| Description | Copies of financial agreements and arrangements between the British and Russian governments as well as assets and liabilities of the Russian government in Great Britain (up to 1920) as well as claims against the Russian government. These include:
Assets of the Russian Government deposited in various banks in London (up to 1 January 1920)
Russian Government Treasury bills lodged and discounted and short termed Treasury bills (1914-Feb 1917)
"Memorandum regarding claims of British firms against the late Russian Government Committee in London" and giving details of the dissolution of the Committee, and the legal status of its successor (written by Mironov, in English, undated 1920s?) and papers concerning claims.
The memorandum also contains a section entitled "The documents of the late Russian Government Committee and Russian Liquidation Commission" which describes how the majority of the documents were handed to the Soviet Union at the end of 1925 after a High Court Order was issued. |