The materials include books, collages, correspondence, journals and newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and writings dealing with the lives of A.Remizov and S.Dovgello-Remizova. The collection spans the years 1903-1986, with the bulk of the materials falling between 1922 and 1948. The papers cover most completely the period of the Remizovs' life in Paris, where they moved in 1923 and spent the rest of their lives. The Remizov Albums and Supplementary Materials Collection contains albums, drawings, and photos dating from 1921 to the late 1940's. It includes handwritten books, hand illustrated books, portraits of his contemporaries, non-figurative works, calligraphy, calligraphy in glagolitic, book inscriptions, letters, and other drawings.
Drawings are all on paper, in India ink, colored ink, pencils, or watercolors.
The compositions also demonstrate Remizov s collage technique. The albums pay homage to a variety of styles and artistic trends, including Scandinavian and German expressionists, Art Nouveau ornament and the Blaue Reiter style of the young Kandinsky. Saakiants was a long-time friend of poet Marina Tsvetayeva's daughter Ariadne Efron. The materials reflect Z. Shakhovskoy's prolific career as a bilingual journalist, poet and writer, as well as the involvement of her husband and her brother with Russian literature, art and culture in exile. His correspondence includes personal and clerical letters to and from writers, poets and publishers inside and outside of Russia on philosophical, spiritual and literary matters.