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Total number of records: 20456

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items15029
Archives5415
Coins5
Objects4
Art items3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive20456
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
russian literature738
russians659
russian language325
authors, russian240
british205
world war, 1939-1945188
communism136
architecture125
world war, 1914-1918119
art, russian103

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union1641
Russia1008
Russia (Federation)442
Moscow (Russia)163
Saint Petersburg (Russia)162
Great Britain105
France81
Europe, Eastern65
Europe64
Ukraine52

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)275
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevitch Graf (1828-1910)258
Andreyev, Leonid (1871-1919)188
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 1870-1953158
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904)142
Russka︠I︡A Pravoslavna︠I︡A ︠T︡Serkovʹ136
Magarshack, David126
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1799-1837)124
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883)122
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)116

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 16001
From 170026
From 1800810
From 190014757
From 20001272

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 179917
Up to 1899467
Up to 199914681
Up to latest1704

Archive Print Collection

Archive Collection

Leeds Russian Archive

1800-2000

The collections document Russian history, literature and culture and Anglo-Russian contacts in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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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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