Comprises Vadim Andreev's literary and personal papers, letters and photographs; also, material deriving from and relating to Leonid Andreev and his first wife, Vadim Andreev's mother, Aleksandra Mikhailovna (ne Veligorskaia; 1881-1906)
Vadim Andreev papers
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 MS 1350
- Dates of Creation
- 1897-1983
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 15,892 ff, 11 vols, manuscript, typescript, printed, photographs, glass negatives
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Vadim Leonidovich Andreev (1902/3-1976) was the eldest son of the Russian writer Leonid Andreev and himself a poet, novelist and memoirist. Until the Second World War he was a member of the post-revolutionary Russian migr community in Germany and France. After the Second World War he became a Soviet citizen and worked for the United Nations in New York and Geneva
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The gift of Alexandre Andreev and Olga Carlisle, November 1980, June 1983, June 1996, July 1997; Aleksandr Vagin, October 1983
Note
In Russian, Czech, English, French, Italian, Ukrainian
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