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Download or read book Russian manuscripts at Houghton Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1550 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holdings include manuscripts and some correspondence of Russian authors, such as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gorky, and Pasternak, and Russian composers Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov. Other material of special note includes proclamations, orders, and documents of Russian czars Peter I, Ivan IV, and Alexander I; manuscripts of Russian and Slavonic Bibles; manuscripts of historical works about Russia; and Solzhenitsyn's commencement address at Harvard University. Also, journals, albums, memoirs, grammars, commonplace books, and miscellaneous documents and manuscripts. A full listing of the items in this grouping can be found in the Houghton Library MS shelflist. Other Russian manuscripts entered separately are: Leon Trotsky papers, Investigation of the Death of Nicholas II documents, A.M. Remizov papers, O.E. Cesare drawings, Zinaida Volkonskai︠a︡ papers, Feliks Volkhovskīĭ correspondence, Nicholas P. Vakar diaries, Russian folklore collection, Russian business documents, Russian musical autographs, Russian imperial family collection, and Russian autograph collection.