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Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, a subject file, and printed materials. Much of the collection consists of manuscripts and memoirs by V. M. Andreevskii: his memoirs up to 1917; memoirs of a trip to Palestine in 1881; and his diary for 1919-1931. Also included is a typescript copy of the memoirs of historian Boris Chicherin, entitled "N.I. Krivtsov." Many of the printed materials concern the Orthodox Church in emigration. Another item, dated 1885, is: "Spravochnaia kniga (instruktsiia) dlia rukovodstva gorodovym i voobshche nizhnim politseiskim sluzhiteliam."

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, books and periodicals. There are two letters from Aleksandr Glazunov and one each from Aleksandr Grechaninov and Nikolaĭ Metner. The manuscripts deal with both cultural affairs and the Russian Revolution. Among the cultural topics are essays on music, Isadora Duncan, Maksim Gorḱiĭ and literary affairs. There are articles about general aspects of the Revolution and about such individuals as Lenin, Stalin, Chicherin, Dzerzhinskiĭ and Kamenev. Many of the articles are memoiristic in nature, particularly those about life in Moscow and in the provinces during the Revolution, Dzerzhinskiĭ and Kamenev. There are clippings of articles written by Sabaneev and a number of books and periodicals either written by Sabaneev or containing articles by him.