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VON MECK (FON-MEKK), Galina Nikolaevna (PERROTT & ORLOVSKAIA in 1st & 2nd marriages; 1891-1985)

Archive Sub-collection: LRA/MS 1368

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: VON MECK (FON-MEKK), Galina Nikolaevna (PERROTT & ORLOVSKAIA in 1st & 2nd marriages; 1891-1985)

Level: Sub-collection

Classmark: LRA/MS 1368

Date(s): 1893-1981

Language: English; German; Russian

Size and medium: 3 vols, 3962 ff

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/20443

Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive

Description

Telegram announcing death of N F von Meck (1831-1894) (1894) /1-3/.


Tickets for Khudozhestvennyi Elektro-Teatr, Moscow, [1910s] /4/.


G N von Meck: photograph, 1917 /5/; letters from Denis Davydov (2, 1958) /6-8/; letter from Marguerite Thomson (née Bennet; 1882-1975) (nd) /9/; letter from N Ia Mandel'shtam (1977) (also Australian Broadcasting Commission feature script and memoirs) /10-13/; offprints of S A Esenin publications signed by G McVay, 1980 /14-15/; letters from Lidiia [Popova] (2, 1976) (also notes and photocopied articles about Kharbin) /16-36/; notes on N A Durova (1783-1866) /37-38/; memoirs about A I Tamanov (Tamanian) /39-40/; MS of and advertisement for "As I Remember Them" (London, 1973) /41-43, 44qq/; manuscript and book of P I Tchaikovsky (Chaikovskii) "Letters to His Family: An Autobiography" (London, 1981) (also photocopy and translation of P I Chaikovskii letter to `Madame Katu', 1893) /45-50/.


A K Fon-Mekk "Lifliandsko-russkii dvorianskii rod Fon-Mekk" (Moscow, 1909) /51/. H Lange "Die Familie von Meck in Livland", vol 1: "Urkunden und Regesten" (Riga, 1913); vol 2 "Familiengeschichte und Stammtafeln" (Riga, 1931) (also partial translations into Russian) /52-55/. Von Meck family tree /56q/. S M Volkonskii "O dekabristakh: Po semeinym vospominaniiam" (Paris, 1921) /57/.


Issue of "Iskry" (Moscow), 4 July 1910 (includes photographs of N K von Meck) /58q/. Photocopies and cuttings of articles about P I Chaikovskii etc from: "Ezhegodnik imperatorskikh teatrov" (SPb), 1894 /59-60/; "Poslednie Novosti" (Paris), 1934-1937, nd /61q-66q/; "Novoe Russkoe Slovo" (New York), 1969-1972, nd /67q-71q/; "The Times" (London), 1968 /72q/. Issue of "Izvestiia" (Moscow), 12 September 1973 /73q/. Scrapbook of photographs of USSR from English and German magazines (mainly deriving from H Cartier-Bresson visit to USSR, [1954]) (also loose pages from magazines) /74q-84q/.


G N von Meck: notes about Russian railways and associated cuttings /85-89, 90q/; letter to editor of ["Novoe russkoe slovo"] (also English translation), nd /91-92/; cutting of E Iu Kontseva review of "As I Remember Them", "Russkaia zhizn'" (San Francisco), 7 March 1974 (also English translation) /93q-94q/; cutting of E Shirinskaia article about G N von Meck, "Edinenie" (Australia), 16 April 1976 (also English translation) /95q-96q/.

Provenance

Courtney, Anne (April & July 1986, February & November 1987, February, April, June & October 1988, May & June 1991)

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