Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 221 items

Summary

1. Correspondence and photographs of the Belevskii-Zhukovskii family. Items mostly relate to Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanov (1864-1918). Correspondence consists of many short letters and telegrams.
2. The bulk of the material in the collection dates from the late 1890s to the early 1900s. The material remains in the order it was at the time of receipt. Two possible series have been identified should the collection be further processed at a future date. The series are Personal Memorabilia and Pictorial Works. -- The Personal Memorabilia series contains a copy of Robert Wagner's Parsifal, and an assortment of letters, cards, and souvenir albums. The numerous telegrams, mostly exchanged between Countess Maria Petrovna Belevskaia-Zhukovskaia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, are included as well. -- All photographs and drawings are included in the Pictorial Works series. Most of the photographs are of Elizabeth Feodorovna after she began her work in the convent. Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family are in several of the remaining portraits. The drawings are mostly found in Vasilii Andreevich Zhukovskii's family album.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Count Belevskiĭ-Zhukovskii Collection.

Subject

1. Zhukovskiĭ, Vasiliĭ Andreevich, 1783-1852
2. Correspondence
3. Archives
4. Sources
5. Photographs
6. Russia
7. Photograph collections
8. Families
9. Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918 > Correspondence
10. Nicholas > II, > Emperor of Russia, > 1868-1918 > Photographs
11. Elisaveta Ḟeodorovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, Saint, 1864-1918 > Photographs
12. Romanov, House of > Sources
13. Zhukovskiĭ family > Photograph collections
14. Zhukovskiĭ, Vasiliĭ Andreevich, 1783-1852 > Family > Archives
15. Zhukovskiĭ family > Archives

Genre/Form

1. Photographs.
2. Sources.
3. Archives.
4. Correspondence.

Contents

1. Personal Memorabilia. Books: Parsifal -- Young lady's souvenir album -- Correspondence: Countess Maria Petrovna Belevskaia-Zhukovskaia to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna -- Telegrams to Countess Belevskaia-Zhukovskaia from Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna -- Telegrams, Elizabeth Fydorovna Romanov and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia -- Letters -- Notebooks, notecards, holiday cards and similar items -- Postcards -- Short letters in envelopes, Alexandra's stationary -- Non family material: Concert and theatre programs -- Lunch and dinner menus -- Remembrance of Elizabeth Fydorovna by Maria Belevskaia-Zhukovskaia
2. Pictorial Works. Family album / Vasilii Andreevich Zhukovskii -- Photographs -- Individual: Elizabeth Feodorovna, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Alexandra Zhukovskii, Paul Zhukovskii -- Family: Nicholas II and Olga, Nicholas II and family, Family -- Group: Military band, Elizabeth Feodorovna and unidentified others, Elizabeth Feodorovna and others, Six men.

Call number

1. Slav. Reserve+++ 07-267

Note

1. 1.5 linear feet of correspondence and pictorial works from the descendants of Aleksei Alekseevich Zhukovskii "Count Belevskii" (1871-1932)

Source (note)

1. of Elizabeth Sverbeyeff Byron ;

Biography (note)

1. The Belevskii-Zhukovskii collection consists of 220 items that have been owned by several generations of the descendants of Vasilii Andreevich Zhukovskii (1783-1852), Russian Poet, translator and tutor to the future Tsar Alexander II.

Title

1. The Belevskii-Zhukovskii Collection of manuscripts, photographs, drawings, books and printed ephemera.

Publisher

1. [New York] : [publisher not identified], [1835-1910]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Access

1. The collection is open without restriction

Biography

1. The Belevskii-Zhukovskii collection consists of 220 items that have been owned by several generations of the descendants of Vasilii Andreevich Zhukovskii (1783-1852), Russian Poet, translator and tutor to the future Tsar Alexander II.
2. Zhukovskii was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s. The family became directly linked to the Romanov family in 1870 through the morganatic marriage of Zhukovskii's daughter Aleksandra Vasilevna Zhukovskaia (1844-1899) with Grand Duke Aleksei Aleksandrovich of Russia (1850-1908). The Grand Duke was the sixth child and fourth son of Alexander II (1818-1881) and Maria Alexandrovna (1824-1880). -- Aleksei Alekseevich (1871-1932), son of Aleksandra Vasilevna and Aleksei Aleksandrovich, was created a Count of the Russian Empire with the name of Belevskii- Zhukovskii by his uncle, Tsar Alexander III (1845-1894), on March 21, 1884. More than half of the material belonged to Aleksei Alekseevich's first wife Princess Maria Petrovna Trubetskaia (1872-1954) who became the first Countess Belevskaia-Zhukovskaia -- The fifth son of Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna, Sergei Alexandrovich (1857- 1905), married Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, a granddaughter of England's Queen Victoria. The couple had no children, but adopted Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (1891-1941) and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (1890-1958), the children of Sergei Alexandrovich's brother, Pavel Alexandrovich (1860-1919) -- Alexander Alexandrovich, Tsar Alexander III, and his wife, Maria Fyodorovna, were the parents of Tsar Nicholas II.

Source

1. Gift ; of Elizabeth Sverbeyeff Byron ; 2006

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Byron, Elizabeth Sverbeyeff ǂd 1923-2020 ǂe donor

Research call number

1. Slav. Reserve+++ 07-267