Shepherd Family papers

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 1183
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1900s-1991
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Russian
  • Physical Description
    • 41 ff., manuscript, printed, and photographs (photocopy)

Scope and Content

Comprises: (1) Photocopied photographs of members of the Shepherd family and house, Iaroslavl and Iakhroma; cotton mill, Klin; (2) Shepherd, Astbury, Corner and Hampson family tree; (3) Nashe Obshchee Delo: Izdanie Komiteta Radio 'Svoboda', Munich, 6, 1965; (4) M. Shegal, "Moskva staraia i Moskva novaia[: 30 otkrytok]"; (5) Newspaper cutting about traces of the British presence in Moscow

Administrative / Biographical History

The Shepherd family were members of the British community in pre-revolutionary Russia

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Alice Shepherd, August 1991

Note

In English, Russian

Other Finding Aids

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

Family Names

Personal Names