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Division of Manuscripts


Surveys

Safronova, Galina Fedorovna.
"Fondy i deiatel'nost' Otdela rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V. I. Lenina: Bibliografiia 1836–1962."
Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL]
25 (1962): 487–520.
[IDC-in R-10,287]
Provides an alphabetical index for the collections of early manuscript books (pp. 513–15) and for the archival fonds (pp. 515–19), with reference to current fond numbers and bibliographic information on published descriptions of individual fonds and collections. Gives a bibliographic survey of reference and other literature on the Manuscript Division. Includes analysis of Zapiski OR from 1938 to 1961. Unfortunately this survey has not been superseded, although the information provided is obviously outdated.

Dovgallo, Galina Ivanovna.
"Spravochnyi apparat Otdela rukopisei."
Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL]
25 (1962): 464–86.
[IDC-in R-10,287]

Kratkii ukazatel' arkhivnykh fondov Otdela rukopisei.

Compiled by E. N. Konshina and N. K. Shvabe.
Edited by P. A. Zaionchkovskii and E. N. Konshina.
Moscow: GBL, 1948. 253 p.
[IDC-R-11,007]
Includes information on the fonds accessioned up to the year 1945, arranged alphabetically according to the creating agency. Since the Index used the old system of alphabetical cataloging, there is no information on the fond numbers which are currently in use.

Ukazatel' vospominanii, dnevnikov i putevykh zapisok XVIII–XIX vv. (iz fondov Otdela rukopisei).

Compiled by S. V. Zhitomirskaia et al.
Edited by P. A. Zaionchkovskii and E. N. Konshina.
Moscow: GBL, 1951. 224 p.
[IDC-R-11,008]
There is a copy of this guide with corrections in the reading room of the Manuscript Division. See also the corrected and supplemented 1976 edition.

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Library Series

Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL]. (Zapiski OR)

Moscow, 1938–. 50 vols. through 1995. Irregular. [GBL]
[IDC-R-10,287(v.1-36)]
Individual volumes contain surveys of manuscript collections and archival materials held by the division, as well as documentary publications. An analysis of contents of previous volumes through 1962 is included in the article by Safronova.

Trudy Publichnoi biblioteki SSSR im. V. I. Lenina.

4 vols.
Moscow, 1928–1939. [GBL]
[IDC-R-11,044]
INDEX: Articles in this series relating to the MS Division, are listed in the article by Safronova mentioned above.
Before publication of the series Zapiski Otdela rukopisei (from 1939), this series contained some descriptions of the manuscripts and information on the publications of the Manuscript Division. The postwar continuation of the series predominantly covers other divisions of the library.

Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Rumiantsevskogo muzeia.

5 vols.
Moscow/Petrograd, 1923–1924.
[IDC-R-11,042]
This series predominantly consists of publications of literary manuscripts and correspondence then held by the Rumiantsev Museum, including Pushkin’s diary and the correspondence of K. P. Pobedonostsev and V. O. Kliuchevskii.

Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev za 1864 god–[—. . . za 1915 god].

St. Petersburg/Moscow, 1864–1917. 34 vols. Irregular. Titles vary.
[IDC-R-11,043]
"Otchet Rumiantsevskogo muzeia za 1916–1922 gg." 173 p. Typescript.
INDEX: For a survey of the contents, see the article by Safronova mentioned above.
The first two issues (through 1865) were published in St. Petersburg. From 1870 to 1894 volumes came out three times a year; from 1895 to 1915 it was published annually. The volumes contain lengthy descriptions of the manuscript holdings, and in some cases catalogues and published texts. The last issue, covering the years 1916–1922, preserved only in typescript form, lists manuscript receipts for those years.

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History

Istoriia Gosudarstvennoi Ordena Lenina biblioteki SSSR im. V. I. Lenina za 100 let, 1862–1962.

Edited by F. S. Abrikosova, K. R. Kamenetskaia, and E. V. Seglin.
Moscow: Izd. "Biblioteki Moskvy," 1962. 279 p.
[IDC-R-11,001]
This jubilee edition contains an exceptionally helpful chapter devoted to the Manuscript Division by V. G. Zimina, "Otdel rukopisei za 100 let" (pp. 246–71); footnote citations provide a basic bibliography of the division’s publications, including earlier published catalogues and inventories. Coverage of the development of other library divisions is included in the general historical text.
Piatidesiatiletie Rumiantsevskogo muzeia v Moskve, 1862–1912: Istoricheskii ocherk.

Moscow: T-vo skoropechatni A. A. Levenson, 1913. 40, xliii, 41–194 p. + plates.
[IDC-R-11,124]
An elaborately published anniversary folio edition with plates reproducing pages from illuminated manuscripts and title pages of early books. See the lengthy section devoted to the history of the Manuscript Division by G. P. Georgievskii, "Otdelenie rukopisei Imperatorskogo Moskovskogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeia" (pp. 41–78), with mention of published catalogues for some of the important collections.

Gosudarstvennyi Rumiantsevskii muzei: Putevoditel'.

2 vols.
Moscow/Petrograd, 1923. Vol. 1: Biblioteka.
Moscow, 1923, 237 p.
[IDC-R-11,123]
The lengthy section devoted to the Manuscript Division (pp. 159–237) surveys its prerevolutionary development, with mention of published catalogues for some of the important collections. See also the extensive list of manuscript receipts during the 1916–1922 period by G. P. Georgievskii in the final issue of the prerevolutionary series of reports available in typescript in the Manuscript Division reading room.

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SPECIALIZED FINDING AIDS:

Slavonic-Rus' Manuscripts

Parchment Manuscripts

Tikhomirov, N. B.
"Katalog russkikh i slavianskikh pergamennykh rukopisei XI–XII vekov, khraniashchikhsia v Otdele rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V. I. Lenina."
Zapiski OR
, 1962–1972.
Part 1: "XI vek." Ibid. 25 (1962): 153–83.
Part 2: "XII vek." Ibid. 27 (1965): 93–148.
Part 3: "Dopolnitel'naia (XII i kon. XII–nach. XIII vv.)." Ibid. 30 (1968): 87–156.
Part 4: "Dopolnitel'naia." Ibid. 33 (1972): 213–20.
[IDC-R-11,183; also in IDC-R-10,287 mf. 92-98, 106-09, 118-21, 129-34]
A detailed catalogue of eleventh- and twelfth-century Slavic manuscripts on parchment in the Division.

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Collections from the Rumiantsev Museum


Muzeinoe sobranie rukopisei: Opisanie.

Edited by I. M. Kudriavtsev et al.
Moscow, 1961–. [GBL]
Vol. 1: No. 1–3005. 1961. 524 p.
[IDC-R-10,340 (vol. 1)]
Vostokov, Aleksandr Khristoforovich.
Opisanie russkikh i slovenskikh rukopisei Rumiantsevskogo muzeuma.

St. Petersburg: Tip. Imp. Akademii nauk, 1842. iii, 899, 3 p.
[IDC-R-5928]
An initial published description of 473 predominantly early Slavonic-Rus' manuscripts and historical documentation from the original collection of Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumiantsev (1754–1826), acquired by the Rumiantsev Museum when it was still in St. Petersburg (now fond 256).

Viktorov, Aleksei Egorovich.
Sobranie rukopisei I. D. Beliaeva.

Moscow: Tip. E. Lissner i Iu. Roman, 1881. 127 p.
[IDC-R-7038]
Describes 540 manuscripts—most relating to Russian legal history—in the collection of Ivan Dmitrievich Beliaev (fond 29), and the Beliaev archive (fond 27).

Lebedev, Dmitrii Petrovich.
Sobranie istoriko-iuridicheskikh aktov I. D. Beliaeva.

Moscow: Tip. E. Lissner i Iu. Roman, 1881. 95 p.
[IDC-R-11,188]
Describes legal documents dating from 1404 to the end of the eighteenth century in the collection of Ivan Dmitrievich Beliaev (fond 28).

Georgievskii, Grigorii Petrovich.
Rukopisi T. F. Bol'shakova, khraniashchiesia v Imperatorskom Moskovskom i Rumiantsevskom muzee.

Petrograd: Izd. Otdeleniia russkogo iazyka i slovesnosti Imp. AN, 1915. viii, 455 p.
[IDC-R-7291]
Describes 435 manuscripts from the collection of T. F. Bol'shakov now in fond 37.

Viktorov, Aleksei Egorovich.
Sobranie rukopisei V. I. Grigorovicha.

Moscow: Tip. M. N. Lavrova, 1879. 60, iv p.
[IDC-R-7037]
EARLIER ED. in Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo museev za 1876–1878 gg., pp. 1–60.
[in IDC-R-11,043 mf. 15-16].
Describes 60 Slavic manuscripts (pp. 3–45), four foreign manuscripts (3 Greek and 1 Rumanian), and 12 items of personal and scholarly manuscripts (pp. 50–60) of V. I. Grigorovich, now in fond 87. The supplemental four pages provide a detailed table of contents listing each manuscript.

Sobranie I. Ia. Lukashevicha i N. A. Markevicha: Opisanie.

Compiled by Ia. N. Shchapov.
Edited by I. M. Kudriavtsev.
Moscow: GBL, 1959. 144 p.
[IDC-R-11,005]
A description of manuscripts collected by the gentry historian and Slavic specialist Ivan Iakolevich Lukashevich (1811–1860) and the historian and ethnographer Mykola Andriiovych Markevych (N. A. Markevic) (1804–1860) acquired in the by the Rumiantsev Museum (now fond 380).

Mukhanov, Pavel Aleksandrovich. 
Katalog aktov XIV, XV, XVI i XVII vv., prinesennykh v dar Moskovskomu Publichnomu muzeiu Pavlom Aleksandrovichem Mukhanovym.

St. Petesburg: Tip. Edvarda Pratsa, 1865. 26 p.
[IDC-R-11,187]
Describes documents from the fourteenth through the seventeenth century from the former Mukhanov Museum, now part of the collection of Pavel Aleksandrovich Mukhanov (1798–1871) (fond 191).

Katalog slaviano-russkikh rukopisei, priobretennykh Moskovskim Publichnym i Rumiantsevskim muzeiami v 1868 g. posle D. V. Piskareva.

Compiled by A. E. Viktorov.
Moscow: Tip. V. Got'e, 1871. 69 p.
[IDC-R-11,190]
EARLIER ED. as an appendix to Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev za 1867–1869 gg.
[in IDC-R-11,043 mf. 5-8]
Describes 204 manuscripts from the collection of D. V. Piskarev (fond 228).

Viktorov, Aleksei Egorovich.
Sobranie rukopisei P. I. Sevast'ianova.

Moscow: Tip. E. Lissner i Iu. Roman, 1881. 120 p.
[IDC-R-7036]
Describes Greek manuscripts (pp. 1–34), many of which were collected at Mount Athos, 52 Slavic manuscripts (pp. 35–79), and the personal papers of Petr Ivanovich Sevast'ianov (1863–1907) (pp. 105–16), all originally acquired by the Rumiantsev Museum in 1874; also describes some reproductions from Greek and Slavic manuscripts (pp. 78–104). All now comprise fond 270.

Georgievskii, Grigorii Petrovich.
Sobranie N. S. Tikhonravova.
I: Rukopisi.
Moscow: Tip. A. Snegireva, 1913. 127 p.
[IDC-R-11,192]
EARLIER ED. in Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev za 1912 g., with the title "Prirashcheniia otdeleniia: (Sobranie akademika N. S. Tikhonravova). Katalog rukopisei.’
[in IDC-R-11,043 mf. 62-66]
Describes 435 manuscripts from the collection of Nikolai Savvich Tikhonravov (1832–1893) (fond 299).

Undol'skii Viktor Mikhailovich.
Slaviano-russkie rukopisi V. M. Undol'skogo, opisannye samim sostavitelem i byvshim vladel'tsem sobraniia. No. 1 po No. 579.

Moscow: Izd. Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev, 1870. iv, 469, 65 p.
With appendix by A. E. Viktorov.
[IDC-R-7039]
Describes the first 579 manuscripts in the impressive collection of Viktor Mikhailovich Undol'skii (1815–1864) (fond 310). The appendix by Viktorov includes a bibliographical survey of the collection including references to some unpublished studies and personal papers of Undol'skii.

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Collections of the Imperial Society of Russian History an Antiquities


Biblioteka Imperatorskogo Obshchestva istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh.

2 vols.
Moscow, 1845, 1906.
Vol. 1: Compiled by P. M. Stroev.
Moscow: Tip. A. Semena, 1845. vii, 354 p.
[IDC-R-4766]
Vol. 2: Opisanie rukopisei i bumag, postupivshikh s 1846 po 1902 g.
Compiled by E. I. Sokolov.
Moscow, 1906. viii, 939 p.
[IDC-R-7332]
Also published in Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR)
216 (1906, no. 1).
[IDC in-1369 mf. 2824-40]
The first volume describes 335 early Slavic manuscripts and other rare books in the collection of the Society of Russian History and Antiquities now housed in RGB (fond 205). The second volume describes 606 Slavic manuscripts and other documents acquired by the library of the Society of Russian History and Antiquities, now in RGB (fonds 204 and 205) and the archive of the Society (fond 203).

Golubtsova, E. I.; and Oshanina, E. N.
"Kollektsiia Moskovskogo Obshchestva istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh."
Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL]
13 (1952): 3–42.
[IDC-in R-10,287 mf. 27-32]
Describes the Slavic manuscript collection of the prerevolutionary Society of Russian History and Antiquities now in fond 204, with mention of other holdings from the Society (fonds 203 and 205).

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Moscow Theological Academy/Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery Collection


Leonid, Arkhimandrit.
Svedeniia o slavianskikh rukopisiakh, postupivshikh iz knigokhranilishcha Sviato-Troitskoi Sergievoi lavry v biblioteku Troitskoi dukhovnoi seminarii v 1747 g. (nyne nakhodiashchikhsia v biblioteke Moskovskoi dukhovnoi akademii).

2 vols.
Moscow: V Universitetskoi tip. (M. Katkov), 1884–1887. 167 p.; 375, 27, vii p.
[IDC-R-7295]
EARLIER ED. serially in Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR) 124:1 (1883): 1–80; 125:2 (1883): 81–107; 127:4 (1883): 1–112; 130:3 (1884): 113–264; 131:4 (1884): 265–96; 132:1 (1885): 291–375.
[IDC-in 1369]
INDEX: Belokurov, Sergei Alekseevich. "Oglavlenie i ukazatel' k Svedeniiam..." ChOIDR 138:3 (1886): i–viii, 1–27.
[IDC-in 1369]
Describes 164 Slavic manuscripts from the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy collection from Sergiev Posad (former Zagorsk) now in fond 173.

Leonid, Arkhimandrit.
Slavianskie rukopisi, khraniashchiesia v riznitse Sviato-Troitskoi Sergievoi lavry.

Moscow: Izd. Imp. Obshchestva istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh, 1881. 49 p.
[IDC-R-7297]
EARLIER ED. in Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR) 115:4 (1880): 1–49
[in IDC-1369 mf. 1592-1604)
Describes 22 Slavic manuscripts from the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery (Troitse-Sergieva Lavra) sacristy now in the Manuscript Division (fond 304 III).

Arsenii, Ieromonakh (Stadnitskii, Avksentii Georgievich) and Ilarii, Ieromonakh.
Opisanie slavianskikh rukopisei biblioteki Sviato-Troitskoi Sergievoi lavry.

3 vols.
Moscow, 1878–1879. xix, 352 p.; 240 p.; 267, 44 p.
[IDC-R-7057]
EARLIER ED. in Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR) 105:2 (1878): i–xix, 1–352; 107:4 (1878): 1–240; 109:2 (1879): 1–267, 1–44.
[IDC-in 1369]
Describes 823 Slavic manuscripts from the basic Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery (Troitse-Sergieva Lavra) collection from Sergiev Posad (former Zagorsk) now in RGB (fond 304). The final 44 pages constitute an index for the three volumes.

Muretov, S. D.
Opisanie rukopisei biblioteki Vifanskoi dukhovnoi seminarii.

Moscow, 1897. xii, 239 p.
[IDC-R-7305]
EARLIER ED. in Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR) 182:3, pt. 2 (1897): i–xii, 1–84; 183:4 (1897): 85–239.
[IDC-in 1369]
Describes 172 early Slavic manuscripts from the Vifan Ecclesiastical Seminary which were later absorbed by the collection of the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy from Sergiev Posad, but now constitute a separate fond (no. 556) in RGB.

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Moscow Theological Academy Collection


Iosif, Ieromonakh.
Opis' rukopisei, perenesennykh iz biblioteki Iosifova monastyria v biblioteku Moskovskoi dukhovnoi akademii.

Moscow, 1882. 315 + xiv p.
[IDC-R-7108]
EARLIER ED. in Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR) 118:3 (1881): 315 + xiv p.
[IDC-in 1369 mf. 1634-41]
Descibes 236 Slavic manuscripts from the Joseph of Volokolamsk (Iosifo-Volokolamskii) Monastery. These represent the most valuable manuscripts (approximately one-third) of the original collection, namely those which in 1859 were transferred to the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy library and are now in RGB (fond 113). Includes index of personal names.

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Joseph of Volokolamsk Monastery Collection


Stroev, Pavel Mikhailovich.
Opisanie rukopisei monastyrei Volokolamskogo, Novyi Ierusalim, Savvina Storozhevskogo i Pafnutieva Borovskogo.

St. Petersburg, 1891. xviii, 343 p.
"Obshchestvo liubitelei drevnei pis'mennosti [Izdanie]."
[IDC-R-7337; also in IDC-1030 mf. 339-405]
Provides short description (pp. 1–236) of 690 manuscripts from the Joseph of Volokolamsk (Iosifo-Volokolamskii) Monastery prepared by Stroev in 1817, before the collection was split up; edited with a preface and published posthumously by N. P. Barsukov. Numbers given are Stroev’s own and bear no relationship to old or new numbers of the manuscripts. Of the manuscripts covered in this volume, 237—the most valuable third of those from the Volokolamsk Monastery—are now in RGB (fond 113). Most of the rest of the Volokolamsk collection and some of the manuscripts described by Stroev from other institutions are now in GIM, but others are dispersed.

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Optina Vvedensk Monastery Collection

Leonid, Arkhimandrit.
"Obozrenie rukopisei i staropechatnykh knig v knigokhranilishchakh monastyrei, gorodskikh i sel'skikh tserkvei Kaluzhskoi eparkhii."
Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR)
55:4, pt. 5 (1865): 1–115.
[IDC-R-11,189; also in IDC-1369 mf. 846-76]
Describes 22 manuscripts from the collection of the Optina Vvedensk Monastery near Kaluga, now in the Manuscript Division (fond 214). Some of the other manuscripts described remain in the Kaluga oblast museum, and a few from the Borovskii-Pafnutiev Monastery are in GIM.

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Vologda Collection

Strumenskii, M.
Ukazets starinnykh rukopisei: Katalog otdela biblioteki.

Vologda: Tip. Soiuza severnykh kooperativnykh soiuzov, 1919. 28 p.
[IDC-R-11,147]
Lists 250 early Slavic manuscripts, most of which are now in the Vologda Collection (fond 354) acquired from both the oblast library (196 manuscripts) and the Vologda Regional Museum (32 manuscripts); some of those described, however, remain in the local Vologda Museum.

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Oriental Manuscripts

Chinese Manuscripts

Melnalksnis, Arnold Ivanovich.
Opisanie kitaiskikh rukopisnykh knig i kart iz sobraniia K. A. Skachkova.

Moscow: Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury, 1974. 278 p.
[IDC-R-9814]
A scholarly catalogue covering 333 numbered manuscript items in the collection of Chinese manuscripts brought together by Konstantin Andreevich Skachkov (1821–1883) acquired by the Rumiantsev Museum in 1873 (now fond no. 274). An introduction provides details about the history of the collection. Appendices include name, title, and geographic indexes, and correlation tables for earlier numbering systems.

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Archival Materials

Volkova, E. P.
"Materialy k istorii russkogo dramaticheskogo i muzykal'nogo teatra v otdele rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki im. V. I. Lenina (XVII v.–1930-e gody)."
In Teatr i muzyka: Dokumenty i materialy, edited by A. D. Alekseev and I. F. Petrovskaia, pp. 72–90.
Moscow, 1963.
[IDC-in R-10,743]

Katalog masonskikh rukopisei Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev.

Compiled by I. D. Berdnikov.
Moscow: Pechatnia A. I. Snegirevoi, 1900. 51 p.
[IDC-R-9816]
EARLIER ED. as a supplement to Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev za 1899 god (Moscow, 1900).
[in R-11,043 mf. 32-34].
A list of 433 miscellaneous items in the manuscript collection of the prerevolutionary Rumiantsev Museum relating to Free Masons in Russia (mostly late 18th–early 19th cc.). Includes name and subject indexes.

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Personal Papers

Rukopisi i perepiska V. G. Belinskogo: Katalog.

Compiled by R. P. Matorina.
Edited by N. L. Brodskii.
Moscow: GBL, 1948. 42 p.
[IDC-R-11,009]
A catalogue of manuscripts and correspondence of the Russian writer and social critic Vissarian Grigor'evich Belinskii (1811–1848), found in RGB.

Rukopisi A. P. Chekhova: Opisanie.

Compiled by E. E. Leitnekker.
Moscow: Gos. sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izd-vo, 1938. 124 p.
[IDC-R-11,011]
A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), found in RGB.

Arkhiv A. P. Chekhova: Annotirovannoe opisanie pisem k A. P. Chekovu.

Compiled by E. E. Leitnekker.
Edited by N. L. Meshcheriakova. 2 vols.
Moscow/Leningrad, 1939–1941.
[IDC-R-11,010]
Vol. 1: Moscow: Gos. sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izd-vo, 1939. 115 p.
Vol. 2: Leningrad: Ogiz., Gospolitizdat, 1941. 95 p.
A catalogue of letters to the Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), found in RGB.

Rukopisi N. V. Gogolia: Katalog.

Compiled by A. A. Romodanovskaia and G. P. Georgievskii.
Moscow: Sotsekgiz, 1940. 127 p.
[IDC-R-11,012]
A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol' (1809–1852), found in RGB. A supplement appeared in
˘Zapiski OR GBL 19 (1957): 37–46.

Opisanie rukopisei A. I. Gertsena.

Compiled by A. V. Askar'iants and Z. V. Kemenova.
Edited by B. P. Koz'min. 2d ed.
Moscow: GBL, 1950. 159 p.
[IDC-R-10,833]
A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian publicist and social philosopher Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (Gertsen) (1812–1870), found in RGB. For the fate of the Herzen papers, especially those that were dispersed abroad, see a-137. For additional papers of Herzen received by GBL after World War II from Prague (RZIA) and Sofia, see a-138.

Opisanie rukopisei V. G. Korolenko.

Moscow: GBL, 1950–1961.
[GBL]
[Vol. 1]: Khudozhestvennye proizvedeniia, literaturno-kriticheskie stat'i, istoricheskie i etnograficheskie raboty, zapisnye knizhki, materialy k proizvedeniiam.
Compiled by R. P. Matorina.
1950. 223 p.
[IDC-R-11,013]
Vol. 2: Opisanie pisem V. G. Korolenko.
Compiled by V. M. Fedorova.
Edited by S. V. Zhitomirskaia.
1961. 659 p.
[IDC-R-11,014]
A catalogue of papers of the Russian writer Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (1853–1921), found in his personal papers in RNB.

Rukopisi N. A. Nekrasova: Katalog.

Compiled by R. P. Matorina.
Moscow: Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izd-vo, 1939. 79 p.
[IDC-R-11,015]
A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821–1877) in RGB.

Opisanie rukopisei N. P. Ogareva.

Compiled by A. V. Askar'iants.
Edited by Ia. Z. Cherniak.
Moscow: GBL, 1952. 206 p.
[IDC-R-11,016]
A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian publicist and social philosopher Nikolai Platonovich Oragev (1813–1877), found in RGB.

Rukopisi A. N. Ostrovskogo: Katalog.

Compiled by N. P. Kashin.
Moscow: Gos. sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izd-vo, 1939. 51 p.
[IDC-R-11,017]
A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian playwright Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovskii (1823–1886) in RGB.

Sobraniia D. V. Razumovskogo i V. F. Odoevskogo. Arkhiv A. V. Razumovskogo: Opisaniia.

Edited by I. M. Kudriavtsev.
Moscow: GBL, 1960. 261 p.
[IDC-R-11,004]
A description of manuscript materials collected by the musicologists Dmitrii Vasil'evich Razumovskii (1818–1889) and Prince Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevskii (1803–1869), along with Razumovskii’s own archive acquired by the Rumiantsev Museum (now fond 380).

Matorina, Raisa Pavlovna.
"Opisanie avtografov I. S. Turgeneva."
In I. S. Turgenev: Sbornik, edited by N. L. Brodskii, pp. 171–219.
Moscow, 1940.
[IDC-R-10,834]
Describes autograph manuscripts of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883) held in RGB.

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