Our final moving days are approaching. We have 25 boxes of old Russian language (some Ukrainian) periodicals, and books still in our building. Some staff at the local ROCOR cathedral were very interested but they haven't managed to get over to look at them during Great Lent. Some folks from another ROCOR parish and the priest at an OCA have happily taken some.

We will need to put whatever is left in the recycle soon.

If you know anyone in the San Francisco area who might be interested in some pre-Soviet and Soviet era materials, Catholic, and Moscow Patriarchate, Paris, etc. have them contact me or call the parish. 415-752-2052 We would love to have these go to someone who would want them but our efforts to make that happen are not proving very successful.

(Stanford University and the Patriarchal Church in SF did go through our library years ago and took the most valuable, to them, things at that time. These periodicals etc were stashed in a closet and I don't think anyone had looked at them for decades before we unearthed them about 6 weeks ago.)

Why don't you ebay them away and make some money for the church? You'll be surprised at the demand.

Marylouise,

I'd second Mariya's suggestion, but here are a few local ideas that might be faster, if time is of the essence. (The bookstore, which deals in old Russian periodicals as well as books, might be a source to raise a few dollars for the parish.)

Russian Center of San Francisco

Russian Program at San Francisco State University

Russian Studies Program at University of San Francisco

Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco

Globus Slavic Bookstore

Many years,

Neil

We are in no position to deal with eBay at this point. We have been working with a skeleton crew for the past two months trying to clear out 50+ years of stuff. It appears that none of the past clergy were inclined to toss out anything, nor file much of anything so it has been extremely time consuming and with very few people to do a huge amount of work. We are about 90% out of the building but what time and manpower we have left is needed for must-do work.

I did contact a couple of your suggestions, Neil, back in Feb. when I began to ask around and show people what we have, and got no reply back from those. I have contacted them again today, and everyone on your list, plus those who in Feb and March said they very much wanted to look at the stuff when I showed them a small sampling of what we have. They haven't managed to come by. One other parish did come and another priest I brought stuff to took some things they were very happy to have.

We a really faced with a huge task in leaving this mansion stuffed with accumulated treasures, junk, and much in between. These boxes of print materials are among the last still sitting there waiting for a home because we do not want to just dump it, and people have said they're interested but have not come to look at it.

Now after all these weeks we are coming to the end and it has to be taken or it will go with the recycling. For the first time this past Sat. I had time to take an hour to look through some of it myself, and got through 4 boxes. I've pulled out some few things I will hang on to to show to a few other people. None of us has room to keep all these boxes which have been untouched for decades.

(There are also another dozen boxes of Jesuit periodicals in French... )

Fortunately, as I mentioned in my OP Stanford University and the Patriarchal Church took a lot of our books years ago. What I'm talking about here was only recently found in one huge closet, behind tons of other stuff in a room, none of which had been touched for decades.

In my experience there is nothing more fascinating than ancient periodicals and books! I would GLADLY bury myself in your boxes, especially in the Jesuit French periodicals - I like to practice my French... Even if I get dust asthma as a result.

bummer.....................................................

When I was a little girl and spending a summer in a far, far away Russian village at a peasant house, I found a stack of very old periodicals and I immersed myself in them. But I was terrified when between the pages of the next magazine I found a squished dead mouse!