Register of the Pavel Timofeevich Filip'ev Papers
Prepared by Anatol Shmelev
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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Register of the Pavel Timofeevich Filip'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
© 2003 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Pavel Timofeevich Filip'ev papers,
Date (inclusive): 1925-1981
Collection number: 2000C117
Creator:
Filip'ev, Pavel Timofeevich, 1896-1981
Extent:
16 microfilm reels
(2.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, notes, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to the authenticity of the Vlesova Kniga, the early history
of Russia and the Slavs, and Russian émigré affairs.
Language:
Russian.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Pavel Timofeevich Filip'ev Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Biographical Note
| 1896 December 27 (N.S.) |
Born, Ekaterinodar, Russia |
| 1916 |
Graduated, Tiflis Military College |
| 1920 December |
Arrived in Yugoslavia, employed as a draftsman, and artist |
| 1925 May |
Arrived in Czechoslovakia as an engineering student |
| 1928-1941 |
Served as a highway engineer in the service of the Czechoslovakian government |
| 1947-1950 |
Employed as a policeman, tanner, draftsman, sculptor and in various other capacities in Munich, Germany |
| 1951 |
Emigrated to the United States |
| 1981 September |
Died, San Francisco, California |
Scope and Content Note
The centerpiece of this collection is Filip'ev's research material: clippings, correspondence, notes, printed matter, and
writings associated with his interest in early Russian history, particularly the so-called "Vles Kniga" or "Doshchechki Izenbeka,"
a forged series of writings alleged by believers to have been produced on the territory of Russia prior to the introduction
of the Cyrillic alphabet. Filip'ev expended an enormous amount of time and energy deciphering these writings and attempting
to prove their veracity, as well as arguing that they represented an entirely new vision of early Russian and Slavic history.
His correspondence and notes on this and related topics shed light on the story of the emergence of this forgery and its effect
on the émigré community as well as on believers in the Soviet Union.
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 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 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
Forgery of manuscripts.
Slavs--History.
Ukraine--History--To 862.
Russians--United States.
Russia.
Ukraine.
United States.
Titles
Vlesova kniga.
Series Description
box 1
Biographical File, 1925-1972.
Scope and Content Note
Addresses and telephone numbers, curriculum vitae, employment, identity, immigration and school records, papers relating to
Filip'ev's illegal crossing of the German border in 1947, ration cards and miscellany, arranged alphabetically by physical
form
box 1-2
Correspondence, 1951-1981.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent
box 2-4
Speeches and Writings, 1962-1977 and undated.
Scope and Content Note
Drafts of articles, books, letters to the editor, and short stories arranged alphabetically by title
box 4
Subject File, 1954-1981.
Scope and Content Note
Bulletins, clippings, correspondence, leaflets, and writings, arranged alphabetically by heading
box 5-15
Vles Kniga File, 1957-1970s.
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes, printed matter (clippings, offprints, photocopies, and citations from published works), and writings related
to Filip'ev's interest in the Vles kniga and the origins of the Slavs, with supplementary materials relating to Etruscans,
the Zagreb mummy, ancient India, Scythians, early Russian history, and related topics
box 15
Photographs, 1980 and undated.
Scope and Content Note
Two prints depicting Filip'ev (one from 1980), two depicting Dominican College, San Rafael, California, and six negatives
depicting the Vles kniga
Container List
Box 1
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1925-1972
Box/Folder 1 : 1
Addresses and telephone numbers
Box/Folder 1 : 3
Employment records.
Note
See also identity papers
Scope and Content Note
Includes certificates, membership cards, passes, permits, recommendations and unemployment records.
Box/Folder 1 : 4
Identity papers.
Note
See also employment records
Scope and Content Note
Includes authorizations, residence and travel permits, substitute birth certificates, and similar matter.
Box/Folder 1 : 6
Medical records.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with social services
Box/Folder 1 : 7
Papers relating to his illegal crossing of the German border in 1947
CORRESPONDENCE, 1951-1981
Box/Folder 1 : 11
General, 1952-1981 and undated
Box/Folder 1 : 14
Amvrosii, Archimandrite, 1977
Box/Folder 1 : 15
Arheološki muzej, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1962-1968
Box/Folder 1 : 16
Bogunskii, Sviatoslav Nikolaevich and Nikolai Sviatoslavovich, 1975-1978
Box/Folder 1 : 17
Bokach, Fedor, Rev., 1968
Box/Folder 1 : 19
De Clapiers Collongues, Olga, 1967-1968
Box/Folder 1 : 21
Dolgopolov, Aleksandr, 1969
Box/Folder 1 : 23
Filippov, Boris Andreevich, 1980
Box/Folder 1 : 24
Kal'skii, Iurii Grigor'evich, 1968-1969
Box/Folder 2 : 1
Kazakov, Nikolai Vasil'evich, 1968-1971
Box/Folder 2 : 2
Kol'chitskii, Boris, 1973
Box/Folder 2 : 3
Kolycheva, Elena, 1974-1979
Box/Folder 2 : 4
Krylatov, Vladimir Stepanovich, 1968-1972
Box/Folder 2 : 5
Kur (Kurenkov), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1960-1967 and undated
Box/Folder 2 : 6
Liashevskii, Stefan, 1966
Box/Folder 2 : 7
Lysenko, Ivan Erastovich, 1964-1966
Box/Folder 2 : 8
Pallotino, Massimo, 1965-1966
Box/Folder 2 : 9
Perkhorovich, Iurii, 1967
Box/Folder 2 : 10
Platunov, Konstantin, 1967
Box/Folder 2 : 12
Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., 1964
Box/Folder 2 : 14
Struve, Gleb P., 1964 and undated
Box/Folder 2 : 15
Stumpff, Georg, 1951-1952
Box/Folder 2 : 17
Tolstoy Foundation, 1963-1964 and undated
Box/Folder 2 : 18
Turianitsa, Mikhail Il'ich, 1965-1977
Box/Folder 2 : 19
Unbegaun, Boris Genrikhovich, 1968-1969
Box/Folder 2 : 20
Vaughan, Agnes Carr, 1968
Box/Folder 2 : 21
Vernadsky, George, 1969-1970
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1962-1977 and undated.
Note
For Filip'ev's participation in polemics relating to the Vles Kniga and early Russian history (letters to the editor and newspaper
articles), see VLES KNIGA FILE
Box/Folder 2 : 23
General, 1962-1977 and undated.
Scope and Content Note
Letters to the editor and short stories
"Slovo o Polku Igoreve," new translation and commentary, n.d.
Box/Folder 2 : 25
Correspondence, 1966.
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters to and from prospective publishers with attachments relating to costs, fonts, ink types, etc.
Box/Folder 2 : 26
Holograph.
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes, artwork, sketches, tables of contents and format sheets
Box/Folder 3 : 5-6
Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
Includes holograph notes and inserts
Box 4
Untitled work(s) of a philosophical/psychological nature
Box/Folder 4 : 4
Beliaevskii, V. A. Clippings related to Beliaevskii's books on the Russian Civil War and attacks on General A. I. Denikin
Box/Folder 4 : 5
Hymns, Russian.
Scope and Content Note
Clippings, correspondence and writings relating to polemics (involving Filip'ev) about the Russian national anthem and various
substitutes for it
Box/Folder 4 : 6
Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco, California
Box/Folder 4 : 9
Soviet Union--Social conditions
Box 5-15
VLES KNIGA FILE, 1957-1970s.
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes and background materials (clippings, offprints, photocopies, and citations from published works), and writings
related to Filip'ev's interest in the Vles kniga and the origins of the Slavs, with supplementary materials relating to Etruscans,
the Zagreb mummy, ancient India, Scythians, and related (to Filip'ev's mind) topics
Box 15
PHOTOGRAPHS, 1980 and undated.
Note
See also BIOGRAPHICAL FILE/Identity papers for photographs attached to passport and other documents. Two prints depicting
Filip'ev (one from 1980), two depicting Dominican College, San Rafael, California, and six negatives depicting the Vles kniga
