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Title: Alexis Borisovich Tatistcheff papers
Date (bulk): 1870-1977
Collection Number: 77014
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Russian
Physical Description:
7 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 card box, 1 scrapbook
(6.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Russian nobility, the Romanov dynasty,
the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and Soviet-American relations during the 1960s and 1970s.
Creator:
Tatistcheff, Alexis Borisovich, 1903-1990
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1977.
[Identification of item], Alexis Borisovich Tatistcheff Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Alexis Borisovich Tatistcheff, an economist and language expert who served as an interpreter for the State Department.
Mr. Tatistcheff, who was born in Berlin, where his father served in the Russian Embassy, was educated at the Ecole des Travaux
Publiques in Paris and came to the United States in 1926.
Mr. Tatistcheff was chief statistician at the Commodity Exchange and in 1941 was named principal economist in the Federal
Bureau of Research and Statistics in the Office of Production Management, later known as the War Production Board. His linguistic
abilities - he was fluent in French, Russian and English - came to the attention of the State Department, and in 1945 he served
as an interpreter at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco.
Helped Marshall in London.
Mr. Tatistcheff was named assistant chief of the division of language service for the State Department and was an interpreter
with Secretary of State George C. Marshall at the London Conferences in 1947. Then he joined the Merrill Lynch investment
concern as manager of its hide and rubber department, but after a year he left to become a consultant to the State Department.
In 1975 Mr. Tatistcheff was chief interpreter and adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in negotiations
for a joint Soviet-United States space flight. For his work with NASA, he received the Government's Public Service Award.
From 1976 to 1979, he was an interpreter for the United States delegations at the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks in
Helsinki and Geneva.
Died in 1990.
Collection consist primarily of materials collected by Alexis Borisovich Tatistcheff and includes memoirs, original documents,
photographs, correspondence, clippings, and print materials, providing information on the history of the Tatistcheff and
other families relating to the Russian nobility. The Alexis.B. Tatistcheff papers also document his long career as an economist
and language expert who served as an interpreter for the State Department.
The collection arranged by the creator himself, and pasted to album sheets. Scrapbooks and albums have been unbound for preservation
purposes.
The collection is organized into six series: Tatistcheff family file, Obolenskii family file, Correspondence, Career file,
Writings, and Printed matter.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917
Russia -- Court and courtiers
Nobility -- Russia
Romanov, House of
Obolensky family
Tatishchev family