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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY : RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY

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I —»Oi i • *o Collection Name: MB Coll/Bakhmeteff

Creator, Collector, etc.; Bakhmeteff, Boris Aleksandrovich, J88O-J951- '

Title: Papers " Dates: 191^-1951Quantity: ca. 3*+, OOP (Boxes: 86 Volumes: 53 Other:2 awards, )

oil painting

Arrangement: Selected materials cataloged, remainder arranged.

Biographical/Historical Note: Ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government tothe United States (1917-22), engineer, Columbia professor, businessman, and founderof the Humanities Fund.

Content Note: Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, subject files and printedmaterials. The greater part of the collection concerns the period 1917-22, witha substantial amount of material on the Humanities Fund and Bakhmetefffs friendshipswith prominent Americans. Cataloged materials include 50 or more letters fromJohn Spargo, Vasilii Maklakov, Ekaterina Kuskova, Frederic Coudert, Georgii L'vovand Michael Karpovich (the last largely concerning the Humanities Fund) ; there arealso a few items by Louis Brandeis, John Foster pulles, Samuel Gompers , ColonelEdward House, Charles Lindbergh, and Thomas Masaryk. Extensive files of arrangedmaterials include hundreds of letters by Arkadii Zak (who headed the RussianInformation Bureau in New York, 1917-22), items to and by Sergei Uget, officialtelegrams from 1917-22. There are manuscripts in the collection by Bakhmeteff,Spargo, Uget and Sergei Prokopovich. Subject files chiefly cover the Civil Warperiod, the Paris peace conference, the Humanities Fund and Soviet Russia in theearly 1920s. Printed jnaterials include pamphlets, journals and clippings. Thereare also bound reports by different departments of the Russian embassy and missionfrom 1917 through the 1920s.

Language: In Russian and English

Restrictions: None B.V. Savinkov letters on MICROFILM ;

Finding Aids: Contents list, lOp.

cot I*KA A c^CUc^ii/VsLocation: Stack 15, Cagafl 23« o i l pointing Stack 151 Cage 2k

Source/date: Humanities Fund via firm of Coudert Bros. , 197^: Gift of Julia A.Bazayoff, 1982; Qitt of Carol Herrera, 198U

Subjects/Other Entries: Soviet Union-Emigration and immigration;J United States-Emigration and immigration^ Soviet Union-History-Revolution' 1917-1921,Soviet Union-Foreign relations-United States; Bakhmeteff, Boris Aleksandrovich,1880-1951; Spargo, John, 1876-1966; Maklakov, Vasilii Alekseevich; Kuskova,Ekaterina Dmitrievna; Karpovich, Michael, 1888-1959; Lfvov, Georgii Evgen'evich;Zak, Arkadii Iosifovich.

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ID : 85-A9O3 ;•LC Card No• :

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Bakhmeteff Contents List - 1

Boxes 1~6 ; C at aloged Mat eri als

Corresponden ce

1. Aldanov, Mark AleksandrovichAleksinskii, Grigorii AlekseevichAnderson, Paul B,Armstrong, Hamilton FishBennett, I ra EbertBernatskii, M.V. (Mikhail Vladimirovich)Bliss, Tasker HowardBrandeis, Louis DembitzBullard, ArthurButler, Nicholas MurrayCarrel, AlexisCatto, Thomas Sivewright, First Baron CattoChaikovskii, N.V. (Nikolai VasU*evichIColcord, LincolnCroly, Herbert DavidCoudert, Frederic Rene" (1918-251

2. Coudert, Frederic Jtene (1926-U8)Davis, Elmer HolmerDavis, John W.Davis, Norman H,Duggan, Stephen Pierce HaydenDulles, John FosterE as ley, Ralph MontgomeryEvlogi^ metropolitanFedorov, M.M, (Mikhail MikhailovichIFedotov, G,P« (Georgii Petro-wichIFinley, John HustonFlorinsky, Michael T,Francis, David RowlandGirs, Mikhail Nikolaevich

3. Gompers , SamuelGronskii, Pavel IvanovichGuchkov, Aleksandr IvanovidrHapgood, Elizabeth ReynoldsHapgood, NormanHarper, Samuel NorthrumpHill, David JayneHoover, HerbertHouse, EBward Mendell v

Huebsch, Benjamin W,Hughes, Charles EvansJakobson, RomanJohnson, Robert UnderwoodJusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine JulesKarpovich, MichaelKartashev, Anton VladimirovichKellogg, Vernon IymanKennan, George FrostKonovalov, Aleksandr Ivanovich


U. Kuskova, Ekaterina Dmitri evna (1922-1929)

V 5. Kuskova, Ekaterina Dmitri evna (1930-1950)* Laemmle, Carl

Lamont, Thomas WilliamLansing, RobertLever, (Sir) Samuel HardmanLewisohn, AdolfLindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)Lfvov, Georgii Evgenievich, kniazf

6. Maklakov, Vasilii Alekseevich (1919-1921)

T. Maklakov, Vasilii Alekseevich (1922-June 1923)

8. Meklakov, Vasilii Alekseevich (Sept. 1923-19^5)

9. Masaryk, T.G. (Tomas Garrigue)Meiendorf, A.F. (Aleksandr Feliksovich) , baronMiliukov, Pavel NikolaevichMiller, Evgenii KarlovichMorgenthau, HenryMuratov, Pavel PavlovichNevins, AllanNicolaevsky, Boris I.Osborn, Chase SalmonPaderewski , Ignace JanPanina, Sofiia Vladimirovna

j Pares, BernardPasvolsky, LeoPerkins, Thomas N,Polk, Frank LyonPoole, D.C. (Dewitt Clinton)Prokopovich, Sergei NikolaevichRobinson, Geroid TanquaryRoot, ElihuRowe, Leo StantonRudnev, Vadim ViktorovichRussell, Charles EdwardSablin, Evgenii Vasil'evich

^Savinkov, B.V. (Boris Viktorovich) 7 OSazonov, Sergei DmitrievichShotwell, James ThomsonSinger, I.M. (isadore Manuel)

10. Spargo, John (1919-1921) rid !> 1-)(!>Afc ^ 7 " "2-°5"7

11. Spargo, John (1922-1928)

12. Spargo, John

Baknmeteff Content List - 3

13. Straus, OscarStettinivis, Edward ReillyStrunsky, Manya GordonStruve, GlebTolstoy, AleksandraTyrkova-Williams , Ariadna VladimirovnaVanderlip, Frank ArthurVernadsky, GeorgeVishniak, Mark VeniaminovichWise, Stephen SamuelWrangel, Petr Nikolaevich

lU. Manuscripts

Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Ekaterina Konstantinovna — Amerika i RossiiaChaikovskii, Nikolai Vasilievich — Amerika i RossiiaGronskii, Pavel Pavlovich — Zemel'nyi kodeks sovetskoi vlast iKarpovich, Michael — CMemoranda concerning grants by the Humanities FundDLe"bedev, Vladimir Ivanovich — Bol'sheviki, Armeniia i GruziaMuratov, Pavel Pavlovich — IAponia v 193^ godu

Japan in 1931*^ ^gOs John — Governor Landon: Symbol of Liberty and ProgressfPO# I ^ Letter of Confession and Challenge

^ The Russian Policy of the United StatesRussia's Dismemberment (first version)Russia's Dismemberment (second version)Why I Support Governor Landon

Tkhorzhevskii , Ivan Ivanovich — Zemlia i skifyVishniak, Mark Veniaminovich — Problema edinstva RossiiVolskii, Nikolai Vladislavovich — Dva goda sredi simvolistov

Lenin s detskikh letZenzinov, Vladimir Mikhailovich — Russkoe krest'ianstvo i bol'shevizm

Document

Bakhmeteff, Boris Aleksandrovich — diplomatic passport

Photographs

Bakhmeteff, Boris AleksandrovichCarrel, AlexisIUsupov, F.F. (Feliks Feliksovich), Kniaz'Kerensky, Aleksandr FyodororovichL'vov, Georgii Evgen'evich, PrinceMaklakov, Vasilii AlekseevichPritchett, Henry S.Spargo, John

Bakhmeteff Content List - 3a

Boxes 13-35» Arranged Correspondence.

15. AAmerican Red CrossAmerican-Russian Chamber of CommerceBBakh, Genrikh GenrikhovichBaldwin, Elbert FrancisBashkirov, Vladimir Nikolaevich

16. Batolin, P.P.Ber (Behr), Aleksandr VladimirovichBerton, S.R.Birchall, F.T.Blakeslee, George HubbardBraikevich, M.V.Brazol', Boris L'vovichBuimistrov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Bakhmeteff Content List - k

IT. CCanadian Clubs of Hamilton, Toronto, OttawaCarnegie Endowment for International PeaceClifford, CorneliusColton, E. T.Coudert Brothers (law firm, New York)Council of Foreign RelationsDDemidov, Igor1 Platonovich

18. EFFekula,Paul M.Field, W. L. W.GHHarris , H. B.I-JInstitute of Politics, Williamstown, Mass.Interallied Committee; Purchasing CommissionKKliefoth, AlfredKuskova, Ekaterina Dmitrievna

19. LLandfield, Jerome B.M

20. Maklakov, Vasilii AlekseevichMurphy, C. J.NNorman Medal, American Society of Civil EngineersNovyi Zhurna^s editors0Oberuchev, Konstantin MikhailovichOstroumov, Boris V.Otdel Sviazi Posol'stvaPQ-RRodzianko, Mikhail V. & Mikhail M.Rogovin, V. M.Russian Committee in TurkeyRussian Constituent Assembly, Paris, 1921Russian Student Fund

21. SSands, William FranklinShlippe, Fedor VladimirovichSt at e Dep artment, U.S.Sukin, Ivan IvanovichTThompson, Vance

Bakhmeteff Content List - 5

22. UVVon Mohrenschildt, Dimitri SergiusW, X, YWashburn, Stanley-Wile, Frederic William

23. YMCA7

Zak, Arkadii Iosifovich (Pussian Information Bureau, N.Y.; June 1917-April 1918)

2k. Zak, A. I. (Feb. 19l8-Aug. 1919)

25. Zak, A. I. (Sept. 1919-Dec. 1920)

26. Zak, A. I. (Jan.-Sept. 1921)

27. Zak, A. I. (Oct. 1921-Jan. 1923)Unidentified

28. "Finansovyi Sovet i Natsional'nyi Fond," 1921-25

29-30. Correspondence of Sergei Uget (Ughet) -with various people.Uget was head of the Otdel Snabzheniia in New York and thenembassy financial attache; he was the de facto Russianrepresentative in the U.S. from Bakhmetefffs resignation in1922 to the recognition of the Soviet Union in 1933. Thiscorrespondence dates from 1918-33, but is chiefly from1918-2U and 1932-33.

Box s o o» MICROFILM31. Telegrams, 1917-18 ork

32. Telegrams , 1919

33. Telegrams, 1919

3^. Telegrams , 1919-20

35. Telegrams, 1921-22

Boxes 36-U5. Arranged Manuscripts.

36. Bakhmeteff, B. A. —Articles for Cosmos Newspaper Syndicate

Course on hydraulicsDiary (July 1919-Sept. 1921; actually a diary of

official conversations & public events, not apersonal diary)

37. Diary (Sept. 1921-June 1922; Nov.-Dec. 1922)Drafts of reports on embassyfs activities, 1917-22The issue in ManchuriaThe legacy of war — peaceMiscellaneous notesMiscellaneous speeches & essaysThe NEP in EclipseOral history memoir, Columbia University (folders 1-2)


38. Bakhmeteff, B.A.— Oral history memoir (folders 3-*0The problem of RussiaSpeech on Chinese-Russian relations, 1929Speeches in U.S. (June-Nov. 1917)Ten years of bolshevism (1917-27)

Gol'tsinger, P. —Prolivy i Konstantinopol*

39. Gromov, V. — Partizanskaia voina v SSSRKandurov (?) — Russkie na sluzhbe v nemetskoi razvedke i kontrrazvedkeKoreiskii, Iu. & Ed. Pokratskii— Pauk i seti (NKVD i ego niti)0. J. L. — A comparative stury of tax burdens in various countriesLfvov —Moi vospominaniia

raJUROriLM Omelf chenko, E. I . —The economic situation of the United States in1916-17 (2 reports)

1+0. Sergei Prokopovichfs economic reports on the USSR, March 1923-Feb. 1925

1+1. Sergei Prokopovichfs economic reports on the USSR, April 1925-Feb. 1928

1+2. Rizenkampf, G. K. —Zapiska po khlopkovomu voprosuSargent, Noel —The case against socialismSokolov, Boris —0 polozhenii rossiiskago proletariat aStaal1 , A. F. — Kratkii obzor deiatel'nosti amerikanskoi delegatsii

Tsentral'nago Voenno-Promyshlennago Komiteta, poprodazhe russkago potasha v Amerike

Stalinskii, E. —Vneshniaia politika bol'shevizmaState Department (U.S.) press releases

1+3. Sukhomlin, V.V. — Russkaia revoliutsiia i inostrannoe obshchestvennoe mnenieSukin, Ivan I . — Zapiska (Siberia & Far East in 1918-19)

e t , Sergei — Memorandum on Otdel po Snabzheniiu, 1917-210 deiatel'nosti rossiiskago diplomaticheskagopredstavitel'stva v Soedinnehykh Shtatakh Amerikiso vremeni bol'shevitskago perevorota

shotskii — Katalog biblioteki rossiiskago posol'stva v Vashingtone4k, Arkadii Iosifovich?3 — Diatel'nost' Rossiskogo Informatsionnago Biuro

kk. Unidentified authors v S. ShatakhRussian economy in the early 20th centurySoviet Russian foreign tradeSurvey of international activities of the Comintern and the USSR

Unidentified & miscellaneousMemoranda on Russian situation ca. 1917-22 (in English; folders 1-5)

1+5. Memoranda on Russian situation ca. 1917-22 (in English; folders 6-8)Memoranda on Russian situation ca. 1917-22 (in French)Memoranda on Russian situation ca. 1917-22 (in Russian)

Boxes 1+6-61+. Subject Files.

k6. American-Russian relief efforts, 1919-23Bakhmeteff, B.A. — Biographical

Resignation, 1922 biographical notes (gift of RafailBolshevik coup, 1917 Ganelin, 199^)Caueasus regionChinese-Russian relations (& Chinese Eastern Railway)


1*7. Civil War — 19181919

Civil War — Goods shipped to White army in the south, Oct.-Nov. 1919Civil War in Caucasus regionCivil War in Siberia ("Natsional'noe dvizhenie v Sibiri")

U8. Civil War in south ~ 19181919

Conference on Russia, July-Aug. 1923Conference, "Russia and its problems," Aug. 192U

U9. Emigre monarchistsFar Eastern RepublicFinansovyi-Ekonomicheskii Otdel, 1918-19Finansovyi Sovet i Natsional'nyi Fond, 1921-25Freedom Union for German-Russian FriendshipGenoa & Hague conferencesHumanities Fund, 1936-39

50. Humanities Fund, 19kO-k6

51. Humanities Fund, 19^7-50

52. Ivan Stakheyeff Co., 1918-19Materials sent from Paris by A. Mikhel'son 1922-23 (l-U)

53. Materials . . . (5-9)

5U. Materials . . . (10-13)

^ . . . ClWl6)Ministerstvo Torgovli i Promyshlennosti, Otdel Torgovykh Portov, 1915-17

56. Miscellaneous financial records & reports of embassyOil industry in CaucasusOrthodox church in emigrationOrthodox church in Soviet Union

jMlPi 'lCII »9 s o^ o e Soveshchanie . . . po Oborone Gosudarstva, 1916-17

57. Paris peace conference (1-6}

58. Paris peace conference (.7-9)Rossiiskii Finansovo-Promyshlenno-Torgoyyi SoiuzRussian Children's Welfare SocietyRussian Committees in England, France, Italy, Japan, & U.S.A. , World War IRussian War Commission to Nev York (July 6-9, 1917) - Program

59• Situation in Soviet Russia, 1918 (reports)Situation in Soviet Russia & neighboring countries, 1920-21 (reports; 1-k)

60. Situation . . . , 1920-21 (5)Situation . , . , 1922Situation , . . , 1923Situation . . . , 1921 (reports by N.V. Chaikovkii nos. I-U9)


61. Situation . . . , (reports "by N.V. Chailovskii nos. 50-199, 250-96)

62. Situation . . . , (reports by N.V. Chaikovskii nos. 302-U7, 350-^23)Soviet Russia in the 1920s & notes on topics in Russian history (notes,

exerpts, translations * prepared by M.M. Karpovich)

63. Soviet Russia . . . (2-6)

6h. Trudovaia-Krest fianskaia Partiia

Tsentralfnyi Voenno-Promyshlennyi Komitet, 1916-17

Miscellaneous

Boxes 65-86* Printed Materials.

65-72. Pamphlets, journals, miscellaneous

73-76. Clippings

77-86. Printed materials signed and/or inscribed to Bakhmeteff ^ ^ ^

Bound R e p o r t s S h e l v e d a t End of C o l l e c t i o n . / . if Ow. •/ ',> \ ' L , , k ) —• r «-*-1 , V^_ U - M - l / ^ \ l t \ r + - , / - v , . . v -^-. • / « — * ^ 0 t

1. Ughet's analyses of Bakhmeteff papers relating to American policy toward the ,7Soviets %^ '

2. Ughet's analyses of Bakhmeteff papers relating to the White Movement inRussia

3. Deiatelfnost' Rabochei Gruppy Tsentral'nogo Voenno-Promyshlennago Kcmiteta,

Petrograd, February 1917.

h. Finansovo-ekonomicheskii obzor SShA za posledniuiu chetvert1 i za ves1 1923 god.

5. Finansovo-ekonomicheskii obzor SShA za i iul ' -sent . 1923*

6. Doklad o rezul'tatakh poverki otchetnosti Obshchestva pomoschi russkoitserkvi i pravitel'stva Rossiiskago Obshchestva Krasnago Kresta. Na 1 avg. 1922.

Otchet Agenta Ministerstva Finansov pri Rossiiskom Posol'stve v Vashingtone,consisting of:

For 1/lU ian. 1917-1 ian, 1920;7-10. Ob"iasniteitnaia zapiska (k volumes),

11. Kassovoi otchet.

12. Sbornik kontravaliutnykh vedomostei.

13. Sbornik prilozhenii.

For 1 ian. 1920-1 i iulia 1921:1^-16. Ob"isdniyrl'naia zapiska (3 volumes).

17. Sbornik prilozhenii.


18-20. Bukhgal'terskii otchet (3 volumes).

For 1 i iul ia 1921-1 i iul ia 1922:21. Ob"iasnitelfnaia zapiska i bukhgalêrskii otchet.

Otchet Agent a Ministerstva Finansov v SShA. Ob"iasnitelfnaia zapiska ibukhgal'terskii otchet for following periods:

22-23. iiul1 1922-sent. 1923 (2 volumes).

2U. sent. 1923-sent. 192U (l volume).

25-26. sent. 192U-sent. 1925 (2 volumes).

27. sent. lQ26-sent. 192T (l volume).

28. sent. 1928-sent. 1929 (l volume).

29. | t@ROPUsM;a Ministerstva Torgovli i Promyshlennosti v Vashingtone za 19l6 g.

Otchet o deialtelôsti Missii Ministerstva putei soobshcheniia v Amerike,consisting of:

30. 1 ian. 1918-1 i iul ia 1919 (l volume).

31. 1 i iul ia 1919-1 maia 1920 (l volume).

32. Vedomosti, prilozhennyia k otchetu o deiatel'nostu Missii . . . v Amerike,) 1 ian. 1918-1 i iul ia 1919.

33. Vedomosti, prilozhennyia k otchetu o deiatel'nosti Missii . . . v Amerike,1 i iu l i 1918-1 maia 1920.

Otchet o deiatelôsti Otdela po Snabzheniiu pri Rossiiskom Posol'stve v Vash-e,consisting of:

3**. Ob"iasnitelfnaia zapiska for mai 19l8-iiulf 1919.

35. Osoboe prilozhenie, mai 19l8-iiulf 1919.

36. Podrobnyi denezhno-imushchestvennyi otchet. . . , mai 19l8-iiul* 1919.

37* Podrobnyi denezhno-imushchestvennyi otchet.. . , i iul 1 1919-noiabr* 1920.

38-Uo. 0b"iasnitelfnaia zapiska for iiul* 1919-noiabr1 1920 (3 volumes).

1*1. Sbornik prilozhenie, i iul1 1919-noiabrf 1920.

h2. Otchet V-oi (dvizhenskoi) Gruppy. Organizatsiia zheleznykh dorog SoedinennykhShtatov Severnoi Ameriki. Ch. I . Ministerstva putei soobshcheniia.Missiia v Amerike. (1919)

1*3. Prilozhenie k otchetu Agent a Min-va Finansov pri Rossiiskom Posol'stve v\ Vash-e, 1917-1919, consisting of: Al'bom obraztsov denezhnykh znakov,• kreditnykh biletov, . . . , izgotovl. po zakazam Rossiiskogo Pravitel'stva,


kk. Summaries of disbursement of American credits, other funds, and inventory tothe Russian Government, (1917-19-22). (in English).

/ U5. Prilozhenie k otchetu Agenta Min-va Finansov pri Rossiiskom Posol'stve vVash-e, 1917-1919 g.g., consisting of National Bank Act of 1920.

U6. Svedeniia o sovremennom sostoianii orosheniia i khlopkovodstva v basseinereki Syr-Darfi i vozmozhnom ikh razvitii v budushchem.

hi, Svedeniia ob orositelfn#kh izyskaniiakh v basseine reki Syr-Dar'i isootvetstvennykh proektnykh rabotakh C1912-19183.

U8. Tablitsy lichnogo sostav« Rossiiskikh zagranichnykh ustanovlenii MinisterstaInostrannykh Del, 1878-1917. •

U9. Vedemosti o raskhodakh i priokhode po glavnoi knige Rossiiskogo Posol'stvav Vashingtone za 1917, 1918, 1919, i 1920 g.g.

Clippings

50-53. Albums (U volumes).

Awards

5^. Gramota ot Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi v Severnoi Amerike.

55. Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York Certificate of Membership. / OV^ y "lL

\ Portrait

Becker, Nicolas. Oil painting of Boris Bakhmeteff.

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