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Total number of records: 83

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Archives48
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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture55
Leeds Russian Archive25

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manners and customs83
culture43
community life37
archive administration34
social life and customs28
english language - dialects25
holidays24
occupations21
folklore19
folk music17

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Russia12
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Czechoslovakia1
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Folklore Society (Great Britain)3
Lones, Thomas East3
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)3
Sullivan, Keith Frederick3
Wright, Arthur Robinson (1862-1932)3
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)2
Calvert, Valerie E2
Dawe, Rosamond E2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2

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University Archive

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1960-1980

This file contains original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning Stewart Sanderson's activities as an academic folklorist. Its contents seem to have been selected by Sanderson for d...

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

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Prazdnichnai︠a︡ kulʹtura Peterburga : ocherki istorii

Keller, E Ė

2001

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319).

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No going back to Moldova

Robertson, Anna (1905-)

1989

Originally published: Edinburgh : Mainstream, 1987.

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An American in Leningrad

Robinson, Logan

1984

Leningrad State University -- Dormitory life -- Venice of the north -- Life in the neighborhood -- Socialist socializing -- The Soviet lawyer -- The other side of Soviet law -- The KGB -- The Nitty-Gr...

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Le moujik, moeurs populaires russes

Farine, Isabelle (1849-)

[1892?]

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One year at the Russian court : 1904-1905

Maud, Renée Gaudin de Villaine

1918

The fulfillment of my dream. -- In the Caucasus. -- At Petrograd. -- Rasputin: his influence and his work.

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Moskva i moskvichi : izbrannye glavy

Gili͡arovskiĭ, V A (1853-1935)

2015

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A hero of our time

Lermontov, Mikhail ︠I︡Urʹevich (1814-1841); Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1899-1977); Nabokov, Dmitri

1984

Originally published: Garden City : Doubleday, 1958.

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Dead souls

Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich (1809-1852); Girling, Zoë

[1966]

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