Register of the Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov papers
Finding aid prepared by Vladimir von Tsurikov
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
© 2008
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Title: Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov papers
Date (inclusive): 1884-1973
Collection Number: XX876
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Russian
Physical Description:
1 folder, 5 microfilm reels
(0.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, military documents, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian participation
in World War I, the Russian Civil War, the Don Cossacks, and Russian émigré affairs.
Creator:
Krasnov, P. N. (Petr Nikolaevich), 1869-1947
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Access
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Use
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2008
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], P. N. Krasnov 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 Originals
In part, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York
Biographical Chronology
| 1869 September 22 |
Born, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 1888 |
Graduated, Pavlovskoe voennoe uchilishche |
| 1903 |
Author,
Po Azii. Putevye ocherki Manchzhurii, Dalniago Vostoka, Kitaia, Iaponii i Indii
|
| 1910 |
Colonel, commanding officer, 1st Siberian Cossack regiment |
| 1913 |
Commanding officer, 10th Don Cossack regiment |
| 1914 |
Major General, commanding officer, 1st Don division |
| 1917 |
Commanding officer, 3rd Cavalry corps |
| 1918 |
Retired |
| |
Elected ataman of Don Cossacks |
| 1921 |
Author,
Ot dvuglavogo orla k krasnomu znameni, 1894-1921
|
| 1922 |
Author,
Vsevelikoe voisko donskoe
|
| 1923 |
Author,
Poniat'-prostit': roman v 4 chastiakh
|
| 1927 |
Author,
Dusha armii: ocherki o voennoi psikhologii
|
| 1931 |
Author,
Vypash
|
| 1937 |
Author,
Nakanunie voiny: iz zhizni pogranichnogo garnizona
|
| 1943 |
Head of Cossack units within the German Army |
| 1945 |
Turned over by the British Army to Soviet authorities, along with thousands of Cossacks at Lienz, Austria |
| 1947 January 16 |
Executed, Moscow (?), USSR |
Biographical / Historical
Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov was born into a Cossack military family: his father was a lieutenant-general, his grandfather, a
general. Krasnov graduated from the Pavlovskoe voennoe uchilishche in 1888. He began his literary career early, authoring
a log of his travels in the Far East in 1903. In 1910, Krasnov served as colonel and commanding officer of the First Siberian
Cossack regiment. By 1914, Krasnov had risen to the rank of major general of the First Don division. Fleeing to the Don region
to escape the Russian revolution, Krasnov was elected ataman of the Don Cossacks in 1918, after which he ousted the Soviets
from the Don region and headed up the Don Cossack uprising. After suffering the ensuing defeat, Krasnov immigrated to Germany,
retired from military life, and devoted himself to his literary career.
Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov
During his retirement, General Krasnov published numerous books, many of which were translated into German, English, and other
languages. He came out of his military retirement in 1943 to organize and lead Cossack units in the German Army. After Germany's
defeat, General Krasnov was turned over to the Soviet authorities by the British Army. He was hung in Moscow in 1947.
Scope and Content of Collection
These papers reflect the literary activities of General Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov, Don Cossack Ataman, writer and historian.
Most of his writings in emigration focus on the events leading up to the Russian revolution, as well as on the revolution
and its aftermath themselves. Krasnov also focused on the history of the Don Cossacks. His writings have been published in
translation in English, German and other languages. This collection consists of detailed correspondence mainly related to
his writings and personal matters, and also reviews of his published works. The Speeches and Writings file consists mainly
of correspondence related to and reviews of his writings.
The Subject File consists of various materials on the Don Cossacks, including minutes of meetings, reports, official documents
and publications, dating from 1917 to 1944.
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 six series: Biographical File, Correspondence, Speeches and Writings, Don Cossack File, Printed
Matter, and Photographs
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
Officers
Cossacks
Russia. Armii͡a
box 1
Biographical File
1884-1969 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Articles, clippings, family file. Arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1, folder 1
Biographical sketch, "Portrait-Etude P. N. K. . .a,"
1936.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
Clippings
1913-1969 and undated
box 1, folder 2
General
1913-1933 and undated
box 1, folder 3
Fortieth anniversary of Krasnov's literary activities
1931 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes related letter addressed to Konstantin Sergeevich ?
box 1, folder 4
Fiftieth anniversary of Krasnov being elevated to rank of officer
1939 and undated
box 1, folder 5
Hundredth anniversary of Krasnov's birth
1969
box 1, folder 6
Letter, originally accompanied by a print of the tsarevich Nicholas, forwarded as a gift to Nikolai I. Krasnov by Alexander
III
1884
Correspondence
1919-1944.
Scope and Contents note
Cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 1, folder 7
General - Athonite monks
1930
Unidentified
1919-1943, and undated
box 1, folder 10
Anna Nikolaevna (?)
1923-1936 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes three newspaper clippings
box 1, folder 14
Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr Valentinovich
1922-1935
box 1, folder 15
Anastasii (Gribanovskii), Metropolitan
1938
box 1, folder 16
Annenkov, Boris V., Ataman
1920
box 1, folder 17
Antonii (Khrapovitskii), Metropolitan
1928-1935 and undated
box 1, folder 18
Artifeksov, Leonid Aleksandrovich
undated
box 1, folder 19
Baikov, Nikolai Arkad'evich
1935-1936
box 1, folder 20
Berezovskii, Efim Prokop'evich
1936
box 1, folder 21
Bratstvo Prepodobnogo Iova Pochaevskogo
1936
box 1, folder 22
Buliubash, Evgenii Grigorievich
1938
box 1, folder 23
Chebotareva, T.
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Incomplete letter
box 1, folder 25
Cheslavskii, Vasilii Vladimirovich
undated
box 1, folder 26
Chikhachev, Vladimir
undated
box 1, folder 27
Cochenhausen, von, Conrad
1939-1943 and undated
Denisov, Sviatoslav Varlaamovich
box 2, folder 5
Durnovo, Sofiia Petrovna
undated
box 2, folder 6
Eletskii, Leonid Vasil'evich, Prince
1925
box 2, folder 7
Fond imeni velikago kniazia Nikolaia Nikolaevicha
1929
Galich, Iurii.
General note
See Goncharenko, Iurii, 1938
box 2, folder 8
Glaz, Ol'ga
1922-1938 and undated
box 2, folder 10
Goncharenko, Iurii
1932-1936
box 2, folder 11
Grebenshchikov, Georgii
undated
box 2, folder 12
Herrick, Byron (U.S. Ambassador in Paris)
undated
box 2, folder 13
Ioann (?), Archimandrite
1941
box 2, folder 14
Ionov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich
1928
box 2, folder 15
Juvin, Lucien
1929 and undated
box 2, folder 16
Kasatkin-Rostovskii, Feodor Nikolaevich
1935-1941 and undated
box 2, folder 17
Khodnev, Dmitrii
1933-1938
box 2, folder 18
Kira Kirillovna, Grand Duchess
1939
box 2, folder 20
Leikhtenbergskii (Leuchtenberg), Georgii Nikolaevich
1925
box 2, folder 21
Leikhtenbergskii (Leuchtenberg), Konstantin
1938
box 2, folder 22
Militsa Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess
1924-1943 and undated
box 2, folder 23
Miller, Evgenii K., General
1930-1931
box 2, folder 24
Nikolai, Grand Duke of Russia
1923
box 2, folder 25
Olga Aleksandrovna, Grand Duchess
1927
box 2, folder 27
Orekhov, Vasilii Vasil'evich
1938
box 2, folder 28
Paleolog, Sergei Nikolaevich
1924-1929
box 2, folder 31
Postoronkin, Vladimir Nikitich
1936
box 2, folder 32
Roman Petrovich, Prince
1932
box 2, folder 34
Shinkarenko, N.
1936-1937
box 2, folder 35
Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich
1936
box 2, folder 38
Suvorin, Aleksei Alekseevich
1921-1922 and undated
box 2, folder 39
Suvorin, Mikhail Alekseevich
1922-1929
box 2, folder 40
Svechin, Mikhail Andreevich
1929
box 2, folder 41
Turoverov, Nikolai Nikolaevich
1938-1941
box 3, folder 2
Vera Konstantinovna, Grand Duchess
1941
box 3, folder 3
Vinogradov, Vasilii, Archpriest
1930
box 3, folder 4
Volkova, Mariia
1943-1944.
Scope and Contents note
Includes photograph
box 3, folder 6
Vrangel', Petr Nikolaevich
1926 and undated
Speeches and Writings
1910-1944 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes articles, contracts, correspondence relating to author's writings, reviews in different languages, arranged according
to original order
box 3, folder 7
Miscellaneous
1922-1934 and undated
box 3, folder 9
"Kto ubival russkikh tsarei,"
1921.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy
box 3, folder 10
Lectures
1936 and undated
box 3, folder 11
"Ob organizatsiiakh,"
1921.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy
box 3, folder 12
Bookstore "Grad Kitezh,"
1922-1923 and undated
box 3, folder 13
Contracts, documents related to publishing houses and bookstores
1921-1923 and undated
box 3, folder 14
Controversy regarding Krasnov's article "Tuda i ottuda,"
1928 and undated.
box 3, folder 15
General
1923-1943 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters, newspaper clipping
box 3, folder 16
Amazonka pustyni
1932-1939 and undated
box 3, folder 17
Belaia svitka
1928-1944 and undated
box 3, folder 19
Domoi
1936-1943 and undated
box 3, folder 21
Edinaia nedelimaia
1925-1940 and undated
box 3, folder 22
Ekaterina Velikaia
1935-1941 and undated
box 3, folder 23
Istoricheskie ocherki Dona
1944
box 3, folder 25
Largo
1931-1943 and undated
box 3, folder 26
Lozh'
1939-1942 and undated
box 3, folder 27
Mantyk
1935-1939 and undated
box 3, folder 28
Na rubezhe Kitaia
1938-1939 and undated
box 3, folder 30
Nenavist'
1934-1935 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence relating to literary award
box 3, folder 31
Opavshie list'ia
1923-1924
box 4, folder 1
Ot dvuglavogo orla k krasnomu znameni
1923-1943 and undated
box 4, folder 3
Podvig
1932 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes letter from Patriarch Varnava (Rusich)
box 4, folder 4
Poniat'-Prostit'
1924-1943 and undated
box 4, folder 6
S kazakami i kavkazkimi gotsami
1943
box 4, folder 7
S nami Bog
1927 and undated
box 4, folder 8
Tsareubiitsy
1938-1943 and undated
box 4, folder 9
Tsesarevna
1933-1934 and undated
box 4, folder 10
Venok na mogilu neizvestnomu soldatu
1928
box 4, folder 11
Vse prokhodit
1926-1931 and undated
box 4, folder 12
Vsevelikoe voisko donskoe
undated
box 4, folder 13
Vypash
1931-1943 and undated
box 4, folder 14
Za chertopolokhom
1922-1923 and undated
Reviews
1910-1944 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes reviews in Dutch, English, French and German
box 4, folder 16
Amazonka pustyni
1922-1925
box 4, folder 17
Arkhiv russkoi revoliutsii
1921-1922 and undated
box 4, folder 18
Belaia svitka
1928-1930 and undated
box 4, folder 20
Dusha armii
1927-1940 and undated
box 4, folder 21
Edinaia-nedelimaia
1925-1926 and undated
box 4, folder 22
Ekaterina Velikaia
1937-1940 and undated
box 5, folder 1
Kartiny bylogo tikhogo dona
1910
box 5, folder 5
Na rubezhe Kitaia
1939 and undated
box 5, folder 7
Nenavist'
1934-1939 and undated
box 5, folder 8
Opavshie list'ia
1923-1929
box 5, folder 9
Ot dvuglavogo orla k krasnomu znameni
1921-1939 and undated
box 5, folder 11
Poniat'-prostit'
1924-1929 and undated
box 5, folder 12
S Ermakom na sibir'
1930 and undated
box 5, folder 15
Tsareubiitsy
1938-1940 and undated
box 5, folder 16
Tsesarevna
1933 and undated
box 5, folder 17
V Manchzhurskoi glushi
undated
box 5, folder 18
Vse prokhodit
1925-1927 and undated
Don Cossack File
1917-1935 and undated.
Scope and Contents note
Official documents, correspondence, reports and publications of the Don Cossacks, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 5, folder 21
Don Cossacks in France.
Scope and Contents note
Includes materials on the elections of a new Don Cossack ataman, 1935 and undated
box 5, folder 22
Kazachii soiuz v Amerike.
Scope and Contents note
Includes lists of members, minutes of meetings, statutes, 1934 and undated
box 5, folder 23
Obshchestvo revnitelei donskoi istorii i pravdy
1921
box 5, folder 24
Official publication of the Vsevelikoe voisko donskoe, title page missing.
Scope and Contents note
Includes decisions made by the 4th gathering dedicated to education, 1918. Printed copy
box 5, folder 25
Reports No. 361 and 372, signed by Major General Krasnov
1917
box 5, folder 26
Sbornik uzakonenii i rasporiazhenii
1918.
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 5, folder 27
Shurashov, Ivan, "VI-mu eparkhial'nomu s"ezdu, Donskoi staroobriadcheskoi eparkhii. Doklad,"
1918.
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
Printed Matter
1929-1931.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper and pamphlets, signed and dedicated to P. N. Krasnov
box 5, folder 28
Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr, "Literatura v izgnanii," 1929, and "Una letteratura in esilio,"
1930.
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies. Dedicated to Petr N. Krasnov and signed by author
box 5, folder 29
Sibirskii kazak
1931.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper signed by A. G. Gryzov, dedicated to Petr N. Krasnov
box 5, folder 30
Photographs
1922-1973.
Scope and Contents note
Twenty-six prints of Don Cossacks in the diaspora; includes one print of Viacheslav Ivanovich Volkov, signed on reverse by
his daughter, and eight prints from a Cossack in Paraguay
