Register of the Alex N. Kniazeff (Aleksei Nikolaevich Kniazev) Papers

Prepared by Anatol Shmelev

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Phone: (650) 723-3563

Fax: (650) 725-3445

Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Register of the Alex N. Kniazeff (Aleksei Nikolaevich Kniazev) 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
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Descriptive Summary

Title: Alex N. Kniazeff (Aleksei Nikolaevich Kniazev) papers,

Date (inclusive): 1911-1993

Collection number: 2000C46

Creator: Kniazeff, Alex N., 1909-1993

Extent: 43 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 17 microfilm reels (13.4 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, financial records, bulletins, personal documents, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Russian Boy Scouts movement abroad and to Russian émigré affairs. In part, microfilm.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Languages: Russian, and English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Alex N. Kniazeff Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired.

Location of Originals

In part, originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.

Biographical Note

1909 August 5 (N.S.)	Born, Tsitsihar, China
1933	Degree, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Polytechnic Institute, Harbin, China
1935-1948	Engineering and administrative positions, Kailan Mining Administration, Tientsin, China
	Scoutmaster, Tientsin, China
1941 April 27	Married Eugenia Smikovska
1949-1951	General Consulting Engineer, International Refugee Organization, Tubabao, Samar, Philippines
1952-1955	Instructor of Russian, U. S. Army Language School, Monterey, California
1955-1958	Instrumentation Designer, Bechtel Corporation, San Francisco, California
1958-1974	Senior Draftsman, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, California
1959-	Scoutmaster, Natsional'naia organizatsiia rossiiskikh skautov (St. George's Knights)
1993	Died, San Francisco, California

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of correspondence, clippings and other matter reflecting Kniazeff's involvement in various émigré organizations. He was a member of the San Francisco Trans-Baikal Cossacks' Stanitza and of the Harbin Polytechnic Alumni Association, and senior scoutmaster of the Natsional'naia Organizatsiia Russkikh Skautov (National Organization of Russian Scouts, or St. George's Knights, as it was incorporated in California). Most of the collection relates to the history of the Russian Boy Scout movement abroad, particularly for the period 1963-1975.

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 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

Boy Scouts.

Natsional'naia organizatsiia russkikh skautov.

Russians--United States.

Russia.

United States.

Series Description

box 1

Biographical File, 1918-1977.

Scope and Content Note

Includes family documents and illustrated manuscript by Kniazeff's father on carpentry, as well as personal, employment and army reserve files on Kniazeff's career, arranged alphabetically by subject

box 1

Correspondence, 1969-1987.

Scope and Content Note

Arranged chronologically by correspondent

box 2-12

Natsional'naia Organizatsiia Russkikh Skautov (St. George's Knights, Inc.), 1918-1989.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of correspondence, orders, minutes, publications and other materials, arranged alphabetically by physical form

box 12-16

Subject File, 1926-1989.

Scope and Content Note

Consists mainly of materials relating to the organizations Kniazeff was involved in, arranged alphabetically by name of organization, and therein by physical form

box 17-18

Printed Matter, 1917-1987.

Scope and Content Note

Includes calendars, clippings, leaflets, programs and issues of periodicals, arranged alphabetically by physical form

Boxes: 1-45

Material has not yet been described.

Container List

Box 1

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1918-1977

Box/Folder 1 : 1

General - "Personal file," 1930-1977.

Scope and Content Note

Includes awards, certificates, commendations, diploma and other documents relating to Kniazeff's education, employment and social activities

Family

Kniazev, Nikolai Ivanovich

Box/Folder 1 : 2

Identity papers, 1918-1949

Box/Folder 1 : 3

Writing entitled "Plotnichnoe iskusstvo," n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Holograph

Box/Folder 1 : 4

Kniazeva, Nadezhda Alekseevna.

Scope and Content Note

Identity document, 1938

Box/Folder 1 : 5

Grievance against Pacific Gas and Electric, 1969-1972

Box/Folder 1 : 6

Military service in the U. S. Army Active Reserve, 1954-1967

CORRESPONDENCE, 1969-1987

Box/Folder 1 : 7

General, 1972-1987

Box/Folder 1 : 8

Balakshin, P., 1975

Box/Folder 1 : 9

Koslovsky, B. and N., 1973

Box/Folder 1 : 10

Kosterin, A. and V., 1973

Box/Folder 1 : 11

Magerovsky, L. F., 1984

Box/Folder 1 : 12

Mamchenko, Onisim, 1975

Box/Folder 1 : 13

Mescher, M., 1981

Box/Folder 1 : 14

Tokmakov, Mstislav Vladimirovich, 1970

Box/Folder 1 : 15

Turkin, A., 1969

Box/Folder 1 : 16

Verstak, V., 1973

Box 2

NATSIONAL'NAIA ORGANIZATSIIA RUSSKIKH SKAUTOV (St. George's Knights, Inc.), 1918-1989

General

Box/Folder 2 : 1

Central staff, 1966-1972

Box/Folder 2 : 2

1 st Burlingame Druzhina, 1965-1975

1 st San Francisco Druzhina, 1966-1972

Box/Folder 2 : 3

General

Box/Folder 2 : 4

Orders, minutes and circulars

Box/Folder 2 : 5

Summer camps.

Scope and Content Note

Guides, handbooks and documents relating to their organization, 1965-1970

Correspondence.

Scope and Content Note

Includes clippings, personal correspondence and other forms of material

General

Box/Folder 2 : 6

Circulars, 1960-1969

Incoming and outgoing letters

Box/Folder 2 : 7

1949-1962

Box/Folder 3 : 1

1963

Box/Folder 3 : 2

1964

Box/Folder 3 : 3

1965

Box/Folder 3 : 4

1966 January-June

Box/Folder 4 : 1

1966 July-December

1967

Box/Folder 4 : 2

January-May

Box/Folder 4 : 3

June-September

Box/Folder 4 : 4

October-December

1968

Box/Folder 5 : 1

January-February

Box/Folder 5 : 2

March-May

Box/Folder 5 : 3

June-July

Box/Folder 5 : 4

August-October

Box/Folder 5 : 5

November-December

1969

Box/Folder 5 : 6

January-March

Box/Folder 6 : 1

April-May

Box/Folder 6 : 2

June-July

Box/Folder 6 : 3

August-December

1970

Box/Folder 6 : 4

January-March

Box/Folder 7 : 1

April-June

Box/Folder 7 : 2

July-December

1971

Box/Folder 7 : 3

January-April

Box/Folder 7 : 4

May-July

Box/Folder 8 : 1

August-December

1972

Box/Folder 8 : 2

January-July

Box/Folder 8 : 3

August-December

Box/Folder 8 : 4

1973

Box 9

1974

Box/Folder 9 : 1

January-March

Box/Folder 9 : 2

April-May

Box/Folder 9 : 3

June-December

Box/Folder 9 : 4

1975-1977

Box/Folder 9 : 5

1978-1989

Box/Folder 10 : 1

Mercier (Mers'e), V. V., 1972-1979

Box/Folder 10 : 2

Odinets, M. D., 1972-1979

Box/Folder 10 : 3

Sedliarevich, N. M., 1973-1979

Box/Folder 10 : 4

Minutes of meetings, 1959-1974

Orders

Box/Folder 10 : 5

Senior Russian Scout (O. I. Pantiukhov), 1964-1970

Box/Folder 10 : 6

North American Section of N.O.R.S., 1960-1973

Publications.

Scope and Content Note

Listed alphabetically by title

Box/Folder 10 : 7

Davaite spoem: Sbornik skautskikh pesen, 1965.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Informatsionnyi biulleten'.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 10 : 8

#1 (1974) - 8 (1975)

Box/Folder 11 : 1

#9 (1975) - 15 (1979)

Box/Folder 11 : 2

Listok ispytanii na razriady, c. 1938.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 11 : 3

Programma na 3-ii i 2-oi razriady, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Russkie skauty, 1909-1969, 1969

Box/Folder 11 : 4

Typescript.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of materials collected by Kniazeff. May include material not present in published edition

Box/Folder 11 : 5

Printed copy

Box/Folder 11 : 6

Skautenok, #4 (1963) - 9 (1965).

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 11 : 7

Vpered, #4 (1959), 8-11 (1960).

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 12 : 1

Writings of scoutmaster E. Orlova.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 12 : 2

Miscellany

SUBJECT FILE, 1926-1989

American-Russian San Francisco Bay Region Credit Union.

Scope and Content Note

Clippings, correspondence, financial statements, reports, printed matter and other materials relating to this organization's activities

Box/Folder 12 : 3

1961-1966

Box/Folder 12 : 4

1967

Box/Folder 12 : 5

1968

Box/Folder 12 : 6

1969

Box 13

1970

Box/Folder 13 : 1

January-May

Box/Folder 13 : 2

June-December

Box/Folder 13 : 3

1971-1975

CORO Corporation (Consolidated Real Estate Opportunities Corporation).

Scope and Content Note

Consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, financial statements, annual and semi-annual reports and other materials

Box/Folder 13 : 4

1964-1969

Box/Folder 13 : 5

1970-1973

Kharbinskii Politekhnicheskii Institut (Harbin Polytechnic Institute). Primarily composed of documents relating to the activities of its alumni association.

Scope and Content Note

Includes clippings of reminiscences and other related matter

Box/Folder 13 : 6

1950-1967

Box/Folder 14 : 1

1968-1971

Box/Folder 14 : 2

1972-1989

Obshche-kazachii soiuz v g. San Frantsisko (All Cossack's Union of San Francisco).

Scope and Content Note

Includes material pertaining to other Cossack organizations

General

Box/Folder 14 : 3

1926-1970

Box/Folder 14 : 4

1971-1973

Box/Folder 15 : 1

1974-1982

Box/Folder 15 : 2

Printed matter.

Scope and Content Note

Includes Kazachii klich, #1 (March 1954) and Kazak, #176-192 (1963-1964, incomplete)

Box/Folder 15 : 3

Organizatsiia rossiiskikh iunykh razvedchikov

Box/Folder 15 : 4

Rossiiskii natsional'no-trudovoi soiuz

Box/Folder 15 : 5

Russian Center, San Francisco (Russkii Tsentr)

Box/Folder 15 : 6

Russian Community Club, Inc., San Mateo, California (Russkii Obshchestvennyi Klub)

Box/Folder 16 : 1

Russkaia Pravoslavnaia Tserkov' (Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian).

Scope and Content Note

Includes award presented by Archbishop Viktor of China to G. M. Ivanov, 1940 October 12

Box/Folder 16 : 2

Society of Russian Veterans, San Francisco (Obshchestvo russkikh veteranov Velikoi voiny).

Scope and Content Note

Includes typed draft of B. B. Filimonov's "Bor'ba v Zaural'e," 1935, published serially in the Society's journal, Viestnik Obshchestva veteranov Velikoi voiny, correspondence relating to its publication and author, and other materials for publication in the journal, as well as documents relating to the organization's other activities

Box/Folder 16 : 3

Trans-Baikal Cossacks' Stanitza of San Francisco

Box/Folder 16 : 4

Miscellany

Box 17

PRINTED MATTER, 1917-1987

Box/Folder 17 : 1

Books

Box/Folder 17 : 2

Calendars

Box/Folder 17 : 3-4

Clippings

Box/Folder 17 : 5

Leaflets

Box/Folder 17 : 6-7

Periodicals.

Scope and Content Note

Includes issues of Nash vestnik (Tubabao), 1951 and Kharbinskoe vremia, #17 (1941)

Box/Folder 18 : 1-3

Periodicals.

Scope and Content Note

Includes holiday issues of Russkaia zhizn', 1964-1969

Box/Folder 18 : 4-5

Programs.

Scope and Content Note

Mostly from San Francisco in the 1950s-1960s, but some from Russia, 1917 and possibly earlier - musical evenings, balls and school productions

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