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Russia

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Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

A Troika, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3131
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a troika in a farmyard in front of a barn in Russia in the early 20th century. Three horses are harnessed together to a carriage driven by a man with another man sitting in the back.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

April, May, June Letters, 22 April 1922-10 June 1922

 File
Identifier: Coll-705/5/2/7
Scope and Contents This file of letters covers the last three months Marjorie Rackstraw was in Russia. Letters are sent from Buzuluk, and Alexievka, and are sparse during this time because courriers could not deliver mail to flooding from the thaw. She describes the Easter festivities, the still constant threat of thieves, and she cites that looking through the data she has taken, that 1 in 4 people have died in Buzuluk since she arrived. The food trains are arriving on schedule, and some signs of autumn sown...
Dates: 22 April 1922-10 June 1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw / Correspondence / Letters Marjorie Rackstraw wrote to family members, while in Russia

Correspondence from Marjorie Rackstraw to Margery Fry, 15 February 1922- 20 January 1923

 File
Identifier: Coll-705/3/1
Scope and Contents This file of letters comes during Marjorie Rackstraw's last few months in Russia, doing relief work. Letters are sent from Alexievka, and she includes a report typewritten from the 4th December 1922 detailing the great efforts to get clothes to villages, and the number of rations distributed in the Alexievka district. She reports a large influx of people coming back from Sibereia, Ukraine, and Turkestan, which makes their distributions more difficult. Most people are living on their ration...
Dates: 15 February 1922- 20 January 1923
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw / Papers related to Margery Fry

Cow S[outh] Russia Breed, Tkrannskoy Korova, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2860
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man standing with a cow of the Southern Russian breed, 'Trkrannskoy Korova' in a farm yard in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

December Letters, 4 December 1921-29 December 1921

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Identifier: Coll-705/5/2/3
Scope and Contents This file contains letters from Buzuluk, Pavlovka, and Kornievka. Marjorie Rackstraw describes the conditions the people of these villages are living in, and the drastic measures they are driven to for want of supplies needed to live. She describes the vast numbers of deceased in great detail. Note: she mentions versts, this is a Russian form of measurement, about 1.1 km 4 December 1921 ...
Dates: 4 December 1921-29 December 1921
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw / Correspondence / Letters Marjorie Rackstraw wrote to family members, while in Russia

February Letters, 2 February 1922-27 February 1922

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Identifier: Coll-705/5/2/5
Scope and Contents This file contains letters sent from Danelovka, and Alexievka. In these letters Rackstraw writes that she has a new translator, who becomes ill during their travels. They also visit a priest, whose home has been a welcome place to them many a time, and whose wife and children have been a source of happiness, to find that his wife has died of illness 8 days previously, and a child is ill. She also writes about other visits that they make, and the observations she has of children's centers,...
Dates: 2 February 1922-27 February 1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw / Correspondence / Letters Marjorie Rackstraw wrote to family members, while in Russia

Food Statistics, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2066
Scope and Contents

Text regarding the figures of a Mr. R. H. Rew, a statistician of the Board of Agriculture, noting that the [United Kingdom] produces more than half its own food supply. It continues by noting the location, cost and type of food imported from other countries, chiefly Canada and Russia in the early 20th centuy.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Geological Survey notebook 'V V bis', 1897

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Identifier: Coll-74/1/8
Scope and Contents

General drawings made primarily in Greece and Russia, along with notes of those present on the 'Volga Excursion' from the 7th International Geological Congress, 1897, St Petersburg.

Dates: 1897
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Geological Survey notebooks

Geological Survey notebooks, 1877-1900

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/1
Scope and Contents

The series of Geological Survey notebook consists of:


  1. 10 volumes, chronologically arranged (1877-1900)
Dates: 1877-1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

Incubation in Russia, 1954

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/102
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.

Dates: 1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

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