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Title: Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov papers
Date (inclusive): 1942-1969
Collection Number: 2008C66
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
39 microfilm reels
(5.85 Linear Feet)
Abstract: These papers contain the correspondence, and writings of Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov, participant in the Don Cossack uprising
of 1918, and ataman of the Don Cossacks in emigration since 1947.
Creator:
Poli͡akov, Ivan Alekseevich, 1886-1969
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
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Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2008.
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[Identification of item], Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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A portion of the collection is available on Microfilm
Location of Original Materials
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York
Chronology
1886 August 10 |
Born, Russia |
1914 |
Graduated, Nikolaevskoe inzhenernoe uchilishche |
1915 |
Captain, Ninth Army |
1918 |
Arrived at the Don, joined Ataman P. N. Krasnov's Don Cossack Army |
1919 |
Emigrated to Serbia |
1947 |
Assigned as acting ataman of Don Cossacks |
1952 |
Emigrated to the U.S.A. |
1959 |
Author,
Krasnov-Vlasov: vospominaniia
|
1962 |
Author,
Donskie kazaki v bor'be s bol'shevikami
|
1969 |
Died, New York |
Biography
Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov was born into a Don Cossack family in Novocherkassk on August 10, 1886. His officer father sent
Ivan to Donskoi kadetskii korpus, after which he went on to the Nikolaevskoe inzhenernoe uchilishche, graduating in 1914.
Poliakov served in the Ninth Army as captain, joining General Petr N. Krasnov's Don Cossack Army in 1917 and being elevated
to the rank of major general in 1918. Poliakov immigrated to Serbia in 1919. He returned to active military life during General
Krasnov's involvement in organizing Cossack divisions within the German Army from 1942 to 1945; unlike Krasnov, however, Poliakov
joined Vlasov's Russkaia osvoboditel'naia armiia.
Poliakov was elected Don Cossack ataman in 1947, a position he continued to hold through 1965. Arriving in the United States
in 1952, he published two memoirs, one dealing with the Don Cossack anti-Bolshevist struggle from 1917 to 1920 and another
on General Krasnov's and General Vlasov's activities during World War II. He died in New York in 1969.
Scope and Content of Collection
These papers contain the correspondence, and writings of Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov, participant in the Don Cossack uprising
of 1918, and ataman of the Don Cossacks in emigration since 1947. The Correspondence file includes detailed correspondence
with leading Russian émigré military and social leaders, and provides a rich source of information on the activities of Cossack
activities in the diaspora.
Poliakov's Speeches and writings include the typescript of
Donskie kazaki v bor'be s bol'shevikami, as well as related correspondence and reviews. In addition, several articles, notes, speeches, and materials relating to
Poliakov's monograph
Krasnov-Vlasov: vospominaniia are included.
The Subject file includes materials on the history of the Don and Kuban Cossacks, the Russkii obshche-voinskii soiuz, and
General A. A. Vlasov. Of special significance are documents relating to the Don Cossack ataman elections in the diaspora.
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 the Holy Trinity Seminary. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Holy
Trinity Seminary Archives as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is appended to this
register. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials do not necessarily represent those
of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into five series: Biographical file, Correspondence, Speeches and writings, Subject file, Miscellany,
and Photographs
Related Material
Sviatoslav Varlaamovich Denisov Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Petr Nikolaevich Donskov Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Nicholas V. Feodoroff Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Russkii obshche-voinskii soiuz (ROVS) Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Cossacks