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Total number of records: 484

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Record typeCount
Books and printed items461
Archives20
Art items1
Coins1
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive484
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
travel16
crimean war, 1853-185616
russian language7
british6
costume6
railroads4
proverbs, russian4
mythology, classical3
manners and customs3
law3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Russia98
Soviet Union21
Saint Petersburg (Russia)13
Siberia (Russia)7
Great Britain6
Moscow (Russia)6
Russia (Federation)6
Crimea (Ukraine)5
Europe5
Europe, Northern4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883)43
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevitch Graf (1828-1910)33
Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766-1826)16
Gogolʹ, Nikolai VasilʹEvich (1809-1852)10
Tikhonravov, N. S10
Tikhonravov, N S (1832-1893)10
Levesque, P Ch9
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1799-1837)9
Nolan, Edward Henry8
Pierre-Francois Fauche Et Compagnie8

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From 170018
From 1800466

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Up to 179917
Up to 1899467

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ANGLO-RUSSIAN LITERARY SOCIETY

1893

Photocopy of article by A., `Anglo-russkoe literaturnoe obshchestvo v Londone', "Novosti Dnia" (Moscow), no 3768, [1893].

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GUDGEON Collection

1847-1868

Gudgeon family commonplace and accounts book, Marfin Brod, St Petersburg etc, 1847-1869 /1/. Homemade French-Russian vocabulary book /2/. Postal and other receipts, 1854-1868 and nd /3-9/. Recipes, li...

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DICKSON Family

1881

Photocopies of passports issued to Elizabeth Dickson in Edinburgh and Warsaw for travel in the Russian Empire /1-2/.

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MIRRIELEES Family

1877, 1890

Photocopies of: Obituary of Archibald Mirrielees in "Bible Society Monthly Reporter", vol X, no 23, 2 April 1877 /1/; letter (annotated by Harvey Pitcher) from Muir & Mirrielees to Aylmer Maude, Mosco...

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HOWARD Family (I)

1867

Parchment certificate of honorary Russian citizenship awarded by Alexander II to Vasilii Osipovich Govard (Howard) and his family, of Medyn' (Kaluga Government), 1867 /1qq/. "Kompaniia Troitsko-Kondro...

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GULLEY Collection

1799-1868

Letter from Stephen Shairp, St Petersburg, to William Goddard, London (1799) (also annotated transcript) /1-2/. Estlandskoe rekrutskoe prisutstvie receipt, 1836 (with seal) /3/. Internal passports of ...

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GORCHAKOV, Mikhail Dmitrievich (1793-1861); GORCHAKOV, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1798-1883)

1855-1879

M D Gorchakov letter & envelope to Natal'ia Mikhailovna Stolypina (nee Gorchakova) (1827-1889), Baghtchi-sarai (Bakhchisarai) (1855) /1-2/. A M Gorchakov letters and notes to: [F F] Berg ([1794-1874]...

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MARSDEN, Kate (1859-1931)

1891-1892

Jane Whately, "Miss Marsden's Work among Lepers in Siberia" ([London, 1891]) /1/. Leaflet on Ada Field talk about K Marsden's mission to the Lepers in Russia and Siberia (Buxton, 1891) (includes note...

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RUSSIAN LITHOGRAPHS

1810-1893

Lithographs (5 coloured, 1 black-and-white) of Russian historical, topographical and ethnographic subjects: "Moscow. Monastery Devitchy" (Devichii monastyr') (24.5 x 19.5 cm) (engraved by J Williams,...

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TRUBETSKAIA, Princess Varvara (1828?-)

1845-1848

Photocopies of letters from Princess Varvara Trubetskaia to Jemima Rodger (nee Davi(d)son; died 1854) (7, 1845-1848) /1-7/. Photograph of portrait of Princess Trubetskaia /8/.

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HACKWORTH Family

1836, 1975

Photocopies of travel documents issued to John Wesley Hackworth (1820-1891) for return journey from Russia, 1836 /1-4/. Robert Young "Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive" (Shildon, 1923/1975) /5/.

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SIDOROV Mikhail Konstantinovich (1823-1887)

1873

O bogatstvakh severnikh okrain Sibiri i narodakh tam kochuiushchikh: Obshchedostupnoe chtenie, sostavleno po materialam, sobrannym M.K.Sidorovym (St.Petersburg, 1873).

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