Folio of documents of Xenia Smirnoff

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Containers:
Box 1
Component identifier:
File 1
Content Summary:

Extract of birth certificate ( Imperial Russian, 1918)

Passport of her father Nicolai Smirnoff and his will

Certified copy of an Entry of Marriage (Westminster, 1933) to Edouard Skrecek Borovansky witnessed by Victor Dandre and Anna Pruzina

Death certificates (3) of Alexandra Smirnoff (Prague, 1944 - German/Czech) together with photo outside Caxton Hall with Borovansky and other personal photos of herself and brother Bob Smirnoff, eccentric dancer

Press cuttings from Listener In on the opening of the Borovansky studio (May 1939) and poster from Germany featuring Bob Walking (Bob Smirnoff) circa 1946, with advert and photos of Smirnoff

Certificates of identity of Alexandra Smirnoff (Australia and British fragment), formerly Bolshoi soloist.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were purchased from Geoffrey Ingram by the National Library in several instalments between 1987 and 1993. Two further additions were donated by Ingram in 1997 and 1998.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2962101).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s).Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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