Brasol, Boris,  1885- <br/><br/>
Boris Brasol papers, 1919-1954. 

 - 22,000  items. 64  containers. 25.6  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 11 series.  Series 1: Political Correspondence, 1922-1952; Series 2: Personal Correspondence, 1934-1952; Series 3: Anti-Soviet Campaign, 1919-1948; Series 4: Jewish File, 1920; Series 5: Post-Revolutionary Russia, circa 1919-1922; Series 6: Legal File, circa 1925-1950; Series 7: Vladimir von Koeppen File, 1921-1927; Series 8: Speeches, circa 1922-1930; Series 9: Literary File, 1920-1954; Series 10: Newspaper Clippings, circa 1919-1921; and Series 11: Addition, 1925-1941. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, literary manuscripts, notes, and other papers relating to Russia and the Soviet Union and to Brasol's writings and work as a criminologist and literary critic.  Subjects include criminology, crime detection in European countries as compiled by the Criminological Survey of the Columbia University School of Law, Edgar Allan Poe, the Zionist movement, investigations into the assassinations of the Romanovs, efforts of White Russian émigrés to deny the Soviet Union official international recognition as the legitimate government of Russia, and the 1920s libel suit instituted by Herman Bernstein against Henry Ford for the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.  Includes drafts of Brasol's translation of The Diary of a Writer (1949) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, materials for Brasol's book on Oscar Wilde including typescript copies and extracts of Wilde's letters, and files concerning Vladimir von Koeppen.  Correspondents include Vyvyan Beresford Holland, Allan Wade, John Hall Wheelock, and the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (Md.). 
<br/><br/><br/>Russian author, criminologist, lawyer, and lecturer.  Died, 1963. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English and Russian. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011021 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 81013672  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bernstein, Herman, 1876-1935 --Trials, litigation, etc.<br/>Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 --Trials, litigation, etc.<br/>Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886-1967 --Correspondence.<br/>Nicholas II,  Emperor of Russia,  1868-1918 --Assassination.<br/>Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. <br/>Von Koeppen, Vladimir.<br/>Wade, Allan, 1881-1955 --Correspondence.<br/>Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978 --Correspondence.<br/>Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. <br/>Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 --Correspondence.<br/>Romanov, House of.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Columbia University. School of Law. <br/>Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (Md.)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Protocols of the elders of Zion.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Antisemitism--United States.<br/>Criminal investigation--Europe.<br/>Criminology.<br/>Criticism.<br/>Jews--United States.<br/>Russian literature.<br/>Soviet literature.<br/>Zionism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Russia.<br/>United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.<br/>Soviet Union.<br/>Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Authors.<br/>Criminologists.<br/>Critics.<br/>Lawyers.