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.

Aleksandr Petrovich Mezhirov (1923-2009) was a poet and translator.

One letter contains two small photos, and another contains a drawing. Letters are directed to Axenova in Cheliabinsk and in Bolshaia Alushta in the Crimea.

Most of the telegrams are sent from Leningrad or Vilnius in Lithuania to Axenova, who again is usually in Cheliabinsk or Bolshaia Alushta.

Several of the ntoes include drawings by Kama Ginkas.

Letter, notes, photo, and poem, all show different dates; the typed poem is "Zhizn i Smert."

IUrii Lovich is the artist; each of the reproductions has a short note written to Axenova from Evtushenko.

Five of the six sides of the papers and seven of the eight napkin sections show drawings.

Sergei Ivanovich Alikhanov (b. 1947) is a poet and writer of song lyrics. The letters were found in a book of Alikhanov's poetry, Len Lezhit, in Axenova's library. Enclosures include a typed poem, "Rechnaia Stoianka," dedicated to Axenova, as well as a hand-written poem.

The envelopes are marked with the LenFilm return address, and the card refers to Monolog o Brake.

Karelskikh signs the card/letter as "Lieutenant Borodin," the part he played opposite Axenova in the film, Ia sluzhu na granitse.

Telegrams all relate to trying out for parts in films.

The letter was found in a volume of Krutoi Marshrut published in Riga in 1989; Braiden had spent time in the camps in Elgen with Ginzburg.

These 27 books have been cataloged and can be located through the online catalog. Some have personalized inscriptions from such authors as: Bella Akhmadulina, Evgenii Evtushenko, and Vladimir Voinovich. Inserts consist of tear sheets with poems by Mezhirov and a brochure about the "Tiurma na Lontskogo."

Articles are from various papers -- for example, there is an article on "Monolog o Brake" from Sovetskaia Litva dated June 24, 1973.

Article/interview focuses on young actors and actresses; it is unclear as to what newspaper published the item.

The author in this Leningrad publication is unidentified.

The article about the play by B. Ratser and V. Konstantinov appeared in Pravda Severa published in Arkhangelsk.

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).