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Title: Dimitriĭ Petrovich Pershin papers
Dates: 1914-1950
Collection Number: XX535
Creator: Pershin, Dimitriĭ Petrovich.
Collection Size:
3 manuscript boxes
(1.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, writings, notes, and clippings, relating to White Russian and Soviet activities in Mongolia during
the Russian Revolution, and the Russian émigré population during the Russian Civil War and subsequent years. Includes a memoir
entitled
Baron Ungern, Urga i Altan-Bulak : Zapiski Ochevidtsa Smutnom Vremeni vo Vneshneĭ (Khakhaskoĭ) Mongoliĭ v Pervoĭ Treti II-go
Veka
, relating to counter-revolutionary events in Mongolia during the Russian Revolution, and a translation by Elena Varneck of
the memoir.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Russian
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Dimitriĭ Petrovich Pershin papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
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 Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Baron Roman Fedorovich Ungern-Shternberg miscellaneous writings, Hoover
Institution Archives
N. M. Riabukhin typescript: The story of Baron Ungern-Shternberg, Hoover
Institution Archives
Sergei Lavrov holograph: Sobytiia v Mongolii-Khalkhie, 1920-1921 godakh:
voenno-istoricheskii ocherk-vospominaniia, Hoover Institution Archives
N. N. Kniazev typescript: The legendary baron: from reminiscences about
Lieutenant-General Baron Ungern, Hoover Institution Archives
Boris N. Volkov papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Elena Varneck papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Dmitrii Petrovich Pershin was a White Russian diplomat in Mongolia from 1918 to 1921, a Russian historian and novelist, and
subsequently a Russian émigré in China.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of the writings of Pershin, with some correspondence and small amount of biographical material. Among
his writings is the memoir Baron Ungern,
Baron Ungern, Urga i Altan-Bulak : Zapiski Ochevidtsa Smutnom Vremeni vo Vneshneĭ (Khakhaskoĭ) Mongoliĭ v Pervoĭ Treti II-go
Veka
, a novel is based on his experiences in Siberia, the Transbaikal region of the Far East, and Mongolia between 1918 and 1921.
The memoirs include notes, research materials, holographs, typescripts, and a final draft. The papers also include an English
translation of the memoir by Russian-American historian Elena Varneck.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Ungern-Shternberg, Roman Fedorovich, Baron, 1887-1921.
Russians--East Asia.
Mongolia--History.
Mongolia--History.
Varneck, Elena, 1891-1976.