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Total number of records: 15163

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items9982
Archives5169
Coins5
Objects4
Art items3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive15163
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
russian literature377
russian language300
russians213
british184
authors, russian153
world war, 1939-1945134
communism118
world war, 1914-1918103
photographs85
composers83

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union1171
Russia611
Russia (Federation)224
Saint Petersburg (Russia)101
Moscow (Russia)100
Great Britain78
Europe54
France44
Siberia (Russia)32
United States31

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevitch Graf (1828-1910)250
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)198
Andreyev, Leonid (1871-1919)151
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904)138
Magarshack, David124
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1799-1837)121
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883)117
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)112
Carr, Edward Hallett (1892-1982)111
Gogolʹ, Nikolai VasilʹEvich (1809-1852)90

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From 170023
From 1800760
From 190014379

Count of Latest date

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Up to 179917
Up to 1899467
Up to 199914679

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NORTH, Katherine (née Hodges, 1888-1982)

1934, [1968]

Photocopied memoirs of Katherine North, ambulance driver and nurse during First World War on Romanian Front, in Russia and France, 1916-1918. Summary of her career with Red Cross up to 1968.

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TONG Collection

[1880s-1890s?], [1980s], 2019

Cabinet portraits of Thomas Tong (1845-1921) and Alice Tong (nee Laycock) (1870-1915), Moscow, [1880s?] /1-2/. Photograph of Russian embroidery case, which belonged to Alice Tong /3/. Cabinet portrai...

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RADCLIFFE, Maud (née Armitstead; 1902-1993)

1791-[1995]

Papers and documents relating to the Armitstead family of Riga and its Baltic German family connections, the coronation of Nicholas II, 1791-1896 /1-8/. Documents relating to Henry A Armitstead's work...

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SIBIRSKII TORGOVYI BANK

1907-1911

250-rouble bond of the Sibirskii Torgovyi Bank (Commercial Bank of Siberia) (St Petersburg, 1907) /9/. Dividend coupons for 1917-1921 /10/.

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CUTHBERT-SMITH, Austin Godwin (1897-1976)

1910s-1970s

Notebooks containing A G Cuthbert-Smith's autobiography /3-15/ [Notebooks numbered 1-2 missing from family collection]. Modern transcript of Russian and Soviet sections of 3-15 /16/. Newspaper article...

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CARR, Henry Lambton (1899-1988)

1880s-1992, 2022

Cassettes of H L Carr's recollections of childhood in Archangel, schooldays in England, Allied Intervention in North Russia, diplomatic service in Finland, Sweden and Denmark, 1900s-1950s (recorded 19...

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PLATTS Collection

1900, 1931, 1960s-1980s

Photographs and negatives of coronation mug, 1896, /1-3/, Modern prints and negatives of photographs of Russian Imperial study? by Rentz & Schreider, 1900 /4-8/, Modern prints and negatives of photogr...

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NARTSISSOV, Boris

1969

Boris Nartsissov "Pod'em: Chetvertaia kniga stikhov" (privately printed, 1969) [duplicate copy].

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RANNIT, Alexis (1914-1985)

1978-1985

Letter from Alexis Rannit to Richard Davies on photocopy of K D Bal'mont's poem "Iziashchnyi Dom" (1939), dedicated to Alexis Rannit (1978) /1/. Photocopy of poems etc in memory of Alexis Rannit, "Rus...

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BERNARD LONG Collection

[1880s-1900s]

Photographs of St Basil's Cathedral and Tsar-bell, Moscow, and chapel on site of future Church of the Resurrection, St Petersburg /1-3/.

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FELSENSTEIN Collection

1883-1971

Town plan of Moscow, 1859/1862/1883 /1/. "Katalog knizhnogo i geograficheskogo magazina izdanii glavnogo shtaba" (St Petersburg, 1890) /2/. E M Felsenstein's Reports on Leningrad and Scandinavian Fur ...

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BENTON, Kenneth

1985

Kenneth Benton "The Plight of the Baltic States" (London, 1985).

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