Register of the Michael M. Byckoff Collection
Michael K. MacKenzie
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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© 2005, 2012
Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Register of the Michael M. Byckoff Collection
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
- Processed by: Michael K. MacKenzie
- 2005
- Date Completed:
- 2005, revised 2012
- Encoded by:
- Lisa Miller, revised by Elizabeth Phillips, 2012
© 2005, 2012 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Preliminary Inventory of the Michael M. Byckoff Collection
Dates: 1769-1995
Collection number: 83042
Collector:
Byckoff, Michael M., collector
Collection Size:
17 oversize boxes
(9 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Currency, banknotes, and stamps, issued by the Russian Imperial and Soviet governments, and by various regional and local
governments and banks during the period of the Russian Civil War.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
Russian and others
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Michael M. Byckoff Collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired.
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Michael M. Byckoff collection consists of currency, banknotes, and postage stamp currency issued by the Russian Imperial
and Soviet governments, and by various regional and local governments and banks during the period of the Russian Civil War.
The container list provided here lists the albums in each box of the collection.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Money--Russia.
Money--Soviet Union.
Postage-stamps--Russia.
Postage-stamps--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Miscellanea.
Other Finding Aids
The items in this collection are being individually cataloged by Michael K. MacKenzie,
Byckoff's grandson, using three currency catalogs: (1) Kardakov's catalog, in German and
Russian, which has no illustrations of the currency; (2) Rybichenkov's catalog, in Russian,
which is the most complete catalog but has very few illustrations of the currency; and (3)
Pick's Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, in English, which is less complex than the
other catalogs. The format used by MacKenzie for listing each item and its catalog numbers
from the three catalogs is explained in the key accompanying the item-level description.
At present MacKenzie's item-level description is available for one album, labeled "Crimea"
(box 8). As additional albums are cataloged by MacKenzie, the descriptions will be added to
the detailed finding aid for this collection, which is available at the Hoover Institution
Archives reading room.
Box: 1
Paper Money of Russia and the USSR, by Albert I. Malyshev, Vladimir I. Tarankov, and Igor N. Smirenny, published 1991
Box: 1
The Complete Catalog of Paper Banknotes and Bills of Russia, the USSR and CIS Countries, 1769-1994, by Peter F. Ryabchenko, published 1995
Box: 1
Photograph album. Miscellaneous bonds
Box: 2
"Private." Miscellaneous notes, postage currency, and bonds
Box: 3
"Private." Various ribbons, notes, bonds
Box: 4
Album of local issue notes
Box: 5
"Bukhara." Includes notes of the Emirate of Bukhara [Khanate of Bukhara], the Soviet People's Republic of Bukhara [Bukharskaia
Narodnaia Sovetskaia Respublica], Khiva, Khan, and the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic
Box: 7
"Central Asia." Notes of the Turkestan region, the Transcaspian regional government, the British Military Mission in the
Transcaspian region, Semirech'e, and miscellaneous notes, stamps, and bonds
Box: 6
"Central." Includes notes and bonds of the Northern Region, Northwest Front, Archangel'sk government territory, as well as
other miscellaneous notes
Box: 8
"Crimea." Includes notes of the Crimea territorial government; Don Cossack government; South Russia, High Command of the
Armed Forces; British State Treasury; and Plenipotentiary for Food of the Government Territory of Kherson, as well as other
miscellaneous notes.
Note
A detailed description, with catalog numbers, is available.
Box: 9
"Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania." Includes Arnsenburg notes and notes of Lithuania and Memel Notgeld
Box: 10
"Imperial." Various notes of the Czarist empire
Box: 12
"Siberia #1." Notes and bonds
Box: 13
"Siberia #2." Notes of the Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and Irkutsk regions, as well as various cities and local regions
Box: 13
"Siberia #3." Includes Shanghai Russian and Japanese occupation of Manchuria notes
Box: 14
"Transcaucasian." Notes and bonds from Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic [Zakavkazskaia Sotsialisticheskaia
Federativnaia Sovetskaia Respublica], Transcaucasian, Armenia-Autonomous Republic, and various other regions and territories
Box: 15
Map of the Chinese Eastern Railroad
Box: 15
"Ukraine #1." Notes of the Liep'ja region in Latvia and other regions and cities, the State Bank in Kiev, the Ukrainian Soviet
Republic, and the German occupation in World War II
Box: 16
"Ukraine #2." Local issue notes
Box: 17
"U.S.S.R." Notes, postage stamp currency, and bonds
