Comprises Vadim Andreev's literary and personal papers, letters and photographs; also, material deriving from and relating to Leonid Andreev and his first wife, Vadim Andreev's mother, Aleksandra Mikhailovna (ne Veligorskaia; 1881-1906)
Vadim Andreev papers
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 1350
- Dates of Creation1897-1983
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- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description15,892 ff, 11 vols, manuscript, typescript, printed, photographs, glass negatives
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Vadim Leonidovich Andreev (1902/3-1976) was the eldest son of the Russian writer Leonid Andreev and himself a poet, novelist and memoirist. Until the Second World War he was a member of the post-revolutionary Russian migr community in Germany and France. After the Second World War he became a Soviet citizen and worked for the United Nations in New York and Geneva
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Acquisition Information
The gift of Alexandre Andreev and Olga Carlisle, November 1980, June 1983, June 1996, July 1997; Aleksandr Vagin, October 1983
Note
In Russian, Czech, English, French, Italian, Ukrainian
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A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the Leeds Russian Archive online catalogue http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/index.htm