John Stewart collection

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 1353
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1880-1994
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Russian Dutch French German Volapk
  • Physical Description
    • 2195 ff., manuscript, typescript, printed, and photographs

Scope and Content

Comprises numerous USSR tourist brochures, photocopies of miscellaneous postcards sent to Russia, material relating to the coronation of Nicholas II, the Revolution, and memoirs of the Civil War, a photograph and letter concerning a drawing by Alfred Gomersal Vickers, obituaries of Lady Sybil Middleton and Herbert Swann, and miscellaneous photographs of Russian buildings, an ice skating event, and Gilbert Cattley

Administrative / Biographical History

John Massey Stewart is a specialist on Siberia and the British community in Russia

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of John Massey Stewart, April and December 1988, January 1994, July 1995

Note

In English, Russian, Dutch, French, German, Volapk

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