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Anatoly Naiman Papers
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Anatoly Naiman (1936-2022) was a Russian poet and translator who for a time served as secretary to fellow Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova. Along with Dmitrii Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, and Evgenii Rein, Anatoly Naiman was a member of the "Akhmatova Orphans" circle, a group of four poets whom Akhmatova called her "magic choir."
The collection primarily consists of correspondence to Russian poet, translator, and writer Anatoly Naiman (1936-2022) from friends, family, and colleagues along with some writings, photographs, personal documents, and clippings. Other individuals represented in the collection include Anna Ahkamatova, Galina Narinskaya, and Naiman's mother, Asya Davidovna Naiman. Additional 20th-century Russian literary figures represented include Joseph Brodsky, Sergei Dovlatov, Lidia Chukovskaya, Evgenii Rein, and Dmitrii Bobyshev.
While processors imposed intellectual organization for Naiman's papers as well as some physical organization of like materials, original order of physical arrangement at the folder level was largely maintained.
Purchased from Anna Narinskaya in 2023 (AM 2024-021).
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Subject
- Russian poetry. -- 20th century
- Poets, Russian -- 21st century -- Sources
- Russian poetry -- 21st century -- Sources
- Literature and state -- Soviet Union. -- 20th century -- Sources
- Translators in literature. -- Sources
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Faith Charlton
- Finding Aid Date
- December 2023
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Collection Inventory
Mostly correspondence to Naiman from family, friends, and colleagues along with some correspondence from Naiman. A good deal of correspondence is addressed to both Naiman and Galina Narinskaya and some to just Galina; some correspondence also involves other senders and recipients. Some of the correspondence includes manuscripts, typescripts, and photographs.
While most of the correspondence has been identified, there is a run of unidentified correspondence and related materials.
Physical Description8 boxes
2 boxes
1 folder
1 folder
received in an envelope labeled "Письма в Bryn Mawr"
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1 letter
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includes letters to Anna Narinskaya and Galina Narinskaya
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letter or draft of letter to Dmitri Bobyshev?
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draft?
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letter addressed to "Raisa Grigor'evna" signed "Tolya, Galya, Anya, and Misha," i.e. Naiman, Galina Narinskaya, and their 2 children
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1 folder
photocopies of correspondence from Naiman to Akhmatova; received in manilla envelope w/ inscription in pencil "Ф 1073, Ахматова А. А., N913. Найман, Анатолий Генрихович. Письма Ахматовой
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From Naiman and others to Anna Akhmatova (and others?)
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7 folders
includes inserted color photographic prints
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may also include letters to his brother
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2 folders
includes inserted photographic print of Anna Narinskaya as a child?
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includes inserted letters from others
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contains enclosed letters written by others
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10 folders
Correspondence addressed to Naiman's mother, Asya Davidnova Naiman, and father, Genrikh Naiman; inserts: homework assignment by young Anatoly Naiman?
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received with blank postcards depicting locales in Israel
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includes miscellaneous inserts, among them an apparent letter to Naiman's mother, Asya Davidnova Naiman, from someone else/ in another hand
Physical Description2 folders
includes one inserted undated letter possibly in another hand; one letter from Anna Narinskaya?
Physical Description1 folder
includes letters from Naiman to his mother and father?; includes photographic prints and other miscellaneous inserts
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in group labeled "Толя;" appears also to contain one letter in a different hand, including one from Liudmila Shtern
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1 folder
Correspondence (letters, postcards, and telegrams) to to Efim Mikhailovich Slavinskii; found in envelope labeled "Славинский в тюрьме" (Slavinsky in prison) included, in folder
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Most of the correspondence is to Naiman unless otherwise noted. A good deal is addressed to both Anatoly and Galina Naiman; some correspondence is neither to nor from Naiman- these are noted if known
Physical Description6 boxes
14 folders
1 folder
1 folder
includes letters from Amanda's Daughter "Becca," one informing Naiman of the death of Amanda
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1 folder
includes inserted photographic prints
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correspondence to Naiman and Galina Narinskaya?
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correspondence to Naiman and Galina Narinskaya?; includes inserted letter from Leigh Caines; another letter signed Mirabeau?
Physical Description2 folders
1 folder
1 folder
Includes correspondence to Naiman from Mary Schwarz (ed. Of Yale Literary Magazine) and draft? handwritten letters from Naiman
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includes draft? handwritten letter from Naiman to Phillimore
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1 folder
48 folders
includes a few letters from Naiman to others?
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
2 folders
2 folders
1 folder
2 folders
1 folder
2 folders
2 folders
includes correspondence from George Kline; includes some slides
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1 folder
1 folder
received in an envelope labeled "Письма в Bryn Mawr;" includes correspondence from George Kline, Tatyana Litvinova?
Physical Description1 folder
includes correspondence from George Kline; includes some slides
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2 folders
includes correspondence from Svetlana Shtutina, Mira Meylakh, Faina Ranevskaya?
Physical Description1 folder
includes correspondence from Svetlana Shtutina; includes photographic prints
Physical Description2 folders
in group labeled "разное;" includes typescript of poem "Весёлая история;" includes letter from Naiman to "Fausto;" letter from Naiman to Narinskaya; unsigned, undated manuscript of prose text entitled "Осада;" set of pencil sketches (unsigned, undated); sundry other inserts
Physical Description1 folder
includes correspondence from Igor Yefimov, Lev and/or Elena Poliakov, Masha Slonim, Liudmila Shtern, Tatiana Litvinova
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includes correspondence from Oleg Tselkov, Masha Slonim?
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1 folder
includes correspondence from Mira Meylac
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some enclude enclosures (e.g. typescripts of poems, newspaper clippings, programs from poetry readings); includes letter from Naiman's mother, Asya Davidnova Naiman?; correspondence from Pamela Davidson
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includes correspondence from Arkadii Zastyrets, Naiman's mother?, Asya Davidnova Naiman; various enclosures
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1 folder
1 folder
includes letters from Igor Yefimov, (originals? Photocopies?) signed by Isaiah Berlin; letters from Tatiana Litvinova? "Таня Бутенева"
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includes photographic prints
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1 folder
1 folder
Letters, postcards
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typescript (with a few handwritten corrections) of a letter, including a contract with the publisher Художественная литература to publish a collection of Brodsky's poems; in envelope labeled in ink "Бродскому от Скороденко" (to Brodsky from Skorodenko)
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in group labeled "Минна"
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1 folder
Correspondence to Naiman's mother from unidentified correspondents
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11 folders
Notes Akhmatova can keep her room after her son's imprisonment; typescript on letterhead with autograph signature; typescript letter informing the Deputy General Secretary of the USSR Writers' Union B. Gorbatov of the head of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route to allow Anna Akhmatova and her son to remain in their apartment
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
sent from Italy
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Telegram from Anna Akhmatova to Anatoly Naiman from Komarovo to Estonia; handwritten by employee of the Soviet postal service?
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1 folder
typescript w/ autograph corrections/marginalia, draft of letter from Anna Akmatova to an official (a petition to allow Nadezhda Mandelshtam to live in Moscow)
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includes typescript transcript
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Postcard
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1 folder
includes letters to Naiman and Galinа Narinskaya
Physical Description22 folders
includes items appeared to be signed Лёва - possible Naiman's brother Лев Генрихович Найман
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
2 folders
includes enclosed photograph; received in an envelope labeled "Письма в Bryn Mawr"
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1 folder
1 folder
includes enclosures of newspaper clippings
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includes enclosures of press clippings, excerpts from print publications
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1 folder
includes enclosures of color photographic prints
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1 folder
1 folder
20 folders
includes typescripts of works by D. Bobyshev
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includes typescripts of works by D. Bobyshev
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includes typescripts of works by D. Bobyshev
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
found in envelope labeled "Вольф. Бобышев. Рейн"
Physical Description1 folder
received in an envelope labeled "Письма в Bryn Mawr"
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appears to include some letters from others
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1 folder
1 folder
typewritten (with a few handwritten corrections) of a letter, including a contract with the publisher Художественная литература to publish a collection of Brodsky's poems; in envelope labeled in ink "Бродскому от Скороденко" (to Brodsky from Skorodenko)
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1 folder
1 folder
set of documents labeled "Женя Р."; includes correspondence, mostly from Rein to Galina Narinskaya; miscellaneous manuscripts, typescripts; one handwritten (on a telegram form) appears to be in the hand of Joseph Brodsky
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set of documents abeled "Женя Р."
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received in envelope addressed to Galina Mikhailovna Rein (Галине Михайловной Рейн)
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the letter dated 1992 was received in an envelope labeled "Письма в Bryn Mawr"
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found in small bag w/ label "Лидия Чуковская/ Люша"
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5 folders
1 folder
1 folder
other correspondents may be represented as letters appear to be in more than one hand
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contains letters apparently in more than one hand, all signed E.S.
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Correspondence to Naiman and Galina Narinskaya
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6 folders
1 folder
found in envelope labeled "Вольф. Бобышев. Рейн"
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With enclosed correspondence written by others
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includes correspondence from others (Marina Yefimova?); inserted photographic prints
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appears to include correspondence from others (Marina Yefimova?), including one letter from Naiman to Igor Yefimov; some typescript enclosures
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1 folder
1968 postcard from Joseph Brodsky addressed to Naiman, and one addressed to Brodsky apparently in Naiman's hand, signed "your Lo-li-ta"; 1989 handwritten postcard in Russian, signed in English "Entirely yours, J.B."; found in envelope labeled "Вольф. Бобышев. Рейн"
Physical Description1 folder
Among the other letters, there is one greeting card (undated), where the signature is difficult to make out, but appears to be in the hand of Brodsky
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
found in small bag w/ label "Лидия Чуковская/ Люша"
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3 folders
1 folder
appears to contain an autograph letter (or part thereof) written by Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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1 folder
includes draft? handwritten letters from Naiman
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in group labeled "Люда Шт."
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Includes letters to Naiman and Galina Narinskaya
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Includes letters from others
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3 folders
Letters, postcards to Naiman from M. Ardov
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one envelope includes an enclosed letter from Stanislav Krasovitsky
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1 folder
4 folders
1 folder
1 folder
received in an envelope labeled "Письма в Bryn Mawr"
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includes correspondence from M. P. Petrov
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includes typescripts of prose and verse texts; newspaper clippings
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one contains inserted letter to Naiman from "Tatiana Toplina"
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Galina's mother; one envelope includes enclosed letter from Stanislav Krasovitsky
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1 folder
1 folder
in group labeled "Света Штутина;" includes letter in different hand singed "Aня"
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includes correspondence from Masha Slonim
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one letter from someone else enclosed; found in envelope labeled "Вольф. Бобышев. Рейн"
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1 folder
received in an envelope labeled "Письма в Bryn Mawr"
Physical Description1 folder
found in envelope labeled "Вольф. Бобышев. Рейн"
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1 folder
5 folders
1 folder
contains inserted letter from others [including Galina Narinskaya's mother?]
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1 folder
received in an envelope labeled "Письма в Bryn Mawr"
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contains letters from others as well
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1 folder
with several manuscript and typescript enclosures, including a multi-page typsecript of poetry
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signed, typescript letter from the Soviet Writers' Committee [Kоммитет литераторов] in support of Naiman's request to travel to the United States
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does not appear to be in the hand of Valentina Polukhina
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24 folders
includes letters from Naiman to his mother, Asya Davidnova Naiman?
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1 folder
1 folder
found in envelope labeled "Вольф. Бобышев. Рейн," includes correspondence from I. Auerbach,
Physical Description1 folder
includes letters from Naiman to his mother and father?
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includes letters from Vladimir Uspensky, E. Khokhlova
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1 folder
includes empty envelope from Forrest Hills, Queens, N.Y.
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
some photographs are included
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some photographs are included
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includes newspaper clippings, dust jacket from Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, v. I/ Somerville MASSACHUSETTS: Zephyr Press
Physical Description1 folder
correspondence with publishers, contracts/agreements related to works; CVs/resumes; medical and family-related correspondence; correspondence related to academic appointments; 1 MS verse text on the verso of a typescript letter
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
in different hands, addressed to "Мамуля," "Мамуся," "Мамочка"; received in envelopes labeled "Г. М. Наринской"
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letters, postcards, photographs; were in envelope labeled "Славинский в тюрьме" (Slavinsky in prison)
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1 folder
letters/ missives in envelope indicating it was sent from the Latvian SSR
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Includes writings by Naiman and others, particularly Anna Akhmatova.
Physical Description4 boxes
4 folders
Typescript
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
3 boxes
Includes manuscripts and correspondence between Dan Cohen and Margo Shohl.
Physical Description1 folder
Typescript (6 pages) with heading "А.А.А. - Материалы А. Г. Наймана," first pages contain basic biographical information on Anna Akhmatova
Physical Description1 folder
Playscript (typescript? mimeograph?) of "Evanna-Eva" by Naiman and Vasilii Alksenov, based on Aksenov's novel Вольтереьянцы и вольтерьянки (Voltairiens and Voltairiennes)
Physical Description1 folder
typescript "Language on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" with handwritten marginalia; unidentified manuscript; clippings from unidentified publication
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Typescript
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miscellaneous clippings, photocopies, and typescripts, including Naiman's "Витёк и Алик"
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miscellaneous manuscripts and typescripts; includes one set folded in half w/ front sheet labeled "Найман. Экспериментальная часть," appears to include manuscript material in different hands
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Multiple sheets of handwritten text
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manuscripts, typescripts of drafts, notes; photocopies; loose pages from publications in green paper folder with label Leopardi/ Найман; some manuscripts, apparently in Naiman's hand
Physical Description1 folder
manuscripts that appear to be in Naiman's hand (or at least most of it); in a rigid folder bearing on the front what appears to be a graphic image of the lamps on Trinity Bridge in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), and on the back bearing the embossed text "РПП З. Зак. 410 Тир.60000, 6-ХХ-70 г. Арт. ЛГ-097-01-379. Цена 90 коп. Изготовлено из отходов" (a series of acronyms/abbreviations and identifying numbers, indicating 60,000 units produced, price of 90 kopecs, and that it was made from scrap materials)
Physical Description1 folder
unidentified handwritten text in notebooks, on cards; one postcard from "Рома;" some typescripts/photocopies with handwritten annotations
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typescripts of works by Naiman; mimeographs/ carbon copies?; miscellaneous manuscripts; originally in enclosure labeled, "Naiman. Early poems"
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typescripts and handwritten text (mostly verse) inside envelope
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Appears to be in Naiman's hand
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includes poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Naiman, English translations of Naiman's poetry by George Kline
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Notebook with dated handwritten entries, including prose and poetry
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Notebook with handwritten entries; one insert typescript; one inserted black and white photograph
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containing notes; drafts of correspondence; texts of poems, including "Как курильщик, кальяном сипя и дымя"
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notebook w/ title page "Форма номер один" (form or uniform numer one); many inserted loose pages w/ handwritten text, apparently in different hands, some postcards
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cardboard folder with manufacturer label "Папка для бумаг" (folder for papers), and manuscripts in ink "Анатолий Генрихович Найман/ 2163075/ Спасибо!/ Трубадуры/ второй экз." (Anatoly Genrikhovich Naiman/ 2163075/ Thank you!/ Troubadors/ second copy) containing manuscripts, typescripts of Russian translations of works by Bertran de Born, other manuscript pages, offprints/ loose pages with published texts, correspondence from the Sorbonne and Centre International de Documentation Occitane, L'Université Paul Valery (1980); Dr. phil. I. Ultich Gschwind (1981); postcard from 1990
Physical Description1 folder
typescript with handwritten annotations of poems
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manuscripts and typescripts of texts received together in a folder: includes handwritten text of Boris Pasternak's poem "Improvisation" followed by the note "Борис Леонидович почему-то торопился непременно дописать этот новый вариант "Импровизации" - и пока Ахматова в Москве."; offprint or loose pages from a book; typescripts titled "Слово об Ахматовой/ из книги;" "Найман/ О поэзии Ахматовой;" "Н.Г. Чулкова/ Анна Ахматова;" envelope labeled "A.A.A." containing typescrips, handwritten notes, telegrams, handwritten note from Akhmatova?
Physical Description1 folder
typescripts, manuscripts, including drafts and some correspondence, most if not all related to Naiman's translation of troubadour verse
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manuscript and typescript translations of poetry by other poets, in a white card folder with a green and yellow front-cover design
Physical Description1 folder
typescripts of works, including "Сентябрьская поэма"; also included are greetings cards dated August 25 1979
Physical Description1 folder
miscellaneous typescripts (some with handwritten corrections, marginalia) photocopies, and manuscripts including, "Русская поэма: четыре опыта", "Akhmatova's Lessons," "The Status of Literature in Russia," "Великая душа," "Fall Notes upon Summer Impressions: A talk delivered at the WWC seminar in the Kennan Institute, 3. Dec. 1994," "A Jew in Two Cases"
Physical Description1 folder
70 pages
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Романс Розы Бутон (из телеспектакля слова А. Наймана, музыка Э. Артемьева (Romance of Rosa Buton from the television show "The Mystery of Erwin Drud," words by A. Naiman, music by E. Artem'ev); handwriting in ink on verso: "Сборник "Занавес поднят" песни и романсы из драматических спектаклей. Москва "Музыка" 1986 г." (Anthology "The Curtain's Up", songs and romances from shows. Moscow "Music" 1986)
Physical Description1 folder
Typescript of collection of Naiman's poems "Роща" (The Grove)
Physical Description1 folder
Inscription on inside of folder: Anatolii Gerikhovich Naiman. Moscow. I -434. Dmitrovskoe shosse. d. 29 kv. 56
Physical Description1 folder
Typescript of Naiman's collection of verse "Сентиментальный марш" (Sentimental march); original enclosure included handwritten label: "Найман А.Г., Л-д Ф-126, ул. Правды 12 кв. 50, [Н?]-47-21"
Physical Description1 folder
typescripts/ offprints of poems - collection of verse Экстерриториальность - published in 2006 by the press "Новое издательство"; received in envelope labeled экстериториальность [sic.] - misspelling of title of one of Naiman's collections of verse: экстерриториальность
Physical Description1 folder
possibly galley proofs of Naiman's book of poetry that may not have been published
Physical Description1 folder
2 boxes
photocopies of typescripts and manuscript poetry, first page reading "Seeds of Silence. Amanda Haight;" accompanied by materials on a 1991 conference on Giacomo Leopardi ("VIII Convegno Internazionale Leopardiano Lingua e Stile di Giacomo Leopardi, Recanati, 30 settembre - 5 ottobre 1991")
Physical Description1 folder
miscellaneous manuscripts and typescripts; original folder labelled "Чужие стихи" (others' poems or other people's poems)
Physical Description3 folders
Includes Akhmatova's translations of poetry by Giaccomo Leopardi, Akhmatova's own poetry, a manuscript with verse text signed by Amanda Haight, a publishing contract with the Государственное издательство художественной литературы
Physical Description1 folder
typescript, autograph inscription "Дорогим Гале и Толе с надеждой, радостью, благодарностью, и всем, что ещё бывает райского на земле. Наташа" [To Dear Galya and Tolya with hope, joy, gratitude, and all things celestial still encountered on earth. Natasha"]
Physical Description1 folder
Typescript translations of Naiman's verse by Margo Rosen, along with a related letter from Rosen to Naiman, dated 1998
Physical Description1 folder
handwritten writings in several small, numbered pages w/ numbered entries; found in envelope labeled "A. Найман/ Заметки корректора/ ЛЧ" and apparently in the hand of Lidia Chukovskaia
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Manuscript essay by Roman Timenchik on Anna Akhmatova's play "Пролог" [Prologue], along with typescript draft of that play
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Appears to include text from Valeria Sergeevna Sreznevskaia's remembrances of Akhmatova; smaller envelope labeled "To Anna Andreevna Akhmatova" A. Naiman?, on the inside 6 lines of handwritten verse text
Physical Description1 folder
14 folders
Typescript with handwritten insertions, marginalia, Anna Akhmatova "From the Cycle "Tashkent Pages"" (Из цикла "Ташкентские страницы")
Physical Description1 folder
Manuscript draft/transcript of Anna Akhamtova's poem "Пролог, или сон во сне" [Prologue, or Dream within A Dream]"
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Мanuscript (draft?) of poem by Anna Akhmatova ("Только тайно, чтоб никто не ведал")
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Anna Akhmatova, typescript drafts of her essay on Amadeo Modigliani with autograph corrections/marginalia
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typescript of 2 poems with autograph corrections/marginalia: "Услаждала бредами" and "Кто чего боится"
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Typescript with handwritten corrections/marginalia, Услаждала бредами, drafts of Anna Akmatova's prose/verse work "Листы из дневника" [Pages from a Diary]
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Typescript of poem (Царскосельская ода) with handwritten corrections/marginalia
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Includes typescript of poem Предвесенняя элегия with handwritten corrections/marginalia and a miscellaneous work
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Typescript of Поэма без героя and footnotes for same with handwritten corrections/marginalia
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Typescript with handwritten corrections/marginalia - a piece from the second part of Anna Akhmatova's Поэма без героя (Poem without A Hero)
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Autograph of poem "Шестая" (Услаждала бредами,/ Пением могил…)
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3 folders
3 notebooks that appear to be in hand of Naiman's mother; notebook for 1984-1986 includes one insert postcard
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notebook that appears to be in hand of Naiman's mother; includes inserts such as handwritten and typescript manuscripts and postcards
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notebook/diary that appears to be in the hand of Naiman's mother.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes various writings and correspondence as well as an image of a 1959 letter from Anna Akhmatova. Some filenames include: Autobiog, Babel, Babette, Crisis.Lng, Diary, Galia, Jews, Letters, Story, Sultan, among others.
Physical Description40 digital files
Includes awards, diplomas, attestations, personal identification, family, and financial documents.
Physical Description10 folders
from Октябрь: литературно-художественный журнал; The American Pushkin Academy of Arts
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a letter (undated) from the Leningrad Division of the USSR Writers Union attesting Naiman's participation in the 6th regional young writers conference; appraisal of Naiman's performance as a student of the Lensovet Technological Institute
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1 folder
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copies of birth certificates for Naiman and his son; diplomas; official correspondence; miscellaneous photocopies, typescripts, offprints, clippings
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Maxwell Micro Floppy Disk MF2.dd; handwritten on label "Naiman 94 (Wordperfect 5.1) CV"
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Includes: copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, divorce certificates, immigration documents, death certificate for Naiman's father (Genrikh Naiman), marriage license for Naiman's parents?, Savings account booklet, handwritten list of items given to Charles Isakovich Burdo in 1987
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3 personal address and phone books
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A majority of photographs are of Anna Akhmatova; most are black and white prints. There are some photographs scattered throughout the Correspondence series as noted in the description there.
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mostly family photographs; some are postcards; mostly prints with some negatives from 1978
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3 prints of the same photographic portrait in an envelope labeled "Е. С. Лeвитину" (to E. S. Levitin)
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color photographs of Joseph Brodsky with unidentified other man (Oleg Tselkov?), woman, apparently in New York City; black and white prints with text in pencil on verso, some featuring Akhmatova, one featuring Boris Pasternak?, Marina Tsvetaeva?; clipping of Ольшевский М. Анна Ахматова. Отношение к моей родине. - Советская молодежь, Рига, 1965, 3 июля; received in/ alongside envelope bearing ink inscription "Целков и др." followed by "Ахматовское и канон" crossed out
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14 B&W photographic prints, featuring Akhmatova, Lev Gumilev
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with autograph inscription to Tatiana Litvinova on verso
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with autograph inscription on verso
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with autograph inscription to Naiman on verso
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with autograph inscriptions on versos (second reads "Т. Наконец-то эта фотография… А. 10 июня 1964 Москва) [T. Finally, this photo. June 10 1964, Moscow]
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by Boris Shwartsman; 2 negatives with Shwartzman's signature on the enclosures
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taken by Lev Polyakov and signed by him on versos
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some inscribed by her
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with autograph inscription to Naiman on verso
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October 2004 issue of the journal "October." Featuring publication of manuscript of "unknown poem" by Anna Akhmatova with commentary by Naiman. Pages/ other material inserted.
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Наш Скопус, Commentary, Неприкосновенный запас, Linea d'Ombra, Носталгия: журнал для современников, Эксперт
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pages from a 1915 issue of the journal Аполлон, containing the text of Akhamatova's poem "У самаго моря" ["Right by the sea"] with autograph inscription to Naiman (1965)
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w/ autograph marginalia and an inscription by Akhmatova to Naiman
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Includes various correspondence, writings, photographs, and ephemera; some materials relate to Joseph Brodsky
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Includes miscellaneous manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies, correspondence, offprints, loose pages from publications that were found in the same folder; includes typescript of "A Word on Akhmatova;" as well as letters from M. Adrov, Naiman's parents, and Amanda Haight
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Includes a photograph labeled as taken in a Russian church in Claremont, Vermont; correspondence from: Naiman's mother, Ася Давидовна Найман (Asya Davidovna Naiman), Lidia Chukovskaya, Henry Hardy, George Kline; and a color, photographic print of Naiman, Galya Narinskaya, Joseph Brodsky
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variety of typescripts, offprints, manuscripts, photocopies, clippings related to Joseph Brodsky; 1 photograph of Brodsky found in manilla envelope labeled "Бродксий" (Brodsky)
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received in single folder: photographic negatives; manuscript signed "Joseph Brodsky" w/ the heading "Fast-Shrift (sic.) for George L. Kline;" musical score (MSS?) w/ lyrics; unsigned MSS of the poem "Льдины трещали, звенели морозы" by Tatyana Kazanskaya; typescripts of correspondence addressed to Soviet state agencies; MSS letter addressed "Дорогой Иосиф;" newspaper clippings; loose pages from publications; typescript of a poem entitled "Блудный сын"
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Three 5.25" floppy disks. One includes a description: Naim-Chu.rch.
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