Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaia papers
Overview
Papers of Russian poet Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaia including her poetry, drawings, correspondence, diary entries, and notes.
Dates
- Creation: 1809-1879
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in Russian and French.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
A portion of this collection (MS Russ 46.14 (5)) is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
2.5 linear feet (15 volumes and 2 boxes)Contains literary papers of Volkonskaia including her poetry, drawings, correspondence, diary entries, and notes. Collection also includes compositions and drawings by other literary figures; Maria Aleksandrovna Vlasova's album of poetry and drawings, notebook, and other papers; correspondence of Czar Alexander I, Prince Aleksandr Nikitich Volkonskii, and others; documents such as safe-conduct passes; and miscellaneous material including financial papers, photographs, printed music, and other printed matter.
Biographical / Historical
Volkonskaia was a Russian princess and author, as well as an amateur singer who collected contemporary vocal compositions. Her birth date is most likely 1789 and not 1792.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- I. fMS Russian 46: Album of letters
- II. MS Russian 46.1: Album of poetry
- III. MS Russian 46.2: Album of drawings
- IV. fMS Russian 46.3: Album of drawings
- V. MS Russian 46.4: Album given by Zinaida Volkonskaia to her nephew
- VI. fMS Russian 46.5: Illustrated Odessa poems
- VII. fMS Russian 46.6: Giornali scritti spirituali
- VIII. MS Russian 46.7: Notebook
- IX. MS Russian 46.8: Album of Maria Vlasova,
- X. MS Russian 46.9: Working notebook
- XI. fMS Russian 46.10: Poems and compositions by various authors
- A. Poems
- B. Compositions
- XII. fMS Russian 46.11: Letters
- XIII. MS Russian 46.12: Documents
- XIV. pfMS Russian 46.13: History of Russia by Fidele Bruni
- XV. fMS Russian 46.14: Miscellaneous manuscripts, printed music, and other material
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Physical Location
f
Immediate Source of Acquisition
67M-152. Purchased with the Kilgour discretionary fund and with the assistance of the Friends of Harvard College Library from Barone Basilio Lemmerman, Rome, Italy; received: 1967 February 14.
General note
A portion of this collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. See access restrictions below for additional information.
Processing Information
A book by "Trofimoff" is shelved next to volume 8. It is not part of this collection.
- Title
- Volkonskaia, Zinaida Aleksandrovna, kniaginia, 1792-1862. Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaia papers, 1809-1879: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01080
Repository Details
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