Papers of Nadezhda Gorodetskaia concerning Princess Zinaida Volkonskaia

Notes, articles and correspondence relating to, and several drafts of, Gorodetskaia's planned book on Princess Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaia.

The full shelfmarks of the collection are as follows: F. Arch. Gorod. 1, 2 (1-4,) 3 (1-16), 4 (1-3), 5, 6 (1-18), 7 (1-16), 8 (1-20), 9 (1-46), 10 (1-12), 11 (1-2), 12 (1-10), 13-14, 15 (1-6), 16, 17 (1-7), 18 (1-2), 19 (1-18), 20, 21 (1-38), 22-3, 24 (1-27), 25 (1-8), 26 (1-7), 27 (1-5), 28 (1-13), 29 (1-16), 30 (1-7), 31 (1-55), 32 (1-19), 33 (1-13), 34 (1-4), 35-9, 40 (1-9), 41-2.

Nadezhda Danilovna Gorodetskaia (1901-85) read for B. Litt and D. Phil degrees at Oxford, where she was also a University Lecturer between 1945 and 1956. She was appointed to the Bowes Chair of Russian at Liverpool University in 1956, and remained there until 1968. Having spent the year following her retirement from Liverpool as a visiting professor at Berkeley, Gorodetskaia settled in Oxford where she continued her research into the life of Princess Zinaida Volkonskaia. An obituary in the Scottish Slavonic Review contains further details.

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Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Descriptions of individual items may be found on SOLO (http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/), and in a card catalogue, arranged by shelfmark, at the Taylor Institution Library, Slavonic and Modern Greek Library.

This collection was transferred from the Taylor Institution to the Bodleian Library in 2016.