Register of the Mitrofan Ivanovich Retivov papers

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Title: Mitrofan Ivanovich Retivov papers
Date (inclusive): 1946-1961
Collection Number: 2000C79
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 3 microfilm reels (0.45 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, photographs, and miscellany, relating mainly to the medical profession in Russia prior to the Russian Revolution.
Creator: Retivov, Mitrofan Ivanovich, 1869-1961

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Mitrofan Ivanovich Retivov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of Originals

Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.

Chronology

1869 Born, Russia
1901-1917 Vice-President of the Pirogov medical conventions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novocherkassk
1917-1919 Director of a hospital in Khar'kov, Russia
1932 Major, Red Cross, Paraguay
1961 March 19 Died, Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina

Biography

M. I. Retivov was educated as a doctor. He served in various positions of responsibility prior to the Revolution: as director of the medical section of the Khar'kov workers' disability insurance company, as an organizer of sanatoria for tuberculosis patients in South Russia and the Caucasus, and as vice-president of the Pirogov medical conventions held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novocherkassk. Many of his writings are of an autobiographical character and describe his own life as a medical student as well as meetings with other members of the medical profession in pre-Revolutionary Russia.
During the Civil War, he served as chief doctor of one of the largest hospitals (1500 beds) in Khar'kov. Emigrating abroad following the Civil War, he served as a Red Cross doctor in Paraguay in 1932, during that country's war with Bolivia. He died on 19 March 1961 at the age of 92 in Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina. Retivov's son Georgii was one of the founding members of NTS.

Scope and Content Note

M. I. Retivov was a prominent doctor in pre-Revolutionary Russia. The collection contain autobiographical and semi-autobiographical writings, including memoirs of the Moscow University medical faculty in the 1890s, and a novel entitled "Moskva studencheskaia," as well as a study of V. I. Lenin and his role in Russian history. Other writings include a brief work on female doctors in pre-Revolutionary Russia.
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 Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco, as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Library & 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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Medicine -- Russia
Russians -- South America

box 1

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1957-1961

 

Family file

reel 1

Georgii Mitrofanovich Retivov (son)

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 1. Obituary
 

Sergei Mitrofanovich Retivov (son)

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Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 2. Short story entitled "Ego skripka," Novoe slovo, 1958 February. Holograph
 

Obituary

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Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 3.
 

CORRESPONDENCE n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 4. Fragment of a letter by an unidentified individual
 

WRITINGS 1946-1949 and undated

 

General

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 5. Includes notebook containing drafts of letters to the editor, notes, summaries of writings and other matter, including family history
 

"Etiudy o Rossii," n.d.

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Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 6. Holograph. Notebook includes memoirs of medical faculty at Moscow University in the 1890s and an article entitled "Russkie zhenshchiny vrachi," published in Prague in 1942
 

"Ministerstvo Narodnogo Prosveshcheniia vo vremia Dumskoi monarkhii," n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 7. Holograph fragment of a larger work
 

"Moskva studencheskaia," n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 8-9. Holograph
 

"Strannaia devushka," n.d.

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Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 10. Holograph
 

Untitled work on Paraguay n.d.

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Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 11. Holograph. Missing pp. 1-17
 

"Moi vstrechi s russkimi liud'mi ottuda," lecture read before a meeting of the Russian colony at Asuncion, Paraguay 1946 December 15

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 12. Holograph
 

"Vladimir Il'ich Ul'ianov-Lenin," 1949

Scope and Contents note

Holograph
reel 2

Notes

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 13. Includes background materials, bibliography, plans and summaries of work
 

Fragmentary drafts

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 14.
 

Preliminary complete draft

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 2 : 1.
reel 2, reel 3

Final draft (missing chapter XII)

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 2 : 2 (reel 2) 2 : 3-4 (reel 3).
 

PHOTOGRAPHS 1940s

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 2 : 5. One album consisting primarily of family photographs