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Title: Eugene L. Magerovsky papers
Date (inclusive): 1914-2008
Collection Number: 2010C47
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
15 manuscript boxes
(6.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to aspects of Russian history, Russian studies in the
United States, Russian émigré affairs, and the Russian Orthodox Church. Includes some papers of L. F. Magerovskii, father
of E. L. Magerovsky and curator of the Bakhmeteff Archive at Columbia University.
Creator:
Magerovsky, Eugene L., 1934-2009
Creator:
Magerovskiĭ, L. F.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
The bulk of the papers were received in 2009. Four additional manuscript boxes were acquired in 2010.
[Identification of item], Eugene L. Magerovsky papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Eugene Magerovsky was a Russian-American historian, Slavic studies scholar, and U.S. military intelligence officer whose father,
Lev Florianovich Magerovsky, was a prominent Russian émigré.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains audiotapes and archival documents, including biographical information, clipping files, materials
on Russian émigré life in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and the United States and on the establishment of Russian studies programs
at colleges and in the U.S. Army, correspondence, photographs, subject files on the Russian Imperial Army, the identification
of the Romanov remains, the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, anticommunist organizations, as well as his writings, and articles
and manuscripts written by others. One gem is a 1914 list of Russian general staff officers (the only copy outside Russia).
There is also an unpublished illustrated memoir by General Mikhail Svechin, a Guards officer, telling of his service in the
Russian Imperial Army.
Of particular interest in the increment are the files concerning L. F. Magerovsky's activities in interwar Czechoslovakia
and then in the United States. Also important are the manuscript memoirs of the evacuation of Novorossiisk in 1920, during
the Russian civil war, and the diary of Nikolai Zakharov describing the actions of the III Caucasus Corps during the First
World War.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Russia -- History
Soviet Union -- History
Russia -- Study and teaching -- United States
Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ