Register of the Semen Dmitrievich Ignat'ev Papers

Prepared by Anatol Shmelev

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Phone: (650) 723-3563

Fax: (650) 725-3445

Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Register of the Semen Dmitrievich Ignat'ev Papers

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Prepared by:: Anatol Shmelev
Date Completed:: 2000
Encoded by:: ByteManagers using OAC finding aid conversion service specifications

Descriptive Summary

Title: Semen Dmitrievich Ignat'ev papers,

Date (inclusive): 1898-1976

Collection number: 2000C62

Creator: Ignat'ev, Semen Dmitrievich, 1891-1974

Extent: 6 microfilm reels (0.9 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, financial records, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian choirs in the United States.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Language: Russian.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Semen Dmitrievich Ignat'ev Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired.

Location of Originals

Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.

Biographical Note

1891 January 25	Born, Ostrovskii uezd, Pskovskaia guberniia, Russia
1918 June 8	Married Aleksandra Ivanovna Kozlova, Gul'kevichi village, Kubanskaia oblast'
1920	Evacuated to Gallipoli with White Army
c. 1926	Organized Kuban' Cossack Chorus
1950	Emigrated to Sweden
1955	Emigrated to the United States
1961	Naturalized as a U.S. citizen
1974	Died, San Francisco, California

Scope and Content Note

Semen Dmitrievich Ignat'ev was well-known as a composer and conductor of the Kuban' Cossack Chorus, and later of church choirs. This collection consists mainly of materials relating to these activities. Other subjects include autobiographical writings dealing with his experiences on Gallipoli in the early 1920s and in Berlin in 1945, as well as writings, subject files and printed matter relating to Russian Orthodox liturgical music. Some of the correspondence is with relatives in the Soviet Union.

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 and the Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials remain at the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco, as its property. A transfer table of corresponding box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution 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.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Choral societies--United States.

Russians--United States.

Russia.

United States.

Series Description

box 1

Biographical File, 1910-1972.

Scope and Content Note

Address book, articles, congratulatory notes, contracts, identity papers, letters of recommendation, school records, scrapbook, and miscellany arranged alphabetically by physical form

box 1-3

Correspondence, 1926-1976.

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent

box 3-5

Speeches and Writings, 1917-1966.

Scope and Content Note

Arranged chronologically by title. Includes musical compositions

box 5-6

Subject File, 1927-1974.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, leaflets, notes and printed matter, arranged alphabetically by subject

box 7

Printed Matter, 1898-1974.

Scope and Content Note

Bulletins, clippings and periodicals, arranged alphabetically by physical form. Relates to Cossacks, Russian culture, military history and miscellaneous subjects

box 8-10

Pnotographs, c. 1910-1974.

Scope and Content Note

Albums and individual photographs of Ignat'ev, his wife, his chorus, as well as other figures (mostly unidentified) and places

box 10

Artwork, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

One watercolor painting of a pastoral scene

box 10

Financial Records, 1927-1974.

Scope and Content Note

Bank records, receipts, financial calculations, tax forms. Not filmed

Container List

Box 1

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1910-1972

Box/Folder 1 : 1

Address book

Box/Folder 1 : 2

Articles about or mentioning Ignat'ev

Box/Folder 1 : 3

Congratulatory notes honoring Ignat'ev and his chorus

Box/Folder 1 : 4

Contract

Family file -- Aleksandra Ignat'eva

Box/Folder 1 : 5

Identity papers

Box/Folder 1 : 6

School records

Box/Folder 1 : 7

Identity papers.

Scope and Content Note

Includes naturalization and marriage certificates, residence, work and travel permits

Box/Folder 1 : 8

Letters of recommendation for Ignat'ev

Box/Folder 1 : 9

Program of musical production involving S. D. and A. I. Ignat'ev.

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs

Box/Folder 1 : 10

School records

Box/Folder 1 : 11

Scrapbook.

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence and autographs

Box/Folder 1 : 12

Miscellany

CORRESPONDENCE, 1926-1976.

Note