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Folder includes a transcription of the letters in folders 14 through 25. Irina V. Roskina provided the transcription as well as commentary by way of footnotes.

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Folder includes a transcription of the letters provided by Irina V. Roskina.

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3 of the letters were sent from Leningrad to Moscow; 3 more from Sochi to Moscow. Folder includes a transcription of the letters provided by Irina V. Roskina.

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2 of the letters were sent from Maleevka to Moscow; the other 7 from Moscow to Koktebel' in the Crimea. Folder includes a transcription of the letters provided by Irina V. Roskina.

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Folder includes a transcription of the letters provided by Irina V. Roskina.

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Third item in folder is an exchange of humorous notes between mother and daughter. Folder includes a transcription of the letters provided by Irina V. Roskina.

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Folder includes 1 undated miscellaneous document or note that was found among these letters to I. V. Roskina. Transcriptions are by Irina V. Roskina.

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Folder includes a transcription of the letters in folders 27 through 32. Irina V. Roskina provided the transcription as well as commentary by way of footnotes.

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These personal letters to N. A. Roskina are from American relatives; the letters are written in English.

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The originals of these letters from the literary specialist Berkovskii to N. A. Roskina are located in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow.

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These letters from A. I. Roskin to his friend, the literary figure I. I. Khalturin were handcopied by N. A. Roskina. The location of the originals is unkown.

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This letter from N. A. Roskina to V. P. Astaf'ev concerning the antisemitic position in his correspondence with N. IA. Eidel'man was hand-copied by Irina V. Roskina.

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Copies were made by Irina V. Roskina when she turned the originals over to the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow. Folder includes several letters from the novelist Vasilii Grossman to N. A. Roskina, and several letters of condolence to Irina V. Roskina upon the death of her mother from cancer in 1989. Folder also includes 6 pages of miscellaneous poems (see also series 1, folders 1 and 2.

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Thomas G. Winner was an eminent American slavist and semiotician. 2 pages of the letter are addressed to Natalia, and 2 pages are written to her daughter, Irina. N. A. Roskina forwarded Winner's letter to Irina in Rogachev, Belarus'. The envelope in the folder relates to that re-sending.

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Irina V. Roskina provided digital copies of originals that are located in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow. For more detail see the curator of this collection.

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Aron Filippovich Perelman (1876-1954) was a publisher. Folder includes Natalia A. Roskina's correspondence with him as well as with his daughter Frida Aronovna Perelman (1910-1985). The original letters are in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow. Irina V. Roskina provided Notre Dame with digital copies and transcriptions of the originals, as well as commentary.

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Lidiia Korneevna Chukovskaia (1907-1996), the daughter of the celebrated children's writer Kornei Chukovskii, was an author, poet, and dissident. The original letters are in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow. Irina V. Roskina provided Notre Dame with digital copies and transcriptions of the originals. Transcriptions include commentary by way of footnotes.

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Folder includes transcriptions of letters of Nadezhda Davydovna Roskina to her daughter. Originals are in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI).

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Sergei Dmitrievich Spasskii (1898-1956) was a poet, author, translator, and critic. Folder includes transcriptions of letters to the architect, Elena Sergeevna Ralbe, Roza Naumovna Rabinovich, and Natalia Roskina. Originals are in RGALI.

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Nikita Alekseevich Struve (1931- ) is a publisher associated with the YMCA Press in Paris. This letter has to do with the YMCA Press's publication of Natalia Roskina's book Chetyre Glavy. Original letter is in RGALI.

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Kornei Ivanovich Chukovskii (1882-1969) was a truly great children's poet as well as an important literary critic. Folder includes Irina Roskina's transcriptions of and commentary on letters, the originals of which are in RGALI.

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Lev Zinovevich Kopelev (1912-1997) was a literary critic, dissident, and human rights advocate. His wife, Raisa Davydovna Orlova (1918-1989) was a writer and American studies scholar. Folder includes Irina Roskina's transcriptions of and commentary on letters, the originals of which are in RGALI.

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Efim Grigorevich Etkind (1918-1999) was a philologist, translation theorist, and dissident. The transcriptions of this correspondence was published on pages 321 to 398 of Russian Studies (volume 3, issue 4, 2001) with commentary by Irina V. Roskina and Aleksandra A. Raskina.

Scope and Contents Irina Roskina has transcribed many of the letters written by her relatives. The letters in this folder and the next one are subtitled the "War Years: 1941-1945," and they begin with the letters of Natalia Roskina to her father -- see folder 24. The transcription is enhanced by copious explanatory footnotes, an index of names, and an afterword. In order to view the complete document click on the following link: ...

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Along with "Iz perepiski moikh rodstvennikov," Irina V. Roskina has assembled a family album, beginning with a 1908 photograph of Roza Naumovna Rabinovich and her daughters and going up to the present.In order to view the entire album click on the following link: "Album of Photographs."

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The note on coarse brown paper used to wrap laundary was written by Evgenii Rein to Irina Roskina on the birth of their daughter, Aleksandra. Folder includes transcriptions by Roskina of the letters.