Register of the Timothy A. Beresney (Timofei Avvakumovich Bereznii) papers

Finding aid prepared by Anatol Shmelev

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

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Stanford University

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Title: Timothy A. Beresney papers

Date (inclusive): 1929-1958

Collection Number: 2001C25

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: In Russian and English

Physical Description: 3 microfilm reels (0.45 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, writings, and printed matter, relating to Russian émigré affairs.

Creator: Beresney, Timothy A., 1891-1959

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Timothy A. Beresney Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of Originals

Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.

Biographical Note

Russian émigré journalist in the United States; editor, Nash put' and Russkoe obozrenie.

Scope and Content Note

Beresney was a journalist and editor of several émigré periodicals, among them Nash put', Russkii vestnik, and Russkoe obozrenie. The collection contains correspondence relating to his editorial duties at two of these periodicals, as well as his writings on Soviet education and English and Russian-language study guides. There is also a work by his wife, Polina V. Swatikoff, on Joseph de Maistre in Russia (SUBJECT FILE).

Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Russians -- United States

Journalists

Journalism -- United States

reel 1

CORRESPONDENCE 1952-1954

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 1. Letters and cards relating to Beresney's activity as editor of Nash put' and Russkoe obozrenie. Correspondents include Archbishop Leontii of Chicago, S. Korsunets, and others

WRITINGS 1929-1958 and undated

Scope and Contents note

Books and articles, arranged chronologically by title

"Civic Education in Soviet Russia," undated

Scope and Contents note

Typescript

reel 1

Part I

Scope and Contents

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 2.

reel 1

Part II

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 3.

reel 1

Appendix I

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 4.

reel 1

Appendix II

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 5.

reel 1

Appendix III

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 6.

reel 2

"Polnaia khrestomatiia po russkomu iazyku," undated

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 7. Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : Holograph and typescript (two drafts)

reel 2

"Polnaia khrestomatiia po russkomu iazyku"

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 1-2.

reel 2

"Izuchenie zernovykh khoziaistv v zasushlivykh raionakh SASh gruppoi agronomov Zernotresta," [1929]

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 3. Typescript

"Angliiskii iazyk," 1950

Scope and Contents note

Typescript

reel 2, reel 3

Part I

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 4-6.

reel 3

Part II

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 1

reel 3

"200-letie pervoi russkoi grammatiki," Russkoe obozrenie, . 1955 September 17

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 2. Typescript

reel 3

Russkii muzhik i vodorodnaia bomba 1958

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 3. Printed copy

SUBJECT FILE 1950-1955 and undated

Scope and Contents note

Bulletins, leaflets, and writings, arranged alphabetically by heading

reel 3

de Maistre, Joseph

Scope and Contents note

Typescript by Polina V. Swatikoff (Beresney's wife) entitled "Joseph de Maistre et la Russie," undated

reel 3

Religion

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Leaflets and brochures relating to Russian Orthodoxy, Dukhobors, and general religious topics

reel 3

Russia--History, 862-1698 undated

Scope and Contents note

Unattributed article on the subject submitted for publication in one of Beresney's periodicals

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Soviet Union--Foreign policy

reel 3

Miscellany

reel 3

Photograph undated

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 9. One print depicting a monument to Russian-Americans killed in the Second World War