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Total number of records: 15165

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Books and printed items9984
Archives5169
Coins5
Objects4
Art items3

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Leeds Russian Archive15165
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
russian literature377
russian language301
russians213
british184
authors, russian153
world war, 1939-1945134
communism118
world war, 1914-1918103
photographs85
composers83

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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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Up to 199914681
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 670.1
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.
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 800/1-3B
[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...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 670.10
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...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 800/9-10
1907-1911
250-rouble bond of the Sibirskii Torgovyi Bank (Commercial Bank of Siberia) (St Petersburg, 1907) /9/. Dividend coupons for 1917-1921 /10/.
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1000
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...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1001
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...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1002
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...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1003
1969
Boris Nartsissov "Pod'em: Chetvertaia kniga stikhov" (privately printed, 1969) [duplicate copy].
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1004
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...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1005
[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/.
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1006
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 ...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1007
1985
Kenneth Benton "The Plight of the Baltic States" (London, 1985).