Register of the Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie records
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Title: Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie records
Date (inclusive): 1876-1956
Collection Number: 2000C41
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
5 microfilm reels
(0.75 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, financial records, writings, membership lists, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the study
of Russian contributions to American history.
Creator:
Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Ameriki͡e
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Acquisition Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie Records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution
Library & Archives.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Administrative History
Russian-American historical association.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the records of the Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie (Russian Historical Society in America).
Its founder and first president was A. P. Farafontov (1937-1940). The second president of the Society was an engineer, Mikhail
Dem'ianovich Sedykh (1940-1948). The records consist their correspondence, writings and other materials collected by them
in the course of the organization's activities, which included aid in the restoration of Fort Ross, California, celebrations
honoring the 200
th anniversary of the European discovery of Alaska (1941), and other cultural events. Also present are writings and correspondence
by prominent émigrés, such as A. A. Kersnovskii, P. V. Shkurkin, S. G. Svatikov, and others. Almost all the records of the
collection date from 1933 to 1948, but the scrapbook on M. D. Sedykh (Office File/Members' papers/Sedykh) expands the temporal
bounds to those shown in the series description.
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.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States -- Study and teaching
OFFICE FILE
1907-1956
Scope and Contents
Activity reports, charter, clippings, correspondence, financial records, membership lists, members' papers, and other materials
arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1, folder 1
Activity reports
1938-1940
box 1, folder 2
Address lists.
Scope and Contents note
Includes appended correspondence concerning membership dues, 1937
box 1, folder 3
Applications for membership
box 1, folder 5
Clippings about or mentioning the RIO
Correspondence issuing from and addressed to A. P. Farafontov and M. D. Sedykh as representatives of the Society.
General note
For correspondence between them see below, General/Internal correspondence
box 1, folder 6
General
1937-1945 and undated
box 1, folder 7
Correspondence with U.S. cities bearing Russian place names
1939
box 1, folder 8
Correspondence with various individuals and organizations relating to celebrations of the 200
th anniversary of the discovery of Alaska
1941
box 1, folder 9
Internal correspondence
1937-1948
box 1, folder 11
Abrosimova, A. T.
1938-1945 and undated
box 1, folder 12
Aleksei, Bishop of Alaska
1940
box 1, folder 14
Andrews, Clarence L.
1937-1942
box 1, folder 15
Aref'ev, Vasilii Nikolaevich
1937-1939
box 1, folder 16
Association of Former Russian Naval Officers in America, Inc., .
1938-1948
Scope and Contents note
Includes some issues of the association's bulletins
box 1, folder 17
Baranov, Makarii, Rev.
1940-1943
box 1, folder 18
Baryborova, Sofiia Nikolaevna
n.d.
box 1, folder 19
Benzeman, Khristofor Martynovich
1940-1944
box 2, folder 1
Borzov, Nikolai Viktorovich
1940-1944
box 2, folder 2
Bunin, Ivan Mikhailovich
1937-1942
box 2, folder 3
Chernavin, Ioann, Rev.
1938
box 2, folder 4
Dobrovidov, Vladimir Nikolaevich
1941-1942
box 2, folder 5
Dudorov, Boris Petrovich
1938
box 2, folder 6
Falenberg, Nikolai Fedorovich
1943-1944
box 2, folder 7
Feofil (Theophilus), Metropolitan of North America
1938-1944
box 2, folder 8
Gordenev, Milii Iul'evich
1938-1942
box 2, folder 9
Grebenshchikov, Georgii Dmitrievich
1938
box 2, folder 10
Karinskii, Nikolai Sergeevich
1944-1945
box 2, folder 11
Kokhanik, Petr, Rev.
1938
box 2, folder 12
Kropotkin, Aleksei Alekseevich, Prince
1938
box 2, folder 13
Kuchinskaia, Elena Petrovna
1943
box 2, folder 15
Lantzeff, George V.
1940-1941
box 2, folder 18
Lebedev, Boris Pavlovich
1938-1940
box 2, folder 19
Lebedev, Vladimir Pavlovich
1938-1940
box 2, folder 20
Leontii, Bishop of Chicago
1940-1945
box 2, folder 21
Maksutov, Dimitrii D.
n.d.
box 2, folder 22
Malozemova, Elizaveta Andreevna
1940 and undated
Mikhailov, Konstantin Potapovich.
General note
See Members' papers/Farafontov, Aleksandr Pavlovich
box 2, folder 23
Mladorosskaia partiia
1937-1939
box 2, folder 24
Moskov, Evgenii Aleksandrovich
1937-1939
box 2, folder 25
Navrotskii, Iurii Aleksandrovich
1938-1943
box 2, folder 26
Nikitin, Dmitrii Vladimirovich
1937-1941
box 2, folder 28
Obshchestvo russkikh veteranov velikoi voiny
1937-1945
box 2, folder 29
Orlov, Ivan Petrovich
1940-1942
box 2, folder 30
Ponomarev, Fedor Petrovich
1937
box 2, folder 31
Porokhovshchikov, Petr Sergeevich
1944
box 2, folder 32
Prisadskii, Aleksandr, Rev.
1940-1942
box 2, folder 33
Prishchepenko, Nikolai Iosifovich
1941-1944
box 2, folder 34
Rklitskaia, Liudmila (Rklitsky, Ludmila), .
1940-1943
Scope and Contents note
Includes lecture programs
box 2, folder 36
Russian Center, San Francisco
1940-1941
box 2, folder 37
Russkoe pravoslavnoe kafolicheskoe obshchestvo vzaimopomoshchi (Russian Orthodox Catholic Mutual Aid Society)
1937-1938
box 2, folder 38
St. Vladimir's Russian Orthodox Catholic Society of America
1943-1946
box 2, folder 39
Schmidt, Adolph E.
1937-1938
box 2, folder 40
Shapiro, Nadezhda Lazarevna
1937
box 2, folder 41
Sharaev, Lev Antonovich, .
1940-1941
Scope and Contents note
Includes clipping of Shumanskii's article, "Istoriia knigopechataniia v Rossii,"
Rossiia, 1938 May 22
Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich.
General note
See Members' papers/Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich/ Correspondence
box 2, folder 42
Shumanskii, Klementii Vasil'evich
1938-1939
Svatikov, Sergei Grigor'evich.
General note
See Members' papers/Svatikov, Sergei Grigor'evich/ Correspondence
box 2, folder 44
Tel'berg, Georgii Gustavovich
1944
box 2, folder 45
Tiurleminskii, Aleksei Ivanovich
1938-1940
box 2, folder 46
Tokarev, T. F.
1937-1938 and undated
box 2, folder 47
Tulintsev, Iurii Nikolaevich
1941
box 2, folder 48
Vakar, Nikolai Platonovich
1943-1944
box 2, folder 49
Vasilii, Grand Duke, .
1943-1944
General note
Consists mainly of correspondence with Western Union Telegraph Company regarding refund of payment for undelivered telegram
to Grand Duke Vasilii
box 2, folder 50
Vinokurov (Vinokooroff), M. Z.
1937
box 3, folder 1
Financial records
1937-1946
box 3, folder 2
Instructions for affiliates
box 3, folder 3
Library of the Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie.
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings, notes, lists of publications received
box 3, folder 4
Membership lists.
Scope and Contents note
May also include names of prospective members
Farafontov, Aleksandr Pavlovich
box 3, folder 5
Letter of recommendation for
1944
Writings
1938-[1940] and undated
box 3, folder 6
"Chashka chaia Russkago Istoricheskago obshchestva v Amerikie,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 3, folder 7
"K konchinie ottsa Aleksandra Viacheslavova,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 3, folder 8
"K predstoiashchemu semidesiatilietiiu P. V. Shkurkina,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 3, folder 9
"K 126-ti-lietnei godovshchinie Forta Ross,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 3, folder 10
"Ostatki russkoi stariny,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 3, folder 11
Untitled
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clipping
box 3, folder 12
"V Russkom istoricheskom obshchestvie,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph. Includes undated letter to P. P. Balakshin
box 3, folder 13
Malen'kii rabotnik, .
1913-1915
Scope and Contents note
Four issues of a mimeographed holograph and typed periodical for schoolchildren edited by A. P. Farafontov
box 3, folder 14
Bazarnaia vydumka, .
1915 summer
Scope and Contents note
One issue of a mimeographed holograph children's journal, probably edited by A. P. Farafontov
box 3, folder 15
"Znaete-li vy," .
1937-1938
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript. Series of newspaper columns
box 3, folder 16
"Zhizn' za Khrista," .
1938 August 21
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 3, folder 17
"Konstantin Potapovivh Mikhailov," .
[1939 January 2]
Scope and Contents note
Typescript. Includes background materials such as correspondence with Mikhailov, 1938-1939, photographs of him and Mikhailov's
newspaper articles and letters to the editor, 1933-1938
box 3, folder 18
Letter to the editor,
Novaia Zaria, .
1939 January 6
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 3, folder 19
"O diadie Vlasie," .
[1940]
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 3, folder 20
Kiiashchenko, Georgii Titovich.
Scope and Contents note
Includes condolences on his death, the charter of a society to honor the memory of Nicholas II, with attached correspondence,
1938, and #14 (1931) of
Vera i pravda
box 3, folder 21
Mogil'nikov, Georgii Semenovich.
Scope and Contents note
Includes issue of
Budni (San Francisco, #6, 1938 Dec. 2) and
Russkii listok (Seattle, #47, 1938 Sept. 21), as well as typescript entitled "Za kogo golosovat'," [1936]
Sedykh (Sedich), Mikhail Dem'ianovich
box 3, folder 22
General.
Scope and Contents note
Materials relating to his career as an engineer
box 4, folder 1
Scrapbook.
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, photographs, writings, and printed matter relating to the life and career of M. D. Sedykh
Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich
box 4, folder 2
Correspondence with A. P. Farafontov
1935-1943 and undated
box 4, folder 3
"Khranilishcha kul'tury,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 4
"Vremia Vladimira Sviatogo i ego rol' v istorii,"
Novaia zaria, .
1938 August 4
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 4, folder 5
Miscellany.
Scope and Contents note
Clipping about Shkurkin and notes by Farafontov regarding his visit to San Francisco in April 1939
Svatikov, Sergei Grigor'evich
box 4, folder 6
Correspondence with A. P. Farafontov
1937-1939
box 4, folder 7
Writing, "Amerika i russkie poety XVIII-go vieka," .
[1938]
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 4, folder 10
Minutes of meetings, .
1937-1941
Scope and Contents note
Includes notices of meetings and related material
Iubileinyi sbornik,
[1942]
Zapiski Russkago Istoricheskago Obshchestva v Amerikie
box 5, folder 2
General.
Scope and Contents note
Editorial notes and drafts, including proposed tables of contents, reviews, and typed draft of article by A. Kersnovskii,
entitled "Iz proshlago Rossii," n.d. Typescript
box 5, folder 3
Printed copies (issues dated 1938 October and 1939 March)
SUBJECT FILE, .
1876-1948
Scope and Contents note
Brochures, bulletins, clippings, correspondence, leaflets, writings and other printed matter, arranged alphabetically by heading
box 5, folder 4
Bazhenov, Anatolii Dmitrievich
box 5, folder 6
Fire departments--California--San Francisco.
Scope and Contents note
Includes information on the Veteran Firemen's Association of San Francisco
box 5, folder 7
Fort Ross, California.
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings, correspondence (mainly with officials of the California State Division of Beaches and Parks, as well as
with Metropolitan Feofil and others) relating to restoration activities, 1939-1947
box 5, folder 8
General Platoff's Don Cossack Choir
box 5, folder 9
Greek, Russian, Slavonian Orthodox Eastern Church and Benevolent Society
box 5, folder 10
Holy Trinity Russian Eastern Orthodox Cathedral, San Francisco
box 5, folder 11
Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco
box 5, folder 12
Russkii kul'turno-istoricheskii muzei, Prague, Czechoslovakia
box 5, folder 13
Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo
box 5, folder 15
Miscellany.
Scope and Contents note
Brochures, clippings, and leaflets
box 5, folder 16
PHOTOGRAPHS
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
One photograph of an unidentified individual, possibly M. D. Sedykh, and two photographs of flags created by L. Ia. Bukharin
