Comprises Vera Marstrand's memoirs, postcards, and photographs of Russia and her family (the Omelianskiis) and friends, together with cassettes and newspaper cuttings of interviews given in 1992 and 2000, art work, and her memorial order of service, 16 August 2000
Vera Marstrand papers
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 873
- Dates of Creation1890s-2000
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish Russian
- Physical Description718 ff., 2 vols, 1 cassette, manuscript, typescript, printed, photographs, negatives, and colour separations
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Vera Pavlovna Marstrand (ne Omelianskaia) (1901-2000) lived in the Crimean naval port city of Sevastopol' (Sebastopol) before fleeing during the Russian civil war to Constantinople, where she met her future husband, a British naval officer. In later life she became an active amateur artist and sculptress
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Acquisition Information
The gift of Vera Marstrand, January 1982, January 1986, June 1989, June and December 1991, June 1994; George Sawyer, June 1991; Alexander Zhuravlyov, November 1992; Viktor Steinberg, July 1997; John Marstrand, August 2000; Lidiia Grigor'eva, August 2000
Note
English, Russian
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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