SERIES DESCRIPTION
The collection is organized into 8 series:
Anna Akhmatova Writings, 1914-[1950]
Klara Arsenieva Memoirs of Alexander Blok, [?].
Nikolai Gumilev Poem, 1914
Nadezhda Pavlovich Memoirs of Alexander Blok, [?].
Alexei Remizov Correspondence, 1927-1955
Elena Tager Correspondence, 1963-1964
Marina Tsvetaeva Correspondence, 1912-1917
Maximilian Voloshin Correspondence, 1911-1912
- Series 1, ANNA AKHMATOVA WRITINGS, 1914-[1950], 0.08 linear feet, contains a copy
of a poem dedicated to ballerina T. Karsavina, drafts of Akhmatova's translations
of several poems from English into Russian, and a petition to the Director of the
Publishing House "Politizdat" with a fragment of her translation on the verso.
This series is arranged in chronological order.
- Series 2, KLARA ARSENIEVA MEMOIRS OF ALEXANDER BLOK, n.d., 0.08 linear feet, contains
the author's reminiscence of Alexander Blok.
- Series 3, NIKOLAI GUMILEV POEM, 1914 Mar 16, 0.08 linear feet, contains an original
poem by N. Gumilev dedicated to ballerina T. Karsavina. First published in the
almanac Bouquet (1914 Mar 26). At that time poets, members of the artistic Bohemian
club "The Wandering Dog", were writing madrigals to T. Karsavina and sending them to
the publisher the same night. The poem was reprinted in 1986 by the YMCA-PRESS in
Paris. This reprint modernised the spelling and standardised the punctuation. In
1986 the location of the original was unknown to the compilers. Akhmatova's poem
dedicated to T. Karsavina, written during the same night and transcribed by N.
Gumilev, is on the verso.
- Series 4, NADEZHDA PAVLOVICH MEMOIRS OF ALEXANDER BLOK, n.d., 0.08 linear feet,
consists of the author's reminiscence of Blok beginning with her first meeting with
him in 1914.
- Series 5, ALEXEI REMIZOV CORRESPONDENCE, 1927-1955, 0.08 linear feet, includes 3
autograph signed letters from A. Remizov to L'udmila Savinkova (widow of revolutionary
and writer B. Savinkov, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1925) and 1 letter to the writer
Bronislav Sosinsky. This series is arranged in chronological order.
- Series 6, ELENA TAGER CORRESPONDENCE, 1963-1964, 0.08 linear feet, contains one letter
and one postcard to Anna Saakiants and is arranged chronologically.
- Series 7, MARINA TSVETAEVA CORRESPONDENCE, 1912-1917, 0.08 linear feet, consists of
one note to N. Gronskii, one note to Vera Efron (S. Efron's sister), one postcard to
Elizaveta Efron (S. Efron's sister), one letter to E. Efron and one empty envelope
addressed to S. Efron. This series is arranged in chronological order.
- Series 8, MAXIMILIAN VOLOSHIN CORRESPONDENCE, 1911-1912, 0.08 linear feet, consists
of two postcards to Elizaveta Efron.
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