Oleg Schestakoff collection

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 1280
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1915-1993
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • French German Russian
  • Physical Description
    • 16 ff., typescript, printed, and photographs (photocopy)

Scope and Content

Comprises: (1) Photocopies of photographs of Neroberg and Dietenmhle restaurants (near Wiesbaden); (2) Extracts from I. A. Bunin and V. N. Bunina diaries about (1), 1921; (3) Photocopies of I. A. Bunin inscriptions to: A. N. Tolstoi in Slovo: Sbornik chetvertyi, 3rd ed., Moscow, [1915]; L. S. Gavronskaia in his Solnechnyi udar, Paris, 1927; (4) Photographs of "Bunin places", Paris, 1989

Administrative / Biographical History

Oleg Schestakoff (Shestakov) is a collector of I. A. Bunin memorabilia and a member of the post-Second World War Russian migr community in Germany

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Oleg Schestakoff, March 1993, September and December 1994

Note

In French, German, 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