Comprises texts of lectures by B.I. Elkin on I.S. Turgenev and 19th-century Russian society delivered at the Pushkin Club in London in the 1950s and 1960s, and obituary of B.I. Elkin by N.E. Andreev
Boris Elkin papers
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 LRA/MS 1423
- Dates of Creation
- [1950s-1960s]
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- Russian
- Physical Description
- 136 ff. typescript and printed
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Boris Isaakovich Elkin (1887-1972), Russian Jewish lawyer and editor, emigrated to Germany in 1919, and subsequently moved to France and Britain. See A.B. Rogachevskii, "Boris El'kin i ego oksfordskii arkhiv", in Evrei v kul'ture Russkogo Zarubezh'ia , edited by M.A. Parkhomovskii, vol.5 (Jerusalem, 1996), pp.222-243
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The gift of Alexander Elkin, July 1996
Note
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