Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Natal’ia Apollinarievna Logunova

A Register Of Her Papers, 1930-1972
At Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Prepared by Vladimir Von Tsurikov

Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Jordanville, New York
2008

Descriptive Summary

Collection Title:
Natal’ia Apollinarievna Logunova Papers, 1930-1972

Creator:
Natal’ia Apollinarievna Logunova

Extent:

Repository:
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
P.O. Box 36, Jordanville, New York, 13361
Phone/Fax: (315) 858-0945
Email: info@hts.edu
http://www.hts.edu

Abstract:
These papers consist primarily of materials collected by Vladimir Konkordovich Abdank-Kossovskii for the exhibit “Zarubezhnaia Rus’,” which chronicled the fate and life of Russian émigrés beginning in 1916 up to 1961.

Language:
Russian, English

Biographical Note

1903 February 26	Born, Odessa, Russia
1920	Fled to Romania
1944	Deported to German camps, later lived in Displaced persons camps
1952	Arrived in the United States of America
1962	Author, Irina
1968	Author, Olenka Bell

Scope And Content Note

These papers contain the correspondence and writings of Natal’ia Logunova, a Russian journalist and writer, who emigrated to the United States, and also used the pen-names Nataliia Snarskaia, Nikolai Tallin, and NETLI. Logunova’s CORRESPONDENCE includes letters to publishers and writers. Among her SPEECHES AND WRITINGS are two published novels, Irina and Olen’ka Bell, as well as numerous articles, unpublished novels, plays, and short stories. A recurring theme in her writings is the fate of Russian émigrés, particular in the Displaced Persons camps. Of particular interest is her unpublished memoir “Tri epokhi.”

Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and the Holy Trinity Seminary. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials remain in the Holy Trinity Seminary Archives as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is appended to this register. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Series Description

Box Nos	Series
1	DIARY, 1970-1972
1	CORRESPONDENCE, 1949-1972 and undated. Address lists, cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
1-8	SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1943-1978. Articles, drafts, notebooks, notes, and monographs, arranged chronologically by title
8	PRINTED MATTER, 1961. Clippings from Novoe russkoe slovo and Russkaia zhizn’
8	PHOTOGRAPHS, 1930-1962 and undated. 325 prints depicting Natal’ia Logunova and various persons (mostly unidentified)
8	ARTWORK, 1952. One colored oil portrait

Container List

Box Nos	Folder Nos	Contents
1.	1	DIARIES, 1970-1972. Holograph
		CORRESPONDENCE, 1949-1972 and undated
		General, undated
		Addresses
	2	General, undated. Holograph (undated). Includes list of bookstores and radio stations
	3	Publishers, undated. Holograph (notebook). Includes list of documents sent to the Bakhmeteff archives at Columbia University, and recipients of Logunova’s novel Irina in 1963
	4	Letters, 1969-1972 and undated
	5	Postcards, 1950-1972 and undated
	6	Unidentified, 1949-1972 and undated
	7	Brunner, Robert Mikhailovich, 1956-1971 and undated
	8	Delianich, Ariadna Ivanovna, 1972
	9	Evets, Arkadii Ivanovich, 1972
	10	Foster, Ludmila Aleksandrovna, 1972 and undated
	11	Ginsburg, Mirra, 1970
	12	Harkins, William, 1970
	13	Iiulianiia, Abbess, 1972 and undated
	14	International Pen Club, 1969-1971
	15	Iur’eva, Zoia Osipovna, 1970
	16	Koenig, Liubov’, undated
	17	Koriakov, Mikhail Mikhailovich, undated
	18	Langer, Georg, 1967
	19	Lukashkin, Anatolii Stefanovich, 1972
	20	Magerovskii, Lev Florianovich, 1961-1972 and undated. Includes several lists of materials forwarded to the Bakhmeteff Archive of Columbia University
	21	Maksimova-Vertepova, Tamara Borisovna, 1972 and undated
	22	Mart’ianov, Nikolai Nikolaevich, 1972
	23	Mort, Viktor Konstantinovich, undated
	24	Mosley, Philip E., 1961
	25	Museum of Russian Culture, 1969
	26	Perov, Pavel Nikolaevich, 1972
	27	Petrov, Nikolai Ivanovich, 1972
	28	Pozdniakov, Vladimir Vasilievich, 1972
	29	Pronin, A., 1970
	30	Savin, Valerian Luk’ianovich, 1971-1972 and undated
	31	Sokolov, Vladimir Dimitrievich, 1972
	32	Tanchik, Elizaveta, 1972
	33	Taranenko, Grigorii Daniilovich, 1972
	34	Tsertitskii, Gleb and Mariia, 1964-1969 and undated
	35	Veinbaum, Mark Efimovich, 1958-1972
		SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1943-1978 and undated
		General
		General
	36	Undated. Typescripts

2.	1	1951-1971. Holographs and typescripts
		Articles
		General
	2	General, 1955-1962. Holographs and typescripts
	3	English publications, 1959 and undated. Typescripts. Includes related correspondence and an outline for a scenario
		Russian – literary subjects
	4	General, 1949-1969 and undated. Holographs and typescripts
	5	Gogol, Nikolai, 1949-1952. Holographs
	6	Pasternak, Boris, 1965-1969 and undated. Holograph and typescripts
	7	Paustovskii, Konstantin, 1968-1978. Holograph and typescripts
	8	Pushkin, Aleksandr, 1947-1949 and undated. Holographs and typescripts
	9	Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 1963-1969. Typescripts
	10	Nashi vesti, 1957-1959. Typescripts
		Novoe russkoe slovo, 1949-1972 and undated. Typescripts.
	11	1949-1959 and undated
	12	1960-1972
	13	Russkaia mysl’, 1959-1964 and undated. Includes listing of Logunova’s publications in Russkaia mysl’. Holograph and typescripts

3.	1	Russkaia zhizn’, 1956-1961 and undated. Typescripts
	2	Soglasie, 1953-1958. Typescripts
	3	Notebooks, 1944-1951 and undated. Holographs. Includes plays, notes and short stories
	4	Notes, 1946-1957 and undated. Holographs
	5	Poetry, 1954-1967 and undated. Holographs and typescripts
	6	“Bab’e leto (Indeiskoe leto),” undated. Typescript
	7	“Bespravnye,” undated. Typescript
	8	“Bol’sheviki prishli,” undated. Typescript
	9	“Chekisty v riase,” undated. Typescript
	10	“Chernyi,” undated. Holograph and typescripts. Includes English versions entitled “Blacky”
	11	“Deti na stsene,” undated. Typescript
	12	“Diadi Soso,” undated. Typescript
	13	“Dva snovideniia,” undated. Typescript
	14	“General Meleter i ego sem’ia,” undated.
	15	“Gvozd’ v kresle,” (Play), undated. Typescript
	16	“Iz rodnogo goroda,” undated. Typescripts
	17	“Kommunizm bez prikras,” undated. Typescript
	18	“Odessa,” undated collection of essays. Typescript. Includes handwritten notes

4.	1	“Okhotnich’i rasskazy,” undated. Holograph and typescript
	2	“Po amerikanskim zhurnalam,” undated. Holograph and typescript
	3	“Posle tretei mirovoi,” undated. Typescript of movie script
	4	“Pered litsem vechnosti,” undated. Typescripts
	5	“Pervyi opyt (iz okhotnicheskikh rasskazov,” and other short stories, undated. Typescript
	6	“Pesni zakliuchennykh,” undated. Typescript
	7	“Reka poshla,” undated. Typescript
	8	Sbornik rasskazov, undated. Printed copy of short stories dated 1943-1949. This publication is published under N. Logunova’s pen name “Nikolai Tallin”
	9	“Sevastopol’tsy,” undated. Typescript
	10	“Svoboda dukha i odinochestvo,” undated. Typescript with handwritten corrections
	11	“Urodets,” undated. Typescript
	12	“V Moskve,” undated. Typescript
	13	“Vstrecha s NKVDistami,” undated. Typescript
	14	“Kogda skuchaet Amur,” 1944. Holograph, typescript
	15	“Proidennyi etap (dnevniki byvsh. DP),” 1945-1952. Typescript
	16	“Vyzdorovlenie,” 1946. Holograph and typescripts
	17	“Samyi luchshii,” (Play), 1949. Holograph, typescripts
	18	“Bez rodiny,” (Play), 1950. Holograph, 7 notebooks

5.	1	Children’s plays, 1951 and undated. Printed copy and typescript
	2	“V amerikanskoi sem’e,” 1953. Typescript
	3	“Krolikovodstvo v SSSR,” 1954. Typescript
	4	“Khorosha strana moia rodnaia,” 1959. Typescript
	5	“Chelovek bez litsa,” 1958. Holograph and typescripts. Includes several outlines of an English version entitled “Man Without a Face”
	6	“Kvartira,” 1959. Holograph, typescript
	7	“Nebesnye verbliuzhata,” 1960. Typescript
	8	“Zhizn’ nachinaetsia snachala,” 1960. Typescript, several versions of the author’s movie script based on the novel “Pered litsem vechnosti”
	9	“Chetyre vremeni goda,” 1961. Typescript
	10	“Rasskazy i povesti,” 1961. Typescript
	11	Irina, 1962. Printed copy

6.	1	“Snezhnaia respublika,” 1964. Typescript
	2	“Otkrovennyi razgovor,” 1965. Typescript
	3-4	“Sovetskii soiuz – Amerika,” 1967. Typescript of a collection of memoirs previously published as separate articles in Novoe Russkoe slovo and Russkaia zhizn’ between 1949 and 1967
	5	Olen’ka Bell, 1968. Printed copy. Includes correspondence and notes relating to the book
	6	“Padaiut list’ia,” 1968. Typescripts
		“Tri epokhi,” 1971. Typescript
	7	Pages 1-226

7.	1	Pages 227-452
	2	Pages 453-755
	3	Pages 756-992
	4	Pages 993-1188

8.	1	Pages 1189-1358
	2	Pages 1359-1435
	3	PRINTED MATTER, 1961. Clippings of articles from Novoe russkoe slovo and Russkaia zhizn’
		PHOTOGRAPHS, 1930-1962 and undated
	4	1930 and undated. Two prints of unidentified persons
	5	1937. Nikitskii sad in Crimea. Natal’ia Logunova with and unidentified group of people, 2 prints
	6	1946-1947. Hameln, Germany. Two prints of Natal’ia Logunova with a grouph of unidentified persons. One print includes Bishop Nafanail (L’vov)
	7	1930-1962. Includes photographs of Logunova’s stay in displaced persons camps in Germany, as well as after her arrival in the United States. 148 prints
	8	1962. Cape Cod, MA, 19 prints
	9	ARTWORK, 1952. Colored oil portrait of Natal’ia Logunova