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Total number of records: 94

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives85
Books and printed items7
Objects2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
refugees, political94
scholars, assistance to78
refugees, jewish78
letters78
russians12
russian literature3
dissenters2
british1
ballet1
postal service1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union4
Russian S.F.S.R1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Simpson, Dr Francis Vivian (1927-2014)2
Raeff, Marc1
Simpson, Esther (1903-1996)1
Slatter, John1
Zakharov, Vasilii1
Ushakov, A I (1963-)1
Stone, Norman (1941-)1
Nenarokov, AlʹBert Pavlovich1
Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia, B. 18901
Esther Sinovitch1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18003
From 190088
From 20003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 199988
Up to latest6

Archive Collection

Esther Simpson correspondence and papers

Simpson, Esther (1903-1996)

1918-1997

These letters and papers reflect the many friendships and contacts which Esther Simpson developed in the course of some fifty years' work on behalf of refugee scholars. The collection is complemen...

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PAVLENKOV, Vladlen Konstantinovich (1929-1990)

1981-1992

Vladlen Pavlenkov "Sovety otsylaiushchim" (New York-New Jersey, 1982) /1/, "Sovety otsylaiushchim", 2nd edition ([Jersey City], 1987) /2/, "Advice to Mailers on Sending Mail to the USSR" (Jersey City,...

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TYLER Collection

1917-1919, 1980s

Edith Watson (née Tyler) "Frederick Tyler (1873-1966): One of Nipper's Men" (includes large number of transcribed documents and letters reflecting Tyler family's sojourn in Georgia and Russia, 1909-...

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ERNBERTS, Stephan (ESINOVSKII, Sergei Aleksandrovich) (1895-1991)

[1920s?], 1947-1955

Stephan Ernberts' German ration, identity and work documents, 1947-1948 /1-4/; British identity card, British Institute of Engineering Technology registration certificate, naturalization documents and...

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BARYSHNIKOV, Mikhail Nikolaevich (1948-)

[1960s-1970s]

Photographs of Mikhail Baryshnikov in various ballet roles, Kirov Theatre /1-24/.

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HOLLAND, Nina Leonidovna (née Shchukova; 1925-)

1986

Nina Holland "Vladivostok and on to Halifax" (Pontefract, 1986) /1/. Invitation to launch of 1 /2/.

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BROIDO Family

1884-1987

Letters and postcards: from A Adasinskaia, Suzdal' & Leningrad, to D M & V M Broido, London (6, 1929, 1936-1937) /1-7/; from E L Broido (née Gordon; 1876-1941), Tashkent & Oirot-Tura, to M I Broido (...

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TUCKTON HOUSE

1847-1920, 1933, 1968, 1979, 2004, 2008, 2015

ALEXANDER SIRNIS (Aleksandr Denisovich Zirnis) (1881?-1918) articles, notes, talks, translations (also some by Gertrude Sirnis and others) (mostly undated but written in 1900s-1910s) with explanatory ...

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BOKOV, Nikolai Konstantinovich (1945-2019)

1899-2019

N K Bokov: letter to V F Bokova (1953) /1/; "Kharakteristika uchenika [...] Bokova Nikolaia", 1953 /2/; school exercise books, Moscow, 1957 /3-4/; photocopies of KGB documents, Moscow, 1974 /5-7/; cop...

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Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, correspondence, memoranda and other papers, 1933-1940

1933-1940

These papers were discovered in a cupboard in the School of Economic Studies and were presented to the Library through the good offices of Professor J R Crossley, in December 1976. The Leeds Academic...

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Leeds Academic Assistance Committee (Additional Papers)

1933-1940

Comprises a minute book, bank statements, cheque books, a card index file, and the Society's fourth report, November 1938.

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CHERTOK, Shimon (Semen Markovich) (1931-2006)

1914-2011

Certificate authorising Movsha-Elaia Zalmanov[ich] Napel'baum [sic] to pursue his trade as a photographer of cartes-de-visite, St Petersburg, 20 May 1914 /1qq/. Letters to and about E Z Nappel'baum...

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