The Papers of Boris Leo Brasol and the Pushkin Society in America in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress

EUGENE PIVOVAROV

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS is the largest library outside Russia hold- ing Russian materials. The priceless archives collected in it help the researcher to reconstruct the picture of the Russian Diaspora in America. The most inter- esting part of this collection are documents of Russian emigrants living in the United States before World War II. The most important collections for tracking the evolution of the Russian community during the prewar period was pre- sented to the Library of Congress by Boris Leo Brasol: his personal archive and the papers of the Pushkin Society in America. This essay, dedicated to the histories of the influential Russian organization and its permanent leader, helps us to understand better the culture of Russians abroad.