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Title: Ol'ga Tissarevskaia papers
Date (inclusive): 1895-1980
Collection Number: 2000C111
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
1 microfilm reel
(0.15 linear feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, personal documents, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian émigré affairs.
Creator:
Tissarevskaia, Olga, 1895-
Collection is open for research.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Ol'ga Tissarevskaia Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.
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.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Olga Tissarevskaia was born Ol'ga Petrovna Krasnova on 28 September 1895 (O.S.) in the village of Bogdanovka, near Samara,
Russia. In 1921, she emigrated to Poland with her husband, an engineer named Viacheslav Doubrava, and ran a boarding house
until the Second World War. Doubrava died in the mid-1920s, and Olga married a former colonel named Georgii Tissarevskii.
Coming to the United States in 1949, she worked for a brief period as a housekeeper to the Swedish ambassdor to the U.S.,
but through intelligent real estate investments soon achieved financial independence for herself and her already ill husband
(who died in 1965). Living in retirement in Phoenix, Arizona, she gained recognition as a painter (specializing in oil paintings
on silk), and also wrote for the émigré press, particularly Novoe russkoe slovo (where she published accounts of her travels).
She was married again in the 1970s to a Russian named Nikolai Topalov. Her autobiography, Svet i teni moei zhizni, was published
in Buenos Aires in 1973.
| 1895 September 28 (O. S.) | Born, Bogdanovka village, Samarskii uezd, Russia |
| 1918 | Left Russia for Poland |
| 1973 | Author, Svet i teni moei zhizni |
Ol'ga Tissarevskaia was a painter and journalist active in the Russian émigré press; she was noted primarily for her accounts
of travel to exotic locales. The collection includes biographical information, a small number of her writings, including her
memoirs,
Svet i teni moei zhizni, and a large number of photographs (not filmed) of places she visited and people she met, as well as correspondence and miscellany
from her travels.
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 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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Poland.
Russia.
Russians--Poland.
Russians--United States.
United States.