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The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, documents, photographs, subject files, and printed materials. Among the correspondents are Louis Marin, Mikhail Osorgin, Alekseĭ Remizov, Boris Ubegaun, George Vernadsky, and the "Eurasianists" Petr Savitskiĭ and Petr Suvchinskiĭ; there is one letter from Nikolaĭ Marr. There is the manuscript of Nikitin's memoirs, "Arabeski: pochemu i︠a︡ stal vostochnikom?" There are extensive notes of lectures by Nikolaĭ Berdi︠a︡ev in 1925. Numerous photographs date from Nikitin's service in Iran. Subject files concern the Eurasian movement (evraziĭstvo), and the Committee "For Return to the Homeland" ("Za Vozvrashchenie na Rodinu"). Printed materials largely consist of Nikitin's own writings.

Collection consists of correspondence, writings and printed materials pertaining primarily to the activities of the Eurasianists - a political movement in the Russian emigre community in the 1920s. Suvchinskii was one of the key leaders of the movement, along with Prince Nikolai Trubetzkoy, P.N. Savitsky, D. S. Mirsky, S. Efron, and, initially, philosopher Georges Florovsky. Eurasianism (known in Russian as "evraziistvo") posited that Russian civilization does not belong in the "European" category, and that the Soviet regime was capable of evolving into a new national, non-European Orthodox Christian government, shedding the initial mask of proletarian internationalism and militant atheism (which the Eurasianists were strongly opposed to). The collection includes correspondence and a number of the movement's publications.