Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Related Material
Descriptive Summary
Title: Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov Papers
Dates: 1942-1969
Collection number: 2008C66
Creator:
Poliakov, Ivan Alekseevich
Collection Size:
39 microfilm reels
(5.85 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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.
Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
German
Russian
Administrative Information
Access
The collection is open for research
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2008.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Alternative Forms of Material Available
A portion of the collection is available on Microfilm
Location of Original Materials
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York
Biography
| 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 |
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 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
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the online catalog.
Subjects
American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.
Cossacks--History.
Don Cossacks in emigration.
Russia. Armiia. Kubanskoe kazach'e voisko.
Russkii obshche-voinskii soiuz.
Vlasov, Andrei Andreevich.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
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