Thomas de Waal’s interview project started as most good oral history and archival projects do: with the unearthing of an object that triggers memories and curiosity. This time it was a box of dusty cassettes. Mr. de Waal spoke with some sixty participants and policymakers during the struggle between former Soviet Republics Armenia and Azerbaijan […]
Category: Russian & Eastern European Collections
Feb. 4 @ 6:00 PM – RBML Bakhmeteff Archive: “Charles R. Crane: launch of the electronic memoirs”
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library Acquires Archive of Russian Émigré Poet Lev Loseff
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ (CUL/IS) Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the papers of Lev Loseff (1937-2009), noted Russian émigré poet, literary critic, professor of Russian Literature at Dartmouth College, and a lifelong friend and authoritative biographer of Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996). Brodsky & Loseff. […]
Selling Russia’s Treasures
November 12, 2013 (Tuesday) Butler Library, Room 203 at 6:00 PM Please join us for a presentation on the Soviet Trade in Nationalized Art, 1917-1938 – an authoritative illustrated account of the unprecedented sale of Russia’s cultural treasures by the Soviet government. Speakers will include Nicolas Iljine, Natalia Semenova, Elena Solomakha, Robert H. Davis, […]
Quatercentenary of the House of Romanov
Kempner Gallery February 14th to June 28th, 2013 The exhibition Quatercentenary of the House of Romanov features objects drawn from various collections held by the Bakhmeteff Archive and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML) at Columbia University. It consists of books, correspondence, original charters, maps, photographs, posters, personal documents, ephemera, and books and […]