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Title: Vrangel' collection,
Date (inclusive): 1916-1929
Collection Number: 27001
Physical Description: 164 manuscript boxes, 13 oversize boxes, 59 maps (82 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Reports, orders, correspondence, memoranda, dispatches, financial records, minutes,
printed matter, maps, and photographs, relating to Russian military operations in France
during World War I; White Russian diplomatic activities and military operations,
especially in southern Russia, during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, including
military purchasing and intelligence operations; administration of territory under White
Russian control during the Civil War; the evacuation of White Russian military personnel
and civilians from the Crimea in 1920; and the resettlement of Russian refugees in Turkey
and various European countries. Includes records of the Russian Expeditionary Corps in
France, the Volunteer Army, the Armed Forces of Southern Russia, the Northwestern Army,
the Foreign Supply Directorate, military representatives in foreign countries and
attached to the Allied Supreme Command, and the Russian Army in exile, and some personal
papers of Baron Petr Vrangel', commander-in-chief successively of the Armed Forces of
Southern Russia and Russian Army.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
Russian.
Microfilm use only (except for maps and photographs that have not been microfilmed, as noted in container list).
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[Identification of item], Vrangel' collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in .
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.
Also available on microfilm (220 reels), except for maps and photographs noted in container list.
World War, 1914-1918--Russia
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--France
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Campaigns
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Refugees
Soviet Union--History--Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Ukraine--History--Revolution, 1917-1921
Refugees
Russians--Turkey
Russians in foreign countries
International relief
Russia
Ukraine
Soviet Union
Turkey
World War, 1914-1918
Russia. Armiia--Officers
| 1878, August 15 | Born, Novo-Aleksandrovsk (Zaraisk), Russia into family of Baltic nobility. Spends childhood and youth in Rostov-na-Donu. Receives engineering degree from Gornyi Institut Imperatritsy Ekateriny II, St. Petersburg |
| 1901-1902 | Completes requirements of Nikolaevskoe Kavaleriiskoe Uchilishche (I-yi razriad)) and Nikolaevskaia Akademiia General'nago SHtaba (I-yi razriad). Is commissioned cornet in Gvardeiskaia Kavaleriia |
| 1904-1905 | Takes part in Russo-Japanese War with 2-oi Argunskii Kazachii Polk and later Otdl'nyi Divizion Razvedchikov. Receives decorations and promotion for bravery |
| 1906 | Begins service in Leib-Gvardii Konnyi Polk |
| 1910 | Completes courses of Akademiia General'nago SHtaba |
| 1914-1917 | Takes part in World War I. Begins as Captain of Cavalry, receives St. George's Cross for bravery in the field; is promoted to rank of colonel |
| 1915 | Appointed commander of Nerchinskii Polk, Zabaikal'skoe Kazachee Voisko |
| 1916 | Promoted to Maj.-Gen. and given command of Ussuriiskaia Konnaia Diviziia |
| 1917 | Resigns from army |
| 1918-1919 | Joins Volunteer Army in Ekaterinodar. Is appointed commander of 1-ia Konnaia Diviziia and promoted Lieut.-Gen. by Lieut.-Gen. A. Denikin. Later given command of Volunteer Army and Army of the Caucasus |
| 1920, February | Resigns from army |
| 1920, March | Appointed Commander-in-Chief of Vooruzhennyia Sily IUga Rossii (V.S.IU.R.) and Military Governor of South Russia. Attempts to reorganize army and carry out land and local government reform |
| 1920, November | After fall of White Movement, organizes evacuation of V.S.IU.R. and civilian refugees first to Constantinople and later to Balkans. Establishes headquarters of Russian army-in-exile in Sremski Karlovci, Yugoslavia |
| 1928, April 25 | Dies, Brussels, Belgium |
The Vrangel' collection is composed of a group of official archives belonging to Russian
government agencies and military departments active during WWI, the Russian Civil War and
the first period of Russian emigration. The collection was originally organized by
Lieut.-Gen. N. Golovin in 1927. Each archive within the collection was retained as an
independent entity while at the same time the collection as a whole was divided into 353
files. The present register maintains this arrangement while attempting to greatly expand
the description of material found in individual files.