HISTORY OF THE COLLECTION
The collection was purchased from Russian poet and journalist
P. Vegin in 1992. P. Vegin was a friend and supporter of Klavdiia
Nikolaevna Bugaeva (1886-1970), Andrei Bely's widow. After K. N.
Bugaeva's death her close friend, Elena Vasilievna Nevejnova, a teacher
who "literally saved her" (Klavdiia Nikolaevna was totally paralyzed and
bed-ridden for the last seventeen years of her life), gave these materials
to P. Vegin.
In 1996 P. Vegin donated to the Center four photographs which
were incorporated into the collection.
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