Chirikov Family papers

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 1203
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1914-1986
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Russian
  • Physical Description
    • 28 ff., manuscript, printed (photocopy), and photographs

Scope and Content

Comprises photographs of the Chirikov family, [1914-1916], a portrait of L. E. Chirikova by I. Ia. Bilibin, 1919, and photocopies of: V. N. Lodyzhenskii (Ladyzhenskii), "E. N. Chirikov: K sorokaletnemu iubileiu literaturnoi deiatel'nosti", in Perezvony (Latvia), 29 (1927); E. N. Chirikov, "Leonid Andreev", in Veche (Munich), 23 (1986); and V. Levitina, "Neizvestnoe pis'mo A. I. Kuprina", in 22 (Israel), 36 (1984)

Administrative / Biographical History

The Chirikov family were members of the literary intelligentsia in pre-revolutionary Russia and members of the post-revolutionary Russian migr communities in Czechoslovakia and the United States

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Ludmilla Shnitnikoff, June 1986

Note

In 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

Family Names