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The guestbook, known as the "krasnaia tetrad," is filled with notes, sketches, and poems by Vadim Shefner, Aleksandr Gitovich, Boris Semenov, Boris Lebedev, Pavel Shubin, Elena Serebrovskaya, and many others. On the back end papers Semenov drew a sketch of Lev Loseff at 7 months of age.

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21 of the 70 pages are filled covering February 3 to November 28 of 1943 on the Leningrad front.

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These are transcripts of the hand-written journal for 1943. There are 2 copies, each one being 19 pages. Each copy ends with a 28-line poem that is not in the journal; at the end of the poem is the year 1944 and Leningrad front.

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This diverse group of 3 poems includes the poem appended to the 1943 journal transcriptions, designated as being written in 1944 on the Leningrad front. Photocopies include that of the poem "Proshchanie" or "Farewell," as well as an incomplete poem about Lev.

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Pages include notations and previously unpublished poems. This appears to be a manuscript for Izbrannye Stikhi, which was published by Sovetskii Pisatel in Moscow in 1974.

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Typescript for Izbrannye Stikhi. Table of contents shows the cycles or parts that appeared in the published Izbrannye Stikhi or Selected Poems: Before the War, the War, After the War, James Clifford, Translations, and Poems of the Last Years.

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Folder is entitled "Poems of the Last Years with Notes"; some of these poems were published posthumously: Neveroiatnoe Riadom (Moscow: Pravda, 1980).

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Folder includes another group of "Poems of the Last Years."

Scope and Contents This is the first part of a journal that Lev Loseff kept during the years 1974 to 1975. In addition to the text of the journal, Lev included various letters, documents, playbills, and newspaper clippings, which are taped or glued to pages of the journal. This segment of 50 pages inclludes the following letters: Sergei Dovlatov to Lev Loseff, 2 ALsS, 1974 January-April (pp. 22, 46); Vladimir Lifshits to Lev Loseff, 2 TLsS, 1974 April (pp. 48, 50); Josef Mlejnek to Lev Loseff, ALS,...

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This folder includes the following letters: Sergei Dovlatov to Lev Loseff, 3 ALsS, 1 TLS, 1974 April-June (pp. 54, 64, 70, 76); Vladimir Lifshits to Lev Loseff, 4 TLsS, 1974 May-August (pp. 60, 74,78, 84); Kazis and Milda Saja to Lev Loseff, 2 ALsS, 1974 April-June (pp. 54, 66).

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Folder includes 2 playbills that may have come loose from pages 101 to 150. Folder also includes the following letters: Mikhail Eremin to Lev Loseff, 2 TLsS, 1974 November (pp. 112, 122); Kazis Saja to Lev Loseff, ALS, 1974 November 16 (p. 118)

Scope and Contents Folder includes the following letters: Vladimir Lifshits to Lev Loseff, 3 TLsS, 1975 March-May (pp. 168, 176, 186); Kazis and Milda Saja to Lev Loseff, 2 TLsS, 1975 March-April (pp. 170, 182). A thin notebook of 16 pages was inserted between pages 188 and 189. This notebook or tetrad itself contains several inserted notes and drawings. Also on page 188 the last journal entry is for Tuesday, May 27, 1975. The notebook as well as pages 189 through 218 (in folder 175) diverge from...

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Folder includes the following letters: Vladimir Lifshits to Lev Loseff, ALS, TLS, 1974 October (p. 203); Lev Loseff to Nina Mokhova, 2 TLsS, 1974 June (pp. 231-234.)

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Lev Loseff filled 51 of 52 pages of a notebook, which covers the summer of 1957 in Kazan and Kazakhstan. There are also 16 more loose diary pages from 1960 and 1961. Finally, the folder also includes 2 letters addressed to friends and comrades discussing Arab-Israeli tension.