Description
Correspondence, diaries, writings, notes, and clippings, relating to White Russian and Soviet activities in Mongolia during
the Russian Revolution, and the Russian émigré population during the Russian Civil War and subsequent years. Includes a memoir
entitled
Baron Ungern, Urga i Altan-Bulak : Zapiski Ochevidtsa Smutnom Vremeni vo Vneshneĭ (Khakhaskoĭ) Mongoliĭ v Pervoĭ Treti II-go
Veka
, relating to counter-revolutionary events in Mongolia during the Russian Revolution, and a translation by Elena Varneck of
the memoir.
Background
Dmitrii Petrovich Pershin was a White Russian diplomat in Mongolia from 1918 to 1921, a Russian historian and novelist, and
subsequently a Russian émigré in China.