Register of the Vladimir Iakovlevich Tolmachev papers
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Title: Vladimir Iakovlevich Tolmachev papers
Date (inclusive): 1909-1947
Collection Number: 2001C45
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
2 microfilm reels
(0.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the archeology of China and to Russian émigré affairs.
Creator:
Tolmachev, Vladimir I͡Akovlevich, -1947
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2001.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vladimir Iakovlevich Tolmachev Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Chronology
| ? |
Born, Russia |
| 1918 |
Lecturer, Narodnyi Universitet, Moscow, Russia |
| 1928 |
Author,
Zernovye produkty kul'turnykh polevykh rastenii Severnoi Man'chzhurii
|
| 1947 |
Died, China |
Biography
V. Ia. Tolmachev was born in Shadrinskii uezd, Permskaia guberniia, on 21 November 1876 (O.S.). Upon graduation from the Ekaterinburg
gimnaziia, he entered St. Petersburg University, where he studied in the physics and mathematics department, and simultaneously
audited courses at the Academy of Arts. But his primary interest was archeology, and in 1900 he transferred to the Archeological
Institute. Every summer was spent on expedition, and upon graduation from the Institute he went to work digging up artifacts
in the Ural-Volga region. Many of the results of his scientific work appeared in Drevnosti Urala, which commenced publication
in 1913.
The Civil War brought him to Chita, where he remained until 1922, continuing archeological research and teaching. His career
in Harbin was associated with archeological and paleontological finds of great significance all across Manchuria. He was a
curator of the Museum of the Society for the Study of Manchuria (Obshchestvo issledovaniia Man'chzhurskogo kraia). He also
wrote many articles on the commodities markets for Manchurian goods, such as soy beans. Most of the writings in his collection
deal with Manchurian and Chinese archeology, culture, and agriculture. He left Harbin for Shanghai in the mid-1930s. Tolmachev
apparently died in 1947.
Scope and Content Note
V. Ia. Tolmachev was a professor of archaeology and zoology in interwar China (Manchuria). He founded and organized the commercial/industrial
and archeological sections of the Harbin state museum and the Railway Museum there, of which he was curator for 10 years.
The collection contains his speeches and writings on a variety of themes associated with archeology, ancient history, biology,
zoology and related studies. Many of the underlined titles listed in SPEECHES AND WRITINGS are in fact limited edition off-prints
of his articles in "Vestnik Man'chzhurii." There is also a small amount of correspondence and notes on Russian philately (SUBJECT
FILE/Stamp collecting).
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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.
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United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- China
Archaeology -- China
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE
1937-1947
Scope and Contents
Calling cards, correspondence regarding the distribution of Tolmachev's estate, curriculum vitae, and subject file relating
to an exhibition of Tolmachev's artworks, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1, folder 1
Calling cards (both Tolmachev's and others')
box 1, folder 2
Correspondence of the executors of Tolmachev's estate with various museums and cultural institutions regarding the distribution
of his scientific and published works
1947
box 1, folder 4
Subject file - Art exhibition
Scope and Contents note
Includes catalog of Tolmachev's works exhibited and comments of critics
CORRESPONDENCE
1921-1941
Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent
box 1, folder 5
General, and
1936-1941 undated
box 1, folder 6
Unidentified, and
1921-1935 undated
box 1, folder 7
Egorov, Konstantin Fedorovich
1938
box 2, folder 21
Nedel'skii, Aleksandr T.
General note
See SUBJECT FILE/Stamp collecting
box 1, folder 11
Satovskii-Rzhevskii, G. G.
General note
See Ural'skii oblastnoi muzei estestvoznaniia
box 1, folder 11
Ural'skii oblastnoi muzei estestvoznaniia
undated
Scope and Contents note
Written on same paper as draft letter to G. G. Satovskii-Rzhevskii, undated
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1925-1938 undated
Scope and Contents
Lectures, articles, books, notes, maps and sketches, arranged chronologically by title
box 1, folder 12
Chapter of an untitled book on archeological digs in Eastern Mongolia
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 1, folder 13-15
Notes, citations from books, maps, and sketches of archeological finds
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 2, folder 1
"Kitaiskaia farmakopeia,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 2, folder 2
"Kitaiskaia meditsina,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 2, folder 3
"Kitaiskaia muzyka,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 2, folder 4
"Kitaiskii teatr,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 2, folder 5
"Rodinovedenie v Finliandii,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph. Includes background materials
box 2, folder 6
"Skify i kitaitsy," lecture
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 2, folder 7
Untitled book or part of book on Manchurian pre-history
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 2, folder 8
"Vremia,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 2, folder 9
Drevnosti Man'chzhurii: Razvaliny Bei-Chena
1925
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 10
Bai-Chen
1927
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 11
Prigotovlenie krakhmal'noi vizigi v Severnoi Man'chzhurii
1927
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 12
Ostatki neoliticheskoi kul'tury bliz Khailara
1928
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 13
Zernovye produkty kul'turnykh polevykh rastenii Severnoi Man'chzhurii
1928
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 14
Kitaiskie tsynovki: Ikh rasprostranenie i khoziaistvennoe primenenie v Severnoi Man'chzhurii
1930
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 15
Kitaiskie pishchevye produkty iz maslianistykh i krakhmalistykh bobov
1931
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 16
Priadil'nye rasteniia i kitaiskie tkani iz nikh na rynke Severnoi Man'chzhurii
1931
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 17
K voprosu o paleolite v Severnoi Man'chzhurii
1933
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 2, folder 18
Zemledel'cheskie orudiia man'chzhurskogo krest'ianstva
1934
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 19
"Les antiquités scythes en Chine,"
Eurasia Septentrionalis Antiqua
1935
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 20
"Evgenika," public lecture given in Shanghai, China
1938 March 22
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript. Includes clippings advertising and reviewing lecture
box 2, folder 21
Stamp collecting
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings, correspondence with Aleksandr T. Nedel'skii (Alexander T. Nedelsky), 1937-1939, regarding stamp collecting,
a list of fellow collectors, and notes on rare Russian issues
box 2, folder 22
Miscellany
Scope and Contents note
Clippings on various subjects and a compilation of lectures by N. V. Kiuner entitled
Istoricheskii ocherk razvitiia osnov kitaiskoi material'noi i dukhovnoi kul'tury, published in mimeograph form in Vladivostok in 1909
box 2, folder 23
PHOTOGRAPHS
undated
Scope and Contents note
Album of prints depicting items unearthed on archeological expeditions in China
