Register to the Reverend Stefan Liashevskii papers

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Title: Stefan Liashevskii papers

Date (inclusive): 1935-1982

Collection Number: 2008C42

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: Russian

Physical Description: 2 microfilm reels (0.3 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, and photographs, relating to the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian émigré affairs.

Creator: Li͡ashevskiĭ, Stefan

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2008

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Stefan Liashevskii papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Alternative Forms of Material Available

A portion of the collection is available on Microfilm

Location of Originals

In part, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York

Chronology

1899 June 17	Born, Taganrog, Russia
19??-1934	Faculty, Novocherkassk Tekhnikum, USSR
1934-1936	Senior geologist, Azov-Black Sea Trust, Rostov-on-Don, USSR
1936-1939	Imprisoned in Siberian concentration camp
1939	Senior geologist, Krasnodar', USSR
1943	Ordained to priesthood, Taganrog, Russia
1947	Author, Pervye liudi na zemle, po Bibleiskomu skazaniiu i dannym sovremennoi arkheologii
	Author, Pervoe velikoe tysiacheletie
1953	Author, Prepodobnyi German Aliaskinskii
1960	Author, Pervonachal'naia vetkhozavetnaia tserkov' v svete noveishikh raskopok i issledovanii
1977	Author, Doistoricheskaia Rus': istoriko-arkheolo-gicheskoe issledovanie
1986	Died, Augusta, ME

Biography

Stefan Liashevskii was born in Taganrog, Russia, on June 17, 1899, and educated at the Novecherkassk tekhnikum, graduating in 1934. He worked as senior geologist for the Azov-Black Sea Trust in Rostov-on-Don until he was arrested in 1936 and imprisoned in a Siberian concentration camp for three years. On his release, Liashevskii returned to working as geologist. In 1943, however, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Russian Orthodox Church. As the Reverend Stefan Liashevskii, he immigrated to Germany in 1944, where he served in various parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia, including the Saint Prokopius church in Lübeck. Liashevskii arrived in the United States in 1957 and served briefly in the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate before being assigned to a parish in Maine under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia. He was also a biblical scholar, historian and writer, publishing several works on various topics, including biblical archeology and lives of the saints.

Reverend Stefan Liashevskii died in 1986 in Augusta, Maine.

Scope and Content of Collection

These papers reflect the writings, papers and research interests of Stefan Liashevskii, a geologist in the USSR, archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church, biblical scholar, and historian in emigration. Stefan Liashevskii had close relations with a number of Russian Orthodox hierarchs, which is reflected in his Correspondence File. Among his correspondents were Patriarch Aleksii (Simanskii), Metropolitan Iosif (Chernov) and Metropolitan Nikolai (Eremin).

The Speeches and Writings FILE includes several historical essays and articles dedicated to ecclesiastical figures known personally by Liashevskii in Russia and in emigration, such as Patriarch Tikhon (Belavin), Metropolitan Serafim (Lade), Hieromonk Sofronii (Sakharov) and others.

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 the Holy Trinity Seminary. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Holy Trinity Seminary Archives as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is appended to this register. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Russians -- United States

Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ

Biographical File 1942-1976

Scope and Contents note

Includes ecclesiastical and immigration documents. Arranged alphabetically by physical form

reel 1

General 1956-1976

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 1, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Includes certificate from Russian American Scholars, and letter of recommendation

reel 1

Conference participation 1950-1951

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 2, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Ecclesiastical certificates 1942-1970

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 3, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Immigration and Naturalization application 1952

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 4, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Correspondence 1944-1982 and undated

Scope and Contents

Cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent

reel 1

General 1974-1982 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 5, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Aleksii (Simanskii), Patriarch 1962-1964

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 6, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Amvrosii (Pogodin), Arkhimandrite 1979 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 7, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Dvorzhitskaia, Irina 1960

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 8, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Ioann (Garklavs), Archbishop 1977-1980 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 9, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Ioann (Venliand), Metropolitan 1962-1980 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 10, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Iosif (Chernov), Metropolitan 1963-1975 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 11, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Nikolai (Eremin), Metropolitan 1956-1982

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 12, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Rimskii-Korsakov, Vladimir 1960

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 13, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Russian Orthodox Church

reel 1

General 1950-1983 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 14, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Decrees, and related 1946-1976 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 15, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Serafim (Lade), Metropolitan 1944-1946

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 16, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Sofronii (Sakharov), Hieromonk 1952-1953

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 17, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Includes two photographs

reel 1

Tolstoi, Ivan Mikhailovich 1982

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 18, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke 1949-1982 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 19, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Speeches and Writings 1948-1978 and undated

Scope and Contents

Articles, drafts, monographs, notes, pamphlets, and sermons, arranged chronologically by title

General

reel 1

Articles 1961 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 20, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 1

Essays undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 21, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescripts

reel 1, reel 2

Notebooks undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 22-23, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Holograph

reel 2

Notes undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 24, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Holograph

reel 2

Untitled undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 1 folder 25, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescripts

reel 2

"Batiushka otets Iosiia (Sviashchenno-arkhimandrit Iosiia, nastoiatel' Taganrogskogo podvoriia Staro-Afonskogo Panteleimonovskogo monastyria)," undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 1, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

Letopis' Serafimo-Diveevskogo monastyria s 1903 g. po 1927 g. Chast' vtoraia undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 2, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript. Includes related correspondence

reel 2

"Mitropolich'i okruga," undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 3, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript. Includes related notes

reel 2

"Mitropolit Serafim i nemetskoe Pravoslavie," undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 4, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"O triipostasnom Boge," undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 5, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Pokhval'noe slovo tsartsvennym strastoterptsam," undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 6, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript. Includes "Gosudar' Muchenik," undated. Typescript

reel 2

"The tomb of our Forefather Noah the Righteous," undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 7, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript. Includes incomplete version in Russian

reel 2

"Vladyka Arsenii (Arkhiepiskop Rostovskii i Taganrogskii)," undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 8, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Pervomu s"ezdu pravoslavnykh nemtsev v gor. Gersbruke," 1948

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 9, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"The six days of creation," 1948

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 10, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Tsarstvo chetyrekh serafimov," 1948

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 11, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Sviataia plashchanitsa Gospodnia," 1949

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 12, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Mitropolit Petrogradskii Serafim (Chichagov)," 1950

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 13, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Printed copy and typescript

reel 2

"Nastavlenie sestram Bogorodichnoi obiteli v g. Liubeke o molitve i monasheskom uklade zhizni," 1950

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 14, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Holograph

reel 2

"Tserkvi lukavnuiushchikh," 1951

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 15, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Vtoroe tysiacheletie (2 chast' 'Tsarstva Chetyrekh Serafimov')," 1951

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 16, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Ego sviateishestvo Patriarkh Tikhon," Sviet 1952 May 15

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 17, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Printed copy

reel 2

"Russkie pravoslavnye tserkvi zagranitsei. Chast' I," 1953

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 18, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Zakliuchenie ob inzhenerno-geologicheskikh usloviiakh stroitel'nogo uchastka Trekhsviatitel'skoi tserkvi," 1954

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 19, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Pravoslavnaia tserkov' sredi narodov zapada," 1955

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 20, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Pervonachal'naia vetkhozavetnaia Tserkov' (ot Adama do Avraama) v svete noveishikh raskopok," 1957

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 21, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Tsarstvo nebesnoe," 1976

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 22, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

reel 2

"Dogmat o Edinosushchnoi, Zhivotvoriashchei i Nerazdel'noi Troitse," 1978

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 23, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Typescript

Subject File 1954-1973 and undated

Scope and Contents

Certificates, clippings, correspondence, and notes, arranged alphabetically by subject

reel 2

Biblical archeology 1966-1973 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 24, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Includes clippings and typed notes

reel 2

Roman Catholic Church--Relics 1954-1970

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 25, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Certificates

Velesova kniga

reel 2

Correspondence 1970-1973 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 26, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 2

Newspaper articles 1967-1973 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 27, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

reel 2

Notes undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 2 folder 28, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Holograph and typescript

Photographs 1935-1973 and undated

reel 2

Iosif (Chernov), Metropolitan 1935-1973

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 3 folder 1, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. 8 prints

reel 1

Sofronii (Sakharov)

General note

See Correspondence/Sofronii (Sakharov)

Stefan Liashevskii, Reverend

reel 2

General undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 3 folder 2, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. 8 prints

reel 2

Parishes served 1943-1969 and undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 3 folder 3-4, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. 160 prints in two albums

reel 2

One print of an unidentified hierarch undated

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed from box 3 folder 5, housed at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary