question about archives in Moscow and Petersburg

[Harris, Adrienne M.]

Dear Judy,

Your graduate student might find a guide to Russian archives (compiled by SAMANTHA SHERRY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD
JONATHAN WATERLOW, ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, ANDY WILLIMOTT, SSEES, UCL, sponsored by BASEES) to be very useful.  I'll send it to you individually.  Other readers can find it by accessing Andy Willimott's academia.edu page or by emailing me directly Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu<mailto:Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu> -note-there is an underscore between my first and last names.

My experience at RGALI has been similar to Otto Boele's.  I would urge your student to order documents prior to arrival if he or she has citations.  I have had overwhelmingly positive experiences at the Komsomol archive, which is part of RGASPI-I'm not sure if the FSB archive is part of RGASPI.  The last time I copied something at RGALI, it cost around $1/page.  There were limits on how many pages I could copy from a given work.  I did have to pay for these copies at Sperbank in the manner that Dr. Boele detailed.   I would advise your student to transcribe text whenever possible.  If one arrives early, one can usually get a table with an electrical outlet.


All the best,
Adrienne

Adrienne M. Harris, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Russian (Associate Professor, effective August 2014)
Modern Languages and Cultures
Baylor University

One Bear Place #97391
Waco, TX 76798-7391
(254) 644-5718
Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu<mailto:Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu>



From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of KALB, JUDITH
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:35 PM
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Subject: [SEELANGS] question about archives in Moscow and Petersburg

Dear colleagues,
I have a graduate student (Russian native, studying in US) planning to work this summer at RGALI, TsGALI, GOPB, GARF and the FSB archive.  If you have worked in any of these locations recently, could you possibly let me know how helpful/not you found staff (how are current tensions affecting access) and also what kind of financial charges you encountered? We'd be very grateful for any information.  Thank you!
Judy

Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
jkalb at sc.edu<mailto:jkalb at sc.edu>

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