Vladimir Feofilovich Zeeler Papers, ca. 1870-1950 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Papers of Zeeler. They consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and memorabilia. A sizable part of the collection concerns the painter Ili︠́a︡ Repin (1844-1930). Included are letters to Zeeler from Repin and his children; photographs of Repin; and his artist's brushes. Other correspondents include: Konstantin Balḿont; Aleksandr Benois; Ivan Bunin; Vladislav Khodasevich, Aleksandr Kuprin; Pavel Mili︠u︡kov; Sergeĭ Rakhmaninov; Nikkolaĭ Roerich; and Ivan Shmelev. There are one or two letters each from Marc Chagall, Mikhail Fokin, Knut Hamsun (copy), Rudyard Kipling (copy), Vladimir Nabokov, Leonid Pasternak, Sergeĭ Kusevit︠s︡kiĭ, Dmitriĭ Merezhkovskiĭ, and Fedor Shali︠a︡pin. (Some of this correspondence concerns Repin.) Manuscripts include poems by Balḿont, stories by Kuprin, and novels by Shmelev; there is also a nearly-complete manuscript of "Pami︠a︡ti pogibshikh" (1929), a collection dedicated to the memory of Kadet Party members who had died in 1917-1921, edited by Zeeler and others. There are many photographs, some inscribed, of major cultural figures in the Russian emigration, including most of the people listed above, and also Leonid Andreev, Zinaida Gippius, Nikolaĭ Berdi︠a︡ev, Maksim Gorḱiĭ, and Aleksandr Grechaninov, and many other major persons