A Guide to Scholarly Resources on the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the New York Metropolitan Area by Robert A. Karlowich

Author:Robert A. Karlowich [Karlowich, Robert A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781315490755
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

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NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF THE PERFORMING ARTS AT LINCOLN CENTER BILLY ROSE THEATRE COLLECTION, PERFORMING ARTS RESEARCH CENTER

111 Amsterdam Avenue

New York, NY 10023

Dorothy L. Swerdlove

Curator

TELEPHONE 212 870–1639 (Reference)

SCHEDULE Mon and Thur 10:00 a.m.–7:45 p.m.; Tues, Wed, Fri–Sat 10:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m.; summer hours: Mon–Sat 10:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m.

ACCESS Open to the public.

FACILITIES Reading room. Photocopying and photography permitted depending on copyright/donor restrictions and on physical condition of material.

HISTORY 1929 gift of the David Belasco Collection of typescripts, photographs, original designs, and scrapbooks prompted the establishment within the New York Public Library of a special Theatre Collection in 1931.

HOLDINGS Newspaper/periodical clippings, promptbooks, programs, playbills, letters, legal papers, manuscripts, costume and stage designs, photographs, posters, correspondence, books, periodicals, scrapbooks, prints, lithographs, slides, motion picture and television stills, pen and pencil portraits (including theatrical caricatures), pamphlets devoted to performing arts, including stage, film, radio, television, circus, carnivals, amusement parks, industrial shows, vaudeville, burlesque, night clubs, magic, minstrels, and marionettes.

SPECIAL FEATURES Oliver Sayler collection of photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, etc., on the Moscow Art Theatre. A collection of photographs, programs, clippings and memorabilia on Nikita Balieff and the Chauve-Souris Company. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood papers, documenting her long association with Stanislavski as friend and translator of his works into English; the collection includes a 715-page typescript in Russian of An Actor Prepares (with each page initialed by Stanislavski), as well as correspondence between Stanislavski and Gordon Craig concerning Stanislavski’s autobiography, My Life in Art.

Grant & Brown list entries from the “Catalog” (see below, CATALOGS) citing an “impressive amount of Russian/Soviet-related material under a variety of headings, such as “Drama, Russian”;

“Drama, Ukrainian—Translations into Carpatho-Russian.” Under “Drama, Russian—Translations into English” and “Drama—Promptbooks and typescripts” there is a listing of working scripts for plays by Leonid N. Andreyev, Mikhail P. Artzybashev, Blok, Bulgakov, Chekhov, Jacques Deval, Dostoevskii, Osip Dymov, Aleksei M. Faiko, Gogol’, Gorkii, Valentin P. Katayev, Konstantin Ya. Khal’fin, Piotr Korvin-Krukovski (pseud.: Pierre Newsky), A. J. Kosorotow, August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue, Albert Lortzing, Lev Natanovich Lunz, Princess Alexandra Melikoff, A. Nabatov, Attila Orbok, Mendel Osherowitch, Aleksandr N. Ostrovski, Yevgenii Petrovich Petrov, Pushkin, S. Semionov-Polonski, George Shdanoff, Konstantin M. Simonov, Vladimir S. Solov’iov, Aleksandr V. Sukhovo-Kobylin, Il’ya D. Surguchev, Aeksei K. Tolstoi, Sergei M. Tret’yakov, Boris Tumarin, L. Tur, Ivan S. Turgenev, Lev N. Urvantzov, Nikolai N. Yevreinov, and Gerald Zoffer.

Under the heading “Non-Book Collection” and “Cage File,” Grant & Brown give a “selected” list of individuals, subjects, and works …, stating that the “collections include such material as photographs, clippings, programs, reviews, and articles.”

Actors and Acting—Russia;

Chingiz Aitmatov;

Aleksei Abuzov;

Brooks Atkinson—Correspondence from the 1950s about the Russian theater, A. Chekhov, etc.;

A. Chekhov;

“The Cherry Orchard”—Correspondence, business papers, graphics, etc., concerning U.S. productions of this play, actors and actresses in it, etc.;

Cinema—Russia/Russian;

Cinema—Stars—Russian;

Circus—Russia;

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein—Original caricatures;

Alexandra Exter—Original design (curtain) for Moscow’s Kamerny Theatre (1914);

Hallie Flanagan—Scrapbook with programs, clippings, manuscript notes, and letters relating to her trip to visit Russian theaters (1926);

N. Gogol;

Maksim Gorkii;

Boris Goudounov—Color costume sketch by Leon Bakst; and wash drawings of costumes for Boris (Kate Friedheim Collection);

Vassily Ivanovitch

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