Comprises: (1) Cooke, Kinnaird, Russell etc. family tree; (2) Photocopies of letters from Roberta (Ruby) Cooke, Petrograd, to Dorothy Ogden, England (6, 1915-1917, nd); (3) Dorothy Russell, "The Open Window in Moscow" (postscript by Ruby Cooke), n.d.; (4) Newspaper cuttings, journal issues, with articles, radio background script about Dorothy Russell, 1964-1992, n.d.; (5) Cassette of interview with Dorothy Russell, 1992, with a transcript; (6) Modern prints of photographs of: Dorothy Cooke, Moscow, 1905; Francis Walter Cooke, Stockton on Tees, [1920s]; Cooke family group, [1970s]; Dorothy Russell sculpture, with some negatives; (7) Framed paper and gilt paper icon of St.Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (Mirlikiiskii), with colour photocopies of front and rear (internal)
Dorothy Russell collection
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 MS 1262
- Dates of Creation
- 1905-1992
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English Church Slavonic
- Physical Description
- 147 ff., 1 audio cassette, 1 icon, manuscript, typescript, printed, photographs, and negatives
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Dorothy Russell (ne Cooke; 1905-1996) was a member of the British community in pre-revolutionary Russia
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The gift of Dorothy Russell, November 1992; Peter Russell, January 1997
Note
In English, Church Slavonic
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