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Title: Gretchen Haskin writings
Date (inclusive): undated
Collection Number: 92040
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Study, entitled "Rescuing the Czar," relating to the publication in 1920 of a fabricated account by William Rutledge McGarry
and Georgii Sergeevich Romanovskii, purporting to describe the secret rescue of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from captivity;
and study, entitled "Cause Celebre," relating to the desertion in 1919 of Private Anton Karachun from the American Expeditionary
Forces in Siberia and his subsequent court-martial.
Creator:
Haskin, Gretchen
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; 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 1992.
[Identification of item], Gretchen Haskin writings, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
American writer.
Scope and Content of Collection
Study, entitled "Rescuing the Czar," relating to the publication in 1920 of a fabricated account by William Rutledge McGarry
and Georgii Sergeevich Romanovskii, purporting to describe the secret rescue of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from captivity;
and study, entitled "Cause Celebre," relating to the desertion in 1919 of Private Anton Karachun from the American Expeditionary
Forces in Siberia and his subsequent court-martial.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Fiction
Literary forgeries and mystifications
Desertion, Military -- United States
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
Romanov, House of
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, II, 1868-1918
McGarry, William Rutledge, 1872-1942
Romanovskiĭ, Georgiĭ Sergeevich, 1883-1933
Karachun, Anton