Register to the Archimandrite Amvrosii papers
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Title: Archimandrite Amvrosii papers
Date (inclusive): 1920-1977
Collection Number: 2008C45
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
6 microfilm reels
(0.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, and photographs, relating to the Russian Orthodox Church and to Russian émigré affairs.
Creator:
Amvrosiĭ, Archimandrite (Konovalov), 1890-1971
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2008
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov) 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 Original Materials
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York
Chronology
| 1890 |
Born Victor Andreevich Konovalov, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 1920 |
Evacuated to Constantinople |
| 1963 |
Author,
Istina i apostasiia
|
| 1971 |
Died, Jordanville, NY |
Biography
Victor Andreevich Konovalov was born in St. Petersburg in 1890, joined the White Army during the Civil War in Russia in 1918,
and was forced to evacuate to Constantinople in 1920. From 1921 to 1923 Konovalov was actively involved in the Russian Orthodox
Church in Constantinople. He soon immigrated to Canada, where he became a self-proclaimed missionary. Konovalov subsequently
became a Russian Orthodox monk and abbot of the Pokrov convent in Bluffton, Alberta, Canada.
Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov) died in 1971 at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, N.Y.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains the papers of Viktor Andreevich Konovalov, a self-proclaimed missionary of Canada in emigration,
and later a Russian Orthodox monk and abbot of the Pokrov Skete in Bluffton, Alberta, Canada. Konovalov's rich Correspondence
includes letters to and from prominent hierarchs of the Russian diaspora, located throughout the world, and provides a significant
source for information on Russian Orthodoxy in North America in the Interwar years as well as in the immediate aftermath of
World War II. In addition, Konovalov's papers present a valuable record of the functioning and economic struggles of the Pokrov
Skete in Alberta, Canada.
The Speeches and Writings file reflects the personal interests of Fr. Amvrosii, which included eschatological research as
well as studies of holy fathers and church history. The Subject File materials relating to the history of the Russian Orthodox
Church Outside Russia, including an almost complete collection of "Tserkovnyia viedomosti," the official ecclesiastical periodical
of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia during the Interwar years.
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.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into five series: Biographical file, Correspondence, Speeches and writings, and Photographs
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- Canada
Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ
Biographical File
1920-1962.
Scope and Contents note
Includes ecclesiastical documents, military record, will. Arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1, folder 1
Ecclesiastical certificates
1922-1923
Correspondence
1922-1965 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 1, folder 6
Mount Athos
1924-1961.
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence with various monks from different monasteries on Mount Athos
box 1, folder 9
Afanasii (Martos), Archbishop
1961 and undated
box 1, folder 10
Aggei (?), Archimandrite
1947-1961
box 1, folder 11
Aleksandrov, Nikolai N.
1947-1961
box 2, folder 1
Anastasii (Gribanovskii), Metropolitan
1922-1962
box 2, folder 2
Andreevskii, Ivan Mikhailovich
1949-1962
box 2, folder 3
Antonii (Khrapovitskii), Metropolitan
1932-1933 and undated
box 2, folder 4
Antonii (Sinkevich), Archbishop
1961-1965 and undated
box 2, folder 5
Apollinarii (Koshevoi), Archbishop
1927-1939
box 2, folder 6
Ariadna (Michurina), Abbess
1948-1956
box 2, folder 7
Arsenii (Chakhovtsev), Bishop
1930-1931 and undated
box 2, folder 8
Averkii (Taushev), Archbishop
1955-1965
box 2, folder 10
Bari, Sofiia Nikolaevna
1947-1950
box 2, folder 11
Borzov, Nikolai Viktorovich
1951 and undated
box 2, folder 12
Brazol', Boris L'vovich
1948 and undated
box 2, folder 13
Buketov, Feofan, Reverend
1948-1950
box 2, folder 14
Burdykov, Georgii, Reverend
1933-1949
box 2, folder 15
Chagaida, Onufrii
1948-1951
box 2, folder 16
Chernavin, Ioann, Reverend
1946-1948 and undated
box 2, folder 17
Chervinskii, Evgenii, Reverend
undated
box 2, folder 18
Danil'chik, Mikhail, Reverend
1931-1933 and undated
box 2, folder 20
Demidov, Vasilii, Reverend
1947-1948 and undated
box 2, folder 21
Deputatov, Nikolai Mikhailovich
1941 and undated
box 2, folder 23
Dionisii (Valedinskii), Metropolitan
1932 and undated
box 2, folder 24
Dydik, Leontii and Anna
undated
box 2, folder 25
Feodosii (Samoilovich), Archbishop
1931-1965
box 2, folder 26
Feofan (Bystrov), Archbishop
1932
box 2, folder 27
Filaret (Voznesenskii), Metropolitan
1965
box 2, folder 28
Gerasim (Shmal'ts), Archimandrite
(1946-1951 and undated
box 2, folder 29
Grabbe, Georgii, Reverend
1952-1959
box 3, folder 1
Grigor', Ioann, Reverend
1932-1965 and undated
box 3, folder 2
Grinenko, Vladimir Kharitonovich
1955
box 3, folder 3
Holy Trinity Monastery
1946-1960 and undated
box 3, folder 4
Iakushin, Petr Mitrofanovich
1947-1949
box 3, folder 5
Ieronim (Chernov), Archbishop
1938-1948
box 3, folder 6
Ioasaf (Skorodumov), Archbishop
1922-1958
box 3, folder 7
Kalinovskii, Anton Grigorievich
1947-1951 and undated
box 3, folder 8
Kappanadzi, Ioason, Reverend
1946-1948 and undated
box 3, folder 9
Kharit, Filip Vasilievich
1946
box 3, folder 10
Kiziun, Aleksandr, Reverend
1928
box 3, folder 11
Kokhanik, Petr, Reverend
1947-1952 and undated
box 3, folder 12
Komarnitskii, Nikanor, Reverend
1932-1961
box 3, folder 13
Konon-Ivashkevich, Mr.
1951
box 3, folder 14
Konstantin (Zaitsev), Archimandrite
1935-1962
box 3, folder 15
Kontsevich, Elena Iur'evna and Ivan Mikhailovich
1948-1963 and undated
box 3, folder 16
Krupenskii, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
1927-1930
box 3, folder 17
Kryzhanovskii, Nikolai Antonovich
1940
box 3, folder 18
Kutepov, Aleksei Pavlovich
1929
box 3, folder 19
Kuterev, Boris Leonidovich
1950
box 3, folder 20
Ladinskii, Leonid, Reverend
1956 and undated
box 3, folder 21
Lavr (Shkurla), Abbot (later Archbishop and Metropolitan)
1958-1961
box 3, folder 22
Lebedev, Manuil, Reverend
1932
box 3, folder 23
Legkii, Ioann, Reverend
1951 and undated
box 3, folder 24
Lekhovich, Vladimir Andreevich
1928-1929 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes newspaper clipping and letter from General A. P. Kutepov to Lekhovich
box 3, folder 25
Leontii (Bartoshevich), Archimandrite
1945-1948 and undated
box 3, folder 26
Leontii (Filippovich), Archbishop
1957-1961
box 3, folder 27
Levitskii, N., Reverend
1951
box 3, folder 28
Lototskii, Dimitrii Vasilievich
undated
box 3, folder 30
Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil
1939
box 3, folder 31
Maslov, Diodor Nikolaevich
1949
box 4, folder 1
Meletii (Zaborovskii), Metropolitan
1941
box 4, folder 2
Merzheevskii, Vladimir Danilovich
1957-1963
box 4, folder 3
Mikhailov, Vasilii, Reverend
undated
box 4, folder 4
Miller, Evgenii Karlovich, General
1929
box 4, folder 5
Mishukov, Aleksandr Feodorovich
1943-1947 and undated
box 4, folder 7
Nikolai (Karpov), Bishop
1932
box 4, folder 8
Nikon (Rklitskii), Bishop
1936-1964
box 4, folder 9
Panteleev, Sergii, Reverend
1940-1961
box 4, folder 10
Panteleimon (Rudyk), Archbishop
1955
box 4, folder 11
Platon (Rozhdestvenskii), Metropolitan
1926 and undated
box 4, folder 13
Polonskii, Sergei Pavlovich
1959-1965 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes photograph of Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov)
box 4, folder 14
Pol'skii, Mikhail, Reverend
1949-1957
box 4, folder 15
Rimarenko, Adrian, Reverend (later Bishop)
1959-1962
box 4, folder 17
Rybakov, Nikolai Pavlovich
1932-1959
box 4, folder 19
Savva (Sarachevich), Bishop
1958-1961
box 4, folder 20
Serafim (Ivanov), Archbishop
1932-1961
box 4, folder 21
Serafim (Svezhevskii), Bishop
1951
box 4, folder 22
Shaliakin, Feodor Gavrilovich
1946-1952
box 4, folder 23
Shaposhnikov, Vasilii, Reverend
1940-1941
box 4, folder 24
Sharov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich
1946
box 4, folder 27
Sul'zhikov, Aleksandr Viktorovich
1927-1933
box 4, folder 28
Sumarokov, Evgenii Nikolaevich
1941
box 4, folder 29
Starukhin, Marko
1947-1948
box 5, folder 1
Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
1928-1959
box 5, folder 3
Tikhon (Liashchenko), Bishop
1932
box 5, folder 4
Tikhon (Troitskii), Archbishop
1931-1961
box 5, folder 5
Tsuglevich, Aleksandr, Reverend
1930-1935
box 5, folder 6
Turianitsa, Mikhail Il'ich
1964 and undated
box 5, folder 7
Urusova, Nataliia Vladimirovna
1958-1961
box 5, folder 8
Varshavskii, Sigizmund
1948-1951
box 5, folder 9
Vdovichenko, Petr, Reverend
1932-1933
box 5, folder 10
Venedikt (Bobkovskii), Bishop
1951
box 5, folder 11
Vitalii (Maksimenko), Archbishop
1939-1951
box 5, folder 12
Vitalii (Ustinov), Bishop
1934-1967
box 5, folder 13
Vorobets, Sergei Lukich and Dominika Iosifovna
1946-1952 and undated
box 5, folder 14
Zavalishin, Boris Arkadievich
1947 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes signed typescript entitled "Nash pozor"
box 5, folder 15
Znamenskii, Aleksandr, Reverend
1946-1951 and undated
box 5, folder 16
Znamenskii, Georgii
1947 and undated
box 5, folder 17
Zosima (?), Archimandrite
1948-1949 and undated
Speeches and Writings
1922-1977 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Announcements, appeals, articles, greetings, notebooks, notes, open letters, and sermons, arranged chronologically by title
box 5, folder 18
Announcements, appeals, greetings
1946-1961 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Typescripts, printed copy and holographs
box 5, folder 19
Articles
1951-1963 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Typescripts
box 5, folder 20
Letters to the editor
1932-1961
box 5, folder 21
Notebook
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 5, folder 22
General
1933-1964 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Holographs and typescripts
box 5, folder 23
Lives of saints
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Typescripts
box 5, folder 24
Open letters
1922-1933.
Scope and Contents note
Typescripts
box 5, folder 25
Sermons
1945-1962 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Holographs and typescripts
box 5, folder 26
Speeches
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 5, folder 27
"Fra Ieronim Savaranola – neponiatyi i nepriznannyi sviatoi,"
Russkaia zhizn', 1977, Nos. 8762-8778.
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 5, folder 28
"Istina i apostasiia,"
1963.
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 5, folder 29
"Nastavleniia ieroskhimonakha Amvrosiia, startsa Optinoi pustyni,"
1940.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript. Includes foreword by V. Konovalov and dedication to Hierodeacon Avenir
box 5, folder 30
"Sobytiia poslednikh dnei po svidetel'stvu sviatykh prorokov,"
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
Subject File
1922-1963 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Curriculum vitae of diocesan clergy, brochures, inventories, leaflets, minutes, notes, periodical, personal documents and
certificates, arranged alphabetically by subject
box 6, folder 1
Nezym, Semen Semenovich
1924.
Scope and Contents note
Personal documents and certificates
Russkaia Pravoslavnaia Tserkov' Zagranitsei
box 6, folder 2
General - Leaflets
1936-1963 and undated
box 6, folder 3
Alberta, Canada
1931-1959 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes curriculum vitae of diocesan clergy, lists of relics held at Pokrov skete in Bluffton, Alberta, minutes of diocesan
meetings, liturgical notes
box 6, folder 4
Iz dieianii arkhiereiskago sobora Russkoi Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi Zagranitsei
1960
box 6, folder 5-8
Tserkovnyia viedomosti
1922-1930.
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes on missing issues and provenance
box 6, folder 9
Photographs
1948-1963 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Ten prints depicting Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov)
