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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Peter A. Demens papers, 1880-2000 (bulk 1892-1919)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Demens, Peter A.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1850-1919</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Tverskoĭ, P. A.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1850-1919</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">rus</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, articles, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers relating primarily to Demens's authorship of articles for the Russian journal Viestnik Evropy and for Russian and American newspapers.  Subjects include American politics and presidential campaigns; the annexation of Hawaii; Cuba; Dukhobors and their immigration to Canada; treatment of Jews in Russia; the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; Bloody Sunday, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1905; Molokans in California and Hawaii; World War I; the Russian revolution; and Demen's life in California and Florida.  Includes a bibliography of works by Demens writing as P.A. Tverskoĭ and a publication from a symposium on Demens held in 2000.  Correspondents include Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko; Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, kni͡azʹ; Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost͡sev; L.Z. Slonimskīĭ; M. Stasiulevich; A.S. Suvorin; graf Leo Tolstoy; and S.A. Vengerov.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Author, businessman, railroad promoter, and entrepreneur.  Born Pyotr Alekseyevich Dementyev; a Russian nobleman and an officer of the Tsar's guards.  Also wrote under the name P.A. Tverskoĭ.</note>
  <note>Collection material in Russian, with English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008065">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008065</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Korolenko, Vladimir Galaktionovich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1921</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">kni͡azʹ</namePart>
      <namePart>Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1921</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pobedonost͡sev, Konstantin Petrovich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1827-1907</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Slonimskīĭ, L. Z. (Leonid Zinovʹevich)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1918</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stasi͡ulevich, M. (Mikhail)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1911</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Suvorin, A. S. (Alekseĭ Sergeevich)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1912</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">graf</namePart>
      <namePart>Tolstoy, Leo</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1828-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Vengerov, S. A</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Vi͡estnik Evropy</title>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Dukhobors</topic>
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Jews</topic>
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Molokans</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Molokans</topic>
    <geographic>Hawaii</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Russian newspapers</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Florida</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Hawaii</geographic>
    <topic>Annexation to the United States</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
    <topic>Emigration and immigration</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1905-1907</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Saint Petersburg (Russia)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 1917</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1917-1921</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1921</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1933</temporal>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Entrepreneurs</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Railroad executives</occupation>
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