Comprises Kate Birse's recollections of her childhood in St Petersburg/Petrograd, repatriation to Great Britain in 1920, and life in Estonia and Finland in the 1930s-1940s, together with photographs of Birse, Anderson and North family members, and a photograph of the former Birse family home in St Petersburg
Kate Birse collection
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 1011
- Dates of Creation1910-1985
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description7 ff., typescript and photographs
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Kate Birse (1908-) was a member of the British community in pre-revolutionary Russia, resident in St Petersburg/Petrograd
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The gift of Kate Birse, November 1985
Note
In English
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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