Register of the Vekshin-Dutikow papers
Finding aid prepared by Lyalya Kharitonova
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Title: Vekshin-Dutikow papers
Date (bulk): 1916-2013
Collection Number: 2014C47
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Russian
Physical Description:
26 manuscript boxes, 7 oversize boxes, 1 card file box
(14.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, personal documents (including passports and family trees), printed matter, and photographs relating to life
in displaced person camps in Germany after World War II, and to Russian émigré affairs. Includes papers of Irene Dutikow,
daughter of Vladimir Vekshin, and of her husband, Vsevolod Dutikow, a Russian Orthodox priest.
Creator:
Vekshin, Vladimir Alekseevich, 1890-1958
Creator:
Dutikow, Irene
Creator:
Dutikow, Vsevolod
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Access
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2014.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vekshin-Dutikow papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Biographical / Historical
Vladimir Vekshin was born in Haapsalu, Estonia. After graduation gymnasium he went to university. During World War I, he was
transferred to the Nikolaev Cavalry School, fought on the fronts, participated in the White Movement. After the Red Army defeated
the White Army, he returned to his homeland in Estonia. Vekshin was engaged in the cultivation of flowers and fruits in a
personal plot in Haapsalu, opened an advertising agency in Tallinn. In 1944, he fled from the communist threat to Germany.
He later emigrated to the United States.
Vsevolod (Mikhailovich) Dutikow (Vladimir Vekshin's son-in-law) was born on October 10, 1929 in the village of Aleksandrovskaia
in the Stavropol' Territory. The son of a member of the Narodno-Trudovoi Soiuz (NTS) Mikhail Mikhailovich Dutikow (1908-1967),
Vsevolod Dutikow emigrated with his parents from the USSR in 1943, along with German units to the west. After the end of the
war, he first lived in Frankfurt-on-Maine, where in 1946 he entered the Russian Federal Law School together with his brother
as a solo scout. In the school year 1946-1947 he studied at the gymnasium and lived in a boarding school in Wilhelmstal. In
1947, he returned to his parents in Frankfurt and worked at the
Posev office. In 1950, he left Germany to reside in the United States. Dutikow received a technical education with a degree in
metalworking technique. In 1977, he joined the Congress of Russian Americans (CRA), where he was a Secretary of the Main Board
from 1977 to 1979. Since 1979, Dutikow has been the churchwarden of the Church of the Annunciation in Flushing (New York).
Having received a spiritual education, he was a reader and subdeacon. Later Dutikov ordained as a priest in the bosom of the
ROCOR (1991). At the same time he was appointed assistant confessor of the Tsarskoye Selo squad (New York). As archpriest,
he was appointed in 1994 the rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Astoria, New York. Dutikow was a delegate of the Vth All-Diaspora
Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (May 2006) from the Committee of Russian Orthodox Youth. He was awarded
the right to wear a cross with ornaments (May 2008).
Dutikow was married to Irina Vladimirovna Vekshin, Vladimir Vekshin's daughter. She worked for many years as the head of the
library at Radio Liberty in New York and was chairman of the Flushing department of the CRA.
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection is rich correspondence to Vekshin from friends and fellow officers while in displaced camps in
Germany between 1945 and 1951. This is an extraordinary resource for the study of life in DP camps and the experience of forced
migration caused by war.
Also included are Vekshin's personal papers, such as service records, promotion documents, and other materials, as well as
a biographical and genealogical sketch by his daughter Irene Dutikow, and photographs of Vekshin's children.
Additional material includes albums of press clippings and other matter related to Irene Dutikow (nee Vekshin) and other members
of the Dutikow and Vekshin families from 1951 to 1991 and undated, photo albums, album sheets and loose prints dating from
1930 to 2015, a framed watercolor of a Russian Orthodox Church, miscellaneous songbooks produced by the Organizatsiia Rossiiskikh
iunykh razvedchikov and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia dated from 1980 to 2008, and passports and other identification
papers.
Apart from family photos, the photographic material depicts Irene Dutikow's work at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty from
1987 to 2001, the Congress of Russian Americans, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, the Organizatsiia Rossiiskikh
iunykh razvedchikov from 1983 to 1997, and her pilgrimages to Orthodox sites in the USA and abroad with Fr. Vsevolod Dutikow
from 1989 to 2015.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees
Russians -- Estonia
Russkai͡ pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkov' zagranit͡seĭ
Family File
1880-2017
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, identification papers, government documents, certificates, service records, and photographs of the
related Vekshin and Dutikow families.
box 11
History of the Vekshin family
1912-1921
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, genealogical charts, notes and forms, family lines and historical sketches, clippings and printed
material relating to family matters and family history.
Dutikow (nee Vekshin), Irene
1930-2015
Biographical file
1930-2015
Scope and Contents
Includes identification documents, educational and employment records, and immigration papers. Arranged by physical form alphabetically.
box 1
Address books and notes
1952
box 10
Autobiography and family history notes
1961-1996
Educational documents
1938-1983
Employment records
1970-2002
Scope and Contents
Includes applications for work, appointment letters, resumes, certificates of recognition, and photographs.
box 17
Family photo calendars
1998-2000
box 3
Graduation autograph book
1952
box 26
Identification documents and certificates
1930-1994
box 10
Naturalization papers
1957
box 26
Photographs
1972-2001
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs relating to the career of Irene Dutikow as a librarian at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc.
box 10
Printed matter
2005-2015
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings and articles relating to I. Dutikow.
box 24
Recognitions and achievements
1996-2009
Scope and Contents
The
World Who's Who of Women,
Who's Who in America, and
Who's Who of American Women certificates.
box 10
Anderson, Karen
2001-2010
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
box 3
Minjaev, Martin
2004-2006
box 3
Tatunts, Arnold
2004-2010
box 3
Valiev, Murt Timurovich
2013-2014
box 10
Vershinin, Aleksandr
2001-2011
Writings
1957-1979
Scope and Contents
Includes background materials, correspondence and writings, arranged chronologically by title.
box 4
"Folklor in Pushkin"
circa 1970
box 4
"Barmalei: a Tale in Verse by Kornei Chukovsky Translated by Irene Dutikov"
1973
box 4
"Bibliographical Guide to the History of the Russian Orthodox Church"
1974
box 4
"Tourism in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia"
1975
box 17
"The Development of the Annunciation Icon iin Russia"
1979
box 4
"Kornei I. Chukovsky: a Bibliographical Study"
1979
box 23
Travel journals
1987-2011
Scope and Contents
Daily entries, notes, short stories and inserts, arranged chronologically.
box 24
Scrapbooks
1953-1991
Scope and Contents
Include clippings, calling cards, greeting cards and correspondence, event programs, menus, and notes in chronological progression
relating to Irene Dutikow's life.
Dutikow, Vsevolod (Wsewolod)
Biographical file
1929-2017
Scope and Contents
Includes identification papers, certificates, ecclesiastical documents, correspondence, and printed matter. Arranged alphabetically
by physical form.
box 6
Obituaries and letters of condolence to the family
2015-2016
Personal papers
1929-2015
Scope and Contents
Includes personal documents and certificates, ecclesiastical documents, and will. Arranged alphabetically by physical form.
box 2
Printed matter
1997-2017
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings, leaflets, and brochures about or mentioning Father Dutikow.
box 2
Nikolai (Shevel'chinskii), father
1987-1996
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs and scrapbook.
box 2
Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, Israel
1993-1995
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with various monks.
box 2
Stephan (Envich), father
1990-1992
Photographs
1930-2015
Scope and Contents
Prints of Father Vsevolod at church services and events.
box 21
40th anniversary of the St. Panteleimon Chapel on Lake Kittatinny in New Jersey.
2003
box 20
50th anniversary of Archpastoral Service by His Eminence Metropolitan Vitaly
2001
box 18
50th anniversary of the Parish in honor of St. Seraphim of Sarov the Wonderworker
2003
box 25
100th anniversary of Holy Trinity Church in Astoria, New York
2015
box 25
All-Diaspora Council at San Francisco
2006
box 25
Bishops annual visit of Holy Trinity Church in Astoria, New York
2009-2014
box 25
Bogoroditsky Lesninsky Monastery (Lesninsky dwelling), France
1996
box 25
Convent of St. Nicholas
2014
box 20
Graduation from Synod School
1971
box 19
Kazan icon of the Blessed Mother of God in Bulgaria
1995
box 20
Litany on Site of the World Trade Center
2001
box 25
Mary Magdalen Church in Haapsalu, Estonia
2004
box 21
Nativity of the Mother of God Russian Orthodox Church, Albany, New York
2006
box 18
Ordination in the deacon
1989
box 18
Ordination in the priest
1991
box 25
Orthodox Youth Conference in Brazil
1997
box 25
Parish House at Astoria
2000
box 20
Russian Orthodox Church in Brazil
2002
box 21
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Howell, New Jersey
2005
box 21
St. Sergius Russian Orthodox Church at the Tolstoy Foundation Center
1997
box 18
Transfiguration of Jesus
2003
box 25
Trip to England and France
1996
Trips to Estonia
1998-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes printed matter.
Sermons
1988-2015
Scope and Contents
Includes sermons and messages by Father Vsevolod. Arranged chronologically.
box 8
Writings
1975-1976
Scope and Contents
Includes background material, notes, and drafts.
box 10
Pierce-Vekshin, Tat'iana (Tanya)
2012-2015
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondencce and printed matter related to Pierce-Vekshin.
Vekshin (nee Minjaeva), Liudmila
1920-1989
box 22
Photographs
1920-1962
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of her family.
Vekshin, Vladimir
1880-1961
Biographical File
1880-1959
Scope and Contents
Includes identification and educational documents, employment records, and immigration papers of Vladimir and other members
of family. Arranged by physical form alphabetically.
box 19
Educational documents
1918-1919
box 19
Employment records
1937-1951
box 19
Identification documents and certificates
1880-1956
box 19
Military records
1912-1918
Correspondence
1944-1961
Scope and Contents
Cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 1
Eller, Antonina
1947-1955
box 19
Vekshin, Irina (Irene)
1948-1949
box 1
Young, Fred and Linda
1956-1961
box 10
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
1973-1980
Scope and Contents
Classical concert programs, including Lara Dutikov's perfomance.
Congress of Russian-Americans, Inc.
1970-1988
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, newsletters, appeals, and photographs.
box 20
Circa 1970
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs taken at the Fifth National Convention.
box 18
1979-1985
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
box 22
1983-1988
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of Mstislav Rostropovich at his induction ceremony into the Russian-American Hall of Fame.
box 16
Nikolaevskii Cavalry Academy (Николаевское Кавалерийское Училище)
1912-1984
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, printed matter, maps, and photographs relating to cavalry .
Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR)
1955-2015
Scope and Contents
Includes correpondence, writings, and printed matter. Original folder titles and arrangement were maintained.
box 17
Vth All-Diaspora Cathedral
2008
box 21
All-Diaspora Pastoral Meeting
2003
box 16
Easter
circa 1970
Scope and Contents
Broadcast script
box 18
Glorification of John of Shanghai and San Francisco Wonderworker
2004
box 16
Pastoral theology
1963-1993
box 9
Relations with the Moscow Patriarchate
2003-2015
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and printed matter.
Organization of Russian Young Pathfinders (Организация Российских Юных Разведчиков)
1958-1997
box 26
Annual summer camps
1979-1988
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of the Dutikov family at the camp.
box 26
Annual Cadet Ball
1958-1980
Scope and Contents
Includes photograph of Princess Vera Konstantinovna Romanov.
box 26
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
1983-1997
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs depicting the Dutikov family at pilgrimage tours to Israel and Egypt.
box 26
Printed matter
1980-1990
Scope and Contents
Includes
Пессенник Организации Российских Юных Разведчиков
Audiovisual File
2008
Scope and Contents
Videorecordings of the Vth All-Diaspora Cathedral (18 Sony MiniDV Tapes)
Oversize Material
1898-2008
box 14
Vth All-Diaspora Cathedral
2008
Scope and Contents
Group photograph of participants
box 15
Aleksei L'vovich Vekshin's certificates of recognition for a high performing charity
1898-1901
box 14
Bishop Gabriel, Father Gregory and Father Vsevolod (Wsevolod)
2008
Scope and Contents
Group photo with parishioners
box 14
Father Vsevolod's (Wsevolod's) Deacon Ordination Certificate
1989
box 14
Irene Vekshin Dutikow's certificates of completion courses at Hunter College
1979
box 14
Maria-Magdalena Congregational 170 Years Anniversary, an article by J. Ives
2006
box 28
Посвящается Дъйствительному Статскому Совътнику Алексъю Львовичу Въкшину: "Тебъ поемъ Херувимская", два церковныхъ хора, сочиненiе
О. Ф. Томашекъ
, gift edition
circa 1900
box 12
Material not yet described
box 27
Material not yet described
box 29
Material not yet described
box 30
Material not yet described
Incremental Material 2021
Scope and Contents
The 2021 incremental material includes photo albums and loose photographs of Fr. Wsewolod and meetings he attended after 2007,
prior to the formation of ROCOR. One album contains photographs of a trip by the Russian Scout to the Holy Land with Wsewolod
and O. Vladimit Shishkoff. Another album contains photographs of Wsewolod's parish visiting Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, and
Serbia, including visits to monasteries.
box 31
Material not yet described
box 32
Material not yet described
box 33
Material not yet described
box 34
Material not yet described
