MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 0 $aLeontiĭ,$cMetropolitan of All America and Canada,$d1876-1965.
245 00 $aLeontiĭ, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, papers,$f1855-1962$g(bulk 1890-1960).
300 $a140$fitems.
300 $a15$fcontainers plus$a1$foversize.
300 $a8$flinear feet.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
520 8 $aChiefly bound volumes of diaries and correspondence records listing outgoing letters (1921-1960), documenting Leontiĭ's role as an educator, editor of the Russian American Orthodox Messenger (Russko-amerikanskīĭ pravoslavnyĭ vi︠e︡stnik), advisor to Russian Orthodox bishops, and advocate of Russian American Orthodox autonomy. Many of the entries in the correspondence records are annotated or have copies of the letters attached. Poetry and financial notes also appear in the volumes. Includes two notebooks kept by Leontiĭ while representing the American diocese at the Great Sobor (All-Russian Orthodox Church Council of 1917) in Moscow where leaders worked to organize the church as an entity separate from the Soviet state.
541 $cGift,$aNicholas Turkevich,$d1998.
545 0 $aMetropolitan of All America and Canada of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. Secular name: Leonid Ieronimovich Turkevich.
546 $aIn Russian and Russian shorthand.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009297.
610 20 $aRusskai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.
610 20 $aRussian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America.
610 20 $aRusskai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.$bPomestnyĭ sobor.
630 00 $aRussko-amerikanskīĭ pravoslavnyĭ vi︠e︡stnik.
650 0 $aOrthodox Eastern press$zUnited States.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921.
656 7 $aClergy.$2itoamc
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
856 4 $3Finding aid$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009297
856 4 $3Finding aid (PDF)$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009297.3