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Title: Yudenich collection
Date (inclusive): 1919-1921
Collection Number: XX048
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
24 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 2 oversize folders
(10.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, military documents, proclamations, maps, and printed matter, relating to the
campaigns of the White Russian Severo-Zapadnaia Armiia and other aspects of the Russian Civil War, White Russian relations
with the Allied Powers, and activities of White Russian representatives in Europe.
Creator:
Yudenich, Nikolay Nikolayevich, 1862-1933
Creator:
Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920). Severo-Zapadnai͡a armii͡a
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.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1969.
[Identification of item], Yudenich collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1862 | Born |
| 1881 | Graduated, Aleksandrovskoe Voennoe Uchilishche, St. Petersburg |
| 1887 | Graduated, Nikolaevskaia Akademiia General'nago SHtaba |
| 1905-1907 | Took part in the Russo-Japanese War. Promoted to Major-General |
| 1912 | Appointed Chief of Staff of the Kazan' Military District and promoted to Lieutenant-General |
| 1913 | Appointed Chief-of-Staff of the Caucasus Military District |
| 1914-1915 | Appointed Commander of the Caucasus and promoted to General-of-Infantry for victories in the Erzerum and Trapezund campaigns |
| 1917 | Removed from command by the Provisional Government |
| 1918 | Escaped to Finland and later Estonia |
| 1919 | Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the White forces in the North-Western Military Sector and subsequently Minister of War in the Government of the North-West by Admiral Kolchak |
| 1920 | Interned with his army in Estonia after failure of Petersburg campaign |
| 1933 | Died in Cannes, France |
This collection contains material related to Gen. Nikolai Yudenich's Army of the North-West, during the period of 1919-1920.
It includes correspondence, reports, charts and maps dealing with military action on the Petrograd front, military action
and conflicts in the Baltic area and Finland and relations between the Army of the North-West and its European allies, especially
England and France. The collection was first arranged by Lieut.-Gen. Nikolai Golovin and described in two volumes entitled
"Podrobnaia Opis' Del Arkhiva Severo-Zapadnago Fronta Grazhdanskoi Voiny v Rossii 1919 I 1920 Godov. S Kratkim Izlozheniem
Soderzhaniia Vsekh Dokumentov Imeiushchikh Istoricheskoe Znachenie", which can be found in Box 25. The present register fully
retains Gen. Golovin's arrangement, in which the material is divided into files and each page numbered consecutively.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Officers
Russia. Armii͡a