only Purchase, 1903. Collection material in Russian. Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.
    • Contributor: Hamilton (Ship)
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    Valaamskiĭ monastyrʹ records, Catalog Record Only Drawings of the Alaska coast, islands and various sites (circa 1819) done from memory in 1866 by the monk Janowsky.
    • Contributor: Valaamskiĭ Monastyr
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    Maksim Gorky papers, Catalog Record Only Letters (1922-1925) from Gorky to Vladislav Khodasevich, poet and literary critic, and his wife, Nina Nikolaevna Berberova; typewritten transcript of those letters with extensive annotations by Khodasevich; and a lecture delivered in Paris giving his personal recollections of Gorky.
    • Contributor: Gorky, Maksim
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    David J. Grunes collection, Catalog Record Only Contains printed music in Cyrillic.
    • Contributor: Grunes, David J.
    • Date: 1933
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    Ivanov family papers, Catalog Record Only Official correspondence, military records, disability certificates, receipts, and awards of Vasiliĭ Afanasevich Ivanov and his son, Petr Vasilievich Ivanov, relating chiefly to their military service. Also includes a charter of nobility and other papers documenting the ancestry and nobility of the Ivanov family.
    • Contributor: Ivanov, Petr Vasilievich - Ivanov, Vasiliĭ Afanasevich - Khersonsʹka Oblastʹ (Ukraine)
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    Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov papers, Catalog Record Only Copies of correspondence, memoranda, articles, texts of speeches, interviews, personal testimonies, investigative and other reports, official protocols, directives, resolutions, schedules, logs, inventories of archival material, printed material, film scenarios, and photographs reproduced from records in thirteen Russian archives as well as the originals of some of Volkogonov's personal papers. Reflects Volkogonov's study of significant events and individuals of modern Russian history beginning in the...
    • Contributor: Volkogonov, D. A. (Dmitriĭ Antonovich)
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    Serge Grigoriev / Ballets Russes archive, Catalog Record Only The Serge Grigoriev / Ballets Russes Archive is comprised of materials that document Sergeĭ Grigorʹev's career as a dancer and régisseur (rehearsal director) for the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev and for Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. It consists primarily of photographs, photograph albums, and notes and manuscript drafts for Grigorʹev's book S.P. Diaghilev i ego 'Russkii Balet,' 1909-1929, which...
    • Contributor: Ballets Russes - Grigorʹev, S. L. (Sergeĭ Leonidovich)
    • Date: 1909
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    Lee Strasberg papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, lectures, writings, scripts, production files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating to Strasberg's theatrical and film career; Method acting, his system of acting techniques; the Actors Studio, Group Theatre, and Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York, N.Y.; and theater history. Includes files pertaining to Strasberg's work as a stage actor between 1925 and 1931, as a film actor in the...
    • Contributor: Strasberg, Lee - Group Theatre (U.S.)
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    Vozdushnye puti records, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, writings, editorial records, clippings, printed matter, annotated sheet music, photographs, negatives, and other records of Vozdushnye Puti (Aerial Ways), a journal of Russian literary criticism.
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    Joseph Stalin statement,
    Joseph Stalin papers Catalog Record Only
    Photocopy of a handwritten statement, bearing Stalin's signature, pertaining to the teachings of Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, published in the Rabochaya Gazete on the first anniversary of Lenin's death, January 21, 1925; together with a typewritten transcript of an English translation.
    • Contributor: Stalin, Joseph
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    Waldemar Gurian papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, notes, writings by Gurian and others, newspaper clippings, reviews of his books, and other papers documenting Gurian's career after his arrival in the United States to become a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Topics include bolshevism, totalitarianism, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, contemporary Catholicism in France, and Catholic writers and intellectuals. Also includes material relating to a newsletter,...
    • Contributor: Gurian, Waldemar - Hürten, Heinz
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    Alice Eversman and Elena de Sayn papers,
    Alice Eversman and Elena De Sayn collection Catalog Record Only
    The collection includes personal and business correspondence, scrapbooks about Eversman, de Sayn, and others, writings, printed music, photographs, programs, subject files, and biographical information. The Correspondence series holds letters to and from Eversman and de Sayn and their personal and professional contacts, including performers, composers, critics, and government officials. The Scrapbooks series contains several volumes on various topics, including musicians Amy Beach and Andrés...
    • Contributor: Cui, César - De Sayn, Elena - Eversman, Alice
    • Date: 1862
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    Louis M. Goren papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly poetry and other writings by Goren. Also includes correspondence, notes and notebooks, scrapbooks, financial papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Goren's career as a poet and author. Goren provides insights into his adopted country as a Russian-Jewish immigrant who came to the United States in 1911 and documents his surroundings in the Southwest, Chicago, Illinois, and New...
    • Contributor: Goren, Louis M.
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    Gizella Lakhman papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, poems, translations, clippings, printed material, and other papers. Chiefly editorial letters but includes correspondence with Russian emigrants and Russian poets in exile, chiefly in the 1960s. Includes original poems by Lakhman and translations into Russian of the work of American poets such as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
    • Contributor: Lakhman, Gizella
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    Adolph Bolm collection, Catalog Record Only The collection documents Bolm's career both in Russia and the United States with various companies, including Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, Ballet Intime, Adolph Bolm Ballet, Chicago Civic Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Ballet Theatre. It contains photographs, including many of Bolm in costume for various dance roles and with Tamara Karsavina, his frequent partner from the Ballets Russes. There is a large amount...
    • Contributor: Bolm, Adolph
    • Date: 1895
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    American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation report,
    American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation records Catalog Record Only
    Report of the American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation (Agrojoint) containing statistical tables on Jewish collective farms and their production figures in the Crimea and southern Ukraine. Includes a transmittal letter (1937 May 20) from Agrojoint deputy director Samuel E. Liubarskii to the office in Paris, France.
    • Contributor: American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation
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    Am-Rus Literary Agency records, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, writings, reviews, contracts, royalty statements, financial records, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and photographs. Correspondence is chiefly between the agency and American publishers; theaters; translators; VAAP; and Mezhdunarodnai︠a︡ kniga, the offical Soviet book import-export firm. Authors represented include Chingiz Aĭtmatov, Anatoliĭ Georgievich Aleksin, M.M. Bakhtin, Mikhail Afanasʹevich Bulgakov, Korneĭ Chukovskiĭ, Ilʹi︠a︡ Ėrenburg, Konstantin Fedin, Maksim Gorky, I︠U︡riĭ Kazakov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava, A.F....
    • Contributor: Am-Rus Literary Agency
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    Boris Brasol papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, literary manuscripts, notes, and other papers relating to Russia and the Soviet Union and to Brasol's writings and work as a criminologist and literary critic. Subjects include criminology, crime detection in European countries as compiled by the Criminological Survey of the Columbia University School of Law, Edgar Allan Poe, the Zionist movement, investigations into the assassinations of the Romanovs, efforts of...
    • Contributor: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Brasol, Boris
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    Sibirskaya Vechora concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2010-10-12 | Open World Cultural Leaders Program Catalog Record Only
    Sibirskaya Vechora concert of traditional songs and dance from Siberia, Russia, performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, October 12, 2010. Concert was produced by Open World Cultural Leaders Program, hosted by CEC ArtsLink and the National Council for Traditional Arts (NCTA). Collection includes an audio recording of the concert; plus an audio recording of the group titled "Music, My Scrapbook" (2008) (39:28...
    • Contributor: National Council for the Traditional Arts - Sibirskaya Vechora (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2008
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    Yudin Collection of Russian-American Company Records, 1783-1946 The Russian-American Company records, once part of the personal library of Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin (1840-1912), date from 1783 to 1830 and include 166 items (1,369 images), ranging in length from one to more than one hundred pages. Yudin was a wealthy merchant and distiller from Krasnoiarsk, Siberia. He was also an amateur bibliographer who built a library numbering approximately 80,000 volumes documenting every aspect...
    • Contributor: I︠u︡din, G. V. (Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich) - Yudin Collection (Library of Congress) - Rossiĭsko-Amerikanskai︠a︡ Kompanii︠a

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    L.K. Artamonov papers,
    Leonid K. Artamonov papers Catalog Record Only
    Chiefly reports by Artamonoff (Artamonov) in Russian of a Russian mission (1897-1899) to Emperor Meneleke (Menelik II) of Abyssinia. Also, a report on the same mission by Basily Archipov (Vasilīĭa Arkhipov) in Russian with an English translation, a clipping, poetry by Artamonvov's granddaughter Elisavietta Ritchie, and miscellaneous papers.
    • Contributor: Artamonov, L. K. (Leonid K.) - Arkhipov, Vasilīĭa - Ritchie, Elisavietta
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    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, notes, and holograph and typescript drafts, galley proofs, page proofs, and printed versions of biographies, book reviews, essays, interviews, memoirs, novellas, novels, plays, poems, short stories, and translations of works by others. Includes Conclusive Evidence, A Memoir (1951), Nabokov's translation of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse (1964) and of The Song of Igor's Campaign; An Epic of the Twelfth...
    • Contributor: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich