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Title: Michael Blinov collection
Date (inclusive): 1826-1985
Collection Number: 2003C39
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
19 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(8.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, other writings, correspondence, personal documents, bulletins, newsletters, printed matter, and photographs, relating
to Russian military history, especially during World War I and the Russian Civil War, and to Russian émigré affairs. Includes
papers of individual émigrés and records of émigré veterans' organizations.
source:
Blinov, Michael
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Originals closed, microfilm use only. Materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2003.
[Identification of item], Michael Blinov collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
Michael (Mikhail) Blinov received the material in his collection from major émigré organizations in California: the Society
of the Russian Veterans of World War I, Los Angeles, the Society of the Russian Veterans of World War I, Inc. (San Francisco)
and the San Francisco division of the Russian All-Military Union (Russkii obshchevoinskii soiuz - ROVS).
These veterans' organizations, in addition to their organizational records, preserved memoirs, other writings, correspondence,
personal documents, bulletins, newsletters, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian military history, especially
during World War I and the Russian Civil War, and to Russian émigré affairs, created by smaller or subordinate émigré organizations
and individual émigrés. Among those, materials donated by Leonid Krivosheev are of high historical value. He was the director
of the Museum of the Leib-Gvardii Volynskii polk (regiment), and in that capacity he collected materials on the regiment's
history going as far back as the 1860s.
Research files for the "Dom Romanovykh" (House of the Romanovs) reference book are also of extreme interest, because they
contain documents and illustrations relating to the Russian royal family.
A number of memoirs describe episodes and events of World War 1, the 1917 February and October revolutions and Civil War in
Russia. The collection includes illustrations and photographs reflecting the everyday life of Russian troops at Gallipoli
and émigré life in various countries.
The collection is divided into two major groups according to the organizations that collected the documents: the Society of
the Russian Veterans of World War I, Los Angeles and the Society of the Russian Veterans of World War I, Inc. (San Francisco);
and into two smaller groups according to individual collectors. Within these groups the material was arranged following the
original order of the documents.
Vrangel' Collection, 1916-1929, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Mariia Dmitrievna Vrangel' Collection, 1915-1944, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Vooruzhennye Sily na IUgie Rossii. Nachal'nik snabzheniia Records, 1916-1926, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Vooruzhennye Sily na IUgie Rossii. Sudnoe otdielenie. Records, 1918-1927, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Alexandre Georgievich Tarsaidze Papers, 1648-1977, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Russia -- History, Military
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
Blinov, Michael