Historical Documents

NIKITA KRUSCHEV (1894-1971) Premier of the Soviet Union. LS, as Chief of the Ukranian Council of Ministers, 1p, Nov 23, 1947, 4to, to Chief of Oblispo

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Premier of the Soviet Union, the man who brought his country out from behind the Iron Curtain. SP, color, 10"X8", the fa...

KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO (1911-85) Soviet leader; General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet (1984). Signed holi

GEYDAR ALIEU President of Azerbaijan; the former Chief of the KGB in that country when it was in the Soviet Union. Signed May Day greeting card, 1975,

ANDREI GROMYKO (1909-89) Soviet Union statesman; Foreign Minister (1957-85); President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985-88). TLS, "...

ANDREI VISHINSKY (1883-1954) Soviet diplomat and politician; gained international reputation as Chief Prosecutor for Joseph Stalin during the purges o

VYACHESLAV M MOLOTOV (1890-1986) Soviet Statesman; Foreign Minister under Joseph Stalin, who negotiated the historic German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

ALEKSEY KOSYGIN (1904-80) Premier of the Soviet Union (1964-80). TLS, as Chief of Counsel of Ministry, 1p, 1946, 8vo. Requesting equipment like cranes

ROZALIYA ZEMLYACHKA (1876-1947) Soviet politician; Vice Chairman of the Council of People's Commissar of the U.S.S.R. (1939-43), making her seco...

NIKOLAY SHVERNIK (1888-1970) Soviet politician; head of Soviet trade unions (1930-44); Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet (1946-54). TLS, 1p, 194

LEONID BREZHNEV (1906-82) Soviet political leader; Chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1960-64), engineering the ouster of Nikita Kruschev; 1

NIKOLAY BULGANIN (1895-1975) Soviet politician; Premier of Soviet Union (1955-58), who was demoted for opposition to Khrushchev. DS, as Vice President

VATSLAV VOROVSKY Russian Communist leader; U.S.S.R. Ambassador to Scandinavian countries; killed in Switzerland (1923). TLS, as Ambassador to Italy, 1

LAVRENTY P BERIA (1899-1953) Soviet Union politician; the dreaded head of Joseph Stalin's security agency, the NKVD, who oversaw the Great Purge...

GEORGI CHICHERIN (1872-1936) Soviet diplomat of noble birth; succeeded Trotsky as Foreign Commissar. DS, 1p, 1925, 4to, re an International Convention

MIKHAIL FRUNZE (1885-1925) Russian Soviet army commander; took part in Bolshevik revolution; People's Commissar for War; considered one of the f...

(Soviet NKVD) NIKOLAI ZAKHAROV, Soviet Major General; head of the Gulags. TLS, 1p, 1944, oblong 4to, re special equipment for metallurgical work. File

(Soviet KGB) YURI ANDROPOV (1914-84), Soviet Union Politician; appointed head of the KGB (1967); General Secretary of the Communist Party (1982). DS,

DMITRY YAZOV Soviet Defense Minister; actively involved in the coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev. His personal diary, compiled during the last da

(Lenin) GLEB KRZHIZHANOVSKY (1872-1959), Bolshevik revolutionary leader; friend of Lenin. A book about his life, in Russian. Signed and inscribed on f