Guide to the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists : correspondence and photographs collection
M1909
Finding aid prepared by Elga Zalite
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, California, 94305
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
January, 2013
Title: National Alliance of Russian Solidarists : correspondence & photographs
Identifier/Call Number: M1909
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
1.0 Linear feet
Date (inclusive): circa 1930-1990
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html.
Scope and Contents
Includes 150 photographs of NTS activists and events associated with NTS activities, circa 1930-1989. The correspondence includes
letters to N.B. Tarasova, 1962-1982, circa 155 pages from Sergei Rafal'skii, 70 pages from Anatolii Darov + unpublished poems,
12 pages from Nina Fedorova, 12 pages from Leonid Rzhevskii, and 10 pages from Nikolai Arsen'ev + unpublished poems. Other
batches of correspondence include 200 pages of letters to the chairman of NTS, V.M. Baidalakov, to V.D. Poremskii, and others,
and there are some 390 letters and postcards to the editorial office of the weekly Posev.There is also a 136-page typescript
by N.S. Kozorez, "About service in a Cossack encampment and 10 ears in Stalin's camps."
Access to Collection
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to a digital use copy.
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Acquisition Information
This collection was purchased by Stanford University, Special Collections in 2012.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], National Alliance of Russian Solidarists : correspondence and photographs, 1930-1982 (M1909). Dept.
of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
The National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (“Народно-Трудовой Союз российских солидаристов” or NTS) is a Russian émigré
political organization founded in Belgrade in 1930 by a young generation of exiled Russians. It soon spread to other European
capitals, and during the course of the next 50 years, it became the largest and the most active Russian émigré political organization,
having its center in Western Germany. The ideology of the NTS was based on anti-communism. The main accent was on the belief
that the Soviet system was incapable of evolution, and therefore it needed to be removed by means of internal opposition.
The other principle of the ideology of the NTS was solidarism, built largely on the NTS’s understanding of the ethical code
of Christianity. The NTS stressed the collective social responsibility of people for the welfare of others, and it praised
the principle of national and international solidarity against the communist idea of class struggle. The NTS defended democratic
participation in government. Its platform included an appreciation of human rights and the idea of individual freedom and
personal responsibility. The NTS proposed to solve the problem of socialism versus capitalism by articulating an ideology
which placed itself “beyond right and left”.
The members of the NTS were politically active, striving to find the best ways of creating and underground revolutionary force
in Soviet Union and using the following means to try to achieve its goals: sending its people into the Soviet Union covertly;
clandestinely distributing propaganda leaflets; setting up radio station. NTS members were strongly opposed to the Soviet
regime, but they felt close to the Russian culture and people. The publishing of books and other literature became one of
the distinguishing features of all the activities run by NTS. In 1945, the first NTS publishing house, the Russian language
press Posev, was created in Germany in the refugee camp Monchehof, located in the Kassel district in the State of Hessen.
In 1947, Posev moved its headquarters to Limburg (Limburg an der Lahn); in 1952 it moved to Frankfurt am Main. Over the years,
300 books were published by Posev, and the weekly journal Posev and the literary magazine Grani gained excellent reputations.
Not only anti-communist propaganda articles were published, but also highly valued literary works. Between 1960 and the the
end of the 80-ties, about 170 titles by dissident authors from the Soviet Union were published by Posev. It can be said that
the activity of Posev penetrated the Iron Curtain in both directions, and it contributed immensely to the collapse of Soviet
Empire in 1989.
This collection contains materials regarding Posev’s “Limburg” period (1947-1952), and it also contains the correspondence
between the editors and several authors (1949-1976). Exceptional value can be attributed to the photograph collection (150
are dated from 1936 to 1983). Most of the photographs have been identified, and they constitute a rich source for future researchers
interested in the history of the NTS. Vladimir Semenovich Batshev (Batchev) is a Russian writer who has lived since 1995 in
Germany.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Arsenev, Nikolai Sergeevich, 1888-1977
Artemov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich , 1910-
Baidalakov, Viktor Mikhailovich, 1900-1967
Darov, Anatolii, 1920-
Galich, Aleksandr Arkadevich, 1918-1977
Gorachek, Vladimir IAromirovich, 1916-1981
Mirkovich, Elizaveta Romanovna, 1918-1994
Okolovich, Georgii Sergeevich, 1901-1980
Olgskii, Mikhail Leonidovich, 1912-1998
Ostrovskii (Romanov), Evgenii Aleksandrovich, 1914
Poremskii, Vladimir Dmitrievich, 1909-1997
Rafalskii, Sergeii Milievich, 1895-1981
Redlikh, Roman Nikolaevich, 1911
Rzhevskii, Leonid Denisovich, 1905-
Siniavskii, Andrei Donatovich, 1925-1997
Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1889-1968
Svetlanin, Andrei Vasilevich, 1909-1965
Tarasova, Nataliia Borisovna
Trushnovich, Aleksandr Rudolfovich, 1893-1954
Zalevskii, Mikhail Nikolaevich, 1895-1996
National Alliance of Russian Solidarists : documents (NTS)
Box 1, Folder 1
SBONR : Soiuz Borby za Osvobozhdenie Narodov Rossii (Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia) and SAF
: Soiuz Andreevskogo Flaga etc. : 1949 and 1951
Box 1, Folder 2
Correspondence of the Central Administration of the North American Division of NTS with the leaders of NTS, etc. : 1952
Box 1, Folder 3
Vestnik Ispolnitelnogo Biuro Soveta NTS : 1955
Box 1, Folder 3
Ispolnitelnoe Biuro Soveta NTS, 1955 : Documents
POSEV : the publisher and the weekly newspaper : Correspondence
Box 1, Folder 4
1947 : Family names, which start with L, M, N, O, P
Box 1, Folder 5
1947 : Family names, which start with R, S, T, U
Box 1, Folder 6
1948 : Family names, which start with K, L, M, N, P
Box 1, Folder 7
1948 : Family names, which start with R, S, T, V, Z
Individual correspondence
Box 1, Folder 8
Tarasova, Nataliia Borisovna : editor of "Grani": Correspondence with Arsenev, Nikolai Sergeevich, 1975-1976. Unpublished
poetry.
Box 1, Folder 8
Tarasova, Nataliia Borisovna : editor of "Grani": Correspondence with Darov, (Dar) Anatolii, 1949-1973
Box 1, Folder 8
Tarasova, Nataliia Borisovna : editor of "Grani": Correspondence with Rafalskii, Sergei Milich, 1957-1969
Box 1, Folder 8
Tarasova, Nataliia Borisovna : editor of "Grani": Correspondence with Siniavskii, Andrei Donatovich,1974
Box 1, Folder 8
Tarasova, Nataliia Borisovna : editor of "Grani": Correspondence with Rzhevskii, Leonid Denisovich, 1975-1978
Box 2, Folder 1
Shirinkina, Ariadna Evgeevna : NTS member : Correspondence with Galich (Ginzburg), Aleksandr Arkadevich, 1974. Original manuscript
of poem "Primety vesny".
Box 2, Folder 1
Poremski, Vladimir Dmitrievich : NTS leader : Correspondence with Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1947-1948
Box 1, Folder 3
Ostrovskii (Romanov), Evgenii Romanovich : editor of "Posev" : Correspondence with Rutchenko, Nikolai Nikolaevich (Rutych),
1973
Box 2, Folder 1
Memoirs. Kozorez, N. S. : 1945-1947
Box 2, Folder 5
Alfman, Aleksandr Vasilevich : 1948
Box 2, Folder 2
Artemov (Zaitsev), Aleksandr Nikolaevich : NTS president : 1954
Box 2, Folder 6
Artemov (Zaitsev), Aleksandr Nikolaevich : NTS president : 1949, 1958
Box 2, Folder 6
Baidalakov, Viktor Mikhailovich : NTS president
Box 2, Folder 2
Balmashev, Mikhail Vladimirovich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 6
Bashkirov, Ivan Sergeevich : NTS member : Bad Homburg, 1955
Box 2, Folder 5
Berukshtis, Igor : Soviet defector
Box 2, Folder 3
Boldyrev, Konstantin V. : NTS member, "Posev" administration : Mönchhof 1946
Box 2, Folder 4
Boldyrev, Konstantin V. : NTS member, "Posev" administration : 3 photographs (1947, 1979)
Box 2, Folder 4
Breitbart, Ekaterina Elekeevna : editor of "Grani" : 1985
Box 2, Folder 5
Brunst, Dmitrii Viktorovich : NTS member : 193?
Box 2, Folder 3
Budakov, IAkov Vasilevich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 5
Chernoglazov : Belgrade, 1936
Box 2, Folder 5
Dubrov, Andrei : Soviet dissident
Box 2, Folder 5
Durnov : Belgrade, 1938-1938
Box 2, Folder 5
Gandziuk, Georgii IAkovlevich : 193?
Box 2, Folder 6
Garanin, Evgenii Ivanovich : NTS member : Brussels, 1958
Box 2, Folder 3
Gatskevich (Karalin), Vladimir Antonovich, one of the founders of "Posev" : Mönchhof 1946
Box 2, Folder 6
Gorachek, Vladimir IAromirovich : NTS member, POSEV publisher : Mönchhof 1947; 1950, 1958
Box 2, Folder 2
Gorachek, Vladimir IAromirovich : NTS member, POSEV publisher : 1954
Box 2, Folder 4
Gorachek, Vladimir IAromirovich : NTS member, POSEV publisher : Bad Kissingen, 1981?
Box 2, Folder 4
Gorachek, Nina Viktorovna : Bad Kissingen, 1981?
Box 2, Folder 5
Ilenko, Anna Fedorovna : France, 1958
Box 2, Folder 4
IUgov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich : NTS member, editor of "Posev"
Box 2, Folder 5
Kalantar, Izabella Aleksandrovna
Box 2, Folder 6
Kalikin (Dalanian) : Washington, 1953
Box 2, Folder 6
Kandaurov, Aleksei Alekseevich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 2
Kapulov-Grachev, Vladimir Ivanovich : 2 photographs
Box 2, Folder 2
Kapulova, Valentina Polikarpovna
Box 2, Folder 2
Kerenskii, Aleksandr Fiodorovich : 1952
Box 2, Folder 4
Kessler, Eduard Valentinovich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 5
Khasapov, Valentin : 193?
Box 2, Folder 3
Khokhlov, Nikolai Evgenevich : defector
Box 2, Folder 5
Kondogrev : Belgrade, 1937-1938
Box 2, Folder 3
Kopovei, Anatolii Aleksandrovich
Box 2, Folder 5
Krikorian, Sergei I. : translator
Box 2, Folder 2
Krushel, Tatiana Aleksandrovna
Box 2, Folder 4
Kurilenko, Pavel Stepanovich : 1977
Box 2, Folder 4
Lamzdorff, Grigorii Pavlovich
Box 2, Folder 6
Levitskii, Sergei Aleksandrovich : Washington, 1953
Box 2, Folder 6
Lushnikov, Arkadii Ivanovich : NTS member : Brussels, 1958
Box 2, Folder 3
Malyshev, Aleksei Nikolaevich
Box 2, Folder 2
Mirkovich, Elizaveta Romanovna : NTS member, editor of "Posev"; 2 photographs : E.R.M. and 1989
Box 2, Folder 4
Molchanov, V. : Book fair in Franfurt
Box 2, Folder 6
Mozgovoi, Semen IOsifovich : NTS member : Brussels, 1958
Box 2, Folder 6
Nashivanenko, Georgii Timofeevich : NTS member : Bad Homburg, 1955
Box 2, Folder 4
Nashivanenko, Georgii Timofeevich : NTS member : end of 60-ties
Box 2, Folder 3
Nikolai "Skif" : Utrecht, 1944
Box 2, Folder 5
Novikov, Adam : Morocco, 1947
Box 2, Folder 3
Okolovich, Georgii Sergeevich (G.S.O.) : NTS leader : Mönchhof 1946
Box 2, Folder 2
Okolovich, Georgii Sergeevich (G.S.O.) : NTS leader
Box 2, Folder 6
Olgskii, Mikhail Leonidovich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 2
Orlova, Lidiia Eduardovna, NTS member
Box 2, Folder 3
Popov, Kolia : Munich 1948
Box 2, Folder 6
Poremskii, Vladimir Dmitrievich, NTS president : 1949
Box 2, Folder 2
Poremskii, Vladimir Dmitrievich, NTS president
Box 2, Folder 4
Poremskii, Vladimir Dmitrievich, NTS president : 2 photographs (1985)
Box 2, Folder 6
Poremskaia, Tatiana Vsevolodovna : 1958
Box 2, Folder 4
Poremskaia, Tatiana Vsevolodovna : 1985
Box 2, Folder 6
Pozdeev, Evgenii Evgeniievich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 5
Poze (Poloshkin), Georgii : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 6
Prusse, M. V. : Bad Homburg, 1955
Box 2, Folder 6
Rar, Gleb Aleksandrovich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 3
Rar, Lev Aleksandrovich : NTS member, editor of "Posev"
Box 2, Folder 2
Rar, Lev Aleksandrovich : NTS member, editor of "Posev"
Box 2, Folder 2
Redlikh, Roman Nikolaevich : NTS member, editor of "Grani"
Box 2, Folder 6
Redlikh, Roman Nikolaevich : NTS member, editor of "Grani" : 1949
Box 2, Folder 6
Romanov (Ostrovskii), Evgenii Romanovich : NTS prsesident, editor of "Posev" : Limburg, 1949
Box 2, Folder 2
Romanov (Ostrovskii), Evgenii Romanovich : NTS president , editor of "Posev" : 5 photographs (1949?, 1958, 1977, ERO)
Box 2, Folder 3
Romanov (Ostrovskii), Evgenii Romanovich : NTS president , editor of "Posev" : Mönchhof 1946
Box 2, Folder 4
Romanov (Ostrovskii), Evgenii Romanovich : NTS president, editor of "Posev" : 2 photographs (1979, 1985)
Box 2, Folder 2
Rozhdestvenskii, Serafim Pavlovich : NTS member : Tokio 1957
Box 2, Folder 3
Rusak, Adam Vasilevich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 6
Rutchenko (Rutych), Nikolai Nikoaevich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 6
Samarin (Sokolov), Vladimir : NTS member, editor of "Posev"
Box 2, Folder 5
Savvich, I. IA. : Besancon, France, 1938
Box 2, Folder 5
Selinski : Belgrade, 1936
Box 2, Folder 5
Shebratskii, Stepan IAkovlevich : Besancon, France, 1938
Box 2, Folder 2
Shits, G. P., woman : 1946
Box 2, Folder 6
Shits, Nikolai Fedorovich : NTS member : Mönchhof, 1947
Box 2, Folder 2
Shits, Nikolai Fedorovich : NTS member : 1948
Box 2, Folder 5
Shomotov-Chaplinski, Ivan Ivanovich : 1936
Box 2, Folder 4
Shveder, Irina Mikhailovna : Bad Kissingen, 1981?
Box 2, Folder 5
Sokolov, Nikolai : Morocco, 1947
Box 2, Folder 6
Statsevich, Vsevolod Aleksandrovich : NTS member : Brussels, 1958
Box 2, Folder 2
Stolypin, Arkadii Petrovich : NTS member : 1981
Box 2, Folder 6
Sushko : Washington, 1953
Box 2, Folder 4
Svetlanin, Andrei Vasilevich : editor of "Posev" : 3 photographs
Box 2, Folder 3
Tarakanov, Fedor Sergeevich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 5
Tikhanovich, Viacheslav Andreevich : France, 1958
Box 2, Folder 3
Tretiakov, Vladimir Nikolaevich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 6
Trushnovich, Aleksander Rudolfovich : NTS member : 1949
Box 2, Folder 2
Trushnovich, Aleksander Rudolfovich : NTS member : 1953
Box 2, Folder 2
Tsimmerman, Vladimir Sergeevich : Bod Homburg
Box 2, Folder 5
Vergun, Irina Dmitrievna : 193?
Box 2, Folder 3
Zalevskii, Mikhail Nikolaevich : NTS member
Box 2, Folder 6
Zarechniak : Washington, 1953
Box 2, Folder 5
Zavzhalov, Dmitrii Mikailovich : Besancon, France, 1938
Box 2, Folder 6
Zelenskii : Washington, 1953
Box 2, Folder 5
Zhadan, Pavel Vasilevich : Belgrade, 1936
Box 2, Folder 6
Zhediliagin, IUii Petrovich : NTS member : Mönchhof, 1947
Box 2, Folder 8
Unidentified individuals and groups
Box 2, Folder 5
Group : NTS members : 1930-ties
Box 2, Folder 5
Group : NTS members : France, 1936
Box 2, Folder 5
Group : NTS members : Besancon, France, 1938
Box 2, Folder 5
Group : NTS members : Belgrade, 1936, 1939?
Box 2, Folder 6
Group : NTS members : Meeting of the Closed Sector, 1985
Box 2, Folder 6
Group : Board of NTS : Mönchhof, 1946 ; Limburg 1949
Box 2, Folder 6
Group : Employees of the publishing office : Limburg
Box 2, Folder 8
Group : Employees of the publishing office
Box 2, Folder 6
Group : Crew of Soviet ship
Box 2, Folder 6
Group : Social events, 1950-1965
Box 2, Folder 6
Mönchhof : refugee camp, 1945-1947
Box 2, Folder 7
NTS activities : meetings, actions, demonstrations