Register of the Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie Records
Prepared by Anatol Shmelev
Hoover Institution Archives
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Stanford, California 94305-6010
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Register of the Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie Records
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: hooverarchives@stanford.edu
- Prepared by:
- Anatol Shmelev
- Date Completed:
- 2000
- Encoded by:
- ByteManagers using OAC finding aid conversion service specifications
© 2003 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie records,
Date (inclusive): 1876-1956
Collection number: 2000C41
Creator:
Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie
Collection Size:
5 microfilm reels
(0.75 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, financial records, writings, membership lists, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the study
of Russian contributions to American history.
Language:
Russian.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie Records, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.
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.
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 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 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.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Russians--United States--Study and teaching.
Russia
United States.
Series Description
box 1-5
Office File, 1907-1956.
Scope and Content Note
Activity reports, charter, clippings, correspondence, financial records, membership lists, members' papers, and other materials
arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 5
Subject File, 1876-1948.
Scope and Content Note
Brochures, bulletins, clippings, correspondence, leaflets, writings and other printed matter, arranged alphabetically by heading
box 5
Photographs, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Three photographs, one possibly depicting M. D. Sedykh, and two photographs of flags created by L. Ia. Bukharin
Container List
Box/Folder 1 : 1
Activity reports, 1938-1940
Box/Folder 1 : 2
Address lists.
Scope and Content Note
Includes appended correspondence concerning membership dues, 1937
Box/Folder 1 : 3
Applications for membership
Box/Folder 1 : 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.
Note
For correspondence between them see below, General/Internal correspondence
Box/Folder 1 : 6
General, 1937-1945 and undated
Box/Folder 1 : 7
Correspondence with U.S. cities bearing Russian place names, 1939
Box/Folder 1 : 8
Correspondence with various individuals and organizations relating to celebrations of the 200
th anniversary of the discovery of Alaska, 1941
Box/Folder 1 : 9
Internal correspondence, 1937-1948
Box/Folder 1 : 11
Abrosimova, A. T., 1938-1945 and undated
Box/Folder 1 : 12
Aleksei, Bishop of Alaska, 1940
Box/Folder 1 : 14
Andrews, Clarence L., 1937-1942
Box/Folder 1 : 15
Aref'ev, Vasilii Nikolaevich, 1937-1939
Box/Folder 1 : 16
Association of Former Russian Naval Officers in America, Inc., 1938-1948.
Scope and Content Note
Includes some issues of the association's bulletins
Box/Folder 1 : 17
Baranov, Makarii, Rev., 1940-1943
Box/Folder 1 : 18
Baryborova, Sofiia Nikolaevna, n.d.
Box/Folder 1 : 19
Benzeman, Khristofor Martynovich, 1940-1944
Box/Folder 2 : 1
Borzov, Nikolai Viktorovich, 1940-1944
Box/Folder 2 : 2
Bunin, Ivan Mikhailovich, 1937-1942
Box/Folder 2 : 3
Chernavin, Ioann, Rev., 1938
Box/Folder 2 : 4
Dobrovidov, Vladimir Nikolaevich, 1941-1942
Box/Folder 2 : 5
Dudorov, Boris Petrovich, 1938
Box/Folder 2 : 6
Falenberg, Nikolai Fedorovich, 1943-1944
Box/Folder 2 : 7
Feofil (Theophilus), Metropolitan of North America, 1938-1944
Box/Folder 2 : 8
Gordenev, Milii Iul'evich, 1938-1942
Box/Folder 2 : 9
Grebenshchikov, Georgii Dmitrievich, 1938
Box/Folder 2 : 10
Karinskii, Nikolai Sergeevich, 1944-1945
Box/Folder 2 : 11
Kokhanik, Petr, Rev., 1938
Box/Folder 2 : 12
Kropotkin, Aleksei Alekseevich, Prince, 1938
Box/Folder 2 : 13
Kuchinskaia, Elena Petrovna, 1943
Box/Folder 2 : 15
Lantzeff, George V., 1940-1941
Box/Folder 2 : 18
Lebedev, Boris Pavlovich, 1938-1940
Box/Folder 2 : 19
Lebedev, Vladimir Pavlovich, 1938-1940
Box/Folder 2 : 20
Leontii, Bishop of Chicago, 1940-1945
Box/Folder 2 : 21
Maksutov, Dimitrii D., n.d.
Box/Folder 2 : 22
Malozemova, Elizaveta Andreevna, 1940 and undated
Mikhailov, Konstantin Potapovich.
Note
See Members' papers/Farafontov, Aleksandr Pavlovich
Box/Folder 2 : 23
Mladorosskaia partiia, 1937-1939
Box/Folder 2 : 24
Moskov, Evgenii Aleksandrovich, 1937-1939
Box/Folder 2 : 25
Navrotskii, Iurii Aleksandrovich, 1938-1943
Box/Folder 2 : 26
Nikitin, Dmitrii Vladimirovich, 1937-1941
Box/Folder 2 : 28
Obshchestvo russkikh veteranov velikoi voiny, 1937-1945
Box/Folder 2 : 29
Orlov, Ivan Petrovich, 1940-1942
Box/Folder 2 : 30
Ponomarev, Fedor Petrovich, 1937
Box/Folder 2 : 31
Porokhovshchikov, Petr Sergeevich, 1944
Box/Folder 2 : 32
Prisadskii, Aleksandr, Rev., 1940-1942
Box/Folder 2 : 33
Prishchepenko, Nikolai Iosifovich, 1941-1944
Box/Folder 2 : 34
Rklitskaia, Liudmila (Rklitsky, Ludmila), 1940-1943.
Scope and Content Note
Includes lecture programs
Box/Folder 2 : 36
Russian Center, San Francisco, 1940-1941
Box/Folder 2 : 37
Russkoe pravoslavnoe kafolicheskoe obshchestvo vzaimopomoshchi (Russian Orthodox Catholic Mutual Aid Society), 1937-1938
Box/Folder 2 : 38
St. Vladimir's Russian Orthodox Catholic Society of America, 1943-1946
Box/Folder 2 : 39
Schmidt, Adolph E., 1937-1938
Box/Folder 2 : 40
Shapiro, Nadezhda Lazarevna, 1937
Box/Folder 2 : 41
Sharaev, Lev Antonovich, 1940-1941.
Scope and Content Note
Includes clipping of Shumanskii's article, "Istoriia knigopechataniia v Rossii,"
Rossiia, 1938 May 22
Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich.
Note
See Members' papers/Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich/ Correspondence
Box/Folder 2 : 42
Shumanskii, Klementii Vasil'evich, 1938-1939
Svatikov, Sergei Grigor'evich.
Note
See Members' papers/Svatikov, Sergei Grigor'evich/ Correspondence
Box/Folder 2 : 44
Tel'berg, Georgii Gustavovich, 1944
Box/Folder 2 : 45
Tiurleminskii, Aleksei Ivanovich, 1938-1940
Box/Folder 2 : 46
Tokarev, T. F., 1937-1938 and undated
Box/Folder 2 : 47
Tulintsev, Iurii Nikolaevich, 1941
Box/Folder 2 : 48
Vakar, Nikolai Platonovich, 1943-1944
Box/Folder 2 : 49
Vasilii, Grand Duke, 1943-1944.
Note
Consists mainly of correspondence with Western Union Telegraph Company regarding refund of payment for undelivered telegram
to Grand Duke Vasilii
Box/Folder 2 : 50
Vinokurov (Vinokooroff), M. Z., 1937
Box/Folder 2 : 51
Vitalii, Archbishop, 1938
Box/Folder 3 : 1
Financial records, 1937-1946
Box/Folder 3 : 2
Instructions for affiliates
Box/Folder 3 : 3
Library of the Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo v Amerikie.
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings, notes, lists of publications received
Box/Folder 3 : 4
Membership lists.
Scope and Content Note
May also include names of prospective members
Farafontov, Aleksandr Pavlovich
Box/Folder 3 : 5
Letter of recommendation for, 1944
Writings, 1938-[1940] and undated
Box/Folder 3 : 6
"Chashka chaia Russkago Istoricheskago obshchestva v Amerikie," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 7
"K konchinie ottsa Aleksandra Viacheslavova," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 8
"K predstoiashchemu semidesiatilietiiu P. V. Shkurkina," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 9
"K 126-ti-lietnei godovshchinie Forta Ross," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 10
"Ostatki russkoi stariny," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 11
Untitled, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Newspaper clipping
Box/Folder 3 : 12
"V Russkom istoricheskom obshchestvie," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Holograph. Includes undated letter to P. P. Balakshin
Box/Folder 3 : 13
Malen'kii rabotnik, 1913-1915.
Scope and Content Note
Four issues of a mimeographed holograph and typed periodical for schoolchildren edited by A. P. Farafontov
Box/Folder 3 : 14
Bazarnaia vydumka, 1915 summer.
Scope and Content Note
One issue of a mimeographed holograph children's journal, probably edited by A. P. Farafontov
Box/Folder 3 : 15
"Znaete-li vy," 1937-1938.
Scope and Content Note
Holograph and typescript. Series of newspaper columns
Box/Folder 3 : 16
"Zhizn' za Khrista," 1938 August 21.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 17
"Konstantin Potapovivh Mikhailov," [1939 January 2].
Scope and Content 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/Folder 3 : 18
Letter to the editor,
Novaia Zaria, 1939 January 6.
Scope and Content Note
Holograph
Box/Folder 3 : 19
"O diadie Vlasie," [1940].
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 20
Kiiashchenko, Georgii Titovich.
Scope and Content 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/Folder 3 : 21
Mogil'nikov, Georgii Semenovich.
Scope and Content 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/Folder 3 : 22
General.
Scope and Content Note
Materials relating to his career as an engineer
Box/Folder 4 : 1
Scrapbook.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, photographs, writings, and printed matter relating to the life and career of M. D. Sedykh
Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich
Box/Folder 4 : 2
Correspondence with A. P. Farafontov, 1935-1943 and undated
Box/Folder 4 : 3
"Khranilishcha kul'tury," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 4 : 4
"Vremia Vladimira Sviatogo i ego rol' v istorii,"
Novaia zaria, 1938 August 4.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 4 : 5
Miscellany.
Scope and Content Note
Clipping about Shkurkin and notes by Farafontov regarding his visit to San Francisco in April 1939
Svatikov, Sergei Grigor'evich
Box/Folder 4 : 6
Correspondence with A. P. Farafontov, 1937-1939
Box/Folder 4 : 7
Writing, "Amerika i russkie poety XVIII-go vieka," [1938].
Scope and Content Note
Holograph
Box/Folder 4 : 10
Minutes of meetings, 1937-1941.
Scope and Content Note
Includes notices of meetings and related material
Iubileinyi sbornik,
1741-1941, [1942]
Box/Folder 5 : 1
Correspondence, 1941-1946
Zapiski Russkago Istoricheskago Obshchestva v Amerikie
Box/Folder 5 : 2
General.
Scope and Content 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/Folder 5 : 3
Printed copies (issues dated 1938 October and 1939 March)
SUBJECT FILE, 1876-1948.
Scope and Content Note
Clippings, correspondence and printed matter
Box/Folder 5 : 4
Bazhenov, Anatolii Dmitrievich
Box/Folder 5 : 6
Fire departments--California--San Francisco.
Scope and Content Note
Includes information on the Veteran Firemen's Association of San Francisco
Box/Folder 5 : 7
Fort Ross, California.
Scope and Content 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/Folder 5 : 8
General Platoff's Don Cossack Choir
Box/Folder 5 : 9
Greek, Russian, Slavonian Orthodox Eastern Church and Benevolent Society
Box/Folder 5 : 10
Holy Trinity Russian Eastern Orthodox Cathedral, San Francisco
Box/Folder 5 : 11
Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco
Box/Folder 5 : 12
Russkii kul'turno-istoricheskii muzei, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Box/Folder 5 : 13
Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo
Box/Folder 5 : 15
Miscellany.
Scope and Content Note
Brochures, clippings, and leaflets
Box/Folder 5 : 16
PHOTOGRAPHS, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
One photograph of an unidentified individual, possibly M. D. Sedykh, and two photographs of flags created by L. Ia. Bukharin
