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Creator
Lehovich, Dmitry
Call number
Slav. Reserve 09-393
Physical description
7 linear feet (14 boxes)
Language
Materials in English
Preferred Citation

Dmitry and Eugenie Lehovich Collection, General Research Division, The New York Public Library

Repository
General Research Division
Location
*R-Slav. Div. 75-106 (Lehovich Collection)
Access to materials
Restricted access.

The collection consists of correspondence, documents and professional papers belonged to Dmitry Lehovich and his wife Eugenie.

Biographical/historical information

Dmitry V. Lehovich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 1901. His father, General Vladimir Lehovich, was Commander of Artillery for the Russian Army in World War I. He was educated at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army headed by General Denikin and saw active service in the advance on Moscow and the subsequent retreat of the White Armies across Russia. He left Russia in November 1920 in the evacuation from Yalta of what remained of General Wrangel's cavalry forces.

After brief stays in Gallipoli, Constantinople, Yugoslavia and England, he came to the United States in 1924. He graduated from Columbia University in 1927 and went on to a career in banking, working in the International Banking Division of the Manufacturers Trust Company.

In 1974 W. W. Norton & Co. published White against Red. Lehovich's historical biography of General Anton Denikin, a commander of the White Army.

In 1934 Lehovich married Eugenie Urussov. She was associated for forty years with the School of American Ballet in New York. She was active in literature and co-authored an article with Edmund Wilson on Boris Pasternak for The Nation in 1960s. She died in 1975.

Dmitry V. Lehovich died May 14, 1995.

Scope and arrangement

The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence and Russian émigré periodicals. There is correspondence by Dmitry and Eugenie Liehovich, General Denikin and his wife, Dmitry Nabokov, Andrei Sedykh, Nicholas Vakar, Viktor Varshavskii and others. The typescripts includes Lehovich's work White against Red. E. Lehovich articles and unpublished works on Boris Pasternak, notes by A. Denikin on his work Ocherki russkoi smuty and various memoirs by members of Russian emigration. Printed materials includes various magazines, bulletins and newspapers published by Russian emigrants.

The Dmitry and Eugenie Lehovich Collection is arranged in four series:

  • I. Correspondence

    The Series I includes correspondence by Dmitry and Eugenie Liehovich, General Denikin and his wife, Dmitry Nabokov, Andrei Sedykh, Nicholas Vakar, Viktor Varshavskii and others.

  • II. Papers

    The Series II includes typescripts of D. Lehovich work "White against Red", E. Lehovich articles and unpublished works on B. Pasternak, notes by A. Denikin on his work "Ocherki russkoi smuty", his speeches and articles, and various memoirs by the members of White emigration.

  • III. Printed materials

    The Series III includes various magazines, bulletins and newspapers published by Russian emigration.

  • IV. Oversized materials

    The Series IV includes scrapbook and oversized magazines.

Using the collection

Location

General Research Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 315

Access to materials

Restricted access.