Various drafts of the anonymous memoirs, in Russian, of a member of the Narodnaya Volya party, discussing the author's life in Yaroslavl', his imprisonment in Moscow and St. Petersburg and his exile in Siberia in 1887-91.
Drafts of Russian Memoirs by a Member of the Naradnaya Volya Party
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Russian d. 2, e. 2-8
- Dates of Creation
- [ca. 1880-91]
- Language of Material
- Russian.
- Physical Description
- 8 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Narodnaya Volya party was a 19th-century Russian revolutionary organization that attempted to force political reform though terrorist activities.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The memoirs were given to the Library anonymously in 1912.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 52316-23.