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Title: N. V. Borzov papers
Date (inclusive): 1890-1989
Collection Number: 2000C104
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
20 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 2 scrapbooks, 36 microfilm reels
(6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, financial records, reports, memoranda, bulletins, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian
students in China and the United States. Includes papers of other members of the Borzov family, and records of the Russkoe
natsional'noe studencheskoe obschestvo.
Creator:
Borzov, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Viktorovich), 1871-1955
Creator:
Borzov family
Creator:
Russkoe nat͡sional'noe studencheskoe obschestvo
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box 23 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of 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, 2024.
[Identification of item], N. V. Borzov papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
In part, originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
N. V. Borzov was a prominent and active figure in Russian education and émigré charitable and cultural work. Born in Glazov
on 26 April 1871 (O.S.), he graduated with honors from St. Petersburg University, and entered into government service in the
Ministry of Education. In 1897 he was a teacher at the Tomsk girls' high school, and in 1904 he was appointed inspector of
the Tomsk Commercial School. Aside from his direct duties, he also established an evening school in Tomsk and participated
in the work of societies advancing education in penitentiaries as well as in villages in the Tomsk region.
Having moved to Harbin in 1905, he was for twenty years director of the Harbin Commercial schools as well as of the education
department of the Chinese Eastern Railway. At the same time, he established advanced economic and legal courses in Harbin.
He was also a member of the city council. Dismissed in 1925 at the demand of the Soviet government, he moved to Berkeley,
California, where his children lived. But he returned to Harbin in 1929-1931 to assume the post of director of the Kharbinskoe
pervoe real'noe uchilishche. Back in California, he resumed his educational work by founding Russian kindergartens and high
schools in Berkeley and San Francisco.
For many years, almost till his death on 25 November 1955, he organized the annual "Day of the Russian Child" (Den' russkogo
rebenka), and edited the journal of the same name in order to raise funds and awareness of the plight of Russian children
abroad.
| 1871 April 26 (O. S.) | Born, Glazov, Russia |
| 1897 | Teacher, Mariinskaia zhenskaia gimnaziia, Tomsk, Russia |
| 1904 | Inspector, Tomskoe kommercheskoe uchilishche, Tomsk, Russia |
| 1905-1925 | Director, Kharbinskie kommercheskie uchilishcha, Harbin, China |
| 1925 | Arrived in the United States |
| 1929-1931 | Director, 1-oe Real'noe uchilishche, Harbin, China |
| 1931 | Returned to the United States Director, Obshchestvo pokrovitel'stva I prosvescheniia russkikh detei, San Francisco, California |
| 1955 November 25 | Died, Berkeley, California |
The primary individual associated with these papers is Nikolai Viktorovich Borzov, but they contain materials connected with
the activities of his sons, Boris Nikolaevich and Viktor Nikolaevich Borzov, as well as materials relating to or originating
from other family members: daughter Aleksandra Nikolaevna Borzov, and wife, Sofiia Aleksandrovna. Both Nikolai Viktorovich
and his son, Viktor Nikolaevich, were active in a large number of organizations with social, educational, and charitable goals,
particularly in connection with helping Russian children and students in China and the United States. This collection reflects
their activities in this sphere. The papers are especially rich on problems of high school and university education among
Russian émigrés.
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 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.
Box 35 of collection was not microfilmed and is only available at Museum of Russian Culture. Includes: Plaque and diagrams
of the 1-oe Kharbinskoe russkoe real'noe uchilishche, one album, and fifteen prints depicting miscellaneous personages (See
also SUBJECT FILE/Russians--United).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Russians -- China
Education -- United States
Education -- China