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Total number of records: 17034

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items11697
Archives5324
Coins5
Objects5
Art items3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive17034
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
russian literature536
russians368
russian language326
authors, russian234
british201
world war, 1939-1945169
communism121
world war, 1914-1918115
composers94
photographs94

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union1347
Russia784
Russia (Federation)331
Saint Petersburg (Russia)141
Moscow (Russia)131
Great Britain86
Europe62
France58
Ukraine40
United States38

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevitch Graf (1828-1910)254
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)240
Andreyev, Leonid (1871-1919)183
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 1870-1953152
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904)143
Magarshack, David125
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1799-1837)124
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883)120
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)119
Carr, Edward Hallett (1892-1982)113

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800822
From 190014896
From 20001315

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899477
Up to 199914813
Up to latest1743

Archive Collection

Leeds Russian Archive

1800-2000

The collections document Russian history, literature and culture and Anglo-Russian contacts in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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NORTH, Katherine (née Hodges, 1888-1982)

1934, [1968]

Photocopied memoirs of Katherine North, ambulance driver and nurse during First World War on Romanian Front, in Russia and France, 1916-1918. Summary of her career with Red Cross up to 1968.

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TONG Collection

[1880s-1890s?], [1980s], 2019

Cabinet portraits of Thomas Tong (1845-1921) and Alice Tong (nee Laycock) (1870-1915), Moscow, [1880s?] /1-2/. Photograph of Russian embroidery case, which belonged to Alice Tong /3/. Cabinet portrai...

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SIBIRSKII TORGOVYI BANK

1907-1911

250-rouble bond of the Sibirskii Torgovyi Bank (Commercial Bank of Siberia) (St Petersburg, 1907) /9/. Dividend coupons for 1917-1921 /10/.

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CUTHBERT-SMITH, Austin Godwin (1897-1976)

1910s-1970s

Notebooks containing A G Cuthbert-Smith's autobiography /3-15/ [Notebooks numbered 1-2 missing from family collection]. Modern transcript of Russian and Soviet sections of 3-15 /16/. Newspaper article...

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CARR, Henry Lambton (1899-1988)

1880s-1992, 2022

Cassettes of H L Carr's recollections of childhood in Archangel, schooldays in England, Allied Intervention in North Russia, diplomatic service in Finland, Sweden and Denmark, 1900s-1950s (recorded 19...

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PLATTS Collection

1900, 1931, 1960s-1980s

Photographs and negatives of coronation mug, 1896, /1-3/, Modern prints and negatives of photographs of Russian Imperial study? by Rentz & Schreider, 1900 /4-8/, Modern prints and negatives of photogr...

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NARTSISSOV, Boris

1969

Boris Nartsissov "Pod'em: Chetvertaia kniga stikhov" (privately printed, 1969) [duplicate copy].

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RANNIT, Alexis (1914-1985)

1978-1985

Letter from Alexis Rannit to Richard Davies on photocopy of K D Bal'mont's poem "Iziashchnyi Dom" (1939), dedicated to Alexis Rannit (1978) /1/. Photocopy of poems etc in memory of Alexis Rannit, "Rus...

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BERNARD LONG Collection

[1880s-1900s]

Photographs of St Basil's Cathedral and Tsar-bell, Moscow, and chapel on site of future Church of the Resurrection, St Petersburg /1-3/.

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FELSENSTEIN Collection

1883-1971

Town plan of Moscow, 1859/1862/1883 /1/. "Katalog knizhnogo i geograficheskogo magazina izdanii glavnogo shtaba" (St Petersburg, 1890) /2/. E M Felsenstein's Reports on Leningrad and Scandinavian Fur ...

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BENTON, Kenneth

1985

Kenneth Benton "The Plight of the Baltic States" (London, 1985).

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