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Total number of records: 6510

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives5320
Books and printed items1178
Coins5
Objects4
Art items3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
russian literature211
british193
russians124
photographs95
authors, russian91
letters85
postcards37
russian language24
russian poetry22
autobiography22

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union56
Russia48
Russia (Federation)11
France7
Voronezhska︠I︡A Oblastʹ (Russia)6
Moscow (Russia)6
Italy6
Baltic States3
Asia3
Paris (France)3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)228
Andreyev, Leonid (1871-1919)178
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 1870-1953135
Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-191989
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-190418
Tolstoy, Leo, Graf, 1828-191017
Andreev, Daniil Leonidovich, 1906-195914
Institut Russkoi Literatury (Pushkinskii Dom)13
Mikhailov, Oleg Nikolaevich13
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich12

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 17009
From 1800209
From 19005941
From 2000350

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189926
Up to 19995974
Up to latest510

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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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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