SUMMARY:

The greater part of this archival section comprises correspondence between Dmitri Nikolaevich Fedotoff White and Dimitri von Mohrenschildt; in addition, it includes two letters from Fedotoff White to Michael M. Karpovich, one letter to Geroid Robinson, one from Philip Mosely to Fedotoff White, and one from Sergei Yakobson to Chamberlin. (This correspondence is preserved in three different collections. The biggest portion of it, the correspondence between D. N. Fedotov White and Dimitri von Mohrenschildt, is in Fedotov White’s collection in the Bakhmeteff Archive, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Letters from Karpovich are taken from his collection also in the Bakhmeteff Archive; several letters are from the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University, where they are in the collection of the Russian Review.) Taken together, they give an idea of the process that led to the creation of the Russian Review − the first specialized journal in the United States devoted to Russia’s culture and history – of the problems faced by those involved in its preparation, and how they were resolved.