Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Biographical Note
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Vitalii Ivanovich Petropavlovskii Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1917-1933
Collection number: 99051
Creator:
Petropavlovskii, Vitalii Ivanovich
Extent:
2 microfilm reels
(0.3 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, financial records, and printed matter, relating to relations of the Russian Provisional and White
Russian governments with the United States during the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
Russian.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vitalii Ivanovich Petropavlovskii Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1999
Accruals
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.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Access Points
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
Soviet Union--History--Allied intervention, 1918-1920.
Russia--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Russia.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
United States--Foreign relations.
Biography
Russian government purchasing agent in the United States, 1917-1921
Biographical Note
| ? |
Born, Russia |
| ? |
Engineering degree |
| 1912 |
Enters government service as official of Russian State Control |
| 1916 |
Chief Auditor, Department of Railway Accounting, Russian State Control |
| 1917 |
Appointed Representative of Russian State Control, U.S.A. |
| 1921 |
Retired with liquidation of Russian State Control Office |
Scope and Content
This collection consists of materials relating to financial reviews of the activities of the Russkii zagotovitel'nyi komitet
(Russian Purchasing Committee) and other official Russian financial and purchasing agencies in the U.S.A., as well as of reports
of the activities of the Control office, correspondence with Ambassador B. A. Bakhmeteff, Financial Agent S. A. Ughet, as
well as with direct superiors and subordinates in the Russian State Control.
The collection also deals with general Russian financial issues and allegations of financial improprieties among Russian officials
and commissions.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials and copyright to them (with
some exceptions) are the property of the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco. A transfer table indicating corresponding
box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.