Call Number:

C0350

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.4 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Selected Papers of Irina Skariatina, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1932-1944 (inclusive)

Creator:

Skariatina, Irina, d. 1962

Form:

Correspondence. and Manuscripts.

Abstract:

Consists of papers of Irina Skariatina, reflecting her Russian emigre experience and her years as a war correspondent for Collier's during World War II.

Irina Skariatina was a Russian-American author and lecturer.

The collection consists of works, correspondence, a charcoal portrait, miscellaneous material, and newspaper clippings of Skariatina, reflecting her Russian emigre experience and her years as a war correspondent for Collier's during World War II. The collection includes manuscripts for her books First to Go Back (1933), Little Era in Old Russia (1934), which is an autobiography of her early years as a child in pre-revolutionary Russia, and Skyward to Moscow, and for several magazine articles. In addition, there are twenty-one unidentified letters to her in Russian.