Box 8
Container
Contains 29 Results:
Articles. About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his work, 1965-1985
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1116-1153
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1116 to 1153)
Scope and Contents
Folders contain articles from Russian Literature Triquarterly and Russian Review to a variety of foreign serial titles; several of the articles in the folders were written by Elisabeth Markstein.
Dates:
1965-1985
Natalia Reshetovskaia. Chapters from her recollections of Solzhenitsyn, 1972
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1154
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1154)
Scope and Contents
Reshetovskaia directs her work to Vladimir Nikolaevich Osipov, who published these two chapters in May 1972 in Veche. The chapters deal with the years 1961 and 1962 when Solzhenitsyn was recognized by Tvardovsky and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published.
Dates:
1972
Appendices. Abbreviations used in The Gulag Archipelago, circa 1973
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1155
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1155)
Scope and Contents
Folder includes 2 lists of abbreviations: one in Russian and one in German.
Dates:
circa 1973
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Explanations for translators of The Gulag Archipelago, circa 1973
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1156
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1156)
Scope and Contents
Folder includes a direction for the publisher providing an explanation of the circumstances surrounding the book's going to press.
Dates:
circa 1973
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Corrections for The Gulag Archipelago, circa 1973
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1157
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1157)
Scope and Contents
Folder includes a note from Editions du Seuil, who published the first edition of The Gulag Archipelago in Russian. The note refers to volume 3 and is dated March 12, 1975.
Dates:
circa 1973
Miscellaneous notes with regard to The Gulag Archipelago, circa 1973
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1158
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1158)
Scope and Contents
Papers appear to relate to a German translation of The Gulag Archipelago in Russian.
Dates:
circa 1973
Elisabeth Markstein. Miscellaneous pages on Solzhenitsyn, circa 1973
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1158A
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1158A)
Scope and Contents
Content of these pages revolves around Solzenitsyn and his situation in the USSR, but it is not clear if they are intended for a paper or a lecture.
Dates:
circa 1973
Miscellaneous pages from correspondence, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1158B
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1158B)
Scope and Contents
Pages, 1 in German and 1 in Russian, were found in the correpondence, but did not relate to the letters next to the pages in question.
Dates:
undated
Heinrich Böll, Interview with Frankfurter Rundschau, 1974 November 23
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1159
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1159)
Scope and Contents
Papers comprise 2 rough drafts of a translation of Böll's interview from German to Russian.
Dates:
1974 November 23
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Notes with regard to Michael Scammell, circa 1975
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1160
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1160)
Scope and Contents
Solzhenitsyn's observations on his English biographer came primarily from the letters of "Betta" or Elisabeth Markstein.
Dates:
circa 1975
Research materials for A. Solzhenitsyn, circa 1970s
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1161
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1161)
Scope and Contents
Pages consist of summaries of New York Times articles on the situation in Russia after the February revolution of 1917; articles are translated into Russian.
Dates:
circa 1970s
Research materials for A. Solzhenitsyn, circa 1970s
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1162
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1162)
Scope and Contents
Pages consist of summaries of articles on Russia from the March and April 1917 issues of French newspapers; articles are translated into Russian.
Dates:
circa 1970s
Research materials for A. Solzhenitsyn, circa 1970s
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1163
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1163)
Scope and Contents
Pages consist of summaries of articles on Russia from the March and April 1917 issues of French newspapers; articles are translated into Russian.
Dates:
circa 1970s
Alla Burago, Translation of a chapter from The First Circle, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1164
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1164)
Scope and Contents
Translated chapter is chapter 44, "Na prostore."
Dates:
undated
Partial translation of Solzhenitsyn's poem Prusskie Nochi, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1165
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1165)
Scope and Contents
Pages comprise several versions; some pages have marginal notations, but it is not clear who the translator is.
Dates:
undated
Miscellaneous papers with regard to The Gulag Archipelago and with regard to Solzhenitsyn in general, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1166
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1166)
Scope and Contents
Mimeographed pages appear to be preparation on Markstein's part for a lecture on The Gulag Archipelago.
Dates:
undated
Inscriptions to Elisabeth Markstein, 1975 March, 1996 October
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1166A
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1166A)
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of Solzhenitsyn's inscriptions on a title-page and an end paper of two books in Catherine Markstein-Rakovsky's library.
Dates:
1975 March, 1996 October
Elisabeth Koplenig. Gorkij und der sozialistische Realismus, 1952
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1167
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1167)
Scope and Contents
Markstein's Ph.D. thesis was done at the U. of Vienna. "Gorky and Socialist Realism" is subtitled: "Gorky as the Poet of the Proletariat."
Dates:
1952
Chto ostaetsia ot sovetskoi literatury?, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1168
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1168)
Scope and Contents
Folder contains handwritten notes as well as photocopies and tear sheets of newspaper and journal articles. In developing her theme, Markstein touches upon authors from Babel to Trifonov.
Dates:
undated
Derevenskaia proza, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1169
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1169)
Scope and Contents
Folder contains handwritten notes on paper of various sizes as well as photocopies, tear sheets, and offprints of 2 Markstein articles. Authors featured are: Valentin Rasputin, Vasilii Belov, Viktor Astafev, and others.
Dates:
undated
Detskaia literatura, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1170
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1170)
Scope and Contents
Folder contains handwritten notes, photocopies, and tear sheets. Authors featured are: Kornei Chukovskii, Samuil Marshak, Daniil Kharms, and others.
Dates:
undated
Emigratsiia -- zarubezhnaia russkaia literatura, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1171
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1171)
Scope and Contents
Again the folder contains handwritten notes, photocopies, and tear sheets. Authors featured are: Vladimir Nabokov and Ivan Bunin among others.
Dates:
undated
Imena, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1172
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1172)
Scope and Contents
Markstein's lecture focuses on names -- from the assumed names of Lenin and Stalin to acronyms to names given to cats and dogs. Folder includes an offprint of her article on Russian names and culture studies: "Russische Namen als Teil der Kulturkunde."
Dates:
undated
Leksika, Skriptum, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1173
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1173)
Scope and Contents
Exercises on Russian vocabulary compiled by Kh. Loos.
Dates:
undated
Literature after 1934, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1174
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1174)
Scope and Contents
Folder contains handwritten notes, photocopies, and tear sheets; themes include censorship in literature, theatre, and film as well as the period of the "thaw" and samizdat.
Dates:
undated
Molodaia proza, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1175
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1175)
Scope and Contents
Again, folder contains handwritten notes, photocopies, and tear sheets; content revolves around the writers, Vasilii Aksenov and Evgenii Evtushenko.
Dates:
undated
Noveishaia poeziia, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1176
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1176)
Scope and Contents
Folder contains handwritten notes, photocopies, and tear sheets; the folder revolves around the poets Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky among others, including incomplete article about Boris Slutskii dated May 20, 1976.
Dates:
undated
Novyi byt: Iazyk, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1177
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1177)
Scope and Contents
Items in this folder revolve around the "new way of life," which was brought on by the October revolution, particularly as it involved language and literature.
Dates:
undated
Oberiu, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1178
Identifier: (MSE/REE 0017-1178)
Scope and Contents
"Oberiu" is an acronym for "obedinenie realnogo iskusstva" -- the "association of real art," which formed in the late 1920s and early 1930s around such writers as Daniil Kharms and Nikolai Zabolotskii.
Dates:
undated