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This novel published by Ardis Press in Ann Arbor is inscribed to Antonina by Vasilii Aksenov; personal photos of the author and of his wife, Maiia, are pasted on the inside cover and opposite the title page.

Roman Lazarevich Karmen (1906-1978) was a director, particularly noted for documentaries.

These comic and suggestive drawings given to Axenova by Tatiana Tretiakova have been attributed to the Russian film director Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948).

Axenova typed the poems on the typewriter used by Ginzburg for the typescript manuscript of Krutoi Marshrut.

The note on the back of an envelope has to do with money for shoes, and Vasilii Aksenov's address in Sochi is given "in case it's needed."

Two of the cards were sent from Washington, D.C. and from Alamogordo, New Mexico.

In the letter dated January 31, 1997, Antonina is in Los Angeles, and Vasilii Aksenov mentions the adaptation of Krutoi Marshrut for the stage.

The tear sheets are from issue number 57 of the serial Vremia i My; found together with the tear sheets are 2 pages in Axenova's hand.

Group photo includes Raisa Orlova, Lev Kopelev, Maiia Aksenova, and Antonina; the other print shows Antonina and Paulina Miasnikova with Vasilii Asksenov.

The newspaper portrait appeared in the weekly Sobesednik, and the magazine portrait, where Aksenov is shown in historical military garb, appeared in Karavan Istorii.

One of the articles is from Vecherniaia Kazan and two are from Izvestiia. The 4th article, "Vzgliad chastnogo cheloveka" by Anatolii Naiman, is from an unknown source.

The interview conducted by Inna Starikova was published in Orskaia Khronika, and the interview of Anatolii Starodubets appeared in Trud.

The interviews appear in a variety of newspapers: Argumenty i Fakty, Komsomolskaia Pravda (in Belarus), etc.

Folder includes an article on Sergei Dovlatov from Literaturnaia Gazeta (2011 September 7-13).

The front of the invitation features a portrait of Aksenov.

Pamphlet entitled "The Missing Fragment." One print shows V. Aksenov with his son and with his sister, Antonina Axenova. Pamphlet provides 8 pages missing from the novel Redkiezemli.

3 b/w prints, 2 lobby cards. Photographs show Antonina Axenova, Evgenii Karelskikh, Eleonora Shashkova, and others in this film directed by Naum Birman.

Credit for this photo of the theatre director, Kama Mironovich Ginkas (b. 1941), is given to Nina Alovert.

Photos show Axenova in rehearsal for such plays as "Relatives," "Hello Dolly," and others.

Viktor Rozov's play was presented at the Russian theatre (im. Gorkogo) in Minsk.

Photos from such plays as: Amoralnaia Istoriia and Egor Bulychov I drugie.

Axenova is pictured in her apartment in Minsk.

Folder includes a brochure for the Kopelev Forum as well as Kopelev's Cologne address.

Kesaev, the director of the Krasnoiarskii Teatr imeni Leninskogo Komsomola, offers Axenova the opportunity to work in the theatre.