Register of the Aleksandr Kallinikovich Svitich papers
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Title: Aleksandr Kallinikovich Svitich papers
Date (inclusive): 1921-1965
Collection Number: 2008C81
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Polish
Physical Description:
3 microfilm reels
(0.45 Linear Feet)
Abstract: These papers provide insight into the life of the Orthodox Church in Poland in the Interwar period. Aleksander K. Svitich,
a theologian and member of the faculty of the Vilno Theological Seminary, served on the editorial board of
Za svobodu, a Russian émigré newspapers, to which he contributed numerous articles, at times using his pen name Tuberozov. Reflected
in these papers are also Svitich's research interests.
Creator:
Svitich, Aleksandr, 1890-1963
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2008
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Aleksandr Kallinikovich Svitich Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Alternative Forms of Material Available
The entire collection is available on Microfilm
Location of Original Materials
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York
Chronology
| 1890 March 15 |
Born, Vilno, Russian Empire |
| 19?? |
Graduated, Theological faculty, Warsaw University |
| 19?? |
Professor, Vilno Theological Seminary |
| 1921-1932 |
Editorial board member (pen name Tuberozov),
Za svobodu
|
| 1930-1933 |
Editor,
V ograde tserkovnoi
|
| 1950 |
Arrived in the U.S.A. |
| 1959 |
Author,
Pravoslavnaia Tserkov' v Pol'she i ee avtokefaliia
|
| 1963 August 17 |
Died, Denver, CO |
Biography
Aleksandr Kallinikovich Svitich was born March 15, 1890, the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, in Vilno, still part of the
Russian empire at that time. Following the usual path of children of clergy, he pursued a theological education, graduating
from the Theological Faculty of Warsaw University in 1930 and teaching at the Vilno Theological Seminary. Svitich served on
the editorial board of Za svobodu, a Russian émigré newspaper, to which he contributed numerous articles, at times using his
pen name Tuberozov, and edited V ograde tserkovnoi from 1930 to 1933. As legal adviser to the Orthodox Church in Poland, Svitich
actively defended the interests of the Orthodox Church versus the Catholic Church in Poland.
Forced to leave Poland for Serbia in 1937, he settled in Belgrade, where he advised the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia
in legal matters. In 1938 Svitich participated in the Second Russian Orthodox All-Diaspora; in 1945, he immigrated to Germany,
where he lived in displaced persons camps before arriving in the United States in 1950. Reflecting on his years in Poland
and his activities in the Orthodox Church there, he published a historical monograph in 1959 on the Orthodox Church in Poland
and the issue of church autocephaly titled Pravoslavnaia Tserkov' v Pol'she i ee avtokefaliia.
Aleksandr Svitich died on August 17, 1963, in Denver, Colorado.
Scope and Content of Collection
These papers provide insight into the life of the Orthodox Church in Poland in the Interwar period. Aleksander K. Svitich,
a theologian and member of the faculty of the Vilno Theological Seminary, served on the editorial board of
Za svobodu, a Russian émigré newspapers, to which he contributed numerous articles, at times using his pen name Tuberozov. Reflected
in these papers are also Svitich's research interests.
The Subject file contains documents pertaining to the activities of the Orthodox Church in the Unites States. Noteworthy are
the correspondence of Archbishop Arsenii (Chakhovtsev), and Archbishop Irinei (Bekish), and documents relating to the Russkaia
pravoslavnaia tserkov' zagranitsei.
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 Holy Trinity Seminary. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Holy
Trinity Seminary Archives as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is appended to this
register. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials do not necessarily represent those
of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into five series: Biographical file, Correspondence, Speeches and writings, Subject file, and
Printed matter
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Nikolai D. Talberg Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Subjects and Indexing Terms
United States
Poland
Orthodox Eastern Church
Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ
Biographical file
1927-1950 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Address of gratitude, Peretrukhin-Svitich controversy file, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1, folder 1
Address of gratitude of the Russian Orthodox deanery of the French occupation zone in Germany
1950
box 1, folder 2
Peretrukhin-Svitich controversy file
1927-1934 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes related materials
Correspondence
1926-1949.
General note
See also Subject file/Orthodox Eastern Church--Poland--History--20th century/All-Polish council
Scope and Contents note
Cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
box 1, folder 3
Dionisii (Valedinskii), Metropolitan
1930-1931
box 1, folder 4
Iakubovich, Viacheslav, Reverend
1926-1931 and undated
box 1, folder 5
Ioann (Pommer), Archbishop
1930
box 1, folder 6
Mikhailovskii, Vladimir
1926
box 1, folder 7
Savva (Sovetov), Archbishop
1949
box 1, folder 8
Shavel'skii, Georgii, Reverend
1930
Speeches and writings
1926-1961 and undated.
General note
See also Subject file/Orthodox Eastern Church--Poland--History--20th century/All-Polish council
Scope and Contents note
Articles, clippings, letter to the editor, notes, arranged chronologically by title.
box 1, folder 10
Letter to the editor
1961
box 1, folder 12
General
1953-1959 and undated
box 1, folder 17
"Edinaia, sviataia, sobornaia i apostol'skaia tserkov',"
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 18
"Nasushchnieishaia nuzhda,"
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 19
"Vybornoe nachalo v zhizni pravoslavnoi tserkvi,"
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 20
"Znachenie sobornosti v pravoslavnoi tserkvi (v zashchitu sobornosti v zhizni tserkvi),"
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 21
"Cherez Golgofu k voskreseniiu,"
Rossiia, No. 5090
1953.
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 22
"Tserkov' s pervykh vekov khristiianstva i ee sobornoe ustroenie,"
1953.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript, with introductory remarks and notes
Subject file
1921-1965 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Bylaws, clippings, correspondence, minutes, notebook, pamphlets, reports, research notes, resolutions, arranged alphabetically
by subject
box 1, folder 23
Eastern Catholic Church, clippings, research notes
Orthodox Eastern Church--Poland--History--20th Century
box 2, folder 2
All-Polish council.
Scope and Contents note
Includes newspaper articles by Svitich and other authors, clippings, related correspondence, notes, and resolutions
box 2, folder 3
Persecutions of Orthodox Christians
1938-1940.
Scope and Contents note
Notebook entitled "Gonenie na Pravoslavie v Pol'shie" with pasted clippings
Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America
box 2, folder 4
Bylaws, The Russian Church of Our Lady of Kazan, Sea Cliff, N.Y.
undated
box 2, folder 5
Arsenii (Chakhovtsev), Archbishop
1935-1937.
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence with Metropolitan Feofil (Pashkovskii), and Bishop Leontii (Turkevich)
box 2, folder 6
Irinei (Bekish), Archbishop
1965
box 2, folder 7
Minutes, Ninth All-American council
1955
Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov' zagranitsei
box 2, folder 8
Parish bylaws
1946-1955.
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 2, folder 9
Skvortsov, Vasilii Mikhailovich. Reports to ecclesiastical councils
1921-1931
box 2, folder 10
"Krizis upravleniia Russkoi zarubezhnoi tserkvi,"
undated
box 2, folder 11
Tserkovnye zakony kasaiushchiesia Russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi zagranitsei
1947.
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 12
Poland--History. Clippings
1957
box 2, folder 13
Teodorovich, Terentii, Reverend
1950-1953 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings and three prints
box 2, folder 14-15
Printed matter
1930-1933 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Catalog and clippings
