INTIMATE DIARY of Andrei BALASHOV Typescripts, copies of typescript letters. Attached in four notebooks. - List of the archive. Typescript with autograph corrections. 1920-1927. 20 pp. in-4. Letters from A.Amfiteatrov to A.Balashov after the publication of his book. "I cannot find the words to thank you. It is a real Egyptian work that you have done. The book is beautiful, it looks like a pre-war edition. Nowadays, they don't make such beautiful books in emigration. I was always surprised by the quality of the corrections. Your energy and resilience are incredible. I'll say it honestly: to spend nine, even ten months working on the book under these conditions is a harder feat than taking a gun and killing a Bolshevik." - Notebook №1 including: genealogical data of the Balashov family; comments on some correspondence with Balashov's expectations of these correspondents; essays of poems; copy of a certificate of Andrei Balashov's induction into the main circle of the Russian Truth Brotherhood under the number №114.; copy of a certificate of Andrei Balashov's appointment as head of the Brotherhood's department in Belgium; love correspondence with Marie Berezina. 1924, Belgrade. Typescript copies of letters from M.Berezina. The correspondence ends on 3/7/1924 when Marie Berezina announces that she can no longer wait for Andrei Balashov's answer to her love and that she is thinking of accepting a proposal of marriage with another; Andrei Balashov's diary concerning his memories of the war, his meetings and important events. 1920-1927. 1920 - 10 pp, 1921 - 11 pp, 1922 - 25 pp, 1923 - 38 pp, 1924 - 46 pp, 1925 - 30 pp, 1926 - 43 pp. The diary is difficult to read (spaces are missing between the typed lines). Important part of the diary that reveals important years of the civil war in which Andrei Balashov fully participated. - Notebook №2 including: administrative documents of A.Balashov. Among them: proof of A.Balashov's injury in 1920. Numerous decrees given to A.Balashov during the civil war; decree of the decoration of the order "Gallipoli 1920-1921", in two copies; notebook of A.Balashov during the civil war; documents concerning his application for exile in Serbia (some are in Serbian); Belgian passport of Andrei Balashov with his photograph, 20 October 1932, in French. 25 x 17 cm; Belgian administrative documents (applications for aid and allowances), work permit, refugee certificate. - Notebook №3 including: diary of Andrei Balashov, 1927-1940. 1927 - 109 pp., 1928 - 22 pp., 1929 - 19 pp., 1930 - 20 pp., 1931 - 14 pp., 1932 - 16 pp. in-4. Including a copy of the correspondence between A.Balashov and General P.Krasnov and writer A.Amfiteatrov concerning the problems of the Brotherhood. 1933 - 44 pp, 1935 - 40 pp, 1936 - 16 pp, 1937 - 31 pp, 1938 - 11 pp, 1939 - 14 pp, 1940 - 12 pp (the years 1937-1940 are difficult to read. Spaces are missing between the typed lines). In this part of his diary, A.Balashov talks about his relations with brother № 1 (S.Sokolov-Kretchetov), gives his opinion on all the events of the brotherhood and tells about his daily life. - Notebook №3 including: diary of Andrei Balashov. 1941-1945, then resumed in 1954. 22 pp. in total. The diary is difficult to read (there are missing spaces between the typed lines). The diary presented at the auction plays a key role in understanding Andrei Balashov's place in the Russian Truth Brotherhood and its importance for the entire white emigration. A diary of great importance for the history of white emigration and its armed organizations in exile. "If I did not see myself as a grain of sand in a great Russian Affair, I am not sure that I could bear all this