Register of the Alexandre Georgievich Tarsaidze papers
| 1901 | Born, Tiflis, Russia, into family of old Georgian nobility |
| 1918 | Graduated, Imperial Naval Academy, Petrograd |
| 1918-1921 | Worked with Allied High Commissioner, Col. W. Haskell, in Tiflis |
| 1921 | Worked for American Relief Administration |
| Escaped from Bolsheviks to Constantinople | |
| 1923-1941 | Director, Caucasian Society "Allaverdy" |
| Member, Georgian Society in the U.S.A. | |
| Member, Association of Former Russian Imperial Naval Officers | |
| Worked for Matchabelli Perfumes, R. H. Macy Co., Parfum Chevalier Garde, and other retailers in cosmetic and jewelry business | |
| Immigrated to the United States | |
| 1941-1944 | Worked for U.S. Army intelligence |
| 1944 | Author, Morskoi Korpus za CHetvert' Veka, 1901-1925, N.Y. |
| 1945-1958 | Director of Public Relations, Serge Obolensky Associates |
| 1958 | Author, Czars and Presidents |
| 1969 | Author, CHetyre mifa |
| 1977 | Author, Katia: Wife Before God |
| 1959-1978 | Freelancer, public relations |
| 1978 | Died, New York City |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Calling cards and personal notes
Programs and invitations 1964-1976
Business records
General
Ermitage Restaurant 1960
Southampton Hospital 1976-1977
Correspondence
General 1938-1976
Publishing 1956-1976
Memoranda 1976-1977
Correspondence
Personal
Undated
1943-1959
1960-1969
1970-1977
Eristov family 1921-1970
Genealogical material
L'Histoire et genealogie complete des Tarsaidj-Tarsaidze depuis XIII siecle de J-C., bound tearsheets 1851-1916
Eristov (Eristavi) family, miscellaneous material, typescript and handwritten 1941-1944
Eristov, Prince G., Moi Vospominaniia, 1875-1946, N.Y. 1954
Tarsaidze, G., miscellaneous printed matter 1957
Family crest and stamp undated
Personal and family documents
General
Clippings
Curricula vitae
Documents relating to lawsuit against Martini & Rossi Corp. 1965-1967
General
Catalog
Letters to the editor, typescript
Undated
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1973
Notebooks undated
Periodical press, writings, including articles and letters to the editor
Undated
1936-1937
1940
1941
1943
1944
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960-1961
1965
1966
1968
1970
1971
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
"Alexandrina and Alexander," undated
Draft, typescript
Notes and correspondence
"Magdeburg Affair," outline for book, typescript undated
Morskoi Korpus za chetvert' veka, printed copy 1944.
"Fanny Lear"
Draft and research material, handwritten undated
Legal agreements re publication 1950
Czars and Presidents 1958
Correspondence
General 1938-1959
Business 1957-1962
Research material
Clippings
General
Explorers
Railroads 1939-1950
Russian diplomatic corps in the U.S. 1944
Photographic reproductions, explorers
Legal contract for publication 1957
Drafts, typescript undated
Film script, typescript draft undated
Scrapbook of reviews and letters to the author 1958
Russia's Rich Husbands, reprints 1955.
CHetyre mifa, [See also: SUBJECT FILE/World War I] 1969
Correspondence
Personal 1965-1974
Business 1969-1970
General
Book orders
Draft, handwritten undated
Advertisements and reviews
Katia: Wife Before God 1977
Correspondence
General 1949-1977
Business 1967-1970
Research material
Unidentified (B. Nermi-Ergunov?), manuscript undated
Gernet, L. von, memoirs and correspondence, typescript and handwritten 1949
Klap'e, O. de, "Kniaginia Mariia Tenisheva," tearsheet undated
Nikitin, D., memoirs re "Goga" IUr'evskii, printed copy 1945
Genealogical material, typescript and handwritten undated
Photo reproductions [same as above]
Drafts, typescript undated
Drafts
Publicity material
SUBJECT FILE 1876-1977
Armenia
Printed matter
General, KHatissian, A., The Memoirs of a Mayor,tearsheets undated
Clippings
Caucasus and Transcaucasus
Maps [See: OVERSIZE FILE]
Printed matter
General, Zakavkaz'e, Tiflis 1907-1908
Clippings
Georgia
General
Bagratids, Royal House of Georgia, printed matter [See also: Nicholas II/Romanov Family genealogy]
General
Lang, D., "Prince Ioan of Georgia and His 'Kalmasoba'", The American Slavic and East European Review, Reprint 1953.
Tumanov, Prince K.
Miscellaneous offprints 1947
"Materialy k genealogii Bagratidov", Novik, Typescript 1950.
"Kniaz'ia Bagration-Mukhranskie", Novik, Typescript 1951.
"Poslednie tsari Imeretii i ikh potomstvo", Novik, Typescript 1953.
Clippings
Genealogical records
Pretenders to the Georgian throne, "M. Grousinski," miscellaneous material 1968
Correspondence
General 1949-1975
Iraklii of Georgia 1971
Tumanov, Prince K. 1949-1958
Letters to the editor 1973
Printed matter
General
Dadeshkeliani, I., The Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Georgia 1922
Mordovtsev, D., "ZHelezom i krov'iu", Novoe Russkoe Slovo undated
Solov'ev, S., "Vostochnyi vopros 50 let nazad," Drevniia i novaia Rossiia 1876
Clippings, tearsheets and miscellany
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia
Imperial Family
Correspondence
General 1944-1975
Romanov family 1976
Clippings 1966-1975
Correspondence
Personal
Eastman, Max 1944
Edward, Duke of Windsor and Wallace, Duchess of Windsor 1968
Lied, J. and viewing by Norwegian Royal family 1958
Massie, R. and S. 1968
Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten 1957, 1967
Post, Marjorie Merriweather 1967-1972
Tuchman, B. 1964
Vladimir, Grand Duke of Russia and Madrid showing 1966
Business
General
1944-1959
1961-1976
Axelbank, Herman 1969-1975
Holmquist, N., AB Europa Film 1970-1973
Invitations, announcements and advertisements
General
Undated-1960
1961-1969
1971-1974
1975-1977
Biarritz Benefit, France 1968-1969
Narration
Draft, typescript undated
Notes undated
Andrian, B., "Poslednie dni Imperatora Nikolaia Vtorogo," typescript 1967
Kalantar, M., narration for "Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution," typescript undated
Printed matter
General
"A Christmas Hymn written by His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II...", San Francisco Examiner 1903
ZHizn'i TSarstvovanie Imperatora Nikolaia II, "Vestnik" Obshchestva Russkikh Veteranov Velikoi Voiny 1970
Clippings, tearsheets
Romanov family
General, including monarchism
Ol'ga Aleksandrovna, Grand Duchess 1959-1960
Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke
Photographic reproductions
Imperial family
Alexandra, Consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia
Alexis Nikolaevich
Olga, Tat'iana, Maria, Anastasia, Grand Duchesses of Russia
Romanov family
Abdication and exile of Nicholas II
Correspondence
General, including re publication of letters below 1943-1970
Erdeli, M. 1949
Letters from TSarskoe Selo, Stavka and Tobol'sk to Margarita (Rita) Erdeli, nee KHitrovo
Typescript copies
Alexandra, Empress of Russia 1916 July - 1918 January
Ol'ga, Grand Duchess 1914 September - 1918 April
Tat'iana, Grand Duchess 1916 - 1918 February
Facsimiles of above
Printed matter, journals, clippings, and tearsheets from emigre press 1952-1957
Death of Imperial Family
Correspondence 1956
Printed matter
Fashist 1938 July
Clippings
Relics of Imperial Family
Correspondence 1943-1971
Printed matter
Tarsaidze, A., miscellaneous newspaper articles 1958-1971
Clippings and tearsheets 1930-1958
Rasputin
Correspondence 1976
Printed matter
General, Solovieff-Rasputine, M., Mon Pere Grigory Raspoutine, photocopy 1925
Clippings
Photographic reproductions
Pretenders
General
"Alexei," Michael Goleniewski, clippings
"Anastasia"
Correspondence 1955-1968
Clippings
Clippings
Russia
General, printed matter
General
Fine Bindings from the Libraries of the Tzars of Russia, Plaza Book Auction Corp., N.Y. 1933
Goebbels, J., Teoriia i praktika bol'shevizma, translation of speech delivered at Nurenberg 1936 September
Okul'tizm i ioga, Asuncion 1967
Clippings
Notebooks (6-8)
Notebooks (9-10)
Photographic reproductions 1890s-1917
Political figures
Society figures
Air Force, printed matter
Clippings
Miscellany re G. Sikorsky 1964-1972
Army
General
Program-menus for official dinners of Guards regiments 1874-1875
Orders, decorations and coats of arms
Correspondence 1964, 1974
Printed matter
General
Danil'chenko, Col. P., Poslednii TSarskii smotr voiskam na Marsovom Pole, typescript 1950
KHolmnsen, Lieut.-Gen. I., Na voennoi sluzhbe v Rossii, N.Y. 1953
Images de l'armée russe, 1683-1917 undated
Russkii Invalid 1964, 1966, 1972
Suvorovtsy, Izdanie Ob"edineniia b. kadet Suvorovskago Kadetskago Korpusa undated
Vestnik kavalergardskoi sem'i 1951-1969
Voennaia Byl' 1968 November
Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal, Moscow 1964
Clippings and tearsheets
General
Obituaries of former officers
Photographic reproductions
Automobiles, clippings
Civil War, printed matter [See also: Revolution of 1917]
General, Pervopokhodnik 1971
Clippings
General
Kolchak, Adm. A.
Corporal punishment and prisons
Clippings 1965-1972
Correspondence and letters to the editor 1951-1974
Cossacks, printed matter
General. Eliseev, F.
Nash polk v mesiatsy revoliutsii 1917-1918 godov, N.Y. 1961
Pesni Kubanskikh Kazakov 1960
Reid Sotnika Gamaliia v Mesopotamii v mae 1916 goda, N.Y. 1957
Clippings
Émigrés
Memoirs of A. Chicherin, typescript undated
Printed matter
General, bicentennial of the U.S.
Clippings
Biographical material
Obituaries
Inventors, clippings [See also: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS/ General. Letters to the editor]
Jews in Russia
Correspondence, including letters to the editor 1956-1965
Clippings 1939-1973
Karaims, Zajanczkowski, A., "Karaims," printed copy [See also: PHOTOGRAPHS] undated
Money and government bonds 1899-1924
Music
"Baian," Obshchestvo peniia... v g. Rige, program 1887.
Russian National Anthem and "Marsh gvardeiskago ekipazha," sheet music undated
Navy [See also SPEECHES AND WRITINGS and OVERSIZE FILE]
General, Obshchestvo Russkikh Morskikh Ofitserov v Amerike
Bulletin 1944, 1948, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1975-1977
Correspondence of A. Tarsaidze 1971-1973
Lists of former Russian Imperial Naval officers 1944, 1952
Programs, invitations, and clippings related to social events 1935-1975
Correspondence
General 1943-1976
Letters to the editor 1939-1969
Material related to U.S.S. Whipple 1950-1973
Printed matter
General
Biulleten' Morskogo Uchilishcha Vypusk 1920 1966, 1967
Pravila dlia kadet Morskogo Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva Naslednika TSesarevicha Kadetskago Korpusa, Sevastopol' 1916
Imperial Navy uniforms, 19th century, lithographs
Clippings
General
Navy and Revolutions of 1905 and 1917
South Pacific and Hawaiian Islands 1935
Photographic reproductions of Morskoi Korpus
Nobility
General, Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, miscellaneous material 1967-1975
Correspondence, including re imposters 1957-1971
Printed matter
General
Dvorianstvo, Paris 1960, 1964-1965, 1969
Novik. Istoriko-genealogicheskii ZHurnal, N. Pleshko ed., New York 1942, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1958, 1959, 1961
Russian Nobility Association in U.S.A., miscellaneous material 1953
Soiuz Dvorian, Paris 1954, 1961, 1964
Staryi Peterburg, iubileinyi sbornik vospominanii 1953
Clippings
General, including obituaries
Imposters
Social events
Genealogies
Obolensky, Princes
Pleshko, N., Russkoe Istoriko-Rodoslovnoe Obshchestvo v Amerike 1959
Miscellany 1905-1970
Clippings 1968-1971
Sverbeev, Pleshko, N., Russkoe Istoriko-Rodoslovnoe Obshchestvo v Amerike 1951
Urussov, Princes, Pleshko, N., Russkoe Istoriko-Rodoslovnoe Obshchestvo v Amerike 1955
Ob"edinenie Russkikh IUristov b. Di Pi v Amerike, Vestnik 1959
Orthodox Church
General, Trifono-Pechengskii Monastery, miscellaneous material undated
Clippings and tearsheets
Church in America
Church abroad [See also: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS] 1930s-1970
Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, miscellaneous material re Donizetti opera "Il borgomastro di Saardam," 1973
Pushkin, A., clippings 1937-1975
Revolution of 1905, clippings
Revolution of 1917
Correspondence
General 1943-1969
Mel'gunov, S. 1952-1957
Memoirs, typescript
Anitchkoff, V. 1917-1922
SHvetsov, D. undated
Printed matter, clippings and tearsheets
General
Gumberg, A. 1953
Lenin, V., biographical material
Reilley, Sidney
Stalin, I. and Stalinists
"Zinov'ev letter," 1966-1970
Russian-American Information Bureau, letter of A. Tarsaidze, introducing organization, typescript undated
Russo-Japanese War, clippings
Rossica, Society of Russian Philately Journal 1955
Siberia and the Far East, clippings
Solzhenitsyn, A., clippings [See also: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS and SUBJECT FILE/ World War I]
Stolypin, A., clippings
World War I
General
Association of Russian War Invalids of the First World War
Printed matter, Russkii Invalid 1973 May
Jagow, Gottlieb von (?), miscellaneous correspondence, typescript copies 1914-1915
Miasoedov, Col., clippings [See also: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS] 1965
Navy
"Magdeburg Affair," including material re naval intelligence and codes
Clippings
Correspondence 1959-1975
Printed matter
General, Timirev, Rear-Adm. S., Baltiiskii Flot vo vremia voiny i revoliutsii 1961
Clippings
Ruzskii, Gen. V., clippings [See also: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS]
Sukhomlinov, Gen. V., clippings, tearsheets, photographic reproductions and other printed matter [See also: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS and SUBJECT FILE/Russia/Air Force/Navy] 1924-1966
Correspondence
General 1943-1974
Kerensky, A. 1944
Printed matter
General
Andolenko, Gen., La Guerre 1914-1918 sur le front russe 1965
Budberg, Lieut.-Gen. Baron A., Vooruzhennyia sily Rossiiskoi Imperii v ispolnenii obshchesoiuznykh zadach i obiazanostei vo vremia voiny 1914-1917g. 1939
Dartigues, L., La mission sanitaire chirurgicale française du Caucase 1er Juillet 1917-13 Juillet 1918, Paris 1919
Eristov, Prince A., "Velikii Kniaz' Sergei Mikhailovich," typescript excerpt, Russkii Invalid 1939
Headquarters of the Military Representative...of the Russian Army, Russia in the War, 1914-1918 1919
Konnaia gvardiia na voine, photograph album 1914
Clippings and tearsheets
General
World War II, clippings
OVERSIZE FILE 1780s-1960
General, printed matter
Harper's Weekly 1866
New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial 1919
Georgia
Printed matter
"Genealogicheskaia tablitsa gruzinskago tsarskago doma s Bagrata III," 1853
Berzhe, A. and Bakradze, D. eds., Zapiski obshchestva liubitelei kavkazskoi arkheologii, Tiflis, 175
Prints and posters
Gagarin, G., Chromolithographe Lemercier, chromolithographs of watercolor drawings of Georgian frescos in churches and palaces, 19th century
Portraits of Georgian royalty and nobility
Iraklii II, lithograph undated
IUlon, Ioan and David, prints and copies of prints undated
Gurieli, Princes, "Nekotorye iz deputatov Aziatskikh narodov...," 1856
Russia
General
Novoe Vremia, photocopy 1916 March
Tsars and Emperors of Russia, miscellaneous prints undated
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia. Printed matter
TSarstvovanie Imperatora Aleksandra II (v kartinakh), St. Petersburg 1882
"Konchina Imperatora Aleksandra II," lithograph 1881.
"Pamiatnyi list po sluchaiu iubileia...Aleksandra Nikolaevicha," St. Petersburg 1880
Army, "Trubach. L. Gv. Kirasirskago... polka," color print 1855
Navy
Sailor from ship Variag, fragment of poster undated
Miscellany related to Russian-American naval relations 1863
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia
General
"Iz moego al'boma," personal family album of Empress Alexandra
Krasnyi Arkhiv, "Dnevnik Nikolaia Romanova," tearsheets undated
Posters, Emperor Nicholas II and Russian Imperial Army
Nobility
"Carte des ordres de chevalerie de sa Majeste Czarine...," 1780s
Spiski titulovannym rodam i litsam rossiiskoi imperi, Tipografiia pravitel'stvuiushchago senata, St. Petersburg 1892
St. Petersburg
Maps 1911, 1958
Printed matter
General, "Le palais imperial d'hiver," 19th century
Dobuzhinskii, M., Peterburg v Dvatsat' pervom godu 1923
Tarsaidze, A., scrapbooks of clippings
"Russian Naval Ball," 1934 November
Social life, miscellany 1935
Emperor Nicholas II - Last Monarch of Russia, announcements and reviews of film 1956
Politics (especially Russophobia and misinterpretation of Russian history), clippings and letters to the editor 1936-1956
"Bal Blanc" and other social and charitable events 1956-1960
Russia
General, including Russian Empire, South Russia, Black Sea and Caucasus, Siberia and Maritime Provinces 1648-1958
Georgia
Enlarged photographs of maps 1905-1915
Tiflis, city plan, 19th century
PHOTOGRAPHS 1880s-1960s
8 prints and 12 duplicates depicting A. Tarsaidze 1905(?)-1920
24 prints depicting the Tarsaidze and Eristavi families 1900-1950s
39 prints depicting Russian Imperial Navy 1865-1917
1 print depicting Lieut.-Gen. N. IUdenich with a group of Imperial Army officers 1915
33 prints depicting Russia in World War I 1914-1917
33 prints depicting scenes of the Russian Civil War in the Caucasus 1917-1918
32 prints and 2 duplicates depicting Tsesarevich Aleksei Nikolaevich 1908(?)-1917
30 prints depicting the Romanov family 1880s-1960s
1 print depicting Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich and group of British noblemen 1900s
1 print depicting Count V. Adlerberg undated
1 print depicting King Ferdinand I of Romania arriving in St. Petersburg 1914
1 print depicting Princess E. Obolenskaia in court dress undated
1 print depicting G. Rasputin in the company of society women undated
1 print depicting Suliman Pasha Shapshal, Regent of Persia 1907-1915
2 prints depicting P. Stolypin 1911
1 print and 7 duplicates depicting ball in St. Petersburg, 1910(?)
2 prints and 2 color transparencies of paintings by E. Vigee-Lebrun, one depicting Elizaveta Alekseevna, consort of Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, the other Princess Tatiana IUsupova 1790s
3 unidentified prints
36 postcards of St. Petersburg and Leningrad 1890s-1960s
15 miscellaneous postcards
Print negatives
35 mm. black and white negatives
Film Reel 1: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Castle Film Productions, 16 mm., sound 1954
Film Reel 2: "News Parade of the Year" and "Old Time Movies," Castle Film Productions, 16 mm., sound 1939
Film Reel 3: Memorial service (panikhida) for Russian Imperial Family at cathedral of Russian Church Abroad in New York, WCBS News, 16 mm., sound 1968
Film Reel 4: Coronations of British monarchs up to George IV and coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Pathegrams footage, 16 mm., silent and sound
Film Reel 6: Emperor Nicholas II, Last Czar of Russia, sound
Film Reel 7-10: Original footage of Emperor Nicholas II, Last Czar of Russia, Embassy Films, 16 mm., silent 1956
Film Reel 11: Miscellaneous 35 mm. and 16 mm. fragments