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
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 MS 1011
- Dates of Creation
- 1910-1985
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 7 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
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