The Chertkov archives

2 Feb 2017 | by Daphne Sanders

Daphne Sanders introduces an account, by academic Irina Gordeeva, of a project to conserve the history of the Tolstoyan peace movement

Vladimir Chertkov with Leo Tolstoy in 1909. | Photo: В.Г. Чертков via Wikimedia Commons.

During 2016 the Quaker way once again converged with the life and work of Leo Tolstoy, when Friends House Moscow (FHM) provided a grant to assist Irina Gordeeva, of the Russian State University for the Humanities, to preserve in electronic form the deteriorating paper records of the Chertkov archives in the Lenin Library.

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