Inventory of the Vladimir L'vovich Burtsev papers

Finding aid prepared by Ron Bulatoff
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Vladimir L'vovich Burtsev papers
Date (inclusive): 1906-1935
Collection Number: 66000
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope (0.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, essays, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to the Menshevik and Social Revolutionary movements before 1917, Evno Azef and other Okhrana agents, and counterrevolutionary movements during the Russian Revolution. Also available on microfilm (2 reels).
Creator: Burt͡sev, V. L. (Vladimir Lʹvovich), 1862-1942
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1966.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Vladimir L'vovich Burtsev papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1862 Born, Russia
1880-1882 Student at the University of St. Petersburg
1882 Expelled from the University of St. Petersburg and exiled to Siberia
1888 Arrived in Zurich, Switzerland and founded the magazine Svobodnaia Rossiia
1897 Began to publish Narodovolets in London
1898 Began to publish Byloe in London
1903 Expelled from France and Switzerland
1909 Exposed Envo Azef as a tsarist provocateur highly placed within the Russian revolutionary movement
1909-1910 Published Obshchee delo
1909-1917 Exposed numerous individuals as tsarist provocateurs
1911-1914 Published Budushchee
1917 March Returned to Russia
1917 October Arrested by the Bolshevik government and escaped from Russia
1917-1922 Published Obshchee delo
1922-1942 Pursued and exposed Soviet agents
1942 Died

Scope and Content of Collection

Memoirs, essays, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to the Menshevik and Social Revolutionary movements before 1917, Evno Azef and other Okhrana agents, and counterrevolutionary movements during the Russian Revolution. Also available on microfilm (2 reels).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Socialism -- Russia
Revolutionaries -- Russia
Secret service -- Russia
Agents provocateurs -- Russia
Rossiĭskai͡a sot͡sial-demokraticheskai͡a rabochai͡a partii͡a
Partīi͡a sot͡sīalistov-revoli͡ut͡sīonerov
Russia. Okhrannyi͡a otdi͡elenīi͡a
Azef, Evno Fishelevich, 1869-1918

 

Correspondence 1912-1936

General Physical Description note: 1

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 1, folder 1

Aleksandr Ivanovich 1923

box 1, folder 2

Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr 1930

box 1, folder 3

Bernstein, Lev Borisovich 1919-1927, 1936

box 1, folder 4

Evgenii Sergeevich 1923

box 1, folder 5

Il'in 1921

box 1, folder 6

Kirdetsov 1919

box 1, folder 7

Kizevetter, Aleksandr A. 1923

box 1, folder 8

Kolchak, Admiral 1920

box 1, folder 9

Konstantin Dmitrievich 1923

box 1, folder 10

L.F. 1923

box 1, folder 11

Pavel Pavlovich 1923

box 1, folder 12

Petrunkevich, Ivan Il'ich 1923

box 1, folder 13

Rodichev, Fedor Izmailovich 1923

box 1, folder 14

Romanovskii, Iurii Dmitrievich undated

box 1, folder 15

S. 1912

box 1, folder 16

Semenov, E.P. 1920

box 1, folder 17

Tyrkova, Ariadna Vladimirovna 1923

box 1, folder 18

Vasilii Pavlovich 1923

box 1, folder 19

Vassilkovsky, Oleg 1919

box 1, folder 20

Vladimir Aleksandrovich 1923

box 1, folder 21

Vladislav Karlovich 1923

box 1, folder 22

Vrangel', Petr N. 1921

box 1, folder 23

Miscellaneous

 

Subject file 1917-1924

General Physical Description note: 1

Scope and Contents note

Articles, reports, memoranda, notes, and printed matter. Arranged alphabetically by subject
box 1, folder 24

Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr

box 1, folder 25

Borovikovskii, A., "Ekse Gomo," (Ecce Homo), a poem 1980

Scope and Contents note

Typewritten carbon copy
box 1, folder 26

Clippings

box 1, folder 27

Evalenko, A., provocateur

box 1, folder 28

Evidence provided (in Russian) by V.L. Burtsev 1917 April 1

box 1, folder 29

Last will and testament 1919

box 1, folder 30

"Pamiatniki Gertsenu i Ogarevu" (Monument to Herzen and Ogarev), typescript undated

box 1, folder 31

Provocateurs

box 1, folder 32

Radishchev, A.N.

box 1, folder 33

Russia--History--Revolution 1917-1921

box 1, folder 34

Sazonov, Sergei, letters undated

box 1, folder 35

Société de la Jeunesse Slave

box 1, folder 36

"Strashnye dni v Tomske--Iz dnevnika ochevidtsa," undated

box 1, folder 37

"Tri dnia--Iz dnevnika proshedshago," undated

 

Speeches and writings 1908-1934

Scope and Contents note

Drafts and printed copies of speeches and writings. Arranged alphabetically by title or subject
box 1, folder 38

"Agent Leit," typescript undated

box 1, folder 39

"Agent Lerua," typescript undated

box 1, folder 40

"Bor'ba so mnoi reaktsionerov Gen. Klimovicha i Shtiumera," typewritten carbon copy 1916

box 1, folder 41

"Delo chlena Gos. Dumy Pianykh," typescript 1916

box 1, folder 42

"Delo Rappoporta," typescript undated

box 1, folder 43

"Delo Stanislava Bzhozovskago i Borovskoi," typescript undated

box 1, folder 44

"Itogi bylova i zadachi budushchago--Iz moikh vospominanii. Glava I. Gvozd' kotorym byl raspiat Khristos," typewritten carbon copy undated

Scope and Contents note

Pages missing
box 1, folder 45

"K druz'iam Budushchago," printed copy undated

box 1, folder 46

"K tem, kto liubit svobodu," holograph and typewritten copy 1913

box 1, folder 47

"Moi prizyv k otkrytoi bor'be," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 1, folder 48

"Moia bor'ba s provokatorami," typescript undated

box 1, folder 49

"Moia perepiska i moi svidaniia s liud'mi potustoroniago mira," typescript with annotations undated

box 1, folder 50

"Moia perepiska iz zagranitsy s pravitel'stvennymi i ofitsial'nymi litsami," typescript undated

box 1, folder 51

"Moia perepiska s Zubatovym," typescript with annotations 1908

box 1, folder 52

"Moi otnosheniia s Okhrannikami," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 1, folder 53

"Moi vospominaniia," table of contents undated

box 1, folder 54

"Nachalo Izdaniia Obshchago dela," typescript undated

box 1, folder 55

"Neobkhodimost' imet' obshchenational'nyi organ," typescript 1909

box 1, folder 56

"Osnovanie Budushchago," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 1, folder 57

"Otnoshenie emigrantov k Men'shchikovu," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 1, folder 58

"Peregovory Men'shchikova s emigrantami," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 1, folder 59

"Priezd zagranitsu Men'shchikova," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 1, folder 60

"Po povodu pis'ma g. Ivanova," holograph undated

box 1, folder 61

Pushkin, Aleksandr S., articles about, typewritten carbon copies undated

box 1, folder 62

Provocateurs, untitled collection of articles regarding V.L. Burtsev's activities in exposing them, typescript undated

box 2, folder 1

"Provokatorsha Putiata," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 2, folder 2

"Russkii Revoliutsioner strelial v nachal'nika okhrannogo otdeleniia," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 2, folder 3

"Semenov," typescript undated

box 2, folder 4

Shakespeare, William, an untitled work (in Russian) about, typescript 1924

box 2, folder 5

"Shakhov," typescript undated

box 2, folder 6

"Tainoe svidanie s Azefom," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 2, folder 7

"Tovarishcham Sotsial'demokratu," typewritten carbon copy 1909

box 2, folder 8

"Tri osnovnyie zadachi," typescript undated

box 2, folder 9

"Vera v budushchee," typescript undated

box 2, folder 10

"V.L. Burtsev o svidanii s Azefom," Russkoe slovo, no. 183 1912

box 2, folder 11

"Vospominaniia o Portsmutskom Mire," galley proofs undated

box 2, folder 12

"Vospominaniia ob Azeve," typewritten carbon copy 1934

box 2, folder 13

"Vystuplenie Men'shikova protiv menia pod pokrovitel'stvom nekotorykh emigrantov," typewritten carbon copy undated

box 2, folder 14

Miscellaneous drafts and notes

box 2, folder 15

Untitled writings

box 2, folder 16

Miscellany

 

Photographs

envelope A

9 photographs depicting Vladimir L. Burtsev. Includes one print of a bust of Burtsev with the sculptress, taken circa 1909-1910