Register of the Innokentii Nikolaevich Seryshev papers

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Title: Innokentii Nikolaevich Seryshev papers
Date (inclusive): 1891-1968
Collection Number: 2000C23
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 20 microfilm reels (3.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, Russian émigré affairs, and the promotion of Esperanto.
Creator: Seryshev, Innokentiĭ Nikolaevich, 1883-

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Innokentii Nikolaevich Seryshev papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of Originals

Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.

Chronology

1883 August 14 Born, Bol'shaia Kudara village, Zabaikal district, Russia
1902 Married Ekaterina Fedorovna Bondarenko
1906-1909 Priest, Doronino (Zabaikal district)
1910-1913 Priest, Shergol'dzhin (Zabaikal district)
1917-1919 Member, Board of Directors, Soiuz kul'turno-prosvetitel'nykh obshchestv Altaiskogo kraia
1920-1922 Studied educational system in Japan
1922-1924 Taught in the railroad school, Harbin, China
1924 Author, Strana samuraev
  Taught in the Chinese Esperanto College, Peking, China
1925-1965 Priest and editor of religious and secular periodicals (some in Esperanto) in Sydney, Australia
1976 August 23 Died, Australia

Biography

Father Innokentii Seryshev was born on 14 August 1883 in the village of Bol'shaia Kudara, in the Trans-Baikal region. In 1902 he married Ekaterina Fedorovna Bondarenko. From 1906 to 1909 he was the village priest in Doronino, and from 1910 to 1913 in Shergol'dzhin, both in the Trans-Baikal region. It was in this period that he became interested in Esperanto, a language he spent most of the rest of his life promoting. From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the board of directors of the Soiuz kul'turno-prosvetitel'nykh obshchestv Altaiskogo kraia.
From 1920 to 1922, Seryshev was in Japan, where he made a study of the Japanese educational system (published in his Strana samuraev, 1924). Thereafter, from 1922 to 1924, he lived in Harbin and Peking, where he taught in the railroad school and at the Chinese Esperanto College. In 1925 Seryshev emigrated to Australia, where he was a parish priest in Sydney and editor and chief writer for a number of secular and religious periodicals: Aziia, Put' emigranta, Tserkov' i nauka, and others (including some in Esperanto). He also compiled a biographical dictionary of prominent Russians, entitled Great, Outstanding, and Eminent Personalities of Russia (1945-1946). Seryshev died in Australia in 1976.

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of the papers of Rev. Innokentii Seryshev, a Russian Orthodox priest active in the first half of the 20th century in Siberia, Japan, China and Australia. Of particular interest is his hobby: the study of Esperanto, of which he was a devoted adherent. Some correspondence and publications are in that language ( Oriento, La Pacifiko, and other works in the Speeches and Writings series), and there is a written work on its development in Russian and the USSR ("Esperanto v S.S.S.R.," Box 11, Folder 7).
The materials in the collection reflect mainly his involvement in émigré and Church affairs, mainly in China and Australia, and include correspondence with prominent émigré figures as well as materials for a biographical encyclopedia of prominent Russians that included a large number of émigrés. Also valuable are his multi-volume memoirs, "V zemnom plane moego vechnogo bytiia."
A significant part of the collection consists of periodicals edited and published by Seryshev, on both religious and secular themes, most of which are in mimeograph or similar format, and there is a large amount of writings on religious issues: sermons, apologetics, etc.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming of these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Esperanto
Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ

 

Biographical File 1918 - circa 1965

Scope and Contents note

For an autobiography of Seryshev, see SPEECHES AND WRITINGS/"V zemnom plane moego vechnogo bytiia".
reel 1

Bibliographical list of Seryshev's publications circa 1965

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 1.
 

Scrapbooks

 

"Delo o deiatel'nosti i rabote sviashchennika Innokentiia Serysheva na Altae (Sibir') v dni po-Fevral'skoi revoliutsii i o poezdke ego v Iaponiiu po prichine padeniia Kolchakovskogo rezhima i nastupleniia rezhima bol'shevikov" 1918-1948

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 2. Consists of correspondence, identity papers, travel certificates, orders, and related materials. Includes introductory note and index.
 

"Delo o prebyvanii sviashchennika Innokentiia Serysheva v Kharbine" 1922-1948

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 3. Consists of correspondence, writings and printed matter. Includes introductory note.
 

"Dela Sidneiskogo prikhoda i rol' sviashch. I. Serysheva v nem" 1921-1949

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 4. Consists of autobiographical note, correspondence, circulars, and related matter
 

Correspondence 1915-1955

General note

See also BIOGRAPHICAL FILE/Scrapbooks, SPEECHES AND WRITINGS (esp. "V zemnom plane moego vechnogo bytiia"), and SUBJECT FILE
 

General--Scrapbooks

reel 1

File 1 1915-1944

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 5. Correspondents include K. V. Baturin, Bishop Vasilii, Sergei Maslov, and V. Zenzinov. Includes index as well as related printed matter.
 

File 2 1929-1949

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 6. Correspondents include G. D. Grebenshchikov and S. I. Gusev-Orenburgskii. Includes index.
 

"Delovaia perepiska," 1936-1952

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 7. Correspondents include Bishop Serafim, N. N. Alekseev, A. V. Treichke.
 

"Sviaz' s redaktsiiami i izdatel'stvami," 1943-1947

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 8.
 

Agreneva-Slavianskaia, Margarita, D. 1947

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 9.
 

Bulgakov, Petr I.

General note

See SUBJECT FILE
 

Korzhenevskii, Pavel Vasil'evich 1937-1948

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 10. Includes postcards from Korzhenevskii's children.
 

Morita, Pavel 1920

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 11.
 

Sergii, Bishop of Japan 1920

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 12.
 

Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich

General note

See SUBJECT FILE
 

Zarochentsev, Mikhail Trofimovich 1953-1955

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 13.
 

Speeches and Writings 1920-1968

Scope and Contents note

Includes periodicals edited by Seryshev, nearly every issue of which contain one or more of his articles. For other works printed by his publishing house, see SUBJECT FILE.
 

General

 

General

reel 2

Untitled compilation of articles and fragments of articles from various journals n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 1. Printed copy.
 

"Sbornik broshiur Izdatel'stva 'Oriento'," 1935-1941

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 2. Printed copy. Bound compilation of brochures (with table of contents) issued by Seryshev, some as supplements to his periodicals.
 

Scrapbook. "Stat'i I. Serysheva, pisannye iz Iaponii, po raznym voprosam, v esperantskikh zhurnalakh na Esperanto i v iaponskikh po-iaponski i po-russki" 1920-1922

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 3. Articles in periodical press include primarily works on Esperanto (in La Orienta Lumo, La Revuo Orienta, La Verda Ombro and other periodicals), as well as on current events (in Golos Iaponii).
 

Tables of contents to some issues of periodicals edited and published by Seryshev

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 4.
 

"Liubopytnyi dokument," 1921 January 1

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 5. Typescript.
 

"Lektsiia Episkopa Sergiia ob arkhiepiskope iaponskom Nikolae," [summary] 1922

General note

See SUBJECT FILE/Bulgakov, Petr/Subject file
 

"Sushchnost' velikogo narodnogo vosstaniia v Sibiri v godu," 1919 1922

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 6. Holograph.
 

"Iz vpechatlenii o Iaponii," 1924

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 7. Printed copy. Clippings from an unidentified Harbin newspaper ( Nasha zaria?).
 

Strana samuraev 1924-1925

 

Part I

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 8. Includes Takekuma Tokusaburo, Aborigeny ostrova Khokkaido - "Ainy", translated by I. Seryshev. Printed copy.
 

Part II

 

Holograph

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 9. Includes introductory note by Seryshev, 1948 May.
reel 3

Printed copy

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 1.
 

Oriento, #1 (July 1925)

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 2. Printed copy. Includes table of contents to numbers 1-2 (typescript and holograph).
 

Tserkovnyi kolokol (periodical)

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
 

(#1) - (#2) 1932 May April

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 3.
 

(#1) - (#4) 1932 November 1933 February

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 4.
 

Tserkov' i nauka (periodical)

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
 

(#1) - (#10) 1933 March 1933 December

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 5.
reel 4

(#11) - (#22) 1934 January 1934 December

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 6.
 

(#23) - (#30) 1935 January 1935 August

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 7.
reel 5

(#32) - (#37) 1935 October 1936 March

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 3 : 8.
 

Fragments of #43 ; #52 (1936) (1954)

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 4 : 1.
 

Polemicheskii biulleten', (#1) (periodical) 1933 July

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 4 : 2. Printed copy.
 

Avstralaziia, (#1) - (#3) (periodical) 1933 November 1935 April-September

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 4 : 3. Printed copy.
 

Aziia, (#1); (#2); (#3) (periodical) 1934 March 1935 January 1937 April [1935 December]

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 4 : 4. Printed copy.
 

Informatsionnyi biulleten' Izdatel'stva "Oriento", #1 (May 1935)

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 4 : 5. Printed copy.
 

Put' emigranta (periodical)

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
reel 6

(#4) - (#3/9) 1935 October 1936 March

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 4 : 6.
 

(#4) - (#19) 1936 April 1937 February

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 4 : 7.
 

(#20) - (#29) 1937 March 1937 December

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 5 : 1.
reel 7

(#30) - (#37) 1938 January 1938 August

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 5 : 2.
 

(#38) - (#46) 1938 September 1941 July

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 5 : 3.
 

La Pacifiko, (#1) - (#2) 1935 December 1936 September

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 5 : 4.
 

"Al'bom 'Avstralaziia'," 1937-1940

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 5 : 5. Typescript.
 

"Lektsionnyi al'manakh russkogo doma v Sidnee za 1943 god," 1943

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 5 : 6. Printed copy. Includes lectures by others.
 

Album of Great, Outstanding and Eminent Personalities of Russia 1945-1946

reel 8

Background materials

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 5 : 7 and 6 : 1-5. Includes clippings, correspondence, notes, photographs. For additional photostats, see PHOTOGRAPHS
reel 9

Background materials

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 6 : 6-7 and 7 : 1.
 

Progress reports

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 7 : 2.
reel 9

Drafts

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 7 : 3-5.
reel 10

Drafts

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 7 : 6-8.
 

Printed copy, parts I-III

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 7 : 9.
 

Reviews

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 7 : 10-11. Includes newspaper clippings and correspondence, 1945-1954.
 

Review of V. Krymov, Drozofily i my 1948

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 1. Typescript.
 

"Religiia i nauka," 1948

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 2. Typescript.
 

"Strastnaia sedmitsa," 1948

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 3. Typescript.
 

"Mozhet byt' ili navernost'," 1949 April

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 4. Typescript.
 

"Problema mehdunarodnogo iazyka," 1949 August

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 5. Typescript.
reel 11

"Paskha," 1949 September

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 6. Typescript.
 

"Mysli o sektantstve," 1949 November

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 7. Typescript.
 

"Chetvertoe imerenie prostranstva," [1950 January]

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 8. Typescript.
 

"Zagrobnaia zhizn'," 1950 September

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 9. Typescript.
 

"Bog, mir, chelovek," 1951

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 10. Typescript.
reel 12

Missionerskii listok 1951 September - [1966]

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 11.
 

"Sbornik propovedei, besed i tem dlia dukhovnykh lektsii v pomoshch' pravoslavnym pastyriam," 1951 December

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 8 : 12. Typescript.
 

"V zemnom plane moego vechnogo bytiia," 1952 February - 1968

Scope and Contents note

Typescript. Includes photographs of author and others
 

Volume 1: "V Sibiri."

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 9 : 1. Missing pp. 281-282 and 355-356.
reel 13

Volume 2: "V Iaponii"

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 9 : 2.
 

Volume 3: "V Kitae"

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 9 : 3.
reel 14

Volume 4: "V Avstralii"

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 9 : 4 and 10 : 1.
reel 15

Volume 4: "V Avstralii

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 10 : 2-3.
reel 16

Volume 4: "V Avstralii"

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 10 : 4. Appendices (correspondence, documents and photographs).
 

Volume 5: "Moi lektsii, doklady, stat'i"

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 10 : 5.
 

Conclusion, table of contents, bibliography of Seryshev's works

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 10 : 6.
 

"Rabota russkikh emigrantov na internatsional'nom poprishche esperantizma 1952 December

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 10 : 7. Typescript.
 

Lechebnyi sbornik, #2 (1954)

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 10 : 8. Printed copy. Compiled and edited by Seryshev.
 

V chasy dosuga, v minuty razdum'ia, (#18-19) 1955-1957

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 1.
 

"Istoriia Sidneiskogo prikhoda ot ego osnovaniia do pribytiia pervogo episkopa," 1956 July

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 2. Typescript.
reel 17

Kriticheskii sbornik #3: Teosofiia, okkul'tim i khristianstvo 1959 February

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 3. Printed copy.
 

Mia "Cigna Kanto"/ Moia lebedinaia pesn' 1960 March

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 4. Printed copy.
 

Voĉo de Esperantulo/ Golos Esperantista, , unnumbered issue 1962 (#1) and undated

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 5. Printed copy.
 

Sperto de mia vivo 1962 May

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 6. Printed copy.
 

"Esperanto v S.S.S.R. i v ee satelitakh: Chast' 2-ia," 1962 August

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 7. Typescript.
 

Opisanie zhini matushki Ekateriny Feodorovny Seryshevoi 1964

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 8. Printed copy.
 

Apologeticheskie uroki Vetkhogo Zaveta, parts 1-7 1966-1967

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 9. Printed copy.
 

Kritika knigi frantsuza ateista Leo Taksil' "Zabavnaia Bibliia," 1968 August

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 10. Typescript.
 

"Na knizhku 'Vo svete pisaniia' ukrainskogo eks-iereia G. Dobrovol'skogo, ushedshego v sektu baptistov, moi kriticheskii otvet," 1968 August

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 11. Typescript.
 

"Ob"iasnenie liturgii dlia molodezhi," 1968 December

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 12. Typescript.
 

"Potemkinskie potemki: Kriticheskii otvet na broshiuru starovera K. V. Potemkina 'Raz"ediniaiushchaia sila'," 1968 December

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 13. Typescript.
 

"O reforme nashego eparkhial'nogo zhurnala," 1968 December 25

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 14. Typescript.
 

Subject File 1891-1951

reel 17

Bebutova, Olga

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 15. Consists of letters from Archbishop Feodosii to Seryshev, 1951, and receipts pertaining to Seryshev's activity in advancing financial aid to Bebutova.
 

Bulgakov, Petr, Rev.

Scope and Contents note

Materials from Bulgakov's archive sent to Seryshev, consisting of his correspondence, writings, and collected materials
 

Biographical file

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 16. Includes brief notes and chronology of Bulgakov's life.
 

Correspondence

 

General

 

General and unidentified [1908]-1928 and undated

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 17.
reel 18

Scrapbook

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 18. Includes letters to Seryshev, Patriarch Tikhon and others, 1922-1930 and undated. Also includes photograph of Bulgakov and biographical introduction by Seryshev, dated 1948.
 

Sergii, Bishop of Japan 1920-1930

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 19.
 

Seryshev, Innokentii 1920-1930

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 20.
 

Tikhon, Patriarch 1891-1923

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 21. Includes letter by S. Bulgakova to Seryshev introducing this correspondence, 1939.
 

Subject file - Sergii, Bishop of Japan

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 22. Includes summary of speech by him written by Seryshev and related letter by Bulgakov to the newspaper Novaia zaria, 1931.
 

Writings 1908-1930

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 23. May include pieces not by Bulgakov.
 

Miscellany

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 11 : 24.
 

Japanese students

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 12 : 1. Diary of a Japanese student studying the Russian language, 1919-1920.
 

Russians--Australia

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 12 : 2. Scrapbook includes correspondence with A. A. Faminskii, 1939, and others, clippings, broadsides and other materials relating to Russians in Australia in the 1920s-1930s.
 

Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 12 : 3. Correspondence, 1927-1941, clippings, photograph and collected materials relating to the biography of this orientalist.
reel 19

Miscellany

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 12 : 4. Includes newspaper clippings, mainly on church affairs.
 

Printed Matter 1904-1969

Scope and Contents note

Consists mainly of religious literature, including a large amount of bulletins issued by various parishes and organizations in China and Australia, some published by Seryshev, as well as mimeographed and typed reports on religious and church-related subjects.
reel 19

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 12 : 5-6

reel 20

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 12 : 7-8

 

Photographs 1916-1953

reel 20

Photostats for use in Seryshev's Album of Great, Outstanding and Eminent Personalities

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 13 : 1.
 

Postcards, depicting various subjects, including indigenous peoples of Australasia

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 13 : 2. Include many printed by Seryshev, with titles in Esperanto.
 

Esperanto groups (including Seryshev) in Barnaul, Russia and Peking 1916, 1924

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 13 : 3.