Register of the Kni͡az' Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ papers
Finding aid prepared by Lyalya Kharitonova
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Title: Kni͡az' Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ papers
Date (inclusive): 1799-1984
Collection Number: 71026
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In French, Russian, and Polish
Physical Description:
14 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes
(8.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, notes, genealogical charts, certificates, and photographs relating to the history of the Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ
family from the tenth to the twentieth century and to Russian émigré affairs. Consists mainly of drafts of, and working materials
for, a genealogical history. Includes photographs of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra.
Creator:
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich, kni͡azʹ, 1899-1982
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1971.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Kni͡az' Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover
Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ was a Russian aristocrat, émigré to Yugoslavia and Switzerland, and interpreter
for the Yugoslav delegation to the League of Nations.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ papers consist primarily of writings, correspondence, notes, genealogical charts,
certificates, and photographs relating to the history of the Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ family from the tenth to the twentieth century
and to Russian émigré affairs. The collection includes drafts of, and working materials for, a genealogical history. Includes
photographs of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra. Of particular interest in the collection are letters written to
and from Romanov family members.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Pictorial works
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Russia -- Court and courtiers
Poland -- Court and courtiers
Romanov, House of
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, II, 1868-1918
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ family
Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918
Biographical File
1918-1977
Scope and Contents note
Certificates, curriculum vitae, identification cards, immigration and travel papers, and other materials relating to the life
and career of Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ, arranged alphabetically by physical form.
See also: Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ Family File.
box 1, folder 1
Certificates
1918-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes notarized copy of Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ's baptism certificate.
Career records,
1920-1939
Scope and Contents note
Includes certificates, recommendations, and employment verification letters relating to Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ's diplomatic assignments,
arranged chronologically.
box 1, folder 5
Education records,
1920-1942
Scope and Contents note
Includes an extract from diploma of the University of Belgrade.
box 1, folder 6
Financial records
1920-1929
Scope and Contents note
Includes Banque Cantonale Vaudoise statements.
box 1, folder 7
Identification documents,
1920-1946
Scope and Contents note
Includes passport, embarkation orders, various alien registration documents, and residency permits. See also: immigration
papers and travel papers.
box 1, folder 8
Immigration papers
1944-1947
box 1, folder 9-11
"Personal notes,"
1930-1977
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and genealogy charts. The original order of the files was retained.
Travel papers,
1936-1938
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence and receipts related to Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ's trip to his family homestead in Mir, Poland.
box 1, folder 12
Correspondence,
1936-1938
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ Family File
1902-1963
Scope and Contents note
Includes identification cards, immigration papers, correspondence, and other materials relating to the lives and careers of
the Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ family members, arranged alphabetically by name.
Prince Andrei (Andre) Vladimirovich file,
1902-1949
box 1, folder 15
Certificates,
1902-1949
Scope and Contents note
Includes Andrei's birth, baptism, identity, and death certificates.
box 1, folder 16
Education and career file,
1926-1932
Scope and Contents note
Includes education certificates and employment verification letter.
box 1, folder 17
Georges and Jean (Mirski),
1942-1947
Scope and Contents note
Includes immigration papers and correspondence.
Princess Maria Aleksandrovna (Mirskaia) file,
1923-1963
Biographical file
1924-1963
box 2, folder 1
Passports and certificates of identity,
1924-1945
box 2, folder 2
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad award certificate, Belgrade,
1924
box 2, folder 3
Obituary and burial papers
1959-1963
Anastasia Nikolaevna (Anastasia of Montenegro), Grand Duchess of Russia,
1924-1931
Elena Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia,
1931-1956
Ksenia (Xenia) Aleksandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia,
1923-1957
box 3, folder 8
Militza Nikolaevna (Militza of Montenegro), Grand Duchess of Russia
1926-1949
Nikolai (Nicholas) Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia,
1923-1928
Scope and Contents note
Includes drafts, notes, and envelopes.
Olga, Princess of Yugoslavia
1928-1958
box 3, folder 20
Tat'iana Konstantinovna, Princess of Russia,
1945
box 3, folder 21-24
Writings,
1926-1937
Scope and Contents note
Consists primarily of memoirs of Princess Maria Aleksandrovna Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ (Mirskaia), recounting family history. Includes
correspondence, notes, and clippings.
box 3, folder 25
Prince Vladimir (Mirsky) file,
1948
Scope and Contents note
Monthly student progress reports, Grangeneuve Institut agricole de l'Etat de Fribourg.
box 4, folder 2
Bonnot, Jean de
1975-1979
box 4, folder 4
Ferrand, Jacques
1977-1978
box 4, folder 6
Galitsyn (Galitzine), Nicholas
1965-1975
box 4, folder 7
Gersdorff, Julia,
1965-1966
box 4, folder 8
Gorska, Marycia,
1964-1971
box 4, folder 9
Gorski, Christophe,
1955-1961
box 4, folder 12
Ikonnikoff, Nikolai,
1960-1961
box 4, folder 14
Jaccard, Clara,
1938-1972
box 4, folder 16
Konarski, Szymon.,
1950-1960
box 4, folder 19
Maksimova (Maximova), Tat'iana (Tania),
1970
box 4, folder 20
Matthey, Ch. W.,
1951-1953
Scope and Contents note
Includes references.
box 4, folder 21
Nalecz-Gorski, A.,
1954-1964
box 4, folder 22
Obolenskii, Sergei, Prince,
1971
box 4, folder 23
Roehrberg (Rerberg), Zinaida N.,
1968-1971
box 5, folder 2
(Mirskaia), Maria Aleksandrovna, Princess,
1922-1937
Scope and Contents note
Includes "Iverskaia Bogomater'" by V. Maevskii, 1932, inscribed by Maria Aleksandrovna for her son Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich.
box 5, folder 3-4
(Mirski), Mikhail (Michal)
1920-1967
box 5, folder 8
(Mirsky), V. S. (Dima),
1970-1978
box 5, folder 9
Vasilii (Fürst W. Swiatopolk-Mirski),
1965-1970
Photographs,
1898-1977
Arrangement Statement
Arranged alphabetically by name or subject.
box 5, folder 13
Bazili, Nikolai Aleksandrovich,
1930-1960
box 5, folder 14
Maksimova (Maximova), Tat'iana (Tania),
1964-1968
box 5, folder 15
Nicholas II at Borodino Station on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino,
1912
box 5, folder 16
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Belgrade,
1904-1925
box 5, folder 17
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ (Mirski), Georges and Jean,
1962-1972
box 5, folder 18
Swiatopolk-Mirskia (Hanykova), Kleopatra (Kapitolina), Princess,
circa 1900
box 5, folder 19
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ, Mikhail Dmitrievich, Prince,
1926-1938
box 5, folder 20
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ, Nikolai Ivanovich, Prince,
1898
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich, Prince,
1924-1977, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs depicting Nikolaĭ Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ , his family, and friends, arranged chronologically.
box 6, folder 17
Svyatopolk-Mirskii, Petr (Pyotr) Dmitrievich, Prince,
circa 1900
box 6, folder 22
"L'ange de la mort" and other poems,
1974-1975
Scope and Contents note
Includes drafts, notes, and clippings.
box 6, folder 18-21
"Carmina," collection of poems, manuscripts,
1918-1947
box 7, folder 1
"Les princes Sviatopolk-Mirsky, issus de Rurik,"
NdR La Noblesse de Russie, deuxième edition, publiés par Nicolas Ikonnikov, Paris,
1961
"Les princes Sviatopolk-Mirsky (La généalogique des princes Sviatopolk-Mirsky),"
1799-1976
Scope and Contents note
Includes research material, draft chapters, correspondence, and illustrations. The files are retained as they were originally
compiled and entitled by creator.
Research material,
1799-1976
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes, drafts, correspondence, clippings, and collected photocopies of articles and texts relating to Russian history.
box 7, folder 9-16
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ family history
box 8, folder 1-3
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ family history
box 14, folder 4-5
Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ family history
box 8, folder 4-12
"Brouillons" (rough draft chapters),
1969-1971
box 9, folder 1-7
"Brouillons" (rough draft chapters),
1969-1971
box 9, folder 14
C 2. "Notice sur les Piast"
box 10, folder 2-3
Ch. I "Examen critique des sources principales de l'histoire de la famille des princes Sviatopolk"
box 10, folder 7-8
Ch. III "Rurikides, "Piast"
box 10, folder 9
Ch. III.5 "Les alliances dynastiques des grands princes rurikides"
box 10, folder 12
Ch. IV "La généalogique des princes Sviatopolk-Mirsky (Russie impériale)"
box 11, folder 1
Ch. VI "Tableaux généalogiques"
box 11, folder 2-3
Ch. VII "La naissance de la famille des princes Sviatopolk"
box 11, folder 4
Ch. VIII "Brève généalogique de la branche orthodoxe des princes Sviatopolk-Tchetvertinskiy"
box 11, folder 5-12
Ch. IX "La famille des princes Sviatopolk"
box 12, folder 1-5
Ch. IX "La famille des princes Sviatopolk"
box 12, folder 6-8
Ch. IX "Biographies des enfants"
box 13, folder 1-9
"Illustrations"
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs, postcards, charts, drawings, and clippings.
box 13, folder 11
"Voyage à Bruxelles,"
1970
Printed Matter,
1955-1984
Arrangement Statement
Arranged alphabetically by title.
box 13, folder 12
"Biographical Dictionary of the Corps of Faces: An Outline of the Project," by Marvin Lyons,
1984
box 13, folder 13
Encounter: Literature Arts Current Affairs, No. 22, London,
1955
Scope and Contents note
Includes "Comrade Prince: A Memoir of D.S. Mirsky," by Edmund Wilson.
box 13, folder 14
Orthodox icons postcards,
1956-1976
box 14, folder 1-3
"Soiuz Pazhei," pamiatka (memo),
1960-1963
Strandmann Family Papers,
1812-1971
Scope and Contents note
Consists of family papers sent from Sofia Strandmann to Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ. Includes Strandmann family
genealogy, correspondence, photographs, clippings, and notes, arranged chronologically.
Oversize Material
1802-1971
Arrangement Statement
Arranged alphabetically by physical form.
box 15, folder 1-5
Legal papers
1886-1930
Scope and Contents note
Princess Maria Aleksandrovna Svi͡atopolk-Mirskiĭ (Mirskaia)'s documents in the possession of the Lavriki estate in the region
of Kiev, in Ukraine. Includes maps and drawings.
box 15, folder 6-7
Lithographs, Imperial Russian Army Cossack regiments
1802-1900
box 16
Memoirs, manuscript by "Sasha',"
1971
