Register of the Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kurenkov (A. A. Koor) papers
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Title: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kurenkov papers
Date (inclusive): 1892-1992
Collection Number: 2001C84
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description:
8 microfilm reels
(1.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, personal documents, printed matter, and memorabilia, relating to Russian émigré affairs,
and to aspects of the early history of Russia.
Creator:
Kurenkov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1891-1971
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Acquired.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kurenkov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco. Boxes 7 and 8 featuring boxes, brochures and other printed matter
were not microfilmed and exist soley at this location, along with a banner.
Chronology
| 1891 May 13 |
Born, Kazan', Russia |
| ? |
Studied in Kazan' University, Russia |
| 1914?-1917 |
Served in the Imperial Russian Army |
| 1918-1921 |
Participated in the Civil War |
| 1923 |
Emigrated to the United States |
| 1925-1927 |
Served in the National Guard of Washington State |
| 1937 May 11 |
Promoted to the rank of Major-General by Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia |
| 1947 |
Graduated with the degree of Doctor of Psychology from the College of Divine Metaphysics, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 1951 October 12 |
Member, Les Chevaliers de la Croix de Lorraine et Compagnons de la Résistance |
| 1971 |
Died, San Francisco, California |
Biography
A. A. Kurenkov was born in Kazan' on 13 May 1891. He studied at Kazan' Military School and began military service in the fortress
at Auschwitz. During the First World War he was gassed and wounded. Thereafter he specialized in defense against gas attacks,
and was promoted to command the 1st Chemical Company of the XLIV Corps with the rank of captain (1917). Demobilized in 1918,
Kurenkov joined an officers' unit in Shadrinsk during the anti-Bolshevik uprisings in Siberia and the Urals in summer 1918,
rising to command the 27th Verkhoturskii Siberian Rifles in 1919.
Kurenkov arrived in Seattle, Washington, in February 1923, where he later abbreviated his name to Koor. Here he became involved
in numerous émigré organizations, particularly those with a monarchist flavor, and he was promoted to the rank of major general
by Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich in 1937. In San Francisco, where he moved in the 1950s, Kurenkov edited and published a
monarchist newspaper called Vestnik pravdy (1964-1968). In 1947, he received the degree of "Doctor of Psychology" from the
"College of Divine Metaphysics, Indianapolis, Indiana." Following this, he became intensely interested in ancient Russian
and Slavic history, writing about and promoting the so-called "Vles-Kniga," a written work purporting to date from the 5th-6th
centuries, A.D., dismissed as a forgery by all competent scholars. Much of the collection consists of his musings and collected
materials on this subject.
Scope and Content Note
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kurenkov (also known as Alexander A. Koor/Koorenkoff), was a Russian Major-General. After immigrating
to the United States in 1923 he became an active member of different Russian émigré associations and the émigré monarchist
movement. He expressed his views in the newspaper
Vestnik pravdy (San Francisco) for which he was a publisher and editor (see OVERSIZE FILE). This collection mainly contains Koorenkov's
writings, as well as background materials and printed matter, related to his interest in the pre-history of Russia and the
Slavs, and in particular, the so-called "Vlesova Kniga" or "Doshchechki Izenbeka."
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
Russia -- History
Officers
Russia. Armii͡a
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE
1947-1951
General note
See also SUBJECT FILE/Russian Veteran's Society of the World War, Inc.
reel 1
Bibliography
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 1.
reel 1
Clipping about Kurenkov
1951
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 2. Includes related correspondence
reel 1
Service records
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 3.
CORRESPONDENCE
1941-1968
General note
See also SPEECHES AND WRITINGS for editorial correspondence and SUBJECT FILE/ Committee of the United Russian-American National
Organizations of the Pacific N.W. States
reel 1
Elshin, Aleksandr Iakovlevich
1949-1950
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 4.
reel 1
Ivitskii (Ivitzky), Georgii Dionis'evich
1949-1952
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 5. Includes clipping about Ivitskii
reel 1
Lenkov, A.
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 6.
reel 1
Merger, K. A.
1968
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 7.
reel 1
Otdel Rossiiskogo Anti-kommunisticheskogo Tsentra v N'iu Iorke na Tikhookeanskom poberezh'i SShA
1952
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 8.
reel 1
Samoilov, E.
1956-1965
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 9.
reel 1
Savin (?), P. P.
1966
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 10.
reel 1
Slobodchikov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich
1954
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 11.
reel 1
Tsygal'skii (Tzigalsky?), Aleksandr Viktorovich
1941
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 12. Includes an obituary
reel 1
Vitkovskii, Vladimir Konstantinovich
1951
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 13.
reel 1
Wilson, Oliver
1951
General note
See BIOGRAPHICAL FILE/Clipping about Kurenkov
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1937-1956 and undated
General note
For Kurenkov's editorials written specifically for
Vestnik pravdy, see OVERSIZE FILE/Issues of the newspaper
Vestnik pravdy
reel 1
General
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 14.
reel 1
"Otvet na 'Otvet A. A. Kuru',"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 15. Holograph. Includes materials by others
reel 1
"Akademik Oleg Ivanovich Iadov,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 16. Printed copy
reel 1
"Dom Romanovykh,"
Zhar-ptitsa
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 17. Printed copy
reel 1
"Doshchki,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 18. Typescript of two different versions
reel 1
"'Dve povesti vremennykh liet' i dve raznykh istorii russkago naroda,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 19. Typescript
reel 1
"Kak nado byt' dobrym i pochemu,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 20. Typescript
reel 1
"Las tablas de Izenbek,"
Oriente europeo
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 21. Printed copy
reel 1
"Slaviane,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 22. Typescript
reel 1
"Svastika,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 23. Typescript
reel 1
Untitled work on the history of Russia
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 24. Typescripts of two different versions. Includes attachments
reel 1
"V zashchitu Rossii: Pis'ma russkikh anti-kommunistov mestnym amerikanskim gazetam" (with Vladimir K. Kit)
undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 25. Printed copy
reel 1
Untitled letter to the editor,
Russkii listok, about Russian veterans of World War I
1937
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 26. Typescript
reel 1
"Otkrytoe pis'mo g. Aleksandru Nikolaevu,"
Novaia zaria
1949 January
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 27. Typescript and printed copy. Includes materials by others
reel 1
"Otkrytoe pis'mo ko vsem Ierarkham i Iereiam pravoslavnoi tserkvi vsekh iurisdiktsii Soedinennykh Shtatov,"
Novaia zaria
1949 March 19
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 28. Printed copy. Includes materials by others
reel 1
"Po povodu soobshcheniia iz Manily: 'Imperatorskii polkovnik'...,"
Novaia zaria
1949 June 17
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 29. Typescript and printed copy. Includes materials by others
reel 1
"Kto predal Admirala Kolchaka,"
1949 July(?)
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 30. Typescripts of two different versions. Includes materials by others
reel 1
"O chude Izraelia g. G. I. Iasinitskago,"
1951
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 31. Typescript. Includes materials by others
reel 1
"Russky pismeny," speech, Museum of Russian Culture
1952 August 10
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 32. Typescript
reel 1
Collection of articles published in
Zhar-ptitsa
1952 October - 1956 November
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 33. Printed copies. Original order by Kurenkov retained. Includes typescripts of
some articles
reel 1
"Rus' i normanskaia teoriia,"
Russkaia zhizn'
1953 September 5
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 34. Printed copy
reel 1
"Doshchechki: O gotakh,"
Zhar-ptitsa
1954 December
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 35. Printed copy
reel 2
Committee of the United Russian-American National Organizations of the Pacific N.W. States, Seattle, Washington.
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 2 : 1. Correspondence, membership list, minutes of meetings
reel 2
Elshin, Aleksandr Iakovlevich
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folders 2 : 2-13. Includes correspondence and documents relating to the Fond pomoshchi L. F.
Krasnovoi (Lady L. F. Krasnoff's Welfare Society), 1926-1949
reel 2
Law--Philosophy. E. N. Trubetskoi,
Istoriia filosofii prava
1892-1893
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 2 : 14.
reel 3
Miroliubov, Iuri Petrovich
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 2 : 15. Letters related to the search of "Doshchechki Izenbeka" in Brussels, 1944
reel 3
Monarchy--Russia
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 2 : 16-20. Brochures, bulletins, correspondence, clippings, magazines, and other printed
matter related to the émigré monarchist movement
reel 3, reel 4
Monarchy--Russia
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 3 : 1-2 (reel 3) and 3 : 3-19 (reel 4)
reel 5
Monarchy--Russia
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 4 : 1-10.
reel 5, reel 6
Romanov, House of
General note
See also PHOTOGRAPHS.
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 4 : 11 (reel 5) and 4 : 12-13 (reel 6). Appeals, clippings, flyers and other printed
matter
reel 6
Russia--History. Grigorii Ianushevskii,
Otkuda proiskhodit slavianskoe plemia Rus' with attachments, ; and Marzheret (Jacques Margeret),
Sostoianie Rossiiskoi Derzhavy i Velikago Kniazhestva Moskovskogo v 1606 godu
1928-1930(?) 1913
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 4 : 14-15.
reel 7
Russian Veteran's Society of the World War, Inc., Seattle, Washington (Obshchestvo russkikh veteranov Velikoi voiny)
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 5 : 1-2. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, 1926-1952
reel 7
Russians--United States
Scope and Contents ntoe
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 5 : 3-5.
reel 7
Russkoe monarkhicheskoe ob"edinenie zagranitsei
1922(?)
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 5 : 6. Charter
reel 7
Vlesova Kniga
General note
See also OVERSIZE FILE/Subject file/Vlesova Kniga.
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 5 : 7-17. Includes background materials and translations by Kurenkov and printed matter
related to Kurenkov's interest in Vlesova Kniga and the origins of the Slavs, often with his notes on the margins
reel 8
Diplomas
1947-1951
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 6 : 1.
reel 8
Issues of the newspaper
Vestnik pravdy, for which Kurenkov was a publisher and editor, #1 - # 50 , and two issues of the magazine
Vestnik pravdy, #1 and #2
(1964 May 4) (1968
April?) (1967 December 25-1968 January 7) (1968 June 28)
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 6 : 2. Some issues contain his editorials
reel 8
Subject file - Vlesova Kniga
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 6 : 3.
reel 8
PHOTOGRAPHS
1937 and undated
Scope and Contents note
Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 6 : 4. One print depicting Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia, and a copy of
a print depicting A. A. Kurenkov with IU. P. Miroliubov
