Zemgor archive
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Type of record: Book
Title: Zemgor archive
Other titles: Sovremennye zapiski
Classmark: Manuscripts MS 1500
Creator(s): Rossiĭskīĭ zemsko-gorodskoĭ komitet pomoshchi rossiĭskim grazhdanam zagranit︠s︡eĭ
Additional creator(s): Rudnev, V V (1879-1940) (Other); Vserossiiskii Zemskii Soiuz (Other); Vserossiĭskiĭ soi︠u︡z gorodov (Other); League of Nations. High Commissioner for Refugees (Other)
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Publication city: [Place of publication not identified]
Date(s): 1910s-1970s
Language: Multiple languages
Size and medium: 600 boxes, manuscript, typescript, photographs, printed
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/688748
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010529219705181
Description
Zemgor (Rossiiskii zemsko-gorodskoi komitet pomoshchi rossiiskim grazhdanam za granitsei) is a Russian charitable organisation established in Paris in 1921 by representatives of the pre-revolutionary organisations Vserossiiskii zemskii soiuz and Vserossiiskii soiuz gorodov. Until the Second World War Zemgor also had branches in the Baltic States, Central Europe and the Balkans.
Includes photographic glass plates, framed portraits, maps and an abacus.
Comprises the administrative, correspondence, educational, financial, medical, personal, personnel, and other files of the Paris Zemgor organisation and its branches elsewhere in Europe, including extensive files relating to the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; also, a collection of Zemgor publications, and books and periodicals from the library of the retirement home at Cormeilles-en-Parisis. The archive includes telegram ledgers from the Russian consulate in Constantinople, files of the committee of former Russian ambassadors, memoirs of the Russian Civil War, and V.V. Rudnev's correspondence files relating to his editorial work for the journal "Sovremennye zapiski".
The gift of the Zemgor Committee, June 1984, May 1987.
Indexed in: Detailed list in preparation.
Indexed in: Contents of the archive are described in Handlist 171.
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