Overview of the Gretchen Haskin writings

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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

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1992.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Gretchen Haskin writings, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

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

 

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