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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Nadia L. Shapiro Papers

Dates:
1910-1984

Collection number:
90004

Creator:
Shapiro, Nadia L. (Nadia Lavrova), 1897-1989.

Collection Size:
11 manuscript boxes, 2 phonorecords
4.6 linear feet

Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract:
Papers of the Russian-American writer and journalist include writings, letters, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Russian Civil War in Siberia, and to Russian émigré life in China and the United States. Contains a memoir of the Russian Civil War in the Blagoveshchensk area and of the trial of the Socialist Revolutionary A. N. Alekseevskii in Blagoveshchensk in 1918 (with a translation by Elena Varneck). Also includes records of N. L. Shapiro's work with the Office of War Information during World War II.

Physical location:
Hoover Institution Archives

Languages:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Russian

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