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Title: S. V. (Sviatoslav Varlaamovich) Denisov papers
Date (inclusive): 1900-1966
Collection Number: 2008C65
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
30 microfilm reels
(4.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: These papers contain the correspondence and writings of Sviatoslav V. Denisov, Major General of the Don Cossack Army and participant
in the Don Cossack uprising of 1918. In emigration, Denisov was president of the Cossack Union in the United States, and an
active member of various Cossack organizations, especially the All-Cossack Union.
Creator:
Denisov, S. V.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
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[Identification of item], S. V. (Sviatoslav Varlaamovich) Denisov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution
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Location of Originals
In part, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York
Chronology
1878 September 10 |
Born, Stanitsa Piatiizbianskaia, Luganskaia oblast', Russia |
1896 |
Graduated, Donskoi kadetskii korpus |
1898 |
Graduated, Mikhailovskoe artilleriiskoe uchilishche |
1898-1905 |
Served, 21st Don Cossack battery |
1908 |
Graduated, Nikolaevskaia akademiia general'nogo shtaba |
1914 |
Adjutant, Ural Cossack division |
1915 |
Colonel |
1916-1918 |
Commanding officer, 11th Don Cossack regiment |
1918 |
Took part in the Don Cossack uprising |
1918 |
Major General and commanding officer of the Don Cossack Army |
1919 |
Emigrated to Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) |
1921 |
Author, Zapiski.
Grazhdanskaia voina na Iuge Rossii 1918-1920
|
1922-1923 |
Lived in Berlin, Germany |
1923 |
Arrived in the United States of America |
1923 |
Elected chair of Cossack Union in the United States |
1937 |
Author,
Belyi al'bom
|
1957 April 19 |
Died, Stratford, CT |
Biography
After he arrived in the United States in 1923, Sviatoslav Denisov became a prominent and active figure in the Russian Cossack
community, becoming chair of the Cossack Union and a member of various Cossack organizations.
Born in Stanitsa Piatiizbianskaia, Russia, on September 10, 1878,to a traditional Cossack family, he embarked on a military
career, graduating from the Donskoi kadetskii korpus in 1896 and the Mikhailovskoe artilleriiskoe uchilishche in 1898. He
served in the Twenty-first Don Cossack battery and completed the Nikolaevskaia akademiia general'nogo shtaba in 1908. In 1918,
he was a commanding officer in the Don Cossack uprising; that same year he was elevated to the rank of major general and commanding
officer of the Don Cossack Army.
Denisov immigrated to Constantinople in 1919 and then to the United States, where (as noted above) he played an important
role in the formation of Cossack organizations and charitable associations and was an outspoken activist on issues relating
to Cossack life in general. He also published a history of the White Army, entitled Belyi al'bom.
Sviatoslav Varlaamovich Denisov died on April 19, 1957, in Stratford, Connecticut.
Scope and Content of Collection
These papers contain the correspondence and writings of Sviatoslav V. Denisov, major general in the Don Cossack Army and participant
in the Don Cossack uprising of 1918. In emigration, Denisov was chair of the Cossack Union in the United States, and an active
member of various Cossack organizations, especially the All-Cossack Union.
The Correspondence file includes extensive correspondence with leading Russian émigré military and social leaders, providing
a rich source of information on the activities of Cossack activities in the diaspora.
Denisov's Speeches and writings consist mainly of materials relating to his history of the White Army,
Belyi Al'bom, as well as research materials and articles on Cossack history.
The Subject file includes materials on the history of the Don Cossacks, the White Army, as well as Russian émigré organizations.
Particularly important are the documents dating from 1917 onwards relating to the Don Cossack Army. Of special significance
are the materials relating to the All-Cossack Union in the United States, as well as documents relating to the Don Cossack
ataman elections.
Printed matter includes appeals and circulars from the civil war period, 1919-1920, published in territories occupied by the
White Army,
Soobshcheniia Donskoi Armii (1919), issues of
Vol'naia kuban', and
Velikaia Rossiia.
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 seven series: Biographical file, Diary, Correspondence, Speeches and writings, Subject file,
Printed matter, and Miscellany
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Cossacks
Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920). Armii͡a