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Title: Golitsyn family papers
Date (inclusive): 1904-1992
Collection Number: 90027
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Russian
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes
(1.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The papers consist of memoirs, writings, correspondence, identification documents, and certificates, relating to conditions
in Russia prior to, during and after the Russian Revolution, and to Russian émigré life in Harbin, China, France, and the
United States. Includes material relating to the Glebov family, as well as the papers of Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn, Aleksandr
Vladimirovich Golitsyn and Liubov' Vladimirovna Golitsyna.
Creator:
Golit͡syn family
Creator:
Golit͡syn, Mikhail Vladimirovich, kni͡azʹ, 1873-1942
Creator:
Golit͡syn, Aleksandr Vladimirovich, 1876-
Creator:
Golit͡syna, Li͡ubov' V., 1883-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1990.
[Identification of item], Golitsyn family papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note: Aleksandr Vladimirovich Golitsyn
| 1876 December 13 | Born in Moscow, Russia, to an aristocratic family |
| 1901 October 16 | Received medical degree from Moscow University |
| 1901 November 23 | Married Liubov' Glebova (1883-1948) |
| 1921-1923 | Emigrated with his wife and children to Harbin, China where he worked as a doctor for the Russian Society of the Red Cross |
| 1923 October 16 | Arrived in Seattle from Harbin, China, and applied for U.S. citizenship |
| 1924 January-1940s | Received U.S. medical license and practiced medicine in Seattle and Los Angeles |
| 1951 | Died, Los Angeles, California |
Biographical Note: Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn
| 1873 September 2 | Born in Moscow, Russia, to an aristocratic family |
| 1892-1896 | Studied law at Moscow University |
| 1922?-1929 | Worked for Gosplan, the Soviet state planning committee, until dismissed. Requested reinstatement and was denied |
| 1931 | Moved with his family to Dmitrov, Soviet Union |
| Late 1930s | Wrote his memoirs of the pre-revolutionary period, Moi vospominaniia, 1873-1917, published in 2007 by Russkiĭ mir |
| 1942 | Died, Dmitrov |
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers consist of memoirs, writings, correspondence, identification documents, and certificates, relating to conditions
in Russia prior to, during and after the Russian Revolution, and to Russian émigré life in Harbin, China, France, and the
United States. Includes material relating to the Glebov family, as well as the papers of Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn, Aleksandr
Vladimirovich Golitsyn and Liubov' Vladimirovna Golitsyna.
The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence among members of the Glebov and Golitsyn families. Writing to their
daughter from exile in France, Sofiia and Vladimir Glebov's letters document Russian émigré life in western Europe, while
the letters of Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn to his brother Aleksandr describe conditions in Russia after the Bolshevik revolution.
Of particular interest in the
Correspondence series are letters from Nestor, the Archbishop of Kamchatka and Seoul, on Russian refugees in Harbin, China, and the Russian
Orthodox Church in exile.
The
Aleksandr Golitsyn Career Files relate to the Russian Society of the Red Cross's efforts to resettle the Russian refugees of Harbin in Canada. Memoranda
and correspondence with Canadian officials and Serge Ughet, the financial attaché of the Russian embassy, document measures
to secure visas and jobs for Russian immigrants on the Canadian Pacific railway. A report to the League of Nations describes
the bleak conditions at orphanages for Russian refugee children in China.
Several memoirs by members of the Glebov and Golitsyn families are included in the
Writings series. In "Intimate Days with Tolstoy," Sofiia Glebova recalls conversations with the writer Leo Tolstoy at Iasnaia Poliana
after her daughter's marriage to Tolstoy's son. Memoirs by Mikhail Golitsyn and Vladimir Trubetskoĭ describe aristocratic
life in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. "Sudebnoe delo sem'i Vladimira Sergeevicha Trubetskogo" consists of assembled
correspondence and reports on the fate of five members of the Trubetskoi family executed or sentenced to the gulag in 1937.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Russians -- China
Soviet Union -- Social conditions
Russia -- Social conditions
Harbin (China)
Glebov family