Register of the Krymskoe Kraevoe Pravitel'stvo records
Finding aid prepared by Ronald Bulatoff, revised by Lyalya Kharitonova
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Title: Krymskoe Kraevoe Pravitel'stvo records
Date (inclusive): 1918-1920
Collection Number: XX320
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian
Physical Description:
2 manuscript boxes
(0.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The Krymskoe Kraevoe Pravitel'stvo records consist of administrative files of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Justice, and Minister of Internal Affairs concerning the relations of the Crimean Regional
Government and the Constitutional Democratic Party with the Russian Volunteer Army and with the Allies.
Creator:
Krymskoe kraevoe pravitel'stvo (1918-1919)
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Krymskoe Kraevoe Pravitel'stvo records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Historical Note
Krymskoe Kraevoe Pravitel'stvo (Crimean Regional Government) refers to two regimes in the Crimean Peninsula during the years
1918 and 1919. After the Russian October Revolution in 1917, an ethnic Tatar government proclaimed the Crimean People's Republic.
The first Crimean Regional Government was established on 25 June 1918 under German protection with Lipka Tatar General Maciej
(Suleyman) Sulkiewicz as prime minister and minister of interior and military affairs.
After the withdrawal of German troops from Crimea, Sulkiewicz was succeeded by Crimean Karaite politician and former Kadet
member Solomon Krym. This liberal, anti-Bolshevik regime included fellow former Kadet member Maxim Vinaver as foreign minister
and Vladimir D. Nabokov as minister of justice. The collapse of the World War I Central Powers and the withdrawal of the Allies
had made Crimea fully dependent on Russia again. The Crimean Regional Government began to crumble in early 1919.
On 2 April 1919, the Soviet Red Army occupied Simferopol and the second Crimean Regional Government was dissolved. The Crimean
Socialist Soviet Republic was then established only to be retaken by White forces in June 1919. The Whites, under Anton Denikin
and later Petr Wrangel, held Crimea until November 1920.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Krymskoe Kraevoe Pravitel'stvo records consist of administrative files of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Minister of Justice Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, the father of Russian-American
writer Vladimir Nabokov. The records include government reports, manuals, and other publications; news dispatches; clippings;
and correspondence relating to activities of the Crimean Regional Government, as well as decisions concerning relations of
the Constitutional Democratic Party with the Russian Volunteer Army and with the Allies.
Arrangement Statement
All series, organizational hierarchies, and folders maintain their original order and title when possible. Handwritten notes
by collector found in various folders also detail the scope of the material.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Ukraine -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920)
Crimea (Ukraine) -- History
Konstitut͡sionno-demokraticheskai͡a partii͡a
Documents of Maksim Vinaver, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Crimean Regional Government,
1918-1919
box 1, folder 1-3
Telegraphic messages exchanged between Ekaterinodar and the Crimean Government
1918 October - 1919 April
box 1, folder 4
Bulletin Published by the Foreign Office of Crimea for the Allied Navy Now in the Port of Sevastopol, Nos. 1-3
1918-1919
box 1, folder 5
Bulletin Publié par le Ministère des Affaires Étrangères de Crimée pour les Escadres et les Troupes Alliées, Nos. 1-16
1918-1919
box 1, folder 6
Dernières Nouvelles, Supplément au "Bulletin Publié par le Ministère des Affaires Étrangères de Crimée pour les Escadres et
les Troupes Alliées,"
Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 16-18, 23-25
1919
box 1, folder 7-8
Documents relating to the correspondence between the Crimean Government and the Allies (letters from Colonel Ruillet, Admiral
Amet, etc.)
1918-1919
box 1, folder 9
Orders issued by the Commander in Chief of Troops in Sebastopol; by General Subbotin, the Chief Inspector Ribarsky; also a
memorandum on the Crimean Government presented to the Allies
1919
box 1, folder 10
Correspondence with Greek authorities
1919
box 1, folder 11
Correspondence with Constantinople authorities
1919
box 1, folder 12-15
Sundry documents relating to the correspondence with the Volunteer Army and the Allies
1918-1919
box 1, folder 16
Correspondence with the authorities in Odessa
1919
box 1, folder 17
Correspondence with [Vasilii Maklakov (Maklakoff)], Russian Ambassador in Paris
1919
box 1, folder 18
Minutes of the Meeting of the Crimean Cabinet of 16 April 1919 (in French)
1919
box 2, folder 1-2
Documents relating to the history of Denikin's army and of the Cadet Party; the Congress of the Party [of Narodnaia Svoboda]
in Ekaterinodar (abstract from M. Vinaver's report on foreign policy); peace terms proposed by President Wilson (a printed
document being a supplement to the
Journal of the Crimean Government); minutes of the Conference at Novo-Dmitrievskaia on the 17 of March, 1918; the Conference of the Cadet Party with the Central
Committee on April 29-30, 1919; a draft of the Provisional Constitution of the provinces occupied by the Volunteer Army
1918-1919
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings.
box 2, folder 3
A complete set of voting papers [ballots] for the elections to the Crimean Diet
1919
box 2, folder 4
A letter from Omsk signed by M. Ustrugov (Ustrugoff) (member of the Kolchak Government) concerning the political situation
in Siberia, dated March 21, 1919; also a "true copy" of General Denikin's letter of September 17, 1918, concerning Turkestan
and sundry papers
1918-1919
box 2, folder 5-6
Balance sheets and receipts
1918-1919
Documents of Solomon Samuilovich Krym, Chairman of the Council of Ministers in the Crimean Regional Government,
1919-1920
box 2, folder 7
Original decisions of the Council of Ministers
1919
box 2, folder 8
Information about the last events on the front
1919 April 7
box 2, folder 9
Telegram from General Denikin to the Crimean Government
1919 March 16
box 2, folder 10
Declaration of the Crimean Government presented to Admiral Golthorpe at Sebastopol
1918 December 7
box 2, folder 11
Note by Minister Steven
1919
box 2, folder 12
Extracts from notes of the Crimean events
1919
box 2, folder 13
Various letters and reports
1919-1920
Documents of Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Minister of Justice in the Crimean Regional Government,
1918-1919
box 2, folder 14
Collection of the laws and orders of the Crimean Government
1919
box 2, folder 15
Telegram from General Denikin
1918 November 21
box 2, folder 16
The project of the engineers [Voinovskii-Kriger] and [S. N. Chaev] relative to the construction of the Crimean Railway
1919
box 2, folder 17
Project of the statute of the elections in the Sein [to the Crimean Diet]
1919
box 2, folder 18
Project of a Commission for the transformation fot he Crimean tribunals
1919
Correspondence and reports,
1918-1919
box 2, folder 19-20
Statute of the Ministry of Justice,
1918-1919
box 2, folder 21
Order of the Government relative to the nomination of the senators,
1918
box 2, folder 22
Organization of the Senate at Novocherkassk,
1918
box 2, folder 23
Projects of laws and decisions of the Government and various other documents
1919
box 2, folder 24
"Krymskoe Kraevoe Pravitel'stvo (The Crimean Regional Government)," by Minister N. N. Bogdanov (Bogdanoff),
circa 1919
