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Title: Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie records
Date (inclusive): 1876-1956
Collection Number: 2000C41
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
5 microfilm reels
(0.75 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, financial records, writings, membership lists, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the study
of Russian contributions to American history.
Creator:
Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Ameriki͡e
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.
[Identification of item], Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie Records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution
Library & Archives.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Russian-American historical association.
This collection contains the records of the Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie (Russian Historical Society in America).
Its founder and first president was A. P. Farafontov (1937-1940). The second president of the Society was an engineer, Mikhail
Dem'ianovich Sedykh (1940-1948). The records consist their correspondence, writings and other materials collected by them
in the course of the organization's activities, which included aid in the restoration of Fort Ross, California, celebrations
honoring the 200
th anniversary of the European discovery of Alaska (1941), and other cultural events. Also present are writings and correspondence
by prominent émigrés, such as A. A. Kersnovskii, P. V. Shkurkin, S. G. Svatikov, and others. Almost all the records of the
collection date from 1933 to 1948, but the scrapbook on M. D. Sedykh (Office File/Members' papers/Sedykh) expands the temporal
bounds to those shown in the series description.
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 the 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 -- Study and teaching