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Title: Preliminary Inventory of the Michael M. Byckoff Collection
Dates: 1769-1995
Collection number: 83042
Collector:
Byckoff, Michael M., collector
Collection Size:
17 oversize boxes
(9 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Currency, banknotes, and stamps, issued by the Russian Imperial and Soviet governments, and by various regional and local
governments and banks during the period of the Russian Civil War.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Collection is open for research.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Michael M. Byckoff Collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Michael M. Byckoff collection consists of currency, banknotes, and postage stamp currency issued by the Russian Imperial
and Soviet governments, and by various regional and local governments and banks during the period of the Russian Civil War.
The container list provided here lists the albums in each box of the collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Money--Russia.
Money--Soviet Union.
Postage-stamps--Russia.
Postage-stamps--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Miscellanea.
The items in this collection are being individually cataloged by Michael K. MacKenzie,
Byckoff's grandson, using three currency catalogs: (1) Kardakov's catalog, in German and
Russian, which has no illustrations of the currency; (2) Rybichenkov's catalog, in Russian,
which is the most complete catalog but has very few illustrations of the currency; and (3)
Pick's Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, in English, which is less complex than the
other catalogs. The format used by MacKenzie for listing each item and its catalog numbers
from the three catalogs is explained in the key accompanying the item-level description.
At present MacKenzie's item-level description is available for one album, labeled "Crimea"
(box 8). As additional albums are cataloged by MacKenzie, the descriptions will be added to
the detailed finding aid for this collection, which is available at the Hoover Institution
Archives reading room.