Register of the Sergei Nikolaevich Pototskii papers

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Title: Sergei Nikolaevich Pototskii papers

Date (inclusive): 1930-1946

Collection Number: 47015

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: Mainly in Russian

Physical Description: 40 manuscript boxes, 2 card file boxes, 1 envelope (16.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, telegrams, reports, protocols, lists, orders, circulars, accounts, and receipts, card file, and photographs, relating to Russian Imperial military agencies in Copenhagen and Berlin, the Russian Imperial Passport Control Office in Copenhagen, the Russian prisoner-of-war and refugee camp at Horserod, the Russian Red Cross, military benevolent emigre organizations and activities, and Russian participation in World War I and the Russian Civil War.

Creator: Potot͡skīĭ, Sergeĭ Nikolaevichʺ, 1877-

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1947

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Sergei Nikolaevich Pototskii Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1877, September 13 (Old Style)	Born, St. Petersburg, Russia
1896, August 12	appointed officer, Russian Imperial Army
1896-1921	served in Life Guards, as company and battalion commander, on Staff of Moscow Military District, and on Main Directorate of the General Staff; received Order of St. Vladimir, Third Degree
1911, December 6	promoted to Colonel
1914	appointed acting Military Attache, Denmark
1916	appointed Military Attache, Denmark
1917, September	promoted to Major-General
1921	elected to Board of Directors of the Mutual Assistance Association of Russian Officers in Denmark
1922	elected Treasurer of the Mutual Assistance Association of Russian Officers in Denmark
1923, January	appointed Delegate of the Russian Red Cross (old organization) in Denmark
1923, October 22	elected to Board of Directors of the Russian Society, Copenhagen
1927, February 18	elected President of the Copenhagen Section of the Association of Russian War Invalids
1927, July	joined Copenhagen Charity Fund Committee in Honor of the 80th Birthday of H.I.H. Empress Maria Feodorovna
1929	elected President of the Mutual Assistance Association of Russian Officers in Denmark

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Russia -- Emigration and immigration

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921

Prisoners of war

World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia

Officers

World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons

World War, 1914-1918 -- Refugees

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Refugees

Military attachés

Denmark -- Foreign relations -- Russia

Russia -- Foreign relations -- Denmark

Russia. Armii͡a

Rossīĭskoe obshchestvo Krasnago kresta

OFFICE FILE OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL MILITARY ATTACHÉ, COPEHHAGEN 1903-1947

Scope and Contents

Accounts and receipts, correspondence, bulletin Ostinformation (1920), press analyses, press information, and reports, arranged by type of document.

Accounts and Receipts

Accounts

box 1

1914-1917

box 1

1914-1919

box 1

1917-1920

box 1

1918-1922

box 2

1919

box 2

November 1919

box 2

December 1919

box 2

January 1920

box 2

February 1920

box 2

March 1920

box 2

April 1920

box 2

1920

box 3

Bank Statements 1921-1924

box 3

Checks 1921

box 3

Invoices

box 3

Receipts 1926-1940

Vouchers

box 3

1918

box 3

1919

box 3

Miscellaneous

General Correspondence

box 3

1903-1917

box 4

1918-1919

box 4

1919-1920

box 4

1919-1927

box 4

1919-1937

Letters received

box 5

1915-1916

box 5

1916-1917

box 5

1916-1929

box 5

1917-1918

box 5

1918-1919

box 6

1919

box 6

1920

box 6

1926-1930

box 6

1927-1942

box 6

1930-1943

box 6

1933-1941

Letters sent

box 7

1915

box 7

1917

box 8

1917-1918

box 8

1925-1928

box 8

1928-1931

box 8

1931

box 9

1932-1937

box 9

1934

box 9

1938-1944

Telegrams

Incoming

box 9

1916-1917

box 10

1916-1918

box 10

Outgoing 1919-1920

box 10

Miscellaneous telegrams

box 10

Miscellaneous correspondence

Ostinformation (Bulletin) (formerly Russischer Bericht, No. 18-26) 1920

box 10

No. 18-26

box 10

No. 27-36

box 10

No. 37-44

box 11

No. 46-58

box 11

No. 62-77

box 11

Press Analyses

box 11

Press Information 1919-1920

Registers, military

box 12

Officer's ranks 1917-1922

box 12

Servicemen 1920

Reports, economic, military and political

box 12

(Bulgarian army) 1917

box 12

(German infantry) 1917

box 12

(Military charts) 1917

box 12

(Military reports) 1917-1918

box 12

(Economic and military reports) 1918

box 13

(Military and political reports) 1919-1920

box 13

(Military and political reports) 1920

box 14

(Various) 1921

box 14

Clippings and telegrams from Vestnik 1917

box 14

Newspaper issues, brochures, clippings, printed material

box 14

Announcements

OFFICE FILE OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL MILITARY ATTACHÉ, BERLIN 1906-1922

Scope and Contents

Accounts and receipts, reports, and accounts of the Russian Delegation for Affairs of Prisoners-of-War and Refugees in Germany, arranged by type of document.

Accounts and receipts

Accounts

box 15

September 1921

box 15

October 1921

box 15

November 1921

box 15

December 1921

box 15

January 1922

box 15

February 1922

box 15

Receipts 1918

Reports, military-political and military-historical 1906-1914

box 16

America, South

box 16

Austria-Hungary

box 16

Belgium and Holland

box 16

Bulgaria

box 16

Denmark

box 16

England

box 16

France

box 16

Germany

box 16

Italy

box 16

Japan and China

box 16

Revolutionaries, Arms for

box 16

Romania

box 16

Socialism

box 16

Sweden and Norway

box 16

Switzerland

box 16

Turkey and Afghanistan

box 16

Publication, entitled Die Entwickelung der Sozial-Demokratie und ihr Einfluss auf das Deutsche Heer

Russian Delegation for Affairs of Prisoners-of-War and Refugees in Germany, Accounts and Receipts

May 1920

box 16

Sums received from the Northwest Army

box 16

Sums received from the Paris military representation

June 1920

box 16

Sums received from the Northwest Army

box 16

Sums received from the Paris military representation

July 1920

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Sums received from the Northwest Army

box 17

Sums received from the Volunteer Army

box 17

August 1920

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September 1920

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October 1920

box 18

November 1920

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December 1920

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January 1921

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February 1921

box 18

March 1921

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April 1921

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May 1921

box 19

June 1921

box 19

July 1921

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August 1921

OFFICE FILE OF THE GENERAL MILITARY ASSOCIATION 1919-1939

Scope and Contents

Circulars, correspondence, financial statements, bulletins, orders, protocols, reports, miscellany, in chronological order.

box 19

Circulars 1925-1939

box 19

Correspondence 1928-1937

box 19

Financial Statements 1935-1936

box 19

Information Bulletins 1930-1937

box 19

Orders 1919-1939

box 19

Plan and Constitution

box 19

Protocols 1936-1937

box 19

Reports 1926-1928

box 19

Miscellaneous

OFFICE FILE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIAN INVALIDS 1922-1943

Scope and Contents

Accounts, receipts and correspondence, in chronological order.

box 20

Accounts, receipts and letters 1923-1924

Correspondence

General

box 20

1922-1931

box 20

1931-1943

box 20

Letters sent 1927-1928

box 21

Vouchers 1929-1943

OFFICE FILE OF THE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIAN OFFICERS IN DENMARK 1921-1941

Scope and Contents

Accounts and receipts, applications, correspondence, forms, attendance lists, protocols, and other material, arranged by type of document.

Accounts and receipts 1921-1938

box 21

Annual financial reports 1921-1930

box 21

Ledger 1921-1926

box 21

Vouchers 1928-1938

box 21

Applications for entering the Association

Correspondence 1921-1940

box 21

Letters received 1921-1935

box 21

Letters sent 1921-1937

box 21

(Post-telegrams) 1924-1940

box 22

Enquiry forms

box 22

Lists of attendance and voting, general meetings

box 22

Loan, grant-in-aid and collection records

Protocols

box 22

Directors' meetings 1921-1925

box 22

Directors' meetings 1925-1938

box 22

General meetings 1921-1924

box 22

General meetings 1925-1940

box 22

Various 1921-1941

OFFICE FILE OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE COLLECTION OF A CHARITY FUND IN HONOR OF THE 80TH BIRTHDAY OF HER IMPERIAL HIGHNESS EMPRESS MARIA FEODOROVNA 1927-1929

Scope and Contents

Accounts and receipts, circular letters, correspondence, lists of donors, lists of petitions for aid, newspaper issues, protocols, arranged by type of document.

Accounts and Receipts

box 22

Account book 1927-1928

box 23

Bank receipts 1928

box 23

General financial chart

box 23

Postal receipt book 1928-1929

box 23

Miscellaneous

box 23

Circular Letters

Correspondence 1927-1929

Alphabetical file

box 23

A-L

box 24

M-Z

Chronological file

box 24

1927

box 24

1928

box 24

1929

box 24

Undated

box 25

Miscellaneous correspondence

box 25

Lists of Donors

Lists of Petitions for Aid

box 25

Chronological file February-November 1928

box 25

Geographical file

box 25

Newspaper Issues

Protocols

box 25

Committee sessions, (fund collection) 1927

box 25

Committee sessions, (fund distribution) 1928

OFFICE FILE OF THE RUSSIAN PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMP AT HORSERØD, DENMARK 1917-1920

Scope and Contents

Accounts and receipts, correspondence, lists of donors, orders, arranged by type of document.

Accounts and Receipts

box 26

General accounts

box 26

General chronological file 1917

box 26

Bank account

box 26

Bicycles, funds for

box 26

Church, building of

box 26

Evacuation

box 27

Funerals, funds for

box 27

Journal of finances, Delegation of the War Ministry, Horserød

box 27

Ledger, Treasury of War Ministry for Internee Affairs, Horserød

box 27

Matériel, funds for

box 27

Military agent, funds from

box 27

Prosthetic appliances, funds for

Correspondence 1917-1919

box 27

General 1917-1919

box 28

Financial 1918-1919

box 28

Orders (Drafts)

box 28

Miscellany

OFFICE FILE OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PASSPORT CONTROL OFFICE, COPENHAGEN 1917-1920

Scope and Contents

Accounts and receipts, correspondence, reports, and card file.

Accounts and Receipts 1917-1920

box 28

1917-1919

box 28

1919-1920

Correspondence 1917-1920

box 28

1917-1919

box 28

1919

box 28

1919-1920

Reports

box 28

Baum, Leo and MOSKET (Moscow Aid Committee for Prisoners-of-War)

Germany

box 28

Bolsheviks and

box 28

Persons traveling to

box 28

Intelligence reports

box 28

Letters intercepted, etc.

box 28

Loevskii, A. K., affair

box 28

Ukrainian mission in Copenhagen

box 29

Card file

box 30

Card file

box 31

Card file

box 32

Card file

box 33

Card file

OFFICE FILE OF THE RUSSIAN RED CROSS IN DENMARK 1919-1946

Scope and Contents

Accounts and receipts and correspondence in chronological order.

Accounts and Receipts

box 34

Accounts 1923-1932

box 34

Accounts, accounts of the Association of Russian Military Invalids 1933-1943 1933-1938

box 34

Receipts, vouchers, etc. 1929-1942

Correspondence 1919-1946

Letters received

box 34

1919-1925

box 34

1925-1946

Letters sent

box 34

1919-1922

box 34

1923-1924

box 34

1925-1926

box 35

1936

box 35

1937-1944

SUBJECT FILE 1915-1946

Scope and Contents

Accounts and receipts, charts, circulars, clippings, correspondence, declarations, lists, protocols, reports, and other materials, arranged alphabetically by subject.

box 35

Berlin, Russian military organizations in

box 35

Comintern

box 35

Courts of honor, military

box 35

Escapees from German capativity, correspondence and lists

box 35

Evacuation of soldiers, Northern Front

Hornbaek, monument at

box 35

Committee for

box 35

Correspondence regarding

box 35

Lists of donors

box 35

List of soldiers deceased

box 35

Various

box 36

Horserød, internees at

box 36

International Anti-Communist League (International League against the Third International)

box 36

Inventions, correspondence regarding

box 36

League of Nations, report of Hanson before May 11, 1937

box 36

Military schools, Paris

Naval officers, Russian

box 36

Correspondence 1927-1931

box 37

Correspondence 1931-1940

Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke

box 37

Declarations

box 37

Fund committee

box 37

Northwest Army

Officers, Russian

box 37

General 1919-1926

box 37

Correspondence 1918-1919

box 38

Correspondence 1918-1941

Officers' Associations, Council of United Russian, Belgrade

box 38

General

box 38

Correspondence

box 38

Personnel, Military Agency, Copenhagen

Prisoners-of-war and refugees

box 38

Inquiries of captive officers

box 38

Miscellany

Refugees, Russian

box 38

Inquiries concerning

box 38

Visas for

Russian Charity Association, Labor Division

box 38

Accounts, receipts, vouchers, etc. 1925-1934

box 38

Cash-book 1925-1929

box 38

Cash-book 1930-1937

Russian Society, Copenhagen

Accounts and receipts

box 38

Annual accounts 1920-1928

box 38

Ledger and address book 1919-1926

box 39

Guest book 1925-1929

box 39

Protocols of meetings 1919-1924

box 39

Various

box 39

Schleswig, Russian graves in

box 39

U.S.S.R. trade delegation to Denmark

box 39

Wrangel, General Petr' Nikolaevich, Declaration of Young Men's Christian Association, correspondence 1918-1920

CORRESPONDENCE 1921-1946

Scope and Contents

Arranged by subseries (letters sent and letters received) and thereunder alphabetically by last name of correspondent.

Letters received

box 40

Adamovich, Ivan N.

box 40

Al'tenburgskaia, Princess Elena G.

box 40

Arkhangel'skii, General A.P.

box 40

Ballovut, L.

box 40

Bane, Karl

box 40

Banner-Fogt, Colonel Oleg G.

box 40

Bazarevich, Vladimir I.

box 40

Bezobrazov, Lieutenant-Colonel Mikhail V.

box 40

Brunner, Colonel Nikolai N.

box 40

Cadet Corps, First Russian, Director

box 40

Dekhterev, A.

box 40

Des Fontaines, Edward E.

box 40

Elchaninov, V.

box 40

Elizarov, V.

box 40

Evgeniev, M.

box 40

Fogel', Major-General Nikolai F.

box 40

Friends of National Russia, Society of

box 40

Gedroits, Prince Nikolai Ts.

box 40

Ger, N.

box 40

Gokkane, Aleksandra N.

box 40

Goncharenko, Major General Iurii I.

box 40

Grabar, Andrei

box 40

Grabar, Petr'

box 40

Gravesen, N. S.

box 40

Grigor'ev, Colonel Artemii F.

box 40

Guchkov, A. I.

box 40

Gunco, Anna

box 40

Héroys, Boris V.

box 40

Ianchshevskii, Grigorii E.

box 40

Iankov, P.

box 40

Iankova, V.

box 40

Inquiry Office, Main, Constantinople

box 40

Invalids, Association of Russian War, Kingdom of Yugoslavia

box 40

Ioann (monk)

box 40

Iskoldoff, Eugen

box 40

Kamenev, M.

box 40

Karrik, Valerii V.

box 40

Kolchev, Father Leonid

box 40

Korval' (Corval), Iurii Peze de

box 40

Kostevich (Kostevitch), M.M.

box 40

Kotliarevskii, Aleksandr

box 40

Kotliarevskii, Petri A.

box 40

Kovalevskaia, E.

box 40

Krylov, Staff Captain Boris P.

box 40

Lampe, Major General Aleksei A. von

box 40

Lekhovich, Lieutenant General V.

box 40

Lieven, Prince Anatole

box 40

Linder, Kitty

box 40

Lodyzhenskii, Iurii I.

box 40

Loevskii, A. K.

box 40

Marfo-Mariinskoe Chapel, Berlin

box 40

Mecklenburg, Georgii, Duke of

box 40

Miller, General Evgenii K.

box 40

Nansen International Office for Refugees, President

box 40

Nikol'skii, Major General Vladimir P.

box 40

Paleologue, Sergei N. (Commissar General for the organization of Russian refugees in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes)

box 40

Panasenko, Sava (Panassenko, Sawa)

box 40

Pliutsinskii, Colonel Boris A.

box 40

Popovskii, Colonel (first name unknown)

box 40

Prokofiev, Nikolai N.

box 40

Pylkin, V.

box 40

Rubets, Father Aleksandr

box 40

Sablin (Sabline), E.

box 40

Saburov, Vladimir

box 40

Sadovskii, P.

box 40

Shal'burg, Lieutenant Konstantin F.

box 40

Shenk, Colonel Vladimir K.

box 40

Shtrandtmann, Vasilii N.

box 40

Shtubendorf, Major General Aleksei O.

box 40

Shuvalova, A.

box 40

Siial'skii, Colonel Vladimir P.

box 40

Smirnov, S.

box 40

Suvinskii, B.

box 40

Tranze, Aleksandr A. von

box 40

Tsvetkov, N.

box 40

Tyrin, Andrei S.

box 40

Vasko, Grigorii

box 40

Voronkova, Ol'ga

box 40

Zaitsev, Arsenii A.

box 40

Zinkevich, M.

box 40

Miscellaneous

Letters sent

box 40

Ekk, E. V.

box 40

Military Agent in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

box 40

Nielsen, General (first name unknown)

box 40

Scavenius, Harald

box 40

Shtrandtman, Vasilii N.

box 40

Uget, Sergei A.

envelope A

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Contents note

Two photographs of the USSR trade delegation to Denmark, circa 1924. One photograph of graves of Russian soldiers in northern Schleswig, Denmark, circa 1931.

box 41

Material not yet described

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Material not yet described