Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Yudenich, Nikolay Nikolayevich, 1862-1933 and Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920). Severo-Zapadnai͡a armii͡a
- 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.
- Extent:
- 24 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 2 oversize folders (10.6 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- Russian
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Yudenich collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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Date Event 1862 Born1881 Graduated, Aleksandrovskoe Voennoe Uchilishche, St. Petersburg1887 Graduated, Nikolaevskaia Akademiia General'nago SHtaba1905-1907 Took part in the Russo-Japanese War. Promoted to Major-General1912 Appointed Chief of Staff of the Kazan' Military District and promoted to Lieutenant-General1913 Appointed Chief-of-Staff of the Caucasus Military District1914-1915 Appointed Commander of the Caucasus and promoted to General-of-Infantry for victories in the Erzerum and Trapezund campaigns1917 Removed from command by the Provisional Government1918 Escaped to Finland and later Estonia1919 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 Kolchak1920 Interned with his army in Estonia after failure of Petersburg campaign1933 Died in Cannes, France - Acquisition information:
- Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1969.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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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.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Yudenich collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563