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Russia and Eurasia Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Literature

Holtzman (Irwin T. and Shirley) collection

Printed matter, writings, letters, photographs, and miscellany, relating to the Russian writers Isaak Babel', Boris Pasternak and Joseph Brodsky. Consists primarily of printed matter by and about Pasternak, Brodsky and Babel'.

Photo: Irwin T. and Shirley Holtzman collection, Box 45, Doctor Zhivago, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Krasil'nikov (Mikhail Mikhailovich) papers

Poems and other writings, correspondence, identification and legal documents, diaries, printed matter, and photographs relating to political dissent in the Soviet Union, conditions in forced labor camps, Russian literature, and Russian-Latvian cultural relations.

Photo: Mikhail Mikhailovich Krasil'nikov papers, Box 1, Folder 7, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Siniavskii (Andrei) papers

Writings, diaries, correspondence, interrogation and trial records, printed matter, sound recordings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Russian literature, civil rights in the Soviet Union, political trials and conditions of political prisoners in the Soviet Union, and Russian émigré affairs. Includes records of the Russian-language Paris journal Sintaksis, published and edited by A. Sini͡avskiĭ and M. Rozanova.

Photo: Andrei Siniavskii papers, Box 160, Folder 9, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Struve (Gleb) papers

Correspondence, speeches and writings, printed matter, and audio-visual material, relating to Russian literature and culture both in the Soviet Union and the emigration, political conditions in the Soviet Union, Soviet dissidents, and the Russian emigre community. Includes correspondence and writings of Nikolai Gumilev, Marina Tsvetaeva and other Russian writers. Available on microfilm (265 reels). Digital copies of selected items also available.

Photo: Glev Struve papers, Box 87, Folder 17, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Brodsky (Joseph) papers

Correspondence, poems, other writings, printed matter, photographs, and drawings relating to Russian literature and dissent. Includes transcript of 1964 trial of Joseph Brodsky in the Soviet Union. Mainly collected by Diana Myers. Includes some papers of Diana Myers.

Photo: Joseph Brodsky papers, Box 1, Folder 8, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Carlisle (Olga Andreyev) papers

Writings, correspondence, notes, printed matter, and photographs relating to Russian literature and art and the Russian émigré community. Includes material on Viktor Chernov, Leonid Andreyev, Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenit͡syn.

Photo: Olga Andreyev Carlisle papers, Box 67, Folder 2, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Frumkin (Vladimir) papers

Correspondence and writings relating to the Soviet poet and singer Bulat Okudzhava.

Photo: Vladimir Frumkin papers, Box 1, Last folder, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Hessen (Dymitr) papers

Correspondence, writings, printed matter, personal documents, and photographs, relating to literature and philosophy. Includes papers of Sergei Gessen, father of Dymitr Hessen.

Photo: Dymitr Hessen papers, Box 2, Folder 19, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Pasternak family papers

Correspondence, diaries, memoirs, other writings, biographical data, printed matter, drawings, photographs, and other audiovisual material relating to Russian art and literature, culture in the Soviet Union, and Russian émigré life. Includes papers of Leonid and Rosalia Pasternak; their sons, the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak and architect and memoirist Aleksandr Pasternak; their daughters, Josephine Pasternak and Lydia Pasternak Slater; and other family members.

Photo: Pasternak family papers, Box 21, Folder 1, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Materials

Baranovich (M.) papers

     1926-1983

Writings, letters, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian samizdat literature, and to the Russian writers Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Brodsky (Joseph) papers

     1963-2013

Correspondence, poems, other writings, printed matter, photographs, and drawings relating to Russian literature and dissent. Includes transcript of 1964 trial of Joseph Brodsky in the Soviet Union. Mainly collected by Diana Myers. Includes some papers of Diana Myers.

Carlisle (Olga Andreyev) papers

     1901-2016

Writings, correspondence, notes, printed matter, and photographs relating to Russian literature and art and the Russian émigré community. Includes material on Viktor Chernov, Leonid Andreyev, Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenit͡syn.

d'Angelo (Sergio) papers

     1957-2015

Correspondence, poems, other writings, printed matter, photographs, and drawings relating to Russian literature and dissent. Includes transcript of 1964 trial of Joseph Brodsky in the Soviet Union. Mainly collected by Diana Myers. Includes some papers of Diana Myers.

Dartau (Ol'ga) papers

     1918-1996

 Correspondence, writings, and printed matter, relating to Russian literature and to Russian emigre affairs.

Fleishman (Lazar') collection

     1962-1990

Writings and photographs, relating to Boris Pasternak, Leo Tolstoy and other Russian literary figures, and to various aspects of Russian literature.

Frumkin (Vladimir) papers

     1968-1994

Correspondence and writings relating to the Soviet poet and singer Bulat Okudzhava.

Gorky (Maksim) appeal

     1921

Relates to the need for foreign relief to aid Russian intellectuals. Includes four essays by Soviet scholars, relating to the literary, political, and humanitarian ideas of M. Gorky.

Grani articles submitted for publication

     1955-2002

The collection contains novels, poems, and articles submitted for publication in literary, cultural, and political magazine Grani.

Hessen (Dymitr) papers

     1908-2002

Correspondence, writings, printed matter, personal documents, and photographs, relating to literature and philosophy. Includes papers of Sergei Gessen, father of Dymitr Hessen.

Holtzman (Irwin T. and Shirley) collection

     1899-2010

Printed matter, writings, letters, photographs, and miscellany, relating to the Russian writers Isaak Babel', Boris Pasternak and Joseph Brodsky. Consists primarily of printed matter by and about Pasternak, Brodsky and Babel'..

Kapusta (Alvin) collection

     1905-1986

Clippings, photocopies of articles and pamphlets, photographs, notes, and bibliographies relating to Russian literature and art, especially in the emigration, and particularly to the writer Alekseĭ Remizov.

Kralin (M. M.) correspondence

     1973-1979

Correspondence with the Russian-American literary historian Gleb Struve and others, relating primarily to the Russian writer Anna Akhmatova. Photocopy.

Krasil'nikov (Mikhail Mikhailovich) papers

     1948-1996

Poems and other writings, correspondence, identification and legal documents, diaries, printed matter, and photographs relating to political dissent in the Soviet Union, conditions in forced labor camps, Russian literature, and Russian-Latvian cultural relations.

Kruzenshtern-Peterets (IU.) papers

     1923-1983

Memoirs, correspondence, writings, printed matter, and photographs relating to Russian literature and Russian émigré affairs.

Kryzytski (Serge) papers

     1978-1992

Correspondence, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to the Polish writer Józef Mackiewicz, and to the Katyn Forest Massacre. Includes correspondence with Mackiewicz.

Kuperskaia (M. N.) typescript

     1948

Fictionalized account of the German occupation of Stavropol' in 1942. Written under a pseudonym. Includes contemporary publication rejection correspondence.

Levin (Fedor) papers

     1920-1973

Memoirs, other writings, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to literature in the Soviet Union, and to the Soviet "anti-cosmopolitanism" campaign in 1949.

Litvinov (Ivy and Tatiana) papers

     1890-2008

The Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov papers contain autobiographical, fictional, and other writings; interview transcripts; diaries; correspondence; and sound recordings relating to the life of Ivy Litvinov in Great Britain and the Soviet Union, her marriage to the Soviet foreign minister Maksim Litvinov, and British and Russian literature. The papers also include correspondence, speeches and writings, and art works by Ivy Litvinov's daughter, Tatiana Litvinov, who was an artist and translator.

Mihajlov (Mihajlo) papers

     1921-2010

The papers consist mostly of writings and research materials relating to political conditions and human rights in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, and to Russian literature. Additional materials include correspondence, printed matter, and sound and video recordings.

Pasternak family papers

     1877-2013

Correspondence, diaries, memoirs, other writings, biographical data, printed matter, drawings, photographs, and other audiovisual material relating to Russian art and literature, culture in the Soviet Union, and Russian émigré life. Includes papers of Leonid and Rosalia Pasternak; their sons, the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak and architect and memoirist Aleksandr Pasternak; their daughters, Josephine Pasternak and Lydia Pasternak Slater; and other family members.

Popovskii (Mark A.) collection

     1919-1977

Reminiscences, reports, correspondence, and other writings of members of Tolstovtsy communes in the Soviet Union, relating to the agrarian dissent movement of followers of Leo Tolstoy. Digital use copies of the entire collection are available in the reading room.

Siniavskii (Andrei) papers

     1919-1977

Writings, diaries, correspondence, interrogation and trial records, printed matter, sound recordings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Russian literature, civil rights in the Soviet Union, political trials and conditions of political prisoners in the Soviet Union, and Russian émigré affairs. Includes records of the Russian-language Paris journal Sintaksis, published and edited by A. Sini͡avskiĭ and M. Rozanova.

Slavsky (Galina) collection

     1987-2000

Clippings, photographs, sound recordings, videotape cassettes, and miscellany, relating mainly to the Russian writer Joseph Brodsky.

Soloukhin (Vladimir Alekseevich) writings

     1976-1982

Relates to Russian literature. Distributed in samizdat form. Photocopy.

Solzhenitsyn (Aleksandr Isaevich) speeches and writings

     1975-1982

Sound recordings of speeches, and typescript and printed copies of speeches and writings, relating to the literary works of A. Solzhenitsyn, and to civil rights in the Soviet Union. Includes the text of his Harvard University commencement address, 1978, and clippings reflecting American public reaction to it. Also includes articles, publicity leaflets, clippings, photographs, and a motion picture film, relating to A. Solzhenitsyn, especially to his visits to the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in 1975 and 1976.

Solzhenitsyn (Nataliia) speech

     1978

Relates to civil rights in the Soviet Union. Delivered before the Believers of Freedom, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Struve (Gleb) papers

     1810-1998

Correspondence, speeches and writings, printed matter, and audio-visual material, relating to Russian literature and culture both in the Soviet Union and the emigration, political conditions in the Soviet Union, Soviet dissidents, and the Russian emigre community. Includes correspondence and writings of Nikolai Gumilev, Marina Tsvetaeva and other Russian writers. Available on microfilm (265 reels). Digital copies of selected items also available.

Tuganova (O. E.) papers

     1858-2006

Papers contain memoirs, diaries, poems, other writings, certificates, and photograph, relating to political and cultural conditions in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia, Russian literature, purges in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, and the execution for anti-Soviet activities in 1938 of Edgar Polents, father of O. E. Tuganova, and his posthumous rehabilitation in 1956.