Register of the Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection
Finding aid prepared by Olga Verhovskoy Dunlop
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Title: Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection
Date (inclusive): 1915-1917
Collection Number: 63011
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box, 1 oversize box
(1.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Pamphlets, leaflets, clippings, and postcards, relating to the February 1917 Revolution in Russia. Includes fragments of burned
records of the tsarist secret police (Okhrana).
source:
Ramplee-Smith, Winifred V.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1963.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Scope and Content Note
The Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection consists mainly of printed matter relating to the outbreak of the February Revolution
in Petrograd and Moscow. It includes anti-monarchist propaganda booklets, revolutionary leaflets and wall-posters. Of special
interest are rare copies of contemporary newspapers, including,
Izvestiia,
Novoe Vremia, and
Vestnik Vremennago Pravitel'stva. Also of interest are photographs depicting leaders of the Provisional Government and scenes of the revolution.
Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith was secretary to Lord Templewood and subsequently to Sir Samuel Hoare in Petrograd from 1916-1917.
She was in Moscow when the revolution broke out and began collecting printed matter related to the events she witnessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia -- History -- February Revolution, 1917
Secret service -- Russia
Russia. Okhrannyi͡a otdi͡elenīi͡a
Ramplee-Smith, Winifred V.
box 1, folder 1
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Visiting card, Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith, n.d.
SUBJECT FILE
1917
Scope and Contents
Fragment of burnt Okhrana record and essay re Russian political parties by Sir Samuel Hoare(?)
box 1, folder 2
Russia. Okhrannyia otdeleniia.
Scope and Contents note
Fragment of burnt Okhrana record from a bonfire in Petrograd, 1917 March
box 1, folder 3
Political Parties - Russia.
Scope and Contents note
Essay by Sir Samuel Hoare (?), entitled "Russian Parties," n.d. Typescript
PRINTED MATTER
1917
Scope and Contents
Revolutionary booklets of popular propaganda; clippings from British newspapers; issue of
The New Europe; political leaflets, and military orders. Arranged by physical form and therein chronologically
box 1, folder 4
Author unknown,
Politicheskiia pesni svobody, Petrograd
1917
box 1, folder 5
Kobyl'-Bobyl', I.,
Tsaritsa i Rasputin, Petrograd
n.d.
box 1, folder 6
Zhdanov, Lev,
Sud nad Nikolaem II, Petrograd
n.d.
Clippings of British newspapers.
General note
See also OVERSIZE FILE
box 1, folder 8
Britannia, .
1918 August
Scope and Contents note
Front page with photo of Mariia Bochkareva
box 1, folder 9
Journal,
The New Europe
1917 February-March
Leaflets.
General note
See also OVERSIZE FILE/Wall posters
box 1, folder 10
Partiia Narodnoi Svobody, election campaign
n.d.
box 1, folder 11
Polovtsov, Major-General, order to residents of Petrograd
1917 June 4
PHOTOGRAPHS
1917
Scope and Contents
23 prints depicting members of the Provisional Government and individuals related to the events of 1917, and revolutionary
street scenes. Also includes 15 postcards on revolutionary themes
box 1, folder 2
2 prints depicting Mariia Bochkareva and her Woman's Battalion
n.d.
box 1, folder 2
1 print depicting Aleksandr Guchkov
n.d.
box 1, folder 2
1 print depicting Prince Iusupov and Grand Duchess Irina Aleksandrovna
n.d.
box 1, folder 2
1 print depicting Aleksandr Kerensky
n.d.
box 1, folder 2
4 prints and 1 postcard depicting Grigorii Rasputin
n.d.
box 1, folder 2
1 print depicting Mikhail Rodzianko
n.d.
box 1, folder 2
1 print depicting Leo Tolstoy at Iasnaia Poliana
n.d.
box 1, folder 2
15 postcards depicting revolutionary themes
1917
box 1, folder 2
1 print depicting members of the Provisional Government
1917
box 1, folder 2
10 prints depicting revolutionary scenes
1917
box 1, folder 2
1 negative re elections to the Provisional Government
1917
OVERSIZE FILE
1917
Scope and Contents
Newspaper issues published under the Provisional Government and revolutionary wall posters
box 2
Izvestiia Petrogradskago soveta rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov, , No. 5-6
1917 March 4-5
box 2
Novoe Vremia
1916 November
1917 April
box 2
Russkoe Slovo
1917 October 1
box 2
Vestnik Vremennago Pravitel'stva, , no. I
1917 March 5
box 2
Biulleten' Revoliutsii: Moskva, 1-go. Marta, .
1917
Scope and Contents note
Issued by Ispolnitel'naia komissiia vremennago Revoliutsionnago Komiteta, Moskva, Gorodskaia Duma
box 2
Otchet: Skol'ko promotal i propil za svoe tsarstvovanie narodnykh deneg byvshii tsar' Nikolai Poslednii
n.d.
