Register of the Okhrana records

Finding aid prepared by Andrej Kobal and Sally DeBauche
Hoover Institution Archives
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Title: Okhrana records
Date (inclusive): 1883-1917
Collection Number: 26001
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 232 manuscript boxes, 86 card file boxes, 6 oversize boxes (194.6 linear feet)
Abstract: Intelligence reports from agents in the field and the Paris office, dispatches, circulars, headquarters studies, correspondence of revolutionaries, and photographs, relating to activities of Russian revolutionists abroad. Collection is available on microfilm (509 reels). Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Creator: Russia. Departament politsii. Zagranichnaia agentura (Paris)

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Okhrana records, [Index number, Folder number], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1926.

Accruals

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 catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.

Alternate Forms Available

Collection is available on microfilm (509 reels). Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 

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Historical Note

Russian Imperial Secret Police (Okhrana), Paris office.

Scope and Content of Collection

Intelligence reports from agents in the field and the Paris office, dispatches, circulars, headquarters studies, correspondence of revolutionaries, and photographs, relating to activities of Russian revolutionists abroad. Collection is available on microfilm (509 reels).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Russia. Okhrannyi͡a otdi͡elenīi͡a.
Revolutionaries--Russia.
Secret service--Russia.
Socialism--Russia.
Russia--History--Alexander III, 1881-1894.
Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1894-1917.

Boxes 1-3

I. History of the Okhrana

Scope and Contents note

The files of the Okhrana office in Paris don't contain statute books giving the legal provision of the agency or printed materials on its establishment and growth. The Special Corps of Gendarmes publications that comprise part of this file, however, give frequent references to pertinent legislation. The collection of annual Vedomost' and Obzor, large volumes covering the period 1887-1901, while intended for the purpose of briefing Okhrana personnel, present the intelligence service by guberniia and illustrate the history of the Okhrana within the empire. The yearly volumes of the Vedomost' (Reports of the Findings of the Imperial Gendarmerie Concerning Offenses Against the State) cover the period from 1887-1897 (with volumes 1892-1894 bound together with the volumes of the Obzor). The Obzor (Review of Important Findings of the Gendarmerie) covers the years 1892-1901.
Another printed item included under this index is the 1894 Zapiska (a report on the political situation in Poland), which gives Okhrana accounts by guberniia. A short history of the Okhrana abroad is also given in the notes of principal agent Marcel Bittard-Monin, while the small number of documents under this topic serve as a sampling of early operations or as a reference to the laws concerning the service.

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Available on microfilm reels 1-11
 

Vedomost' doznaniam, proizvodishimsia v zhandarmskikh upravleniakh Imperii po gosudarstvennym prestupleniam, 1887-1897

Index I, Folder 1

Volume XII, 1887

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Available on microfilm reel 4
Index I, Folder 2

Volume XIII, 1888

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Index I, Folder 3

Volume XIV, 1889

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Index I, Folder 4

Volume XV, 1890

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Index I, Folder 5

Volume XVI, 1891

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Index I, Folder 6

Volume XVIII, 1894

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Index I, Folder 7

Volume XIX, 1895

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Index I, Folder 8

Volume XX, 1896

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Index I, Folder 9

Volume XXI, 1897

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Obzor vaznieishikh doznanii, proizvodivshikhsia v zhandarmskikh upravleniiakh Imperii, po gosudarstvennym prestupleniiam , 1892-1901

Index I, Folder 10

Volume XVII, 1892-1893

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Index I, Folder 11

Volume XVIII, 1894

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Index I, Folder 12

Volumes XIX-XX, 1895-1896

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Index 1, Folder 13

Volume XXI, 1897

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Index I, Folder 14

Volume XXII-XXIII, 1898-1899

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Scope and Contents note

Includes appended alphabetical list of offenders.
Index I, Folder 15

Volume XXIV, 1900

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Index I, Folder 16

Volume XXV, 1901

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Index I, Folder 17

Memorandum of the French Minister of the Interior to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1887

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Index I, Folder 18

Background information on French Minister Lockroy, 1873

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Index I, Folder 19

Notes of principal non-Russian agent Marcel Bittard-Monin on the history of the Okhrana in Paris

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Index I, Folder 20

News item on a meeting of security chiefs in Petersburg, 1913 July

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Index I, Folder 21

References to the basic law of 1896 on the maintenance of Okhrana personnel. Incoming dispatch, 1904 April 20

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Index I, Folder 22

Incoming and circular letters, 1903, 1914

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Index I, Folder 23

Zapiska. Printed report on the political situation in Poland; Okhrana accounts by guberniias, 1895

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Index I, Folder 24

Reference sheet: See IIc for Obshchii sostav upravlenii i chinov otdel'nago korpusa zhandarmov

Boxes 4-10

II. History of Okhrana abroad

Box 4

a. Paris office

Scope and Contents note

The earliest document in this series is dated 1886, the year after Petr Ivanovich Rachkovskii was sent to Paris as the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (M.V.D.), or several years after his predecessor Petr Vasil'evich Korvin-Krukovskii (Pierre Newsky) was known to have acted in the Okhrana capacity in France.
Only the dispatches concerning the growth and responsibilities of the Okhrana office are included in this series. Of particular significance is Rachkovskii's letter to Fragnan, chief of the Paris police, explaining his position and responsibility as chief of the Okhrana mission in Paris. A short draft on the history of the Paris Office and activities prepared by a member of the 1917 commission which terminated the Okhrana abroad is also included.

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Index IIa, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing Okhrana dispatches concerning the growth, responsibilities, and management of the Paris office, 1886-1915

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Index IIa, Folder 2

Instructions for collecting military intelligence issued to Manasevich-Manuilov, 1905

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Index IIa, Folder 3

English translation of Rachkovskii's letter to Fragnan, Chief of Police of Paris, explaining his position and responsibilities as Okhrana chief in Paris, 1887

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Index IIa, Folder 4

Introductory draft on the history of the Paris Okhrana, written for publication by a member of the revolutionary investigative commission, 1917

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Scope and Contents note

Includes an English translation.
Index IIa, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

 

Reference: See IId for letter of instructions for the reorganization of the Paris Agentura, 1913

Boxes 4-7

b. European and other outposts

 

General

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Available on microfilm reel 11
Index IIb, Folder 1

Outgoing reports #1360 and #1361 on the organization of surveillance according to new principles, 1913

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Available on microfilm reel 11

Scope and Contents note

Includes a list of agents by country.
Index IIb, Folder 2

Notes giving agents' names and spheres of operation by countries and targets, 1913

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Available on microfilm reel 11
Index IIb, Folder 3

Distribution of deep cover agents of military age by countries, 1914 or 1915

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Index IIb, Folder 4

Incoming and outgoing dispatches, 1906-1910

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Index IIb, Folder 5

Reference: See operational card file by countries in XIIIf(4)

 

Austria-Hungary

Scope and Contents note

Proposals were made for the establishment of a separate agentura in Vienna, but no action was taken despite the fact that Russian revolutionaries in Galicia and Trieste (as described in the case of the transfer of large sums of money through a Ljubljana bank) called for some local operations. The only permanent Okhrana agent resident in Vienna was Hans Tuppinger. (See his file in IIIe, Folder 3)
Index IIb, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to operational tasks and placement of agents, 1906-1914

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Balkan Okhranka

Scope and Contents note

The Balkan Okhrana was subject to many changes, first with an office in Romania reporting to Odessa, then changing the seat to Sofia and reporting to the Paris Office. The organization developed into a major network, with operatives in all the Balkan countries and Vienna. The documents contained in this collection cover the period from 1886 to 1906, when the Balkan Okhrana ceased as separate unit.

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Available on microfilm reels 11-12
Index IIb, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing dispatches concerning the Balkan Okhranka (Bucharest and Sofia), 1886-1907

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Available on microfilm reel 11
Index IIb, Folder 2

Operational and intelligence reports by Okhranka chief Vladimir Przhestiak (Tsitovskii) from Bucharest, 1902-1903

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Index IIb, Folder 3

Letters from agent Melas, 1903

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Index IIb, Folder 4

Letters from agent Alfredi in Romania, 1906

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Index IIb, Folder 5

Letter on engaging agents on the Prut river border, 1906

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Index IIb, Folder 6

Names and addreses of four Balkan Okhranka agents

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Index IIb, Folder 7

Cross-reference sheet

 

Germany

Scope and Contents note

Folder 4 contains only a small portion of the archive of the Berlin Agentura, which existed as a completely separate establishment attached to the imperial consulate from 1900 to 1904, under the direction of Arkadii Garting. He reported directly to Headquarters, but copies of all dispatches were also sent to the Paris Office. Upon liquidation, the archives of the Berlin Agentura were transferred to Paris. See particularly the separate sets of Berlin dispatches of the period in the Outgoing and Incoming volumes under XIIIb(1) and XIIIc(1). The dispatches and notes in this collection pertain to the structure and functioning of the Berlin Agentura, the agent problems after its closure, and a note relating to non-Russian agent work in Germany in 1911. For agent activities in Germany from 1905 to 1914, see folders on agents Neuhaus and Woltz in IIIe, Folder 3, and in VIk.

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Available on microfilm reel 12
Index IIb, Folder 1

Dispatches concerning the Berlin Agentura and subsequent Okhrana establishment in Germany, 1900-1910

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Index IIb, Folder 2

Letters written by agents or prospective agents after the closing of the Berlin Agentura, 1905-1907

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Index IIb, Folder 3

Reports from an agent named Hengl, 1906-1907

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Index IIb, Folder 4

Note concerning non-Russian agents' work in Germany, 1911

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Index IIb, Folder 5

Reference: See reports of agents Neuhaus and Woltz from 1901-1905 in VIk

Index IIb, Folder 6

Reference: See Garting's first progress report, September 1/14, 1905, in IIa, Folder 1

 

Italy

Scope and Contents note

A separate agentura responsible to the Paris Office was recommended in a 1909 dispatch. No action was taken, despite major operational tasks along the Italian Riviera, where several of the more prosperous revolutionaries had settled. Instead, the Paris Office had a continuous rotation of networks of surveillance agents in the area and operatives in contact with post offices and the police. In 1914, principal agent Invernizzi established a cover firm for Italian Okhrana agents which was administered as a separate team until the Okhrana's termination. (See also the folder in IIIg for the cover firm in Italy and other folders on Invernizzi in IIIe and VIk.)

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Index IIb, Folder 1

Outgoing dispatch to Headquarters recommending the establishment of an agentura in Italy, 1909

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Index IIb, Folder 2

Intelligence and operational reports submitted to Paris Office by principal agent Invernizzi for his team operating in Italy, 1915

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Scandinavia

Scope and Contents note

A separate agentura was proposed for Scandinavia in 1906 to investigate arms shipments and clandestine routes. The proposal was not accepted. Agent Sambain's missions to Scandinavia developed some intelligence reporting equivalent to that of a permanent outpost. See XIc(1).

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Available on microfilm reel 12
Index IIb, Folder 1

Dispatches recommending agentura establishments in Sweden and Norway, 1906

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Switzerland

Scope and Contents note

Folder 6 contains a small number of documents referring to other European outposts. Two sets of reports from Switzerland reveal that Bogdanov was a resident agent there in 1887 and Dmitriev in 1907-1908, each reporting directly to the Paris Office. Surveillance agents, likewise, were at times resident operatives working closely with local security officers, and at times engaging them as Okhrana agents. See documents on agent Treichler in IIIe, Folder 3.

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Available on microfilm reel 12
Index IIb, Folder 1

Reports from agent Bogdanov to Chief Rachkovskii in Paris, 1887

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Index IIb, Folder 2

Reports from agent Dmitriev, 1907-1908

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Index IIb, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

 

United States

Scope and Contents note

At times, a separate outpost was proposed for the United States, but never successfully. The Paris Office was on record as having no adequate coverage for revolutionaries in North America. There was some correspondence with the consular offices in the United States and reports were received from various Russian exiles. Extensive coverage came only after the dispatch of George Patrick to New York in 1912. (See folder on Patrick "Lucy" in IIIf.) The Investigation Commission of 1917 traced 11 Okhrana secret agents in the United States and Canada, according to a draft memo in this folder.

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Available on microfilm reel 12
Index IIb, Folder 1

Dispatch from Headquarters in St. Petersburg requesting surveillance of revolutionary Govorukhin going to America, 1887

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Index IIb, Folder 2

Okhrana agents in America, a roster compiled by the Investigation Commission, 1917

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Index IIb, Folder 3

Reference: See folder on agent Patrick (Lucy) in IIIf

 

England

Scope and Contents note

The first request of Headquarters to dispatch Paris agents to London came in 1890. Throughout the 1890s, there are records of resident secret agents, both British and Russian, but they were essentially only correspondents. At no time until 1912 did there appear anything like a regular outpost. Intelligence requirements were covered by individually engaged agents and by close liaison with Scotland Yard. When Francis Powell became a principal agent in London, the non-Russian agents came under his supervision, while Captains Dolgov and Litvin served at various times as resident case officers for the Russian secret operatives. During World War I, the Okhrana kept a resident in Newcastle to monitor arriving and departing Russian passengers.
Among the voluminous papers in this collection, Folder 2 contains mostly reports from the 1890s. The names of British people in the service of the Okhrana are in Folder 4. The folders containing agent Powell's dispatches discuss operational problems in London, instructions, monthly statements of accounts, and other materials.

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Available on microfilm reels 12-16
Index IIb, Folder 1

Dispatches on the placement of agents in London, 1890-1915

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Index IIb, Folder 2

Reports from London agents, including Farce, on Burtsev, anarchists, Free Russia, and other early revolutionary groups, 1891-1902

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Index IIb, Folder 3

French translation of news items attacking the Okhrana establishment in London, 1914

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Index IIb, Folder 4

Names of British in the service of the Okhrana, 1914

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Index IIb, Folder 5

Letters from principal agent Francis Powell concerning operational problems in London, 1912

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Index IIb, Folder 6

Letters from Chief Krasil'nikov to case officer Anton Ivanovich Litvin in London, 1915-1916

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Operational and intelligence reports from case officer Litvin in London to Chief Krasil'nikov in Paris

Index IIb, Folder 7

1915 April-September

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Index IIb, Folder 8

1915 October-December

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Index IIb, Folder 9

1916 January-April

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Index IIb, Folder 10

1916 May-November

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Index IIb, Folder 11

Financial statements, expense accounts, and receipts pertaining to operations of case officer Litvin in London, 1914-1917

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London office (Powell and others) monthly statements of accounts, receipts, and bills, 1906-1917

Index IIb, Folder 12

1906-1915 June

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Index IIb, Folder 13

1915 July-December

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Index IIb, Folder 14

1916

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Index IIb, Folder 15

1917

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Index IIb, Folder 16

Receipts of individual British agents, 1910-1914

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Index IIb, Folder 17

Letters of instructions from Bittard-Monin to Powell in London, 1914

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Box 7

c. Official rosters and other publications

Scope and Contents note

The three volumes filed under this index are the only printed reference materials found in the Okhrana files. They include a book on the structure, administration, and ranks of the Corps of Gendarmes, lists of officers associated with the Okhrana abroad, and a book on rail facilities with a chapter on passenger regulations, including provisions on state security.

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Index IIc, Folder 1

Obshchii sostav upravelnii i chinov otdel'nago korpusa zhandarmov , St. Petersburg, 1903 July 20

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Index IIc, Folder 2

Ezhegodnik Ministerstva Inostrannykh Del , 1912

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Index IIc, Folder 3

Ukazatel' zheleznodorozhnykh, parokhodnykh i drugikh passazhirskikh soobshchenii , 1910-1911

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Box 8

d. Reorganization of 1913

Scope and Contents note

The radical reorganization in 1913 of the Okhrana abroad affected mostly non-Russian agent networks. Revolutionary counterintelligence under Burtsev was never in a position to expose the identities of Russian secret agents more than one at a time, since these agents operated alone and unknown to each other. Non-Russian agents, however, usually worked in teams, so each one often knew his colleagues. Thus, when any non-Russian agent went "sour," there was the immediate danger he would betray Okhrana agents to the revolutionaries. These non-Russian agents were predominantly mercenary; some earned money from the revolutionaries after they had lost their income from the Okhrana.
In 1913 Burtsev's office was able to furnish releases to the Paris press listing the names and affiliations of most of the Okhrana's non-Russian agents. Propaganda against the Okhrana abroad led to parliamentary interpellations and general public condemnation of the "ruthless tsarist police" in France, England, Italy, and elsewhere. The Okhrana was forced to reorganize. It made public announcements of complete dissolution and went through the motions of dismissing all non-Russian agents, whether exposed to the public or not.
In the meantime, however, the Okhrana set up a cover firm in France to absorb the better operatives and set up agents in Italy, England, and elsewhere on a different, more secure administrative footing. The dispatches in this collection contain some exhaustive analysis of the operational problems as interpreted by the Paris Chief Krasil'nikov and comments received from all top officials at Headquarters.

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Index IId, Folder 1

Dispatch from Headquarters discussing problems prior to reorganization, 1913 September

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Index IId, Folder 2

Memorandum from Chief Beletskii at Headquarters stating the difficulties of the Paris Okhrana and the need for changes, 1913 September 27

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Index IId, Folder 3

Telegrams and other notes regarding trips and meetings to discuss the reorganization, 1913 September-October

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Index IId, Folder 4

Krasil'nikov's analysis of Paris Office investigation units; basis of proposed reorganization, 1913 September 9

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Index IId, Folder 5

Outgoing dispatches to Headquarters on the proposed structure of the reorganized agentura abroad, 1913 August

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Index IId, Folder 6

Dispatch from Broetskii with recommendations for a cover firm to replace the direct contracting of investigation agents, 1913 September 18

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Index IId, Folder 7

Letter of instructions from Headquarters on the reorganization, 1913 December 31

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Index IId, Folder 8

Statement signed by twenty Headquarters officials informed about the change in addressing communications to the Paris Okhrana, 1913 October 23

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Index IId, Folder 9

Incoming and outgoing communications pertaining to the reorganization and final accounting, 1913 September - 1914 February

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Index IId, Folder 10

Dispatch from Beletskii on changes required in the agentura's investigation structure, 1913 November 23

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Index IId, Folder 11

Letter from agent Henri Durin in response to Sushkov's inquiries regarding dismissal and subsequent rehiring of French agents, 1913 November 17

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Index IId, Folder 12

Reference: See Broetskii's memorandum of October 1913 for estimates of the budget of the reorganized investigation units in IVa

Boxes 8-9

e. Wartime Okhrana

Scope and Contents note

As noted in many dispatches, Okhrana activities were limited to collecting information on subversives at home and abroad, with a prohibition on collecting military intelligence. When World War I broke out, however, the Okhrana's interests were spontaneously directed to counterespionage against Germany and Austria and soon after to gathering political, economic, sociological, and military information on the Central Powers. When Allied intelligence was centralized in Paris, the Okhrana office there became one of its sources of information, with the Russian military mission in Paris as the channel of communication.
The original purpose of the Okhrana was neglected during the war due to a lack of personnel and the loss of many communication lines. Many of the non-Russian agents were drafted into Allied military service and all contacts with the experienced detectives in Berlin (Neuhaus) and Vienna (Tuppinger) were terminated. Some of the Russian secret agents were exempted from military service, but they, too, had to be spared for intelligence in connection with the war effort.
Like many other government and Allied agencies, the Okhrana moved to Bordeaux after the threat of German advance into Paris. Only a skeleton crew with a few files was left at rue de Grenelle. Krasil'nikov's dispatch to Headquarters stated that his office would be at Bordeaux, with outposts remaining in Paris, London, and Bern.
Of particular interest are Headquarters circulars on the threat of internal revolutions and instructions regarding the Okhrana in wartime. Several issues on account of the war are covered, including positive intelligence tasks and running agents into Germany from Switzerland, the work of the revolutionaries for Germany, and the attempted mutiny of the SS Askold in Toulon.

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Index IIe, Folder 1

Headquarters circulars on the internal revolutionary threat in Russia during wartime, 1914-1915

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Index IIe, Folder 2

Headquarters circulars on reorganization and changes in the Okhrana during wartime, 1914-1916

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Index IIe, Folder 3

Headquarters circulars on subversive groups (Jewish Bund, Social Democrats, etc.) and on individual revolutionary activities in wartime, 1914-1916

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Index IIe, Folder 5

Outgoing report from Krasil'nikov to Petersburg re: wartime reorganization of the Okhrana with headquarters in Bordeaux and outposts in Paris, Bern and London. Assignment of case officers, 1914-1917

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Index IIe, Folder 6

Dispatches and notes in connection with moving the Okhrana office from Paris to Bordeaux and back to Paris; costs, inventory of furnishings, transfer of intelligence records, 1914 August - 1915 March

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Index IIe, Folder 7

Telegrams from Krasil'nikov in Bordeaux, 1914 August-December

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Index IIe, Folder 8

Outgoing dispatches referring to the war and to revolutionaries as targets in time of war, 1914-1917

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Index IIe, Folder 9

Deciphered telegrams concerning personnel needs in time of war, 1914-1917

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Index IIe, Folder 10

Headquarters circulars on the position of agents who are subject to military service, 1914 August-September

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Index IIe, Folder 11

Dispatches and telegrams concerning agents exempt from military duty; operational difficulties due to the removal of agents; transfer of Counselor Iosefovich, 1914-1915

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Index IIe, Folder 12

Names of French agents remaining in the service of the Okhrana, 1914 October

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Index IIe, Folder 13

Communications obliging Okhrana officials for contributions for the war effort, 1914

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Index IIe, Folder 14

Statements of the French Ministry of War on Russian volunteers killed in action, 1915

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Index IIe, Folder 15

Records on individual Russian subjects evading military service, 1915-1916

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Index IIe, Folder 16

Positive intelligence reports from Okhrana agents in Germany, 1915-1916

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General note

See also report on Paris Okhrana agent in Germany, 1916, in VIIc.
Index IIe, Folder 17

Dispatches and reports from agent "Lebuk" (Sanvelov) to the Russian military attaché in Switzerland, 1915-1916

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Index IIe, Folder 18

Wartime reports of agent "Amerikanets" (Popov) concerning political situations, the Balkans, etc. Report on the German Social Democratic Party, 1916

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Index IIe, Folder 19

Investigation reports and notes concerning an attempted mutiny on the Russian cruiser Askold in Toulon harbor, 1916

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General note

See also XXIVk.
Index IIe, Folder 20

Letters from Krasil'nikov to Litvin analyzing his work as chief of the London agentura from 1915-1916; and reports from Litvin, 1915-1916

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Index IIe, Folder 21

Reports from principal agent Francis Powell in London, 1914-1916

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General note

See also folder on Francis Powell in VIk.
Index IIe, Folder 22

Wire informing of the arrest of Henry Bint, principal agent in Switzerland running operations into Germany, 1917

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General note

See also IIIe and VIk.
Index IIe, Folder 23

List and notes on German spies in Switzerland, 1915-1917

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General note

For complete Okhrana lists and records of operation, see VIIIb.
Index IIe, Folder 24

Debriefing report in French by an agent who toured Germany, 1915

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General note

See VIIIc.
Index IIe, Folder 25

Telegram concerning the effort to engage Danish Count Holstein for agent work, 1916

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General note

See VIIIb, Folder 3.
Index IIe, Folder 26

Clippings from French, German, and English newspapers on the crisis in Russia and an anticipated separate peace between Russia and Germany, 1916-1917

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Index IIe, Folder 27

Letter from French Army General Staff concerning Chapirov, 1916

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General note

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Index IIe, Folder 28

Wires concerning the full name of the new director of police, 1915

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Index IIe, Folder 29

Draft and part of report on the anarcho-communist plan to murder the Russian military attaché in America, 1915

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Index IIe, Folder 30

Outgoing dispatch reporting on the disloyalty of the Russian Supply Mission in London with a report from Litvin, 1915

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Index IIe, Folder 31

Wire from Izvolskii concerning the acceptance of Russian émigrés in the Russian army, 1914

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Index IIe, Folder 32

German propaganda article for Russian prisoners of war and copy of Russkii vestnik, no. 26, 1915, 1917

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Index IIe, Folder 33

Dispatch on the pro-German Socialist Congress at The Hague and report on the German Social Democratic Party, 1916

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Index IIe, Folder 34

Reports in French on conferences of Russian nationalities, 1915-1916

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Index IIe, Folder 35

Note to Vissarionov about a resolution to send a unit of the Okhrana abroad, 1916

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Index IIe, Folder 36

Headquarters circular on Malinovskii's activities in Germany, 1916

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Index IIe, Folder 37

Chief Krasil'nikov's notes of instructions to principal agent Bittard-Monin, 1914

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Index IIe, Folder 38

Letters from Bittard-Monin with instructions to his agents, 1914

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Index IIe, Folder 39

Report on ex-Colonel Oberuchev's work for the Germans, 1916

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Index IIe, Folder 40

Report on the placement of an agent in Sweden, 1916

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Index IIe, Folder 41

Various notes on the evacuation of Russian citizens, their return to Russia, etc., 1914

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Index IIe, Folder 42

Report on Russian anarchists in Chicago in the service of the Germans, 1915

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Index IIe, Folder 43

Outgoing dispatches, 1916

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Index IIe, Folder 44

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 9-10

f. Termination of the Okhrana

Scope and Contents note

The Provisional Government of 1917 dispatched a commission to Paris to investigate Okhrana activities soon after the February Revolution. The head of this commission, Evgenii Rapp, and several of its members were revolutionaries that had been surveilled by the Okhrana in Paris. Many of their investigation papers remain with the Okhrana files. The commission's aim, at least during their first months in Paris, was to uncover all Russian secret agents or "provocateurs" engaged to penetrate revolutionary groups.
After the October Revolution, the commission changed its purpose. The notes of its investigations show that the interest turned toward uncovering Okhrana operations against Germany. It may be assumed that this change came on the instructions of the Bolshevik regime, interested in having such materials on hand at Brest-Litovsk.
This series contains the protocols for interrogating Chief Krasil'nikov and important staff agents (case officers) and employees. Some of the materials show Valerian Agafonov's assembly of materials on secret agents, which was later reproduced (in many passages verbatim) in his book Zagranichnaia Okhranka, "Kniga," Petrograd, 1918. Also included in this collection are a series of long memoranda written by Ianishevskii of the Russian Embassy in Rome concerning the Polish movement for independence, which he submitted to the commission for review.

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Index IIf, Folder 1

Blank letterheads of the Ministry of Justice

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Index IIf, Folder 2

Blank letterheads of the Okhrana

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Index IIf, Folder 3

Krasil'nikov's explanatory letter on finances for the Provisional Government, 1917 September 9

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Index IIf, Folder 4

Instructions and rules of the Commission, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 5

Protocol on the transfer of archives and office inventory, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 6

Final accounting of Paris Okhrana expenditures for January-March, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 7

Background report on Evgenii Rapp, chairman of the Commission and letter appointing Rapp, 1910, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 8

Statement on members of the Commission, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 9

Leaflets and bulletins published by the Commission and collaborating revolutionaries, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 10

Protocols of the interrogation of Krasil'nikov, Lustig, Likhovskii, and Mel'nikov, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 11

Letters to the Commission from various émigrés used in the investigation: accusations, self-defense, etc., 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 12

Letters and other papers connected with the investigation of "Valerian," Burtsev's assistant, and his connection with the Okhrana, 1912-1917

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Index IIf, Folder 13

Papers on the investigation of Aaron A. R. Taratuta, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 14

Individual reports of the Commission on the investigation of Okhrana agents Isaak Abramov, Evsei Brontman, Efim Simkov-Brut, Vakman, Demetrashvili, Iakov Zhitomirskii, Aleksei Savinkov, "Kozel Sanvelov," Aleksei Staal, Albert Orlov, and Il'ia Chir'ev, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 15

Statements on other individuals investigated by the Commission, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 16

Commission's compilation of the names of Okhrana agents and their locations, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 17

Draft of the Commission's protocol on agents in America, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 18

Report on the Commission's work in Switzerland, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 19

Letters from Bint to Rapp and Mel'nikov offering his service to the Commission, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 20

Letters to and from the Commission after the closing of the Okhrana, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 21

Memoranda by Ianishevskii on the Polish movement and statement by Girs concerning Ianishevskii at the Russian Embassy in Rome, 1917

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Index IIf, Folder 22

Notation on the numbers of incoming dispatches for 1916 which were missing when the Commission took over, 1917

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General note

Most of these numbers have been located when the files were organized, 1962-1964.
Boxes 10-26

III. Organization and structure

Box 10

a. Policy and functional responsibility

Scope and Contents note

This series documents Headquarters policy concerning the status, official position, and approved activities of the Okhrana establishments abroad. No specific memorandum or order from Headquarters to the chief of the Paris center defines in full the position and authorized activities, but the documents included under this topic give some insight into the structure and workings of the establishment abroad. Until 1909, dispatches from Headquarters were addressed directly to the chief of the Paris Office or to the "Director of the Agentura Abroad" (Zaveduiushchemu zagranichnoi agenturoi). After the downfall of Garting as Paris chief, when the revolutionaries exposed him as a provocateur and he was sentenced by the French court for criminal acts in 1890, Headquarters made it a rule to address official dispatches with the preamble: "To the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, delegated abroad for liaison with local authorities and Russian embassies and consulates." Headquarters did not fully adhere to its own ruling, but demanded that all other Okhrana agencies in Russia use the specifically prescribed title in addressing communications to the Paris Office.
As a matter of policy, Headquarters insisted on designating Okhrana missions abroad as agencies representing not only the M.V.D. of Russia, concerned with subversives threatening terror of the existing law and order, but of all other monarchic or bourgeois countries as well.
Despite this expressed policy of limiting the Okhrana abroad to counter-intelligence against the revolutionaries, its functions spread beyond this pronounced purpose. Thus, before and especially during the Russo-Japanese War, the Okhrana abroad assisted their military counterparts until Headquarters issued a definite order forbidding military intelligence and espionage.
Soon after the outbreak of war, despite the fact that the files contain no instructions to that effect, the Okhrana abroad was soon involved in counter-intelligence and counter-espionage against Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Turkey. It also mounted political and economic intelligence operations against the Central Powers. (See the folder on the wartime Okhrana under Index Number IIe.)
The folder under this heading (IIIa) also contains Headquarters rules on the position of the Okhrana in emergency situations, such as the internal upheavals of 1905 and their aftermath.

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Index IIIa, Folder 1

Incoming dispatches from headquarters containing instructions on policy and functional responsibility of the Paris Okhrana, 1887-1917

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Index IIIa, Folder 2

Orders from Headquarters regarding military intelligence and espionage, 1906-1913

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Index IIIa, Folder 3

Letter from Paris to the Russian Mission in Switzerland on the functional limits of the Okhrana, 1908

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Index IIIa, Folder 4

Incoming dispatches from Garting in Berlin on responsibilities, agent assignments, and funds, 1903

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Index IIIa, Folder 5

Emergency statutes of the Okhrana, 1906

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Index IIIa, Folder 6

Dispatches concerning the proposal from Headquarters to place staff agent Lt. Col. Erhardt in charge of the Paris office, 1911-1912

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Index IIIa, Folder 7

English translations of Rachkovskii's letter to the Chief of Police in Paris explaining his position and responsibilities, 1887

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Index IIIa, Folder 8

Letter of authority for Krasil'nikov in connection with Poincaré's travel to Russia, 1914

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Index IIIa, Folder 9

Andreev's report on the status of the Okhrana abroad after Garting's departure, 1909

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Index IIIa, Folder 10

Positions of officials -- statement of pay, 1913 December

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Index IIIa, Folder 11

Draft of dispatch by Titular Counselor Mel'nikov, 1913

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Index IIIa, Folder 12

Note on incognito arrival of Headquarters Chief "Wolf," 1907

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Index IIIa, Folder 13

Instructions from headquarters requiring separate dispatch for each intelligence or operational item, 1906-1907

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Index IIIa, Folder 14

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 11-12

b. Okhrana chiefs and case officers

Scope and Contents note

Okhrana chiefs in Paris were accorded a permanent tenure of office after the assignment of Petr Ivanovich Rachkovskii in 1885 as the representative of the M.V.D. Petr Korvin-Krukovskii (Pierre Newsky) before him (1883-1885) did not develop an "agentura" but introduced agent operations against subversive elements abroad. Thus, the formal establishment of the Paris Okhrana came only after the arrival of Rachkovskii with instructions to be an overt representative of the M.V.D. The succession of Okhrana chiefs in Paris was as follows: Petr Ivanovich Rachkovskii (January 1885-November 1902); Leonid Aleksandrovich Rataev (November 1902-August 1905); Arkadii Mikhailovich Garting (August 1905-January 1909); Captain Andreev (February-November 1909); and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Krasil'nikov (November 1909-March 1917).
The folders on the officers running the Paris Office are supplemented by separate folders in XIIb containing planning and operational material under the four consecutive chiefs in Paris -- Rachkovskii, Rataev, Garting, and Krasil'nikov.
Materials on all leading case officers are included under this Index number. The case officers, agents in the Paris office who handled deep cover agents abroad, were predominantly gendarme officers whose ranks ranged from Captain to Colonel, with years of Okhrana operations experience in Russia.
While the Paris Office took care of the administrative problems, such as funds and communications, the relations of the Paris Office with case officers was strictly under cover, not known to French Sûreté or Scotland Yard, despite the close liaison frequently maintained with these organizations.
With the exception of Mikhail Barkov, one of the earlier case officers handling agents of the Berlin agentura, the officers were assigned from the very beginning as supervisors of operations and agents. Barkov became a case officer after serving as a secret agent and his charges as case officer were non-Russian agents. Permanent officials of the Paris Office likewise occasionally became case officers, such as Bobrov, Molchanov, Mel'nikov, and Sushkov. Ivan Fedorovich Manasevich-Manuilov, a staff agent assigned by Headquarters for political action in Paris (influencing the press, developing diplomatic contacts, etc.), served at times as a case officer with his own agents, as in the case of acquiring and deciphering the Japanese code in 1905. (See folder in VIIIa.)

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Index IIIb, Folder 1

Two letters by Korvin-Krukovskii, the Paris Okhrana predecessor of Rachkovskii; and dispatches dealing with administrative matters and personal problems of Paris chiefs and staff agents, 1888-1917

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Index IIIb, Folder 2

Papers pertaining to Rachkovskii, Paris Chief from 1885-1902

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General note

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Index IIIb, Folder 3

Dispatch to Garting in Berlin instructing him to see Rataev (Paris Chief from 1902-1905), 1903

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General note

See also XIIb.
Index IIIb, Folder 4

Letter from Garting ("Artek") requesting his conversion from Judaism, 1890

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Index IIIb, Folder 5

Dispatch on the termination of pension and other papers on or by Chief Garting, 1903, 1908

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General note

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Index IIIb, Folder 6

Papers pertaining to Krasil'nikov's position as chief of the Paris Okhrana (from 1910-1917), 1912-1916

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Index IIIb, Folder 7

Dispatches concerning the assignment and responsibilities of staff officials and case officers, 1911

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Index IIIb, Folder 8

Notes and dispatches of Acting Chief Captain Andreev, 1908-1909

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Index IIIb, Folder 9

Letter from case officer Aleksei D. Arbuzov to Krasil'nikov, 1914-1915

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Index IIIb, Folder 10

Mikhail Barkov, case officer, 1894-1912

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Index IIIb, Folder 11

Mikhail Bobrov, temporary case officer, 1914-1917

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Index IIIb, Folder 12

Captain Dolgov, case officer, 1909-1910

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Index IIIb, Folders 13-18

Lt. Col. Erhardt, staff agent in charge of secret agents, 1910-1917

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Index IIIb, Folder 19-20

Lt. Col. von Kotten, staff agent in charge of secret agents, 1910, 1914

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Scope and Contents note

Includes his Okhrana service records from Moscow and medical statement after the attack on his life.
Index IIIb, Folder 21

Captain Likhovskii, 1914-1917

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Index IIIb, Folders 22-23

Captain Anton Ivanovich Litvin, staff agent, case officer for London operations, 1912-1917

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Index IIIb, Folders 24-26

Lt. Col. Lustig, staff agent, 1912-1917

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Index IIIb, Folder 27

Lt. Col. Martynov, staff agent, 1916

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Index IIIb, Folders 28-29

Captain Rek ("S. Repin"), staff officer and deputy to Lt. Colonel Erhardt, 1910

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Index IIIb, Folder 30

Ivan F. Manasevich-Manuilov, staff agent, 1903

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Index IIIb, Folder 31

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 12-13

c. Officials and clerical personnel

Scope and Contents note

Like their chiefs, the employees assigned to the Paris Office by Headquarters usually enjoyed a long, permanent tenure as in the cases of Mel'nikov, Chashnikov, Molchanov, and Bobrov. Each had his specifically assigned duties relative to the official rank of "gubernskii sekretar'" or the equivalent. Permanency of tenure was enhanced by language and area requirements. Long years of service abroad made the officials good linguists, the main qualification for translators of raw reports from non-Russian agents. When an official wanted to marry a foreign national, the spouse had to have a security check, and approval had to be granted by the Okhrana Director in St. Petersburg (as in Mel'nikov's case).
The employees received bonuses for Christmas and other holidays as well as sick pay. They were also awarded medals for long term service or other distinctions. When under suspicion with regard to loyalty, they were placed under watch and surveillance (see folder 14 on Sushkov).

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Index IIIc, Folder 1

Dispatches and other notes related to permanent officials and clerks of the Paris Okhrana office, 1890-1917

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Index IIIc, Folders 2-3

Mikhail Bobrov, secretary, 1910

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Index IIIc, Folder 4

Nikolai N. Chashnikov, for many years clerk, then pensioner of Paris Okhrana, 1909

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Index IIIc, Folder 5

Mariia Fedorova, correspondence clerk, 1910-1914

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Index IIIc, Folder 6

Leontii Gol'shman, clerk, 1916-1917

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Index IIIc, Folder 7

Iu. Iozefovich, in charge of accounts, 1914

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Index IIIc, Folder 8

Georgii Kozhanov, clerk, 1916

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Index IIIc, Folders 9-12

Ivan Semenovich Mel'nikov, in charge of records, 1907-1916

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Index IIIc, Folder 13

Ivan M. Molchanov, administrative officer, 1907-1910

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Index IIIc, Folders 14-17

Boris Sushkov, deputy to the Paris chief, 1908-1914

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Index IIIc, Folders 18-19

Nikolai Volokhovskii, Paris Okhrana secretary, 1914-1917

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Index IIIc, Folder 20

Aleksandr Konstantinov Il'in, registry clerk, 1907, 1910

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Index IIIc, Folder 21

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 13-14

d. Use of diplomatic and other status

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana developed a policy against the use of diplomatic, consular, or military attaché covers for its office personnel or Russian agents abroad. It expressly forbade non-Russian agents from making any allusions to Russian diplomatic missions abroad and permitted them, only in exceptional cases, to admit connection with the Russian special police of the M.V.D.
The documents contained herein pertain mostly to agent and case officer Mikhail Nikolaevich Barkov, operating in Germany under the cover of a consular officer in Berlin. As distinct from the Paris center, the Berlin agentura was housed in the office of the consulate, as set up by Arkadii Garting in 1901. When Garting left in 1905, the Berlin agentura was officially terminated and its files transferred to the Paris center. However, Barkov, Garting's chief deputy in Berlin, remained in the consulate there to continue under that cover as case officer for the non-Russian agents in Germany.
Diplomatic and consular offices were also used as cover for Okhrana operatives in the Balkan countries. (See the folders in IIb on the Balkan Okhranka.) In other countries of Europe, Okhrana operatives found operational support and exchanged information. However, this relationship was not formalized and was dependent mostly upon personal contact between the principals of the Okhrana with the chiefs of the diplomatic and consular missions. (See folders under Index Number Vg.)

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Index IIId, Folder 1

Note on the disposal of the papers of agent Mikhail Nikolaevich Barkov, engaged under consular cover in Berlin

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Index IIId, Folder 2

Barkov's passport, bankbook, police certificate, and photographs

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Index IIId, Folder 3

Barkov's notebooks with addresses of his subordinate and cooperating agents, official and other contacts in Germany and Denmark, and the names and locations of revolutionaries

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Index IIId, Folder 4

Letters, telegrams, and notes from agent Barkov's folder re: personal affairs and intelligence matters, 1889-1909

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Index IIId, Folder 5

Letters containing operational and intelligence information, mostly from Barkov in Berlin to Garting in Paris, 1906-1908

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Index IIId, Folder 6

Letters from agent Barkov, undated

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Index IIId, Folder 7

French and German newspaper clippings, kept by agent Barkov, on Russian espionage in Germany, and on terrorists, 1904-1907

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Index IIId, Folder 8

Receipts, 1904-1908

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Index IIId, Folder 9

Reference: See also file Vg, "Relations with missions abroad"

Boxes 14-20

e. Investigation agents and teams - French and other European

Scope and Contents note

The collection of non-Russian agent rosters compiled under No. 1 of this index ranges from 1905, when Chief Garting greatly expanded the use of French and other Western detectives for investigation work, to 1913, when all non-Russian agents were publicly dismissed. Most of the rosters were maintained by the Okhrana's principal non-Russian agent in Paris, Marcel Bittard-Monin. His rosters and lists were compiled for bookkeeping purposes and also as operational guides. Some rosters contain agent groups by areas, others by target or investigation as assigned. Much of this roster compilation entailed notations on changes of operational schemes: an agent assigned one week with a team in the Italian Riviera may be sent the following week to track a terrorist in Germany and the next week to protect a high dignitary. Thus, the rosters with all the entered notations were subject to constant amendments, and an overall review of the Okhrana's agent teams can be possible only by the study of the rosters through the entire period covered.
The long list of folders on individual non-Russian agents, collected under No. 3 of this index, represents the bulk of this group of documents. 122 dossiers are arranged in alphabetical order; records may contain one note on the agent or a hundred. This collection of agent dossiers was started by Marcel Bittard-Monin in his office at Rue Chomel in Paris. His original folders on subordinate agents have been retained; each contains the uniform table of information on the first page of the dossier's hard cover, giving the agent's full name, origin, age, background, record of service, and decorations. The contents of each dossier also include, where available, papers on the agent's recruitment, evaluation, effectiveness, security breaches, promotion, dismissal, pension, etc. (Records of actual agent accomplishments, problems in handling him, and intelligence reports may also be found under VId, VIj, or VIk.)
Bittard-Monin's folders in this collection and the folders containing instructions to subordinate agents constitute another significant section under this topic (IIIe). Folder 8 contains Monin's intelligence and operational communications concerning a major investigation in Italy in 1911, while Folder 9 holds Monin's instructions from his Paris office to 53 subordinate agents and team leaders in all parts of France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and England, all of them subject to frequent change of locale and even country.
Some of the folders give specific information on the method of assigning investigation teams in the south of France, Switzerland, or northern Italy; others show the distribution and placement of agents on tasks insuring proper security for traveling imperial personages. Where the agent was completely stationary, as in the case of Treichler, a Swiss police official (see Folder 15), the operational and intelligence documents likewise reveal their methods.
Long-term non-Russian agents sent on investigation and surveillance jobs were given a simple cipher for encoding and decoding messages. This was in addition to instructions on code words and "double talk" terms used for sensitive passages in telegrams and written messages. (A card with the printed cipher is in Folder 10. For samples of various ways of encoding messages, see the reports of non-Russian agents under VIj and VIk.) Records indicate that Bittard-Monin enjoyed a high degree of confidence on the part of his employer, Paris Okhrana Chief Krasil'nikov. Folder 21 contains Monin's communications to him, while Krasil'nikov's notes and directives to Monin may be found in XIIb.

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Rosters of non-Russian agents: investigators, detectives, and surveillance personnel engaged by the Okhrana abroad, 1905-1913

Index IIIe, Folder 1a

Rosters giving the names of agents, their pay, and their expenses when Garting took over as Chief of the Paris Okhrana, 1905-1906

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Index IIIe, Folder 1b

Names and addresses of the principal investigation agents, 1910

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Index IIIe, Folder 1c

Book listing the agents who were directed by Marcel Bittard-Monin, 1910

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Index IIIe, Folder 1d

Book of agents, surnames only, 1912

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Index IIIe, Folder 1e

Lists of names and locations of agents with their targets and pay, 1910

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Index IIIe, Folder 1f

Book of names and addresses of the agents, 1913

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Index IIIe, Folder 1g

Book of agents with a two page background on each, 1913

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Index IIIe, Folder 2

Réglements généraux. 5 folios of detailed monthly accounting on the money received from Krasil'nikov; includes signatures of agents for money received, 1913

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Agent dossiers, 1887-1914

Index IIIe, Folder 3

Aebersold-Berthold

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Scope and Contents note

Contains dossiers on Jean Aebersold, Aubert, Auby, Bades, Barlet, Aime Barthes, Bauer, and Armand Berthold.
Index IIIe, Folder 3

Bittard-Couvrat

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Scope and Contents note

Contains dossiers on Marcel Bittard-Monin, Bocquet, Marius Boniol, Pierre Bouteillier, Charles de Breyne, Alfred Brunner, Charlotte Bullier, Luigi Capusso, E. Caumeau, Rene Cazayus, Charles Charlet, Coquelin, Raoul Corrot, Cotta, and Couvrat.
Index IIIe, Folder 3

David-Fontaine

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Contains dossiers on Etienne David, Deguerre, Dejour, Charles Delangle, Emile Demaille, Jules Decluseaux, Desvernine, Alexandre Ditchescoulo, Auguste Dore, Berthe Drouchot, Dupont, Durafour, Robert Durand, Henri Durin, Gabriel Dussaussois, E. Farce, J. Fehrenbach, Fernand Feuger, Fleury, and Madame Fontaine (Dedienne).
Index IIIe, Folder 3

Fontana-Hébrais

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Contains dossiers on Jean Louis Fontana, Arturo Frumento, Gaudinot, Georges, Luigi Giani, Georges Franéois Godard, René Gottlieb, Groussot, Paul Hamard, Halphen, Jules Hansen, and Hébrais.
Index IIIe, Folder 3

Hennequin-Lavallée

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Contains dossiers on Edmond Hennequin, W. Henninger, Charles Henry, Eugéne Invernizzi, Jacquet, Oscar Jaton, Georges and Raoul Jollivet, Robert Kaspar, Alexander Kerr, Lacoste, Laizier, Bernard Laurent, and Pierre Lavallée.
Index IIIe, Folder 3

Leblanc-Leroy

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Contains dossiers on Nicholas Leblanc, Eugéne Lecointe, A. Legrand, Lemand, Georges Léon, Francesco Leone, and Maurice Leroy.
Index IIIe, Folder 3

Leuthold-Richard

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Contains dossiers on A. Leuthold, Eugéne Lévęque, Alexandre Lodie, Léon Magadieu, Heinrich Neuhaus, Léon Otte, Henri Ozanne, Francesco Pavesi, Pernet, J.P. Pertinac, Petry, August Pouchot, Francis Powell, Powells, Preneron, Raphael, L. Raymond, Ernest Riant, and Gabrielle Richard.
Index IIIe, Folder 3

Rime-Woltz

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Scope and Contents note

Contains dossiers on Georges Rime, Robert Riot, Jean Robail, Adolphe Roselli, Anatole Rougeaux, Rubrick, Albert Sambain, Alphonse Sauvard, Edouard Marius Schmidelin, Sérose, Strasen (Thomsen), Ernest Tarissan, Paul Tellier, René Thomas, Michael Thompson, Michael Thorpe, Mme. Tiercelin, Treichler, Hans Tuppinger, Vincenzo Vizzardelli, Maurice Vogt, and Karl Woltz.
Index IIIe, Folder 4

Headquarters circulars relating to foreign and investigation agents, 1914

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Index IIIe, Folder 5

Paris Okhrana circulars to agents regarding their status, cover, salaries, etc., 1910-1912

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Index IIIe, Folder 6

Dispatches on the assignment of non-Russian agents, the defection of Leroy, difficulties of investigation, and proposed changes, 1910-1913

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Index IIIe, Folder 7

Letters and telegrams of instruction from Chief Krasil'nikov to Bittard-Monin, 1911

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Index IIIe, Folder 8

Marcel Bittard-Monin, in charge of the Okhrana's non-Russian agents; communications of a special team of agents dispatched to Italy in August 1911 for a major investigation task on the Socialist Revolutionaries, 1911

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Index IIIe, Folder 9

Collected instructions from Bittard-Monin's office in Paris to his subordinate agents, 1912

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Includes instructions to Jean Aebersold, Barlet, Aime Barthes, Armand Berthold, Henry Bint,Marius Boniol, Pierre Bouteillier, Buckland, Rene Cazayus, Charles Charlet, Etienne David, Charles Delangle, Berthe Drouchot, Henri Durin, Gabriel Dussaussois, E. Farce, Fernand Feuger, Fleury, Jean Louis Fontana, Arturo Frumento, Gottlieb-Godard team, Paul Hamard-Fontaine, Edmond Hennequin, Charles Henry, Eugéne Invernizzi, Oscar Jaton, Georges Jollivet, Mme. Langbard, Bernard Laurent, Georges Léon, A. Leuthold, Eugéne Lévęque, Alexandre Lodie, Heinrich Neuhaus, Léon Otte, Palfrene, August Pouchot, Francis Powell, Preneron, Gabrielle Richard, C. Rigault, Georges Rime (Coussonnet), Robert Riot, Adolphe Roselli, Anatole Rougeaux, Albert Sambain, Alphonse Sauvard, Michael Thorpe, Mme. Tiercelin, Treichler, Hans Tuppinger, Vincenzo Vizzardelli, Maurice Vogt, and Karl Woltz.
Index IIIe, Folder 10

Formal assignment of investigation teams along the Italian Riviera, 1911

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Index IIIe, Folder 11

Reports from Bittard-Monin's special team sent to investigate Burtsev's journey to and activities in Italy, 1912 November

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Index IIIe, Folder 12

Monthly accounts of the cover agency directed by agent Eugene Invernizzi in Italy, 1915-1917

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Index IIIe, Folder 13

Instructions from Bittard-Monin to agent Invernizzi concerning the establishment of a private bureau serving the Okhrana in Italy; termination of the service in Rome, 1914-1915

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Index IIIe, Folder 14

Reports and accounts of the investigation agency for Invernizzi's team in Italy, 1913-1915

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Index IIIe, Folder 15

Operational and intelligence reports from Swiss police officer William Treichler's team in Switzerland, 1911-1914

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Index IIIe, Folder 16

Reports on the organization of surveillance on the occasion of the Tsar's visit to Berlin, 1913

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General note

For similar organization of teams, see XVd.
Index IIIe, Folder 17

Reports and letters of Maurice Vogt and his team in southern France, 1911-1913

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Index IIIe, Folder 18

Cipher given to investigation agents for communications, 1912-1913

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Index IIIe, Folder 19

Notes concerning Bittard-Monin's accounts with the banks, 1910-1911

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Index IIIe, Folder 20

Copies of telegrams sent by Bittard-Monin to Chief Krasil'nikov, 1910-1911

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Index IIIe, Folder 21

Notes and drafts of communications by Bittard-Monin, 1910-1913

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Index IIIe, Folder 22

Cross-reference sheet

Index IIIe, Folder 23

Reference: See Bittard-Monin's manuscript, "La Confédération générale du travail," 1914, in XVIIs

Index IIIe, Folder 24

Reference: For reports from Charlotte Bullier and Burtsev's letters to her, see XVIId

Boxes 21-25

f. Deep cover agents

Scope and Contents note

Folder 1 of this series contains abstracts on 215 Okhrana deep cover agents. This version in English was prepared in 1962, before the files were organized, and is therefore incomplete, useful only as a guide for further study on Russian agents operating in Europe. As part of this compilation in English, Folder 38 contains some 550 index cards, kept in a 3" x 5" file. These cards are not for reference purposes to other folders, but handy for identification. In alphabetical order according to all true and assumed names, each card gives the equivalent name or names used by the agent, by the Okhrana for cover or security purposes, or by the revolutionaries among whom the agent operated.
Folder 5 contains abstracts, with information on the Okhrana's secret agents, prepared by Valerian Agafonov, member of the Investigation Commission sent to Paris in 1917 by the Provisional Government. It is sketchy, but of significance, since it served as a basis for Agafonov's book, Zagranichnaia Okhranka, published in St. Petersburg in 1918.
Folders 9 through 36 contain, in alphabetical order, documents on 139 secret agents, assigned abroad by Headquarters or by provincial Okhrana offices in Russia, with or without the approval of Headquarters ?i.e., all Russian agents for whose operations abroad the Paris center or its staff agents were administratively responsible. Pertinent papers on many of these agents are missing. Some records contain only a name, code name, or alias or some reference to operational communications. It is possible that many of these records were removed by Agafonov or other members of the 1917 Commission for personal or official uses.
A number of papers pertaining to this group of agents are also located under Index Numbers XIa and Xlb, which contain documents on double agents and penetration agents. In a sense, the great majority of the Okhrana's secret operatives were penetration agents. The criterion for engaging them was usually their ability to attain and keep access to revolutionary groups. Unless the individual had good prospects to join the revolutionaries and work with them, he was not considered for employment.

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Typed abstracts in English on 215 deep cover agents (sekretnie sotrudniki)

Index IIIf, Folder 1a

A-K

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Index IIIf, Folder 1b

L-Z

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Index IIIf, Folders 2a-2b

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Four alphabetical lists of secret agents

Index IIIf, Folder 3a

a. Alphabetical by pseudonyms and true names only

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Index IIIf, Folder 3b

b. Names and identifying data (Investigation Commission worksheet), 1917

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Index IIIf, Folder 3c

c. Galley proof of the above list

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Index IIIf, Folder 3d

d. Agent code names and abbreviations for messages

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Index IIIf, Folder 4

Photographs of secret agents

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Index IIIf, Folder 5

Typed abstracts on 49 secret agents, 1917

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Scope and Contents note

Apparently by Agafonov in 1917, since all these texts appeared verbatim in his book Zagranichnaia Okhranka, 1918.
Index IIIf, Folder 6

Worksheets on the assignment of secret agents, 1914

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Index IIIf, Folder 7

Dispatches regarding the exemption of secret agents from military service, 1908, 1915

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Index IIIf, Folder 8

Dispatches concerning secret agents, referring to two or more persons, on general matters, 1902-1915

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Deep cover agents by name

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Includes dispatches, correspondence, intelligence reports, telegrams, photographs, Headquarters circulars, notes, and clippings.
Index IIIf, Folder 9

Abramov, code name "Maksim," pseudonym "Krivtsov," 1894

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Index IIIf, Folder 9

Abramov, Isaak Leontievich, pseudonym "Germain" or "Zhermen," "Isaev," "Charpentier," 1907-1917

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Includes 3 case reports about him and 60 intelligence reports by him.
Index IIIf, Folder 9

Acket, A. G., 1906

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Index IIIf, Folder 9

Albaum (also Elbaum), Kalman Khaimov, code name "Corpulent," 1910-1912

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Index IIIf, Folder 9

Alberti, Genrikh Genrikhov, 1909

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Index IIIf, Folder 9

"Alfredi," true name not established, 1905

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Index IIIf, Folder 9

Ankerman, Wulf Zalmanov, code names "Belii" and "Fayvel-Tokar'," 1909-1910

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

Baikovskii, Nikolai, code name "Guichon," 1915

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

Barkov, Mikhail, 1909

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

Beitner, Lev Dmitriev, aliases "Levushka," "Moskvich," "Kraftov," and "Kyung," 1903

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

"Belov," code name only

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

"Belozerskaia," code name only

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

"Blits, Aleksandr," code name only

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

Blokhin, Vasilii Grigorievich, pseudonym "Bartenev," code name "Eniseiskii," revolutionary alias "Sibiriak," 1912

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

Blum (Bloom), code names "Rakhmetov" and "Lomov"

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

Briandinskii, Matvei, pseudonyms "Krapotkin," "Viatkin" and "O. duPerrier," 1912

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Brodski, Boleslaw, 1910

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

Brontman, E. Gershkovich, code names "Niel," "Permiak," "Khitrii," and aliases "Naum," "Tovarishch Sasha," "Aleksandr Etr," 1911-1916

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Index IIIf, Folder 10

Brzozowski, Stanislaw Valentevich, code names "Maevski" and "Poniatovski," 1909-1913

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Index IIIf, Folder 11

Chinekova, Khaia, 1909

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Chizhikov, Boris (Berko), code name "Iost," pseudonym "Neudorf," 1902-1909

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Cielecki, Alexandre, 1916

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Demetrashvili, Andrei Gavrilovich, code names "Skoss," "Maloross," and "Ross," 1913-1915

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Dlikman (Glikman), Movsha Mordkov, code name "Ballet," 1907-1912

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Index IIIf, Folder 12

Dobroskokov, 1909

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Dolin, Ventsion Moiseev-Moshkov, code names "Lenin," "Aleksandrov," "Sharl'," "Polonski," passport names Heichsberg and Eisenberg, 1909

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Scope and Contents note

Includes notes and reports on his work abroad and in Russia as a double agent for the Germans.
Index IIIf, Folder 13

Dorozhko, Fedor, code names "Moliere" and "Clermont," 1907-1909

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Drezner, Ilia

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Index IIIf, Folder 14

Edelstein, Vladimir Iudov, pseudonym "Troitsin," 1915

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Erofeev, Leonid Mikhailov, code name "Falstaff," 1913-1915

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Eropkina, Matrena Trofimova (mistress of agent Brontman), 1914

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Evalenko, Aleksandr Martov, code names "Surin" and "Sergeev," pseudonyms "Ivanchenko" and "Kuznetsov," 1894-1911

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Scope and Contents note

Includes intelligence reports from New York.
Index IIIf, Folder 15

"Fedorov," true name not recorded, 1909

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Index IIIf, Folder 15

Feldman, record of name only, 1911

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Index IIIf, Folder 15

Finkelman, Leiba Peisakhov, pseudonyms "Lerner Pinkhas" and "Rakovskii"

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Fleishman, Abram Simon, code name "Alma," pseudonym "Luchinetskii," 1911

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Index IIIf, Folder 15

Fudim, code names "Plemianik" and "Anri," 1905

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Index IIIf, Folder 16

Germand, Isaak Naumovich, code names "Adolf" and "Kosmopolit," pseudonym "Orlovskii," 1913

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Index IIIf, Folder 16

Ginsberg, Pavel, code name "Valerian," 1913

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Index IIIf, Folder 17

Goldendakh, Evgenii Iulievich, code name "Das," pseudonym "Poznanskii," 1910

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Index IIIf, Folder 17

Goncharov, Iakov Dementiev, code name "Ivanenko," 1911

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Index IIIf, Folder 17

Grunbaum, alias "Monser," 1911

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Index IIIf, Folder 18

Gudin, Vasilii Grigorievich, code name "Nei" and pseudonym "N. Chuzhak," 1910

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Index IIIf, Folder 19

Herzig, Boris Iakovlev, pseudonyms "Dmitrii Bekchiev" and "Danchik," 1911

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Index IIIf, Folder 19

"Iris," no true name, 1909

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Jacobson, Georges, code names "Corbeau" ("Korbo") and "Voronov," pseudonym "Mikhnevich," 1912

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Index IIIf, Folder 19

Jenken (Enken, Zhenken): record of name only, 1916

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Joulia (Zhulia), Liubov (Aimee), code name "Jourdain," 1909-1913

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Kagan, Ilia, pseudonym "Nikolai Chekan," code name "Serezh," 1912

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Kaplun, Boris, code name "Petrov," 1906-1907

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Kensitski, Mechislaw, code name "Mietek," pseudonym "Ivanovich," 1908

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Khamchik, Boleslaw Antonov, code names "Molodoi" and "Le Jeune," 1913

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Kheev, code name "Mikhnev," 1906

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Kogan, Boris Veniaminovich, code names "General" and "Aleks," names for correspondence "Demidov" and "Petrov," and pseudonym "Andrey Andersen," 1910-1913

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Kokochinskii, Ignatii Moshkov, code name "Gretchen," alias "Pavel," 1912-1917

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Koraev, A., 1914

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"Kozlov," true name not recorded, 1913

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Kozlov, Vladimir Timofeev, code name "Uiarskii," 1913

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Krevin, Wilhem Ianov, code name "Mars," 1910-1914

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Kuranov, Mikhail, code name "Mont," pseudonyms "Serebriakov" and "Visotskii," 1912-1914

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Kurianskii, Gersh Shliomovich, code names "Karno," Sachkov," and "Maks," passport name "Grigorii Svetlitskii," 1905-1918

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Index IIIf, Folder 24

La Cotta, name for correspondence "G. Biesinski," 1917

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Lauter

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Lebedev, 1910

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Lemerov, 1905-1906

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Lisovskii, Ivan Ivanovich, code names "Belkin," "Levitskii," and "Tsipin," 1908-1913

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Lvov, Fedor, 1907

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Malankiewicz, Boleslaw, code name "Wierzbicki," 1892

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Manasevich-Manuilov, Ivan Fedorovich, 1904

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Mass, Aleksandr, code name "Nikol"

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Mazurenko, 1914

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Melas, Grigorii Anastasievich, 1905

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Meltser, S., 1886-1889

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Metalnikov, Nikolai Ivanoch, code name "Gushchin," 1908-1913

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Milewski, Wladislaw, code name "Agent M.," 1886-1903

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Model, Aaron Iakov Khaimov-Itskov, code name "Martin," 1910-1913

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Nadel, Boris, 1895-1896

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Orekhov

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Orlov, Albert Mikhailovich, code name "Simens," pseudonym "Zuckerman," 1910-1913

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Osadchuk

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Osipov-Veretskii, code name "Bernard," aliases "Ninov" and "Kliachko," 1912-1914

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"Otto," 1907-1908

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Patrick, George, code names "Margot" and "Never" for operations in Europe, and "Lucy" for New York, 1907-1915

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Pauli

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Persitz, Isaak, 1912

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Petrova, Mariia Lvovna, code name "Julieta," 1911

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Pilenas, Peter, code name "Russell," 1911

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Pokhitonov, N. D., 1906

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Popov, Anton Platonovich, code names "Amerikanets" and "Polnii," alias "Timofei," and pseudonym "Daniel Semenov," 1913

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Poznanskii, Leiba (Lev) Amshaev, code name "Kodak," 1912

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Prodeus, Daniil, 1886-1907

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Rabinovich, Georgii Ivanovich, pseudonym "Georgii Romanovich," 1906-1915

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Rapoport, code names "Starkov" and "Zilberman," former agent offering his services from Pittsburgh, 1908

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Rauzen, code name "Lazar," 1909

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Recouly, Raymond, code name "Ratmir"

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Rezeler, August, 1886

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Rodstein, Lazar Z., code name as Burtsev's secretary "Valerian," 1917

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Romanova, Avgusta Matveevna, code name "Shultz," alias "Aushka," 1910

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Rusinov, Mikhail Arkadiev, code names "Prevo" and "Markin," 1910

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Sanvelov, Minas Stepanovich, code names "Lebuk" and "Kozel," 1913-1916

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Savinkov, Aleksei Mikhailovich, code name "Francois," 1913-1917

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Segal, Miron, code name "Vladimirov," 1909

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Selivanov, Nikolai Petrovich, code names "Weber" and "Amurets"

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Shipov, I., 1909

Scope and Contents note

Reports from Germany

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Shneur (Shnour), Vladimir Konstantinovich, 1910-1918

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Shtakelberg, Baron Sergei Aleksandrovich, code name "Pierre," pseudonym "Bronskii," and alias "Petrovskii," 1913-1914

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Shuman, code name "Denisov," 1912

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Shuster, Ianus Erdmanov, code names "Paul" ("Pol") and "Novii," 1910-1917

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Sibiriakov, 1914

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Sotnikov, Matvei, allias "Allard" and "Byvalii," 1910-1918

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Staal (or de Staél), Aleksei Georgievich, code name "Zverev," 1914

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Starov, name for correspondence "Basil Solovev," 1910

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Sugarman, Albert

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Scope and Contents note

Reports on his exposure in London.
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Tannenbaum, Melamed, code name "Naum," 1908

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Tchernycheff (Chernychev), 1911

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"Teatral," 1911

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Ternovskii, pseudonym "Belevich"

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Tomarinson, Mikhail Borisov, code names "Maksakov" and "Mekhanik," 1909

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Tsetlin, Tatiana Maksimova, pseudonym "Maria Tsikhovskaia," 1908

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Usov, Sergei N., code name "Voda," pseudonym "Andrei Savron," 1909-1913

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Vielland

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Vigdorchik, 1909

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Virovoi, Zakhar Ivan, code name "Orlik," 1911-1915

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Voskresenskii, Mikhail, aliases "Mishel'," "Popovich" and "Aleksandr," 1911

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Wackman, Yakov Efimovich, code name "Rossini," 1910

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Walbiner, Franz, pseudonyms "Zharkov" and "Zhenevets," 1910

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"Warszawski," 1910

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Wolf (Vul'f), A.

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Wolfson, Yakov, 1905

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"Yost" ("Iost" and "Tetelman"), 1908

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Yurcha (Iurcha), Vasilii, 1909

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Zagorskaia (or Zagorskii), Mme., code names "Sharzh'," "Sharli" and "Shalnoi," 1912

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Zhitomirskii, Iakov Abramovich, code names "Daudent" ("Dode") and "H," pseudonyms "Rostovtsev" and "Shorin," 1910

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Zinovev, Aleksandr, code names "Senator," "Moris," and "Matisse," passport name "Zolotarenko," 1908-1913

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Index IIIf, Folder 36

Zlobin, pseudonym "Zaks," 1913

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Index IIIf, Folder 37

Papers, mostly receipts, of case officer Litvin and his agents, 1910

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Index IIIf, Folder 38

Operational card index file of agent names, code names, aliases, pseudonyms, etc.

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General note

See card file in box 233 or on reels 494-497.
Index IIIf, Folder 39

Notebook of unidentified agent in Balkans and Italy

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Index IIIf, Folder 40

File of true names, code names, aliases, and pseudonyms

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Index IIIf, Folder 41

Cross-reference sheet

Index IIIf, Folder 42

Reference: For telegram on agent Mikheev, see XIIIb(2), folder 4

Index IIIf, Folder 43

Reference: For the case of agent "Valerian" (Ginsberg) see IIf, folder 12

Index IIIf, Folder 44

Reference: For a collection of reports of agent Kokochinskii ("Gretchen") on Russian and Polish Social Democratic parties, see XIIIa

Index IIIf, Folder 45

Reference: For operational reports of Litvin, chief of the London agentura, handling agents "Niel," "Ney," "Weber," and "Simens," 1915-1916, see IIb, folders 7-10

Index IIIf, Folder 46

Reference: For letters and raw reports in French, Polish, and Russian by agents in London, 1891-1902, see XIIIa

Boxes 25-26

g. Cover firms

Scope and Contents note

Okhrana Headquarters was opposed to the use of private investigation agencies as an aid to its establishments abroad. When the system of handling scores of non-Russian operatives through Bittard-Monin's office in Paris collapsed as a result of exposures made by the revolutionary counter-intelligence (Burtsev), proposals were made to resort to the use of private detective agencies in Paris and other cities. Headquarters still turned down the recommendation. It was inconceivable that detectives of a private agency could perform as effectively as the directly hired agents, controlled through Bittard-Monin's office, for maintaining surveillance, reporting and receiving instructions whenever necessary, and tailing the subversives, at times all the way to the border or into Russia to "deliver" them there to authorities.
When Headquarters finally agreed on the organization of a private agency run by Bint and Sambain, both long-term Okhrana agents, it had the guarantees that the agency would be under absolute control of the Okhrana office in Paris. The act of incorporation and strict adherence to the French laws were measures taken for cover purposes, just as all the preceding acts of publicly dismissing Okhrana investigators were done for the sake of cover and, also, as a convenient opportunity, to dismiss for good the less effective oepratives.
The folders on the establishment of the "Bint and Sambain" agency contain acts of incorporation, accounts, and, by far the most interesting part, the memoranda exchanged on the matter giving opinions of the Paris and Petersburg chiefs, as also some voluminous comments of the MVD.
Another cover firm, of short duration (1910-1911) was the office of the "Police internationale autonome" in Paris. This agency proved to be inadequate and was probably responsible for one of Headquarters' prohibitions against the use of foreign detective agencies. The "Russian Imperial Financial Agency" in London served as cover for agent Palmer in 1906-1909. Agent Germain's proposal to set up a cover firm for intelligence activities in Vienna was probably never acted upon. On the other hand, principal agent Eugene Invernizzi in Italy, still reporting to Bittard-Monin's office in Paris, was delegated to establish a firm in Rome to cover the activities of some six or seven Italian agents working for the Okhrana.

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Index IIIg, Folder 1

Dispatches on the service of Okhrana agent W. Palmer with the Imperial Russian Financial agency in London, 1906-1909

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Index IIIg, Folder 2

Dispatches concerning the order from headquarters to break off with private investigation agencies, 1911

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Index IIIg, Folder 3

Dispatches on the plan for a cover agency in Italy; report of agent "Tourist" (Jollivet); dispatch on Bittard-Monin's tour in Italy, 1914

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Index IIIg, Folder 4

Dispatches regarding Vienna agent Germain's proposal to set up a cover firm for intelligence activities, 1914

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Index IIIg, Folder 5

Dispatch reporting on Krasil'nikov's search for cover firms in Paris; includes his notes on the proposed Bint and Sambain firm, 1913

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Index IIIg, Folders 6-9

Bint and Sambain Firm, 1913-1916

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Scope and Contents note

Includes articles of incorporation.
Index IIIg, Folder 10

"La Police Internationale Autonome" (Marc and Georges Fourny); reports to Bittard-Monin on Russian revolutionaries; newspapers, leaflets, 1910-1911

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Index IIIg, Folder 11

Reference: For Broetskii's memorandum recommending the establishment of a cover firm (1913), see IId, folder 6

Index IIIg, Folder 12

Reference: For operational reports of Invernizzi's investigation agency in Italy (1914-1915), see IIIe, folder 14

Boxes 26-34

IV. Administrative

Boxes 26-28

a. Budget and financial management

Scope and Contents note

Okhrana financing in Paris was handled by the Headquarters directly, without transmittals through the diplomatic or consular mission. The Crédit Lyonnais was the principal banking agency for the transfer of funds. The practice was to submit a monthly account on expenditures, with details on recipients of the salaries and on the expenditures for the Okhrana Office personnel and other needs. Detailed accounts were also customary on non-Russian agents, expenditures for the safe houses, office, and other physical needs, while the accounts for secret agents and secret operations were noted as such, with lump sums designated for case officers accounted for without listing the names or accounting for specific operations. In rare instances, where expenditures on secret agents had to be mentioned, only code names were entered on the accounts. ; The first two folders in this collection contain largely an assortment of dispatches, such as complaints to Headquarters for irregularity in sending funds, requests for increases in appropriations, estimates, and allotments.
Accounts for each month, as well as annually on occasions, were submitted in tabular form, with columns for receipts and detailed disbursement. In Folder 2, the first document is a large tabular of the same accounting for 1914. Systematic monthly accounting was introduced only in 1912. Folders 6 through 15 for the period from 1912 through 1917 are organized separately with sets of final papers, often with accompanying dispatches for Headquarters, in one folder and the various work sheets for each month's accounting in another.

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Index IVa, Folder 1

Dispatches, financial reports, and other materials, 1886-1916

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Scope and Contents note

Includes budget estimates and requests, personnel needs, and per diem allowances.
Index IVa, Folder 2

Budget report, 1914

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Index IVa, Folder 3

Dispatches pertaining to routine budget matters, 1890-1911

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Index IVa, Folder 4

Dispatches pertaining to routine budget matters, 1912-1917

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Index IVa, Folder 5

Drafts of financial reports, 1911

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Index IVa, Folder 6

Drafts of financial reports, 1912

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Index IVa, Folder 7

Monthly accounting, 1912

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Index IVa, Folder 8

Drafts of financial reports, 1913

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Index IVa, Folder 9

Drafts of financial reports, 1914

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Index IVa, Folder 10

Notes and drafts on monthly accounts, 1914

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Index IVa, Folder 11

Monthly financial reports, 1915

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Index IVa, Folder 12

Notes and drafts on monthly accounts, 1915

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Index IVa, Folder 13

Monthly financial accounts, 1916

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Index IVa, Folder 14

Notes and drafts on monthly accounts, 1916

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Index IVa, Folder 15

Notes and drafts on monthly accounts, 1917

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Index IVa, Folder 16

Cross-reference sheet

Index IVa, Folder 17

Reference: See operational card index for references to financial accounting at the Paris Okhrana office

Boxes 28-29

b. Salaries, subsidies, rewards, decorations

Scope and Contents note

Despite frequent complaints from non-Russian agents in the field because of the shortage of funds or delays in salary payments, the Okhrana abroad was habitually prompt in alloting funds for salaries and other expenditures. It was generous with monetary rewards to agents who merited them and in granting pensions to retired personnel and widows of deceased agents. Some of the generosity towards retired personnel might have been attributed to security considerations, to keep content and quiet the agent dismissed from the service. The delays in salaries were often attributed to the fact that the agents were most of the time on assignments that required much travel and changes of residence. Also, they were paid through the principal agent in Paris whose office was occasionally responsible for the delays.
The first folder in this collection contains mostly dispatches relating to all types of payments and awards, thus revealing the policy in general from 1890 until the end of Okhrana operations. Subsequent folders contain various specific matters on salaries, bonuses, casual assistance, and pensions. Folder 6 contains mostly receipts of the staff agents and their financial statements, while Folders 7 and 9 are for receipts, claims, and records of payment for the non-Russian agents. Instructions on the issuance of decorations and gifts are in Folder 8, together with documents on individual awards to agents and employees.

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Index IVb, Folder 1

Correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris office concerning decorations, bonuses, payment of agents, and personal matters, 1890-1916

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Index IVb, Folder 2

Dispatches pertaining to funds transfers, 1910-1914

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Index IVb, Folder 3

Dispatches concerning financial matters of Paris office personnel, 1904-1917

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Index IVb, Folder 4

Accounts and dispatches acknowledging payments of deep cover agents and case officers, 1903

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Index IVb, Folder 5

Dispatches relating to pensions and casual assistance to former agents or their widows, 1895-1916

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Index IVb, Folder 6

Payments and receipts of staff agents Erhardt, Rek and Lustig, 1910-1915

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Index IVb, Folder 7

Dispatches regarding salaries and travel expenses of French and Balkan agents, 1903-1917

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Index IVb, Folder 8

Dispatches regarding gifts and rewards paid to agents and personnel, 1890-1916

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Index IVb, Folder 9

Account and receipt books kept by principal agent Marcel Bittard-Monin for salaries of non-Russian agents, 1909-1912

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General note

For accounts on agents, see also individual files under IIIe, folder 3, and VId.
Index IVb, Folder 10

Cross-reference sheet

Box 30

c. Expense accounts

Scope and Contents note

The first three folders of this collection contain a considerable number of dispatches and accounting sheets. In the absence of any documents with formal instructions on the handling of expense accounts, these papers may best illustrate the procedures in the handling of accounts in overt office matters or contingent to secret operations. Much of these and subsequent materials, as in Folder 4, consist of loose work sheets or slips of paper used in compiling accounts.
Folder 5 with 433 papers arranged by years as indicated in the inventory, is an unassorted, loose collection of stray expense account slips, some undated, some with none or only a few sheets per year, with the collection for 1913 fairly complete in rendering expense accounts with folios and receipts for individual non-Russian agents. Folders 6 and 7 are for papers pertaining to expense accounts of the staff agents, officers Lustig, Likhovskii, Rek, and Erhardt.

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Index IVc, Folder 1

Dispatches and accounting sheets pertaining to office expense accounts, 1911-1917

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Index IVc, Folder 2

Dispatches pertaining to allowances for expense accounts for office staff, 1903-1914

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Index IVc, Folder 3

Dispatches pertaining to allowances for expense accounts of Russian and non-Russian agents, 1906-1915

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Index IVc, Folder 4

Accounting worksheets, 1913

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Index IVc, Folder 5

Agents' expense accounts, 1887-1916

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Index IVc, Folder 6

Dispatches pertaining to expense accounts and per diems for Lustig and Likhovskii, 1908-1915

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Index IVc, Folder 7

Dispatches pertaining to expense accounts and per diems for Rek, Lustig, and Erhardt, 1910-1915

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Index IVc, Folder 8

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 30-33

d. Receipts and check stubs

Scope and Contents note

Folder 1 contains dispatches and memoranda concerning funds received by the Paris Office for agents and special expenses for the period from 1910 to 1916. All other folders are statements for banking transactions, bills of the Paris Office for rent, office equipment, stationery, telephone, etc., and similar bills for Bittard-Monin's office, each set in a separate folder. The boxes numbered 8 and 9 hold postal and monetary stubs for communications and credits addressed to European countries and Russia. These small items are arranged in chronological order only.

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Index IVd, Folder 1

Correspondence concerning the receipt of funds for the Paris office, 1909-1916

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Index IVd, Folder 2

Agents' travel expenses

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Index IVd, Folder 3

Banking operations in France and other countries

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Index IVd, Folder 4

Expenses connected with the Paris office: rent, office equipment, telephone, furniture, etc.

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Index IVd, Folder 5

Expenses connected with the Paris office: rent, office equipment, telephone, furniture, etc. (cont'd.)

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Index IVd, Folder 6

Expenses connected with the Paris office: rent, office equipment, telephone, furniture, etc. (cont'd.)

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Index IVd, Folder 7

Receipts from agents (Bittard-Monin)

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Index IVd, Folder 8

Receipts for registered mail, telegrams, and money orders paid in various European countries

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Index IVd, Folder 9

Receipts for registered letters sent to Russia (1914-1915); expense slips of surveillance agents

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Box 34

e. Correspondence on procedures, instructions, from Headquarters

Scope and Contents note

The dispatches, memoranda, and drafts in Folder 1 contain various Headquarters directives on the method, form, contents, etc., necessary in the preparation of reports for Headquarters. Changes of addresses and codes for addresses are designated. The correspondence also includes tracer notes on delayed correspondence, requests for extra copies of reports for deposit in Headquarters archives, regulations on dispatches in pouches, requests for statement of sources when information has been obtained from foreign liaison, etc. Since there are no documents giving specific instructions on the handling of operational and intelligence reports, this collection may serve as an illustration of the procedures in the handling of correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris Office.
The collection in Folder 2, with documents dated from 1890 to 1916, holds instructions from Headquarters on procedures to follow in preparing surveillance reports, handling perlustration, writing telegraphic messages; and instructions on Paris Office procedures, office forms, searches for documents, preparation of answers to inquiries, and similar specific requests.
Folder 3 contains periodic tables of information requests from Headquarters, with notations of completed answers by the Paris Office, and accompanying notes in the form of accounting for which Headquarters requests for information were answered and when. Folder 4 contains only samples of Paris Office operational folders, with all contents removed.

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Index IVe, Folder 1

Documents pertaining to correspondence procedures, instructions from Headquarters, etc., 1902-1916

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Index IVe, Folder 2

Dispatches and notes on office and surveillance procedures, instructions on the form of the reports submitted to Headquarters, the composition of telegrams, etc., 1890-1916

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Index IVe, Folder 3

Record of directives and requests for information and dispatches in answer to inquiries, 1915

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Index IVe, Folder 4

Folders for documents on the organization of the Okhrana abroad

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Index IVe, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 34-37, 239-241

V. Liaison

Box 34

a. Policy of the Tsarist regime with regard to national and international security systems

Scope and Contents note

The alert attitude of the Okhrana toward the possibility of close liaison and cooperation with the security establishments of other countries was a notable trait that distinguished the MVD agency from diplomatic, military, and other official missions of the Russian Empire. While the latter were bound by strict protocols, the Okhrana's chiefs abroad, often on a personal and friendly basis, communicated with the French Sûreté or Scotland Yard and, at the same time, with various local subordinates of the security establishments. Even the long title of the Okhrana Chief in Paris stated that he was the representative of the MVD for contact with local (security) authorities abroad.
European governments, most of which had suffered from the assassination of state leaders by anarchists and early Marxists, were as a rule quite amenable to cooperation against the essentially international terrorists. Thus, when the government in St. Petersburg took the initiative in 1904 for international cooperation against political criminals and subversives, ten countries signed the secret pact to that effect, and others followed. This step toward international security was further expanded with another pact in 1913, also signed in Russia. Liaison efforts were thus given strong official sanction.
From a more practical side, Okhrana principals abroad tried to build up close cooperation on the basis of personal contact and tokens of friendship. They saw to it that foreign security leaders were adequately rewarded with medals from the Emperor or extended other favors.

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Index Va, Folder 1

Dispatches and other documents referring to liaison arrangements with the security organs of various countries, 1904

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Index Va, Folder 2

Dispatch from Headquarters in St. Petersburg warning against any secret conferences with the French Sûreté in matters concerning political refugees (anarchists), which only an international convention can regulate, 1894

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Index Va, Folder 3

International agreement concerning the extradition and cooperation against anarchists, signed on March 14, 1904, in Petrograd; dispatches concerning ratification from the Swiss and British governments, 1904, 1909

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Index Va, Folder 4

International action connected with the Tiflis holdup, 1908-1909

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Index Va, Folder 5

Buisson's proposal for an international action against terrorists, 1890

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Index Va, Folder 6

Forms for the recipients of Russian decorations

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Index Va, Folder 7

Address book of foreign security officials

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Index Va, Folder 8

Cross-reference sheet

Index Va, Folder 9

Reference: For excerpts from the text of the secret agreement on anarchists in St. Petersburg with Germany, Austria, Denmark, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, and Bulgaria, see Circular No. 3806 (1904) in XIIId(1), no. 9

Boxes 34-35, 239-241

b. Relations with the French Sûreté

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana's relations with the French Sûreté Générale and other government organs were subject to greater rises and falls in the degree of cooperation than in any other country. Intense campaigns of the revolutionaries in emigration and the supporting liberal press of France often led to attacks upon the French Parliament, with repercussions in executive arms of the government, and thus to cooling-off periods in the Okhrana-Sûreté liaison. Invariably, the efforts of the chief in Paris, state visits, some outrageous act of terror, or other causes cemented the relations again into close and, at times, truly amicable relations.
Folders 3 and 4 contain documents related to the liaison activity exchange of information and assistance in operations against the revolutionaries. Folder 5 contains mostly dispatches between Headquarters and the Paris Office, dealing for the most part with instructions, and suggestions regarding French liaison.
Other materials in these folders are mostly informative. The Okhrana Office kept the annuals of the French Sûreté, information on Sûreté personnel and functions for reference purposes. Some of the documents show that the Okhrana made background and character studies of French officials with whom it intended to seek cooperation. The three volumes with mounted photographs on terrorist construction use of bombs, one containing illustrations from Russian techniques, are indicative that these materials were exchanged in liaison for training purposes.
Much of the liaison exchange with the Sûreté was carried out by the office of Marcel Bittard-Monin, the Okhrana's principal agent in charge of non-Russian operatives. He and several of his subordinates were former Sûreté officials or agents. As such, they were particularly well qualified for liaison with former colleagues at almost any level of the Sûreté or police departments. The advantage of having access to police records at various local levels was realized much before the engagement of Bittard-Monin. The many thousands of biographic notes prepared in the 1890s and early 1900s by agent Fehrenbach were copied from the various police records to which he had access in Paris as in many other communities of France.

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Index Vb, Folder 1

Annals of the French Sûreté, 1910 and 1914; 1 set of addresses of police officers in Paris; 1 chart on the police network in Paris; 7 reports on French statesmen (1882-1887); and 3 old warrants from the Paris police (1858-1905), 1858-1914

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Index Vb, Folder 2

Correspondence referring to decorations and gifts to French Sûreté officials, 1886-1916

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Index Vb, Folder 3

Correspondence of the Paris Okhrana with the French Sûreté, 1887-1916

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Index Vb, Folder 4

Cooperation of the French Sûreté with the Paris Okhrana, 1887-1916

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Index Vb, Folder 5

Dispatches and notes exhanged between Headquarters and the Paris office, 1893-1917

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Index Vb, Folder 6

Books prepared by the French Sûreté with graphic illustrations for training French policemen on the methods of the terrorists, 1884-1894

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Index Vb, Folder 7

Cross-reference sheet

Index Vb, Folder 8

Reference: For receipts for decorations, signed by French officials, see IVb

Index Vb, Folder 9

Reference: See outgoing telegram, April 16, 1904, reporting that Delcasse has given information about a possible assassination attempt on a Russian minister, in XIIIb(2), folder 3.

Box 35

c. Relations with Scotland Yard

Scope and Contents note

Liaison with Scotland Yard and other organs in Great Britain differed significantly from the liaison with the French Sûreté. There were no ups and downs or cooling-off periods, but a steady businesslike cooperation. If at all affected by the virulent attacks upon the Okhrana by such staunch and usually respectable supporters as Prince Kropotkin and his "school" or the Jewish Bund in London, the available documents do not show it. In fact, the Okhrana's liaison with the British improved over time, particularly when war broke out. Chief Krasil'nikov's friendly correspondence with Chief Quinn of Scotland Yard shows close and genuine cooperation.
Close liaison developed especially after 1912. Several of the Okhrana's British agents in London had passed away. Krasil'nikov approached Quinn to designate a capable British person to run the British agents in the surveillance of Russians in England. After due deliberation of some months, Quinn recommended one of his beat inspectors, Francis Powell, who by the end of that year became the principal agent for England. His assisting agents were all former Scotland Yard men.
Supplementary information to the contents of the folders in this collection may be found in file IIb (London outpost) and the folders on agent Powell in IIIe and VIk.

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Index Vc, Folder 1

Correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris office, 1890-1916

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Index Vc, Folder 2

Correspondence between the London police and the Paris Okhrana, 1897-1915

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Index Vc, Folder 3

Correspondence between the Paris Okhrana and the London police, 1897-1916

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Index Vc, Folder 4

Samples of agents' reports from London, 1907-1916

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Index Vc, Folder 5

Lists of British police officials recommended for decorations, 1907-1909

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Index Vc, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Index Vc, Folder 7

Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7

Index Vc, Folder 8

Reference: For agent Farce's reports from London on penetration of Scotland Yard by the Okhrana in 1905, see VIIIa

Index Vc, Folder 9

Reference: For agent Thorpe's letters from London on cooperation with the London police, 1907-1908, see VIIIa

Index Vc, Folder 10

Reference: For cooperation with Scotland Yard on the Houndsditch robbery by the anarchists, see XVIb(5), folder 1

Boxes 35-36

d. Relations with the German Sicherheit

Scope and Contents note

Because of the German federal system, a centralized liaison as in England and France could not be established. An outstanding and long term contact was maintained with the police directorate in Berlin, the head of which, Wilhelm Henninger, maintained almost regular correspondence with the Okhrana chief in Paris. The contents of his intelligence and operational notes do not reveal that he was himself a high level Okhrana agent, but they illustrate amply that he must have been a sizeable recipient of the Okhrana's benefits.
There were close relations also with police chiefs controlling special political departments in Munich, Darmstadt, and Hamburg. As far as the Okhrana was concerned, Berlin and the Prussian Sicherheitsdienst were the key liaison targets, not so much because of the concentration of the revolutionaries there, but because of the proximity of the Russian borders and overland routes for subversives, arms and literature smugglers, and terrorists.
Close cooperation in Berlin was partly the result of Garting's early efforts. He was chief of the Okhrana agentura there from 1901 to 1905 and was accredited as such by the Germans. They caused him some trouble when it was made known that, apart from liaison, Garting had under him also some German agents, but the affair was straightened out after Garting's assignment to Paris.
Folder 1, assorted only chronologically, contains correspondence with a large number of city and state police directorates, including samples of exchanged information on revolutionaries, smugglers of arms (Hamburg), apprehension of revolutionary bandits with marked bank notes (Munich, Berlin). Folder 2 has dispatches with Headquarters, dealing with liaison, while the lists of officers named for decorations and awards include primarily people on both sides of the liaison, cooperating in various tasks.

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Index Vd, Folder 1

Letters regarding correspondence with German police in various cities, including police director Henninger in Berlin and chiefs in Munich, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, etc., 1899-1914

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Index Vd, Folder 2

Dispatches between Headquarters and the Paris office regarding cooperation with the German police, 1901-1916

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Index Vd, Folder 3

Decorations and awards for German police officials, 1890-1913

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Index Vd, Folder 4

Coordination with German security for measures taken to guard traveling Imperial majesties, 1910

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Index Vd, Folder 5

Drafts and letters referring to smuggling of arms into Russia, 1906

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Index Vd, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Index Vd, Folder 7

Reference: See incoming 1904 telegram commenting on an article in Petite République denying any role in the arrests of socialists in Germany, in XIIIc(3), folder 16

Index Vd, Folder 8

Reference: For intelligence reports on arms shipments from Germany, 1906, see XXIVh

Box 36

e. Relations with the Italian Sicurezza

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana's cooperation with the Italian police, intelligence, and diplomatic authorities was both overt and secret. Italy, too, was a signatory to the St. Petersburg treaty for cooperation in the suppression of subversives, and the number of Italian anarchists named in Okhrana Headquarters warning lists and on biographic cards is considerable. (Even the name of the young Benito Mussolini came into the Okhrana records.)
In Paris, liaison with the Italians was first made through the Embassy, and cooperation with the Italian Military Attaché, Wenzel (probably in the Okhrana's pay), was particularly active until his expulsion from Paris. The documents coming from the Rome and other questuras are illustrative of the exchange of information. The arrangement of Okhrana representatives with Italian local authorities, particularly the post offices in the towns of the Italian Riviera, for mail intercepts were clandestine and of course illegal, ending at times in scandal that had to be aired in the Rome parliament.

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Index Ve, Folder 1

Correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris office, 1906-1916

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Index Ve, Folder 2

Dispatches relating to cooperation with the Italian authorities, 1902-1916

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Index Ve, Folder 3

Decorations and rewards for Italian police officials, 1909-1912

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Index Ve, Folder 4

Correspondence with the Italian military attaché, 1909-1911

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Index Ve, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 36-37

f. Relations with police of other countries

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Austria

Scope and Contents note

Despite the fact that Austria-Hungary was partner in the pact for cooperation in combatting international terrorists, there is little trace of any liaison between the Okhrana and the Austrian services. The folders include a set of letters in which information is exchanged with the Vienna police directorate about subversives, but no instance is on record, as in the liaison with the Prussian Sicherheit, of cooperation in detecting and apprehending smugglers of bombs and terrorists on the border. As a matter of record, the Galician border was a favorite spot for illegal crossing along the Prussian border; yet, while at the latter locations, the Okhrana could frequently count on German assistance, it had to rely upon its own resources for tailing and apprehending terrorists crossing the Austrian borders.
The lack of cooperation with Austria may be attributed to mutual suspicion. Both countries had rebellious minority nationalities, and it appears that neither was unhappy over the other's problems on the identical issue. To add fuel to this embryonic cold war situation, the Okhrana frequently detected Austrian agents crossing Into Russia. (See the files on pre-World War I counter-espionage under Index Number VIIIa.)
Index Vf, Folder 1

Dispatches relating to cooperation, 1886-1913

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Available on microfilm reel 71
Index Vf, Folder 2

Cooperation between the Vienna police and the Paris Okhrana, 1896-1914

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Index Vf, Folder 3

Drafts of letters

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Index Vf, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Index Vf, Folder 5

Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7

 

Belgium

Scope and Contents note

The lively liaison of the Okhrana with the Belgian services had its beginnings in the mid-1890s, after the marriage of Garting, later Okhrana chief in Berlin and then Paris, to a Belgian socialite and noblewoman. Garting,an Okhrana agent since 1890, became influential among the important government circles and thus did more to insure a steady exchange of information, essentially at the top level of the country's services. Most of the bulky intelligence correspondence of the Paris Okhrana with Belgium is thus through the Director of the Sûreté Publique in the Brussels Ministry of Justice.
From the standpoint of Okhrana operations abroad, Brussels and the Belgian ports were of primary importance since much of the smuggling of arms, forbidden literature, and conspirators en route to Russia went through Belgian ports.
Index Vf, Folder 1

Correspondence with the Belgian police, requesting data on Russian revolutionaries, 1896-1914

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Index Vf, Folder 2

Information on Russian revolutionaries and their organizations sent by the Belgian police, 1904-1917

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Index Vf, Folder 3

Correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris office, 1906-1913

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Index Vf, Folder 4

Reports from Paris Okhrana agents working in Belgium, 1910

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Index Vf, Folder 5

Decorations and rewards for Belgian police officials, 1896

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Index Vf, Folder 6

Undated notes on Russian individuals

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Index Vf, Folder 7

Cross-reference sheet

Index Vf, Folder 8

Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7

Index Vf, Folder 9

Reference: See report from the Russian consulate in Antwerp, February 4, 1905, in Vg.

 

Switzerland

Scope and Contents note

The documents in Folder 1 contain some correspondence with the chiefs of the Swiss federal services, indicating some liaison and resulting exchanges of information at that level. The major part of cooperation, however, was at the canton and municipal police levels at Bern, Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne, and several minor communities. The most productive in obtaining intelligence on the activities of Russian conspirators, residing in considerable numbers in Switzerland,was the liaison on strictly local levels. Thousands of reports submitted by agents Bint, Woltz, and others from various Swiss cities from 1900 to 1915 are copies from the local Swiss police registers. Their access to information was on a personal, friendship, or business basis, but some intermediary through liaison at a slightly higher level than the police station counter may be spotted in the correspondence collected in the two folders. Sometimes, the liaison on this local, agent basis went even a step further. A police official was placed on the Okhrana payroll, supplying not only information on revolutionaries but assisting in operations against them. (Example: See the folder on agent Treichler, police official in Zurich, in Ille, Folder 3.)
Index Vf, Folder 1

Dispatches related to cooperation between the Swiss police and the Paris Okhrana, 1895-1915

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Available on microfilm reel 72
Index Vf, Folder 2

Correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris office related to cooperation with the Swiss authorities, including the case of the extradition of Burtsev and Krakov, 1894-1915

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Available on microfilm reel 72
Index Vf, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index Vf, Folder 4

Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7

Index Vf, Folder 1

Denmark, 1893-1916

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Index Vf, Folder 2

Holland, 1894-1911

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Index Vf, Folder 3

Hungary, 1908-1914

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Index Vf, Folder 4

Monaco, 1907-1914

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Index Vf, Folder 5

Romania, 1905-1916

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Index Vf, Folder 6

Serbia, 1914

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Index Vf, Folder 7

Spain, 1906-1913

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Index Vf, Folder 8

Sweden, 1904-1910

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Index Vf, Folder 9

Turkey, 1894-1903

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Index Vf, Folder 10

United States, 1910, 1913

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Index Vf, Folder 11

Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7

Index Vf, Folder 12

Reference: For two letters sent from Sambain reporting on his talks with security chiefs in Stockholm, in June 1916, see XIc(1)

Index Vf, Folder 13

Reference: For responses in "Free Russia" and other press to the pending United States-Russia pact on the extradition of terrorists, 1893, see XVIa

Box 37

g. Relations with missions abroad

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana office in Paris was located at all times in the same complex of buildings as the Imperial Embassy; the agentura in Berlin was in the house of the Imperial Consulate, and, when its staff representatives were on duty in other capitals, their office address was that of the respective diplomatic or consular mission. Administratively, Okhrana establishments abroad had nothing else in common with any other Russian mission. Operationally, they were as closed to the offices representing Russia as to any foreign office.
The correspondence in the folders of this collection does not reveal incidents of serious friction between Okhrana chiefs abroad and the diplomatic and consular representatives. Conferences on individual problems are referred to, such as the Okhrana chief's briefing on current matters. Frequently, the diplomat or consul would inquire about some applicant's loyalty or character record. Normally, inquiries and replies became part of the written record. Both Russian and non-Russian applicants for Okhrana employment usually addressed themselves to the embassy or consular office. Such and similar correspondence was turned over to the attention of the Okhrana. (See Index Nos. VIa and VIb, containing letters of prospective recruits.)
Relations with the military mission in Paris, particularly after the Allied intelligence was centralized, became close, with daily exchanges of information in matters of counter-espionage as well as other intelligence topics. (See Index No. lIe and VIIIb, on wartime counter-espionage.)
The four folders in this collection are organized as to separate correspondence with the Russian Embassy and Consulates in France, the military mission in Paris, the imperial missions in other countries, and specially with Russian missions with regard to arms smuggling.

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Index Vg, Folder 1

Correspondence between the Paris Okhrana and the Russian Embassy and consulates in France, 1887-1917

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Index Vg, Folder 2

Correspondence with the Russian military mission in Paris, 1915-1917

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Index Vg, Folder 3

Correspondence of the Paris office with Russian foreign service posts in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Berlin referring to arms smuggling into Russia, 1905-1906

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Index Vg, Folder 4

Correspondence between the Paris Okhrana and Russian foreign service posts in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States, 1891-1916

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Index Vg, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 37-62

VI. Personnel administration: agents

Box 37

a. Recruitment of agents: Russian nationals

Scope and Contents note

No document in this collection gives comprehensive instructions concerning the recruitment of agents. In many cases, Russian agents abroad, as a rule in the deep cover category for active participation among target groups, were sent to the field by Headquarters or by provincial Okhrana establishments to report directly back to the home units. At first the Paris Okhrana was responsible for them administratively. Gradually, agents were placed under case officers abroad for reporting and other operational control.
The Paris Office exchanged with Headquarters scores of dispatches concerning agents sent abroad who were considered ill-suited for operations for such assignments, with the result that final authority in recruitment actually came under the Paris Office or its major staff agents running secret operations.
The dispatches and other papers in Folders 1 and 2 contain communications on individuals offering services or proposed for employment. When an applicant wrote, he received no answer, whether he was considered for employment or not. If the case appeared promising, he was investigated as to his domicile, character, loyalties, or any of the aspects he introduced in his petition. If the investigation agent's report was favorable, the individual was approached casually and clandestinely, according to the circumstances in each case.
Many documents pertaining to recruitment of agents are located in the agents' dossiers. (See Index No. Illf, Folders 9-36.)

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Available on microfilm reels 74-75
Index VIa, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to the recruitment of Russian agents, 1889-1910

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Index VIa, Folder 2

Dispatches pertaining to the recruitment of Russian agents, 1910-1916

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Index VIa, Folder 3

Letters from individuals offering their services to the Okhrana, 1886-1916

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Index VIa, Folder 4

Dispatch from Headquarters with instructions concerning sending an agent to the United States, 1894

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Index VIa, Folder 5

Dispatch concerning the difficulty of recruiting new agents abroad and keeping deep cover agent Weber in London, 1916

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Index VIa, Folder 6

Undated notes, including two letters requesting employment

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Index VIa, Folder 7

Cross-reference sheet

Index VIa, Folder 8

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 30, April 24, 1903, regarding the hiring of agents by Okhrana offices, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Box 38

b. Recruitment of agents: foreign nationals

Scope and Contents note

The hiring of foreign nationals was the responsibility of the field establishment. Headquarters, which received many petitions for employment from abroad, abstained from even commenting on their merits, but forwarded all such letters to the Paris Office for consideration. Only in a few instances, as in the case of a Hungarian swindler named "Tulipan" coming with an offer to uncover a major assassination conspiracy, did Headquarters request serious exploration of the case.
Much of this correspondence came from adventurers and professional job seekers, but the Okhrana could not afford to disregard the offers completely, especially when the offers for employment suggested the uncovering of plots or information convincing enough that the applicant might have access and capability to acquire the desired intelligence information.
Kany of the offers came from private detectives and people with years of experience in investigation work. If interested, the Okhrana first tried to obtain information from the service with which the applicant had allegedly worked. More often, however, the Okhrana made a direct approach to the chiefs of services when on the lookout for agents with that qualification. Thus, it happened that most of the efficient personnel engaged by the Okhrana abroad were former investigation agents and detectives with various European services.

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Index VIb, Folder 1

Offers of services to the Okhrana: dispatches on offers received, comments, etc., 1887-1909

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Index VIb, Folder 2

Offers of services to the Okhrana: dispatches on offers received, comments, etc., 1910-1916

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Index VIb, Folder 3

Applications for work with the Okhrana, 1902-1911

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Index VIb, Folder 4

Undated applications for work with the Okhrana

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Index VIb, Folder 5

Offers of services dropped by the Okhrana without further consideration, 1887-1915

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Index VIb, Folder 6

Requests for employment; investigation reports on the applicants, 1908-1913

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Index VIb, Folder 7

Cross-reference sheet

Box 38

c. Blackmail in recruitment

Scope and Contents note

There is no record to indicate the Okhrana abroad resorting to blackmail as inducement to recruiting, as often reported by critics of the old system using such practices in Russia proper. On the contrary, the revolutionary counter-intelligence conducted by Vladimir Burtsev in Paris used such methods when detecting and exposing Okhrana agents operating among the revolutionaries. Under threat of death as a form of punishment, such exposed agents were blackmailed into participation in some dangerous terrorist task. (See XXIVa and XXIVb.)
This folder contains letters and notes on individuals who had either been in the Okhrana service or attempted to work themselves into the service or other favors by way of threats. Much of this correspondence was addressed to Bittard-Monin, principal agent for the handling of non-Russian personnel.

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Index VIc, Folder 1

Letters to Bittard-Monin from unidentified people, 1910-1916

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Index VIc, Folder 2

Unidentified letters, 1913

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Index VIc, Folder 3

Unidentified telegrams, 1910-1914

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Index VIc, Folder 4

Unidentified notes

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Index VIc, Folder 5

Various unclassified notes and letters

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Index VIc, Folder 6

Intercepted letters

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Boxes 39-41

d. Handling of agents

Scope and Contents note

Many general instructions on the handling of overt investigation agents and deep cover agents are contained in the directive circulars from Headquarters, collected under Index Number XIIId(l). However, certain practices in the handling of agents in Russia could not be applied in the operations abroad.
The collection under this topic is a wide assortment ranging from clear-cut instructions from case officers to subordinate agents to complaints from the field and action taken by the case officer or the chief in Paris in response to complaints. Headquarters apparently did not interfere with the details on agent handling, but often showed concern with regard to the area of assignment (see Folder 1).
Folder 2 contains communications of Russian agents in the field, including various complaints. The complaints of the non-Russian agents are located among replies, operational instructions, communications regarding salaries and assignments, etc., in Folders 3-9, which are arranged chronologically for the period from 1901 to 1917. Folders 10- 13 are on the handling of agents in England, Germany, Austria, and Italy.
Friction among non-Russian agents was almost a common occurrence. This could not be the situation among the deep cover Russian agents, who, in principle as well as in practice, did not know each other's identities. The non-Russian crews had to work in teams, but seldom for more than a few weeks at any one time. The composition of each team was in constant flux, just as the place of operation for the individual agent was subject to endless changes. At one time or another, most non-Russian agents complained about their principal agent Bittard-Monin and the leaders of the teams. These complaints were usually addressed to the Paris chief himself and, in a few instances, directly to Headquarters in St. Petersburg. Folder I4 is illustrative of the complaints.
Neither French nor Italian agents appeared happy when the team leader was a German ?in this instance, Neuhaus, who explains his relations with other agents. French and Italian agents got along better, but there were instances where the French could not stomach their own kind. The younger set of agents considered such old-timers as Bint overbearing, and it was evident from the assignments on special, more difficult tasks that the crews usually needed a touch of cnoteling, with much consideration as to who might team best with whom. The team in England under Francis Powell never appeared to have personality difficulties prevalent on the Continent, but it happened that the agents there were a more cohesive and collegiate group. They were all mature men with identical, Scotland Yard backgrounds.

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Index VId, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to the assignment of agents in Berlin, London, and Paris, 1907-1912

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Index VId, Folder 2

Letters and telegrams from Russian agents abroad, 1907-1915

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Instructions, operational notes, and other materials for agents in France and other countries

Index VId, Folder 3

1901-1911

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Index VId, Folder 4

1912 January-May

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Index VId, Folder 5

1912 June-August

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Index VId, Folder 6

1912 September-December

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Index VId, Folder 7

1913

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Index VId, Folder 8

1914

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Index VId, Folder 9

1915-1916

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Index VId, Folder 10

Papers pertaining to the handling of agents in England, 1892-1917

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General note

See also IIIe, no. 3, for folders on agents Francis Powell and Farce.
Index VId, Folder 11

Papers pertaining to the handling of agents in Germany, 1905-1914

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General note

See also IIIe, no. 3, for the folders on agents Neuhaus and Woltz.
Index VId, Folder 12

Letters and telegrams from agent Tuppinger in Vienna, 1911

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General note

See also IIIe, no. 3, for the folder on Tuppinger.
Index VId, Folder 13

Notes on the scandal with the Italian post office cooperating with Okhrana agents, 1913

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General note

For agent handling in Italy, see the folders on Capusso, Durin, Frumento, Invernizzi, Leone, and Vizzardelli in IIIe, no. 3.
Index VId, Folder 14

Agent Neuhaus's account on relations with other agents, 1912

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Index VId, Folder 15

Notes on investigation assignments for agents

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Index VId, Folder 16

Sheet of items to be noted in filing a description of an individual under surveillance, issued to all non-Russian agents

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Index VId, Folder 17

Letters from agent Bint on his assignment to Christiana, 1907

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Index VId, Folder 18

Two notebooks of principal agents, 1903, 1915

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Receipts for agent expenditures and travel accounts, 1910-1917

Index VId, Folder 19

1910

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Index VId, Folder 20

1911

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Index VId, Folder 21

1912

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Index VId, Folder 22

1913

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Index VId, Folder 23

1914

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Index VId, Folder 24

1915

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Index VId, Folder 25

1916

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Index VId, Folder 26

1917

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Index VId, Folder 27

Reference: See operational card index for references to dispatches pertaining to the handling of agents

Index VId, Folder 28

Reference: See directive circulars, in XIIId(1)

Index VId, Folder 29

Reference: See commendations and criticisms of the behavior of agent Henry Bint in IIIe, folder 3

Box 41

e. Backstopping of agents, verification

Scope and Contents note

The collection in this folder is rather meager in consideration of the emphasis and amount of effort the Okhrana placed on working out cover stories for its agents and verifying the stories where the agents themselves prepared all the alibis vis-a-vis the revolutionary groups of their assignment. As a rule, the cover story for an agent assigned abroad had its beginning in Russia. The elements of such a story always had to be at least half way true for purposes of verification by the revolutionaries, which was always taken for granted. The agent had to have a record of revolutionary background in his home community. He had to have proofs, letters of introduction or the equivalent to make it possible for him to gain access to the revolutionaries abroad. If posing as an escaped political prisoner, his mere words to that effect were quite inadequate. If he had to prove that his income abroad was from a rich uncle in Briansk, it was not enough to show the money order received; the uncle actually had to live in Briansk, for the revolutionary counter-intelligence had developed to a point where it could verify almost every such story.
In assisting with cover stories, the Paris Okhrana depended heavily on the home offices. The wartime case of double agent Dolin (alias "Lenin"), engaged by the Germans but controlled by an Okhrana case officer in Paris, is an outstanding illustration of the capabilities of the Russian service to backstop its operative by staging explosions attributed to his sabotage work for the Germans, issuing bulletins about it to the press, and providing alleged revolutionary support to satisfy the Germans about "their agent." (See Index Number Illf, Folder 13, on Dolin.)

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Index VIe, Folder 1

Dispatches illustrating the Okhrana's practice of backstopping agents with cover stories, verifying information, and agent reliability, 1896-1915

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Index VIe, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

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Index VIe, Folder 3

Reference: See IIIf, folder 13, on agent Dolin ("Lenin," "Charles")

Box 41

f. Training and placement of agents

Scope and Contents note

Folder 1 in this collection contains instructional materials for the agents. Instruktsia No. 298 gives the regulations on surveillance methods which had to be learned by the agents. Bibliographies on revolutionaries are included and briefs on Russian revolutionaries in France were required reading for agents. In addition to such briefs, important agents were given, for study and recognition, albums of photographs of the important revolutionaries.
Folder 2 includes dispatches and various notes relative to the training of Russian secret agents sent to Europe for the purpose of familiarizing themselves with the activities of revolutionaries abroad. Among these papers is an extensive draft commenting on the lack of qualifications of Russian agents abroad (dated July 1913). In Folder 3 the documents relate to the second and third tours of agent trainees sent from Russia to study revolutionaries and their activities abroad. At the end of the collection are two letters of principal agent Bittard-Monin, complaining about the behavior of Russian trainees.

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Index VIf, Folder 1

Instruktsiia no. 298, 1909

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Scope and Contents note

Printed regulations on the organization of surveillance work, with appended forms for making reports, including two sheets in French.
Index VIf, Folder 1

Brief on Socialist Revolutionaries agitating among the peasants, 1906

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Index VIf, Folder 1

Bibliographies of revolutionary publications kept by the Okhrana, some of which were required reading for agents, 1906

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Index VIf, Folder 1

Rapport. Training brief on Russian revolutionaries in France, 1912

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Index VIf, Folder 2

Dispatches concerning the training of agents, 1886-1914

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Scope and Contents note

Includes draft of a dispatch on the lack of qualifications of Russian agents for work in the West.
Index VIf, Folder 3

Dispatches and other materials relating to three tours (1911-1913) of trainees from Russia assigned abroad for study and recognition of revolutionaries, 1910-1913

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Scope and Contents note

Includes letters by Bittard-Monin complaining about the Russian trainees.
Index VIf, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Index VIf, Folder 5

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 50, September 11, 1903, regarding the procedures to be followed in assigning agents on various missions, in XIIId(2), folder 2

Box 42

g. Evaluation of agent information

Scope and Contents note

No document is available in this collection to describe Okhrana rules or practices in evaluating intelligence information obtained from its many sources. Principal agent Bittard-Monin had his own system of analysis of raw reports for final submission to the Paris Office. (See his three notebooks in this collection.) The dispatches exchanged with St. Petersburg often refer to the evaluation, analysis, and dependability of contents and reporters. Critical analysis of certain reports may be observed also in some of the folders in Xllla.
Folder 1 contains some specific examples of the analysis of information, such as prepared by case officer Lt. Colonel Lustig on the reports from secret agent Demetrashvili. The practice of analyzing reports may be observed also in the maintenance of intelligence target files on revolutionaries, their organizations and activities. (See XIIIf(3).) One of the purposes of maintaining reference files to intelligence topics was to have ready access to available information for comparison with incoming reports and their evaluation.

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Index VIg, Folder 1

Dispatches referring to the evaluation of agent information, dependability of reports, etc., 1887-1916

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Index VIg, Folder 2

Notes journaliéres. Book of principal agent Bittard-Monin on agent reports, 1908

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Index VIg, Folder 3

Agent Bittard-Monin's notes on revolutionaries from agent reports, 1908-1909

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Index VIg, Folder 4

Agent Bittard-Monin's notes on revolutionaries from agent reports, 1914-1915

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Index VIg, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

Box 42

h. Checking on agents with regard to security, behavior, veracity

Scope and Contents note

This collection of materials on the subject of how the Okhrana at home and abroad maintained control over the agents includes little more than a sampling of the methods. The documents under other index numbers on agents and techniques of operation contain much scattered material on this subject. For instance, the folders on senior employee Sushkov, who came under suspicion in 1914 as the possible informant of Burtsev and his counter-intelligence office, are illustrative of the measures taken to uncover his attitudes and activities. Particularly in the early stages of employment, deep cover agents were under much observation. Checking on their veracity and true loyalties was often a fairly simple matter since these agents did not know each other, and quite frequently there were two of them reporting on the same persons and events.
Folder 1 in this collection contains mostly dispatches exchanged with Headquarters concerning instructions on security checks, loyalty, and general behavior of the agents and employees. Other folders cover more specific cases of checking on individual or groups of agents or on the methods used to exert control over them.

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Index VIh, Folder 1

Dispatches containing instructions and reports on security checks, loyalty, behavior of agents, and the control of their activities, 1905-1916

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Index VIh, Folder 2

Reports from Bint on his tour to Switzerland to inspect the performance of French and Swiss agents, 1912 February-March

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Index VIh, Folder 3

Non-Russian agents' signatures kept in a separate file as a control measure, 1911-1913

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General note

For other signatures, see VIc.
Index VIh, Folder 4

Dispatch concerning the constant surveillance of Azef in 1907; dispatches regarding the identification of an agent with contacts with Okhrana defector Bakai; instructions from Headquarters to border outposts to refuse certificates to Okhrana agents, 1907-1914

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Index VIh, Folder 5

Dispatches, notes, and reports revealing checks on the loyalty, activities, etc. of deep cover agents: Beitner, Blokhin, Demetrashvili, Eropkina, Geiger, Kaplun, Kokochinskii, Kozlov, Krevin, Kuranov, Mass, Model, de Shneur, Virovoi, and Zinovev

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Index VIh, Folder 6

The case of the Pilenas brothers, agents in London, 1910-1913

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Index VIh, Folder 7

Dispatches and other materials on the surveillance of agent Model traveling to Russia in 1914; the Leone-Fontana scandal in 1912; agent Nobel's checking on the story that the revolutionaries intended to use airplanes; instructions forbidding agents to make statements of any connection with the Russian embassy

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Index VIh, Folder 8

Cross-reference sheet

Index VIh, Folder 9

Reference: For two dispatches from Krasil'nikov in 1915-1916 criticizing case officer Litvin on handling deep cover agents, see IIIb

Box 42

i. Informers

Scope and Contents note

This category of people working for the Okhrana abroad is probably the most illusive and difficult to classify. The collection in no way reflects the total number of informers. Every known Russian agent of some standing was bound to develop his own informers in the police stations, post offices, among hotel and railroad station attendants, and the like. The raw reports frequently refer to such sources of information, at times also listing the tips spent on them.
At all times, however, the Okhrana also kept on the payroll a number of correspondents (see the last document in Folder 2), sometimes referred to as informers. This group was subject to constant change -- a correspondent developed into a full-fledged agent, a casual informer into a permanent one, or even to a full agent. '
The dispatches and notes collected in Folder 1 are general with regard to informers, with requests for verification of their information and the like. Folder 2 deals with specific individuals supplying information. Folder 3 contains materials from freelance and unsolicited types, probably the least reliable. Much of this represents denunciations among the émigré, derogatory letters, usually anonymous, and therefore not used in the preparation of the Okhrana's intelligence reports.

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Index VIi, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to informers or their information, requests for verification, etc., 1894-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 85
Index VIi, Folder 2

Okhrana files on informers containing correspondence with Alaev, Aleksandrov, Chambault, Dadiani, Dengart-Dizhur, Giovanni, Gruzevich, Korchanov, Kliuchereva, Minkvits, Prolsdorfer in New York, Riant, Rusinskii, Rusnev, Steinberg, Stiglits, Zhdanovskii

Access

Available on microfilm reel 85
Index VIi, Folder 3

Letters from informers, denunciations, reports of revolutionaries, etc., 1890-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 86
Index VIi, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 43-48

j. General collection of information prepared by non-Russian agents

Scope and Contents note

This extensive collection of non-Russian agent reports is presented chronologically and, to some extent, by areas. The to inventory gives also the names of the key agents and some of the leading revolutionaries and groups, subjects of their reports.
Despite the size of the collection, it includes only a fraction of the total of the non-Russian agent reports. The bulk of these is under Index Numbers VIk and Xllla, the firfct one containing the reports of important non-Russian agents at given periods and tasks, the second including the raw reports used in the analysis of information and preparation for dispatches to Headquarters. Thus, as an example to researchers who might be interested in the reports of principal agent Bint (who served the Okhrana from 1884 to 1917), they would find it expedient to search first through Bint's folders under VIk, then look for the years missing through the general folders in VIj. Similarly, for reports on all other non-Russian agents, the approach should be to search first under the agent's name in VIk, then in VIj.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 86-101
Index VIj, Folder 1

1884-1887

Access

Available on microfilm reel 86
Index VIj, Folder 2

1888-1890

Access

Available on microfilm reel 87
Index VIj, Folder 3

1891-1893

Access

Available on microfilm reel 87
Index VIj, Folder 4

1894

Access

Available on microfilm reel 87
Index VIj, Folder 5

1895

Access

Available on microfilm reel 87
Index VIj, Folder 6

1896

Access

Available on microfilm reel 88
Index VIj, Folder 7

1897

Access

Available on microfilm reel 88
Index VIj, Folder 8

1898

Access

Available on microfilm reel 88
Index VIj, Folder 9

1899

Access

Available on microfilm reel 88
Index VIj, Folder 10

1900

Access

Available on microfilm reel 88
Index VIj, Folder 11

1901

Access

Available on microfilm reel 88
Index VIj, Folder 12

1902

Access

Available on microfilm reel 88
Index VIj, Folder 13

1903-1904

Access

Available on microfilm reel 88
Index VIj, Folder 14

1905

Access

Available on microfilm reel 89

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports on revolutionaries Kropotkin, Natanson, Braginskii, and others.
Index VIj, Folder 15

1906

Access

Available on microfilm reels 89-90

Scope and Contents note

Includes notes on arms shipments from northern European ports.
Index VIj, Folders 16-17

1907

Access

Available on microfilm reels 90-91

Scope and Contents note

Includes agent reports in French on leading revolutionaries: Trotsky, Martov, Bakunin, Voronov, Karelin, Malinovskii, Minor, Khrustalev-Nosar, and others.
Index VIj, Folder 18

1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 92
Index VIj, Folder 19

1909

Access

Available on microfilm reel 92
Index VIj, Folder 20

1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 92
Index VIj, Folders 21-25

1911

Access

Available on microfilm reels 92-94
 

1912

Index VIj, Folders 26-30

Paris

Access

Available on microfilm reels 94-96
Index VIj, Folder 31

Other parts of France

Access

Available on microfilm reel 96

Scope and Contents note

Includes surveillance accounts of Savinkov and his group.
Index VIj, Folder 32

Belgium

Access

Available on microfilm reel 97
Index VIj, Folder 33

London

Access

Available on microfilm reel 97
Index VIj, Folder 34

Denmark

Access

Available on microfilm reel 97
Index VIj, Folder 35

Germany

Access

Available on microfilm reel 97
Index VIj, Folder 36

Italy

Access

Available on microfilm reels 97-98
Index VIj, Folder 37

Switzerland

Access

Available on microfilm reels 98-99
Index VIj, Folder 38

Austria

Access

Available on microfilm reel 99
Index VIj, Folder 39

1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 100
Index VIj, Folder 40

1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 100
Index VIj, Folder 41

1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 100
Index VIj, Folder 42

1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 101
Index VIj, Folder 43

1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 101
Index VIj, Folder 44

Undated

Access

Available on microfilm reel 101
Index VIj, Folder 45

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 49-61

k. Important non-Russian agents

Scope and Contents note

Only Folder 1 of this collection contains dispatches on agents, with contents of minor significance but pertaining to individuals under whose names many of these folders are organized. The collection is actually a continuation of the preceding one in V1j. The folders contain the work of outstanding agents at given periods or on specific assignments. That means that not all the product of any one of the agents is assembled herein, but only the outstanding periods of productivity or reports on specific and outstanding assignments. The inventory of this collection is fairly detailed as to the names of the operatives, their targets, and the periods covered. Each folder is arranged chronologically, with undated reports placed at the end.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 101-126
Index VIk, Folder 1

Dispatches relating to individual non-Russian agents, 1905-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 101
 

Reports organized by agent

Index VIk, Folder 2

Aebersold, Jean, 1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 101

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports from London on the surveillance of Prince Kropotkin and participants in the Houndsditch bombings.
Index VIk, Folders 3-8

Bint, Henry, 1887-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reels 101-103
Index VIk, Folders 9-18

Bittard-Monin, 1908-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reels 103-105
Index VIk, Folder 19

Corrot, Raoul, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 106
Index VIk, Folder 20

Delangle, Charles, 1914-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 106
Index VIk, Folder 21

Demaille, Emile, 1898-1901

Access

Available on microfilm reel 106

Scope and Contents note

Includes letters to Richter (Rachkovskii) reporting from Bern, Geneva, and Copenhagen on various revolutionaries.
Index VIk, Folder 22

Durin, Henri, 1908-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 106
Index VIk, Folder 23

Farce, E., 1892-1907

Access

Available on microfilm reels 107-108

Scope and Contents note

Reports with information on the "Free Russia" group, anarchists, Burtsev, Poles, and Jews in London, revolutionary arms shipments, etc. Perlustration of revolutionary correspondence. For additional reports of Agent Farce, see IIb, folder 2.
Index VIk, Folder 24

Feuger, Fernand, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 108

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports on Bartenev, Azvolinskii, and Barthold.
Index VIk, Folder 25

Fehrenbach, J., 1890-1906

Access

Available on microfilm reels 109-114
Index VIk, Folders 26-27

Fontaine, Paul (Hamard), 1911-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 115

Scope and Contents note

Reports on the surveillance of Savinkov.
Index VIk, Folder 28

Gottlieb, Rene, 1913-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 115

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports on surveilance in Paris of Burtsev, Argunov, and Bessel.
Index VIk, Folder 29

Hebrais, A., 1913-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 115

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports on Savinkov, Fabrikant, Fundaminskii, and others of the fighting unit of the Socialist Revolutionaries.
Index VIk, Folder 30

Hennequin, Edmond, 1910-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 115
Index VIk, Folder 31-32

Invernizzi, Eugene (Nizzi), 1908-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 116

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Socialist Revolutionary leaders on the Italian Riviera.
Index VIk, Folder 33-34

Jollivet, Georges (Roberts), his son Raoul, and his wife, 1911-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reels 116-117

Scope and Contents note

Operational reports until October 1913 on surveillance of individual revolutionaries in Italy, and after October 1913 as a double agent in Burtsev's intelligence office.
Index VIk, Folder 35

Laurent, Bernard, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 117

Scope and Contents note

Reports from Paris and Serbia (with agent Cazayus), on surveillance of the revolutionary Bessel.
Index VIk, Folder 36

Lévęque, Eugéne, 1905, 1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 117

Scope and Contents note

Includes 1905 reports on surveillance of Azef, Burtsev, Iudelevskii, and others.
Index VIk, Folder 37

Neuhaus, Heinrich, 1905-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 118
Index VIk, Folder 38

Pouchot, Auguste, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 118

Scope and Contents note

Reports from Paris on surveillance of Burtsev.
Index VIk, Folder 39

Powell, Francis, 1912-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 119

General note

See also IIb.
Index VIk, Folder 40

Richard, Mme. G. (Jane), 1911-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 120

Scope and Contents note

22 reports from 1914 when she became a double agent in Burtsev's office.
Index VIk, Folder 41

Rigault, C., 1890-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 120
Index VIk, Folder 42

Sambain, Albert, 1903-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 120

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Burtsev, Krakov, and others.

General note

For reports on the cover firm "Bint et Sambain," see IIIg; and for documents on Sambain's mission to Scandinavia, see XIc(1).
Index VIk, Folder 43

Thorpe, Michael, 1907-1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 121

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports on Kropotkin and other anarchists in England.
Index VIk, Folder 44

Tuppinger, Hans, 1911-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 121
Index VIk, Folder 45

Vogt, Maurice, 1908-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 121

Scope and Contents note

Includes his reports on Savinkov and others in 1911-1912.
Index VIk, Folder 46-53

Woltz, Karl, 1903-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reels 121-126

Scope and Contents note

Reports from Switzerland, Germany, Paris, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and St. Petersburg on Fabrikant and others.
Index VIk, Folder 54

Berlin Agentura, with Neuhaus, Prodeus, and Woltz under case officer Barkov, 1901-1905

Access

Available on microfilm reel 126

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports on revolutionaries Bach, Bainov, Banin, Buchholtz, Elisarov, Frankel, Fundaminskii, Kalmikov, Kuznetsov, Levidi, Makhovets, Oglobin, Siapkin, Struve, Tsederbaum, Vinogradov, Wiese, and others.
Index VIk, Folder 55

Reference: See outgoing telegram #140, February 3/16, 1917, with information that Bint was banished from Switzerland in 1903 and was arrested for returning in XIIIb(2), folder 34

Index VIk, Folder 56

Reference: See incoming telegram, February 8, 1917, requesting information on Bint's arrest, in XIIIc(3), folder 34

Index VIk, Folder 57

Reference: See incoming telegram, February 27, 1917, about Bint's appeal from a Swiss prison, in XIIIc(3), folder 34

Index VIk, Folder 58

Reference: See incoming telegram, March 4, 1917, about with instructions for Bint's release from prison, in XIIIc(3), folder 34

Index VIk, Folder 59

Reference: See incoming telegram, March 4, 1917, with instructions for payment to Bint's wife, in XIIIc(3), folder 34

Box 62

l. Purges: dismissal of agents

Scope and Contents note

Folder 1 in this collection, containing Okhrana and departmental dispatches related to the dismissal of agents, illustrates some of the procedures in the problem of getting rid of agents no longer useful to the service. The problem for the Paris Office was at least two-fold. With regard to secret agents (Russian), decision on dismissal was usually based on agreement with Headquarters. Either of the two centers made the proposal on the ground of inaction of the agent, morality, or the fact that the agent had been exposed as such by the revolutionaries and therefore incapable of continuing the activities among them.
With regard to the dismissal of investigation agents (non-Russians) the difficulties for the Paris Office were often of major proportion. Despite their generous treatment, with liberal termination pay, ex-agents were fond of resorting to various forms of blackmail, suits in the courts, or defection to revolutionaries. They knew the vulnerability of the service and liked to capitalize on it.
When the entire Paris network was dismissed in 1913, the Okhrana, to play safe, methodically made each agent sign the receipt for termination pay, an oath that he had returned to the Okhrana all notes, photographs, communication codes, etc., and another oath that he would not divulge any information about the service. (See Folder 4.) The system helped, but not enough. Some agents still turned to the counter-intelligence office of the revolutionaries to tell what they knew and thus to ingratiate themselves for a job with Burtsev.
Folder 3 contains Headquarters circulars on ex-agents or people no longer considered trustworthy. Also, it published periodically the names of agents who had been recognized and declared provocateurs.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 127
Index VIl, Folder 1

Dispatches relating to the dismissal of agents for reasons of exposure, lack of confidence, morality, etc., 1903-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 127
Index VIl, Folder 2

Letters, notes, and other materials relating to dismissed agents Poznanskii, Tumarinson, Dlikman, Gurevich, Rabinovich, Le Cointe, and others, 1910-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 127
Index VIl, Folder 3

Headquarters circulars on dismissed former secret agents no longer considered trustworthy, 1909-1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 127
Index VIl, Folder 4

Termination folders for 30 individual non-Russian agents who were dismissed in October 1913, when the Paris Okhrana was publicly terminated, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 127
Index VIl, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

Box 63

VII. Positive intelligence

 

a. Military, political and economic

Scope and Contents note

The Paris Okhrana at various times received instructions from Headquarters forbidding all participation in military or any other form of intelligence except that of its specific assignment: collection of information on the exiled subversive elements and their activities. There are many instances, however, showing considerable interest in general intelligence information in time of peace, while in time of war actual operations were mounted to obtain intelligence outside the usual or approved scope of functions.
Manasevich-Manuilov, Okhrana staff officer, mounted operations for the penetration of diplomatic establishments and the Japanese communications system prior to and during the war of 1905. After the outbreak of World War I, the Okhrana abroad converted much of its activity to the war effort, including positive intelligence against the Central Powers. (See VIIc.)
It seems obvious from the extreme variety of contents of the materials in this collection that the Okhrana had no systematic approach to gathering positive intelligence. At times the reports probably came as by-products of counter-intelligence efforts, and seldom, if ever, as a result of specific assignments for the purpose.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 128
Index VIIa, Folder 1

Dispatches, drafts and notes, 1887-1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 128

Scope and Contents note

Includes instructions on military intelligence, 1905; climate in Algiers, 1887; report of the Catholic mission to Persia and Turkey, 1893; Japanese policy, 1905; German nationalist propaganda; the Masonic order; labor unions; International Parliamentary Union; Austria's policy toward Serbia, 1912; etc.
Index VIIa, Folder 2

Wartime intelligence reports, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 128

Scope and Contents note

Includes status of the "Cosmos" society, 1915; Japanese policy, 1915; economic and other intelligence in Sweden, 1915; French-British loans in the United States, 1915; Conference of Nationalities in Paris, 1915; military situation in Sweden, 1916; Czechoslovak leaders; etc.
Index VIIa, Folder 3

Newspaper clippings and notes

Access

Available on microfilm reel 128
Index VIIa, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Index VIIa, Folder 5

Reference: See incoming telegram, May 7, 1904, requesting information on submarine dealers, in XIIIc(3), folder 16

Index VIIa, Folder 6

Reference: See incoming telegram, November 17, 1904, reporting on ship movements through the Suez canal, in XIIIc(3), folder 16

 

b. Industrial espionage in Great Britain

Scope and Contents note

Paris Okhrana dispatches to Headquarters and the reports of case officers stationed in London frequently referred to the policy of the British authorities on shipping, labor unions, leftist organizations, and the like. There is little evidence, however, of any methodical intelligence reporting on England. This folder contains a collection of photographs on British naval units and establishments, evidently derived from some intelligence reporting, but there is no evidence that such material was sent to Okhrana Headquarters. It may have been passed on to the military missions in the field interested in such collections.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 128
Index VIIb, Folder 1

Photographs with captions in English, showing British naval units and other establishments

Access

Available on microfilm reel 128
Index VIIb, Folder 2

Cover note for copy of agreement between Lloyd George and various British labor unions, 1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 128
Index VIIb, Folder 3

Comments on the Russo-English Government Committee, 1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 128
 

c. Wartime political, economic, and other espionage in Germany and Austria

Scope and Contents note

The chronological arrangement of papers in this collection illustrates the Okhrana's approach to the job of collecting information on the Allied Powers. As all contact with pre-war agents was broken, Okhrana representatives in Switzerland engaged in sending Swiss operatives to Vienna and various German cities. The outstanding agent, Brunner, was caught on the second successful tour and soon thereafter perished in a German prison. Replacements were found. The results of these operations are significant in the concentration of the morale of the population, nature of propaganda, economy, and living standards, as well as other sociological aspects of the enemy. Also, the Okhrana showed considerable interest in the status of prisoners of war and German propaganda to foment nationalist and Marxist uprisings within Russia.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 128-129
Index VIIc, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to Okhrana agents in Germany and Austria, 1914-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reels 128-129

Scope and Contents note

Agent reports in German with French translations. Briefs of agents, questionnaires on political, economic, and other intelligence items. Information on Russian prisoners of war. One copy of Russkii vestnik, published for prisoners of war.
Index VIIc, Folder 2

Reference: For report on the arrest of Okhrana agent in Vienna, May 1915, see VIIIb

 

d. Intelligence on military equipment

Scope and Contents note

As in other matters of military intelligence, the Okhrana probably referred all information on arms to the interested military attaches. The small folder on this subject indicates, however, that there was some direct reporting to St. Petersburg Headquarters when information was received as a by-product of other operations. A 1905 draft refers to the remuneration of an agent obtaining information on Austrian artillery. The amounts of money to be paid sufficiently high (6,000 Marks) to suggest an important collection of information on the subject.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 129
Index VIId, Folder 1

Dispatches for staff agent Manasevich-Manuilov; report concerning information on Austrian artillery, 1904-1905

Access

Available on microfilm reel 129
Index VIId, Folder 2

Correspondence concerning a French model of an armored car, 1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 129
Index VIId, Folder 3

Dispatch relating to the assignment of agent Poniatovskii for military intelligence, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 129
Index VIId, Folder 4

Intercepted letter and reports regarding Mikhail Vinogradov in London offering newly designed weapons to Russia, 1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 129
Boxes 63-65

VIII. Counter-espionage

Box 63

a. Prior to World War I

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana's initial operations abroad were almost entirely of a general counter-intelligence nature: assembling and exploiting information on the subversive groups abroad. Gradually, there appear in the files documents of two counter-espionage categories: intelligence against hostile agents of foreign powers and information concerning the emerging intelligence service of the revolutionaries.
Folder 1 of this collection contains a few of the early counter-espionage documents on Germans allegedly working against France and Russia. Several Headquarters circulars give background information on Austrian and German espionage agents. There is an alert on an American sent to Russia on behalf of the Japanese service, and a note on Esterhazy of the Dreyfus affair in the British service against Russia. Several papers deal with Alexander Weissman, at one time in the Russian service (the Balkan Okhrana) and then defecting to the Austrian service. Some of the documents concern the "Japanese millions" allegedly paid to Russian high officers in a bribe in 1905. At the end of the folder is a collection of clippings concerning various espionage cases in Europe.
Folder 2 includes only documents referring to the operations' of Manasevich-Manuilov, a staff agent-at-large. The last documents in this set pertain to his operation that succeeded in acquiring a Japanese secret code book and using it for a short time until the Japanese discovered the intrusion. The book, Chernovik donesenii gives a day by day account of Manasevich-Manuilov's network penetrating various diplomatic missions and following up the Zilliacus and Dekanozi conspiracies (with the Japanese).
Folder 3 in this set gives three volumes of the Spisok (Roster) of foreign nationals expelled from Russia and not permitted to return. The issues are for 1891, 1894, and 1899. Among these undesirables are all those considered as spies of foreign governments.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 129-130
Index VIIIa, Folder 1

Dispatches, circulars and other materials relating to espionage cases and agents, 1886-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 129
Index VIIIa, Folder 2

Documents pertaining to Manasevich-Manuilov's counter-espionage operations and his case with obtaining and using Japanese secret code, 1905-1906

Access

Available on microfilm reel 129
Index VIIIa, Folder 3

Roster of foreign nationals expelled from Russia and not permitted to return, 1891, 1894, 1899

Access

Available on microfilm reel 129
Index VIIIa, Folder 4

Notebook, Chernoviki donesenii, case officer's entry of daily reports from 1905 on operations against the Japanese mission (Colonel Akashi), Chinese, Serbian, and other legations, and correspondence intercepts; Zilliacus and Dekanozi conspiracies, list of agents participating, etc., 1905

Access

Available on microfilm reel 130
Index VIIIa, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

Index VIIIa, Folder 6

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 74, February 26, 1904, concerning an Austrian espionage agent in Poland, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index VIIIa, Folder 7

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 75, March 4, 1904, on Japanese and German espionage in Russia, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index VIIIa, Folder 8

Reference: See incoming telegram, November 4, 1904, advising of the arrival of a Japanese espionage agent in Bucharest, in XIIIc(3), folder 16

Boxes 63-65

b. During World War I

Scope and Contents note

Soon after the outbreak of World War I, the Paris Okhrana became an important link in the Allied efforts to combat the espionage activities of Germany, Austria, and even Turkey. The activities of the seriously reduced personnel, both secret Russian agents and non-Russian investigators, had to be diverted to that task, thus neglecting the original purpose of watching and controlling the revolutionaries. Some revolutionaries, declaring themselves in favor of war against Germany and thus actively supporting the Russian regime, no longer needed watching, while others, such as the Leninist group, with their defeatist and essentially pro-German policy, in many instances became identical with the counter-espionage targets of the enemy.
The extensive materials in this collection are indicative of the varied counter-espionage targets of the Paris Okhrana during the war. Folder No. 1 contains copies of dispatches and notes on agents of the Central Powers and their intelligence activities and efforts to foment uprisings in Russia. Folders 5 and 6 have a large collection of biographic data on German agents in Switzerland and France, and Folder 13, Headquarters circulars on individual agents.
Most of the material in other folders is grouped by specific topics. Thus, Folder 3 contains notes on Nashe slovo and Trotsky, banned as pro-German; Folders 7 and 10 have notes on German intelligence in Sweden, with information on Parvus's activities and the work of the Finns on behalf of Germany; Folder 8 contains papers on the Benson case and German espionage in Switzerland.
Some of the folders have papers on the Okhrana's counter-espionage operations for purposes of penetration of the enemy, as for instance Folder 2 on double agent Dolin ("Lenin"-"Sharl"), which was in fact a counter-sabotage operation, or Folders 4, 10, and 15, giving information on the Okhrana's attempted counter-espionage.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 130-131, 133
Index VIIIb, Folder 1

Dispatches and other materials on agents of Germany, Austria, and Turkey working against Russia and the Allies; use of revolutionaries for intelligence purposes and for fomenting uprisings in Russia, 1914-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 130
Index VIIIb, Folder 2

Dispatches on double agent Dolin (code names "Lenin" and "Sharl") engaged by the German service and controlled by the Okhrana; news releases to mislead the German service, etc., 1914-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 130
Index VIIIb, Folder 3

Notes from Nashe slovo, Trotsky's daily newspaper, accused of being pro-German and banned, 1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 130
Index VIIIb, Folder 4

Correspondence with and about Count Holstein, 1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 5a

Biographic cards and lists of persons selling intelligence in Switzerland, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 5b

Reports on German spies and suspects in Switzerland, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 5c

Swiss federal lists of spies and suspects, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 5d

Agent Woltz's reports on spies and suspects, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 5e

Notes on suspect German agents, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 5f

Lists and background of agents of the Central Powers, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 6a

Biographic cards of suspects expelled from France, 1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 6b

Biographic cards on German espionage agents

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 7

Directives and reports on German intelligence in Sweden; notes on Parvus, etc., 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 131
Index VIIIb, Folder 8

Benson case related to German espionage in Switzerland; Dr. Ludwig Stein; Baroness Ida Leoni, etc.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIb, Folder 9

Mazia case: alleged Japanese millions to bribe Russian officers in 1905

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133

General note

See incoming dispatches #402 and 576/1913 in XIIIc(1).
Index VIIIb, Folder 10

Agent Sambain's letters on German espionage in Sweden; survey of German and Finnish activities and Russian agents in Sweden; notes on Kalisher (Dahlstrom) firm as a possible asset of the Russian service; review of German-Finnish intelligence in Sweden, etc., 1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIb, Folder 11

Reports on German and Turkish counter-espionage in Switzerland, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIb, Folder 12

Reports on Dmitrii Anichkin, head of the Russian Seaman's Union, allegedly employed by the German services, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIb, Folder 13

Headquarters circulars on individual German and Austrian agents and their espionage efforts, 1914-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIb, Folder 14

Various reports on individuals remaining in Vienna after the outbreak of the war; on Russian prisoners of war in Germany; on Prince Bebutov in Berlin; on German, Austrian, and Turkish offers to revolutionaries for work against Russia; on the statutes of the "Cosmos" club

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIb, Folder 15

Agent Brunner's report on his return form Germany where he conducted a counter-espionage investigation and report on his arrest, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIb, Folder 16

Cross-reference sheet

Index VIIIb, Folder 17

Reference: See operational card index file for references to counter-espionage during World War I

Index VIIIb, Folder 18

Reference: See agent Woltz's reports from Switzerland, 1915, in VIk, folder 53

Index VIIIb, Folder 19

Reference: See report of Paris Okhrana agent in Germany, 1916, in VIIc, folder 1

Index VIIIb, Folder 20

Reference: See documents on agent Bint's arrest in Switzerland, February-March 1917, in VIk, folder 6

Box 65

c. Finnish espionage on behalf of Germany

Scope and Contents note

Finnish revolutionaries, abandoning for the most part the early Marxist leadership of Konni Zilliacus, were largely nationalist-inspired at the outbreak of the war, agitating for full independence from Russia. As such, many became quite amenable to German inducements. German recruiting and other services in Stockholm and other Scandinavian centers were successful in recruiting large numbers for volunteer work as soldiers and agents. Some of the training centers for these Finnish rebels indicate a movement of considerable proportions.
The collection of papers in Folder 5 deals mostly with these training centers in Germany for the Finns. The report of the Governor General for Finland gives an analysis of the political situation in the country and the international pressures for its independence.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 132-133
Index VIIIc, Folder 1

Headquarters dispatches relating to the Finnish independence movement, 1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIc, Folder 2

Report on the Finnish Security Battalion at Lockstadt, 1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIc, Folder 3

Dispatch of agent Aebersold to Stockholm, 1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 133
Index VIIIc, Folder 4

Report of the Governor General of Finland, 1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index VIIIc, Folder 5

Reports on German training of Finns for intelligence and other operations against Russia, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Boxes 65-90

IX. Overt activities

Boxes 65-89

a. Newspaper service, clippings, collection of overt information

Scope and Contents note

The overt collection of information was an important task of the Okhrana abroad. Detailed expense accounts through the years show that agents, case officers, and Paris Office employees were purchasing leftist newspapers and other publications. Cover memoranda to Headquarters submitted these published materials weekly, usually without comments. Agents in the field attached to their reports pertinent clippings, while the Paris Office, using such overt materials as supplements to classified reports, kept collecting the clippings in general albums and in folders on specific intelligence topics.
It is possible that some of the collections of newspaper clippings were lost or discarded during the emergency move of the archives to Bordeaux when Paris was in danger of being taken by the German army. A set of 22 large albums, covering the period from 1902 to 1905, is organized in chronological order for French clippings. The selection of clippings ia general, including political, economic, and international topics, but without annotations or guides to numbered pages. Emphasis in this collection was made also on such matters as foreign reporting on events in Russia and émigré activities.
One large album, clippings on Burtsev's exposure of Garting, is of particular interest. Clippings collected from the leftist press and spokesmen for the revolutionary cause are suggestive of the methods used by revolutionary counter-intelligence to penetrate the Okhrana and employ defectors.
Other collections of clippings cover such topics as revolutionary activities in general, the attitudes of the French press toward the imperial family, the French Sûreté Générale, the Beilis case (an anti-Jewish trial in Russia), and the Tsar's Manifesto of 1903.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 1a

Correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris office referring to press service, publisher information, publications, etc., 1907-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 1b

Cover notes for newspapers and clippings sent to and from Headquarters, 1902-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 1c

Correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris office regarding newspapers and publications, 1894-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 1d

Manifest of Jewish anarchists, 1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 1e

Kropotkin's letter to Professor Stefan, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 1f

Report on the convention of the Grand Eastern Masonic Lodge in Paris, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 1g

Dispatches on cooperation between German Social Democrats and Russian revolutionaries, 1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 1h

Polish question in the press, 1913-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 1i

Collection of newspaper clippings on the visit of the Russian war fleet in French ports, 1893

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 2a

Clippings from French, Swiss, and English newspapers referring to revolutionaries, 1906-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 2b

Clippings from French newspapers on the Russian imperial family, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 2c

Clippings from French and Swiss newspapers on Russian matters not sent to Headquarters, 1913-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 3a

Clippings from French newspapers on the French Sûreté, 1913-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 3b

Clippings from French newspapers on the exploitation of Russian workers in coal mines in northern France, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 3c

Clippings from French and Swiss newspapers referring to the Beilis case, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 3d

Scrapbook with a collection of clippings from Le Matin by Rirette-Maitrejean

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
Index IXa, Folder 3e

Clippings from English, French and Russian newspapers on the Tsar's manifesto in 1903

Access

Available on microfilm reel 132
 

Scrapbooks of French newspaper clippings on various Russian matters, 1902-1905

Access

Available on microfilm reels 135-140
Index IXa, Folder 4

1902 October 21-December 31

Access

Available on microfilm reel 135

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: penetration of armed forces in Russia; an uprising in Macedonia; Russia and England's fight for Afghanistan; Finland; and Vladimir Lamzdorf's mission to Austria and the Balkans.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1903 January 1-March 4

Access

Available on microfilm reel 135

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: constitutionalism in Russia; war movements in the Balkans and Dardanelles; Russia's preliminary budget for 1903; and Finland.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1903 March 5-May 16

Access

Available on microfilm reel 135

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the Tsar's manifesto; crisis in the Balkans; Gots's arrest in Italy; student unrest; assassinations; the workers' movement; pogroms; and Poland.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1903 May 17-July 29

Access

Available on microfilm reel 136

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: pogroms in Russia; war preparations in Asia; attacks on Roosevelt for his stand against the pogroms; and Georges Clemenceau.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1903 July 30-October 13

Access

Available on microfilm reel 136

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: strikes in Russia; Russian interests in the Far East; Kishinev pogrom; Witte dismissed; revolutionary movement; pogroms; Tsar in Vienna; and internal troubles in Russia.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1903 October 13-December 31

Access

Available on microfilm reel 136

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the Russo-Japanese conflict; the pogrom in Gomel; Armenian revolutionaries; and reforms in Russia.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1904 January 1-28 June

Access

Available on microfilm reel 136

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the crisis in the Far East; incident at the Avenue de Choisy where four Okhrana agents were exposed; Grigorii Gershuni's letter after his death sentence; August Bebel; revolutionary propaganda in the Russian army; Burtsev; revolution in Poland; and Bobrikov's assassination by Eugen Schauman.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1904 (special album on Burtsev's exposure of Garting)

Access

Available on microfilm reel 136
Index IXa, Folder 4

1904 June 29-August 10

Access

Available on microfilm reel 137

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: internal troubles in Russia; and the assassination of Pleve.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1904 August 11-October 31

Access

Available on microfilm reel 137

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the Congress of the French Socialist Party; Congress of the Russian Social Revolutionaries in Amsterdam; Manasevich-Manuilov exposed as an Okhrana agent; Tsar's manifesto; Sazonov's escape; students and the Russian police; and the Russian army.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1904 November 1-December 27

Access

Available on microfilm reel 137

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: Russian socialists; the agrarian problem; anti-Semitism; and trial of Sazonov and Sikorskii for the assassination of Pleve.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1904 December 28-December 22

Access

Available on microfilm reel 137

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the revolution in Russia; the Tsar's manifeso; Tolstoy's letter to the Tsar; Sazonov's trial; Father Gapon; and a general strike in Russia.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 January 22-27 January

Access

Available on microfilm reel 138

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: revolutionaries in Russia; Father Gapon; bloody demonstrations in Petrograd; the role played by Japanese money; and Russians in Paris.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 January 28-February 4

Access

Available on microfilm reel 138

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: speeches by Anatole France; Plekhanov; Gorky; and Struve.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 February 5-18

Access

Available on microfilm reel 138
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 February 18-March 1

Access

Available on microfilm reel 138

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei; revolutionary action in Poland and Russia; Father Gapon; and Gorky.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 March 2-21

Access

Available on microfilm reel 139

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: terrorists in Russia; Father Gapon; revolts in the Caucasus and Poland; Gorky's release from prison; anarchists and nihilists; Bernhard von Bélow; Jews in the Russian revolution; and Georges Clemenceau on Poland.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 March 22-April 28

Access

Available on microfilm reel 139

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: a school strike in Poland; Father Gapon; and Russian revolution.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 June 13-July 8

Access

Available on microfilm reel 139

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: events in Yalta, Warsaw, and Lodz; zemstvos; Kaliaev's letter to the widow of Grand Duke Sergei; Social-Democratic appeal to Russian soldiers; Russian peasants; Jean Jaurés on the revolution; and the Potemkin mutiny.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 July 9-25

Access

Available on microfilm reel 139

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the Potemkin mutiny; armed forces affected by revolutionary slogans; assassination of Pavel Shuvalov; revolutionary action in Russia, Poland, and Armenia; the Jews and the revolution; zemstvos; internal troubles of Russia; and the meeting of the Tsar and Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 July 25-August 16

Access

Available on microfilm reel 139

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the Tsar's meeting with Kaiser Wilhelm II; Potemkin mutiny; England; Zionism; the Bund; and plans for a general assembly in Russia
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 August 17-29

Access

Available on microfilm reel 139

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the Duma; Potemkin mutiny; revolution in Poland; interests of Russia and England in Persia; and the constitutional movement.
Index IXa, Folder 4

1905 August 29-June 12

Access

Available on microfilm reel 140

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the situation in Poland and Finland; Kaliaev's trial and sentence; Father Gapon; Struve's correspondence with Jaurés.
Box 66

b. Influencing local press

Scope and Contents note

The Paris Okhrana always had the interest and apparently the means of exerting some influence on the press abroad, but two periods in its existence stand out as particularly active and significant in this respect. By the 1890s, Chief Rachkovskii had developed a close contact with Jules Hansen, a correspondent with wide access to the press and to important government officials, leading to much publicity on the emerging Franco-Russian alliance and to increased cooperation with the Sûreté against the revolutionaries. Hansen was the recipient of Okhrana funds, but the records are vague or nonexistent regarding the total expenses in this form of the Okhrana's political action.
Similarly, in the case of Manasevich-Manuilov, the Okhrana's staff agent in Paris during the first few years of the century, it is difficult to deduce the amount of funds used by him for the purpose of influencing the foreign press. That was his assignment in Paris in 1902, when he was rated as a political rather than an intelligence agent. In addition to developing contacts with high officials in government and diplomatic missions, his tasks consisted of influencing the press, providing for releases and modifying editorial policies.
Folder 1 of this collection contains mostly correspondence with Headquarters concerning contacts with the foreign press, drafts of prepared articles, subsidies, etc. Folder. No. 2 concerns Manasevich-Manuilov's liasion to Paris with regard to contacts with the French press.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 134
Index IXb, Folder 1a

Correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris office pertaining to contacts with the foreign press and influencing the selection of news on Russia, 1893-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 134
Index IXb, Folder 1b

Articles, clippings, and translations published in the foreign press, 1891-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 134
Index IXb, Folder 1c

Correspondence pertaining to subsidies for the French press, 1889-1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 134
Index IXb, Folder 1d

Consideration by Headquarters for a subsidy for Parizhskii vestnik

Access

Available on microfilm reel 134
Index IXb, Folder 1e

Reports on the activities of Trofimov in England, 1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 134
Index IXb, Folder 1f

Coverage of the Rips trial by the French press, 1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 134
Index IXb, Folder 2

Notes and letters of instruction to Manasevich-Manuilov on his Paris mission to establish contacts with the French press and influence publication of news about Russia, 1902-1904

Access

Available on microfilm reel 134
Index IXb, Folder 3

Reference: See outgoing telegram, March 5, 1903, re influencing the Nouvelle Revue, in XIIIb(2), folder 2

Index IXb, Folder 4

Reference: See incoming telegram, March 31, 1904, on payment for 100 subscriptions to Gaulois, in XIIIc(3), folder 16

Index IXb, Folder 5

Reference: See incoming telegram, June 18, 1904, with approval for the purchase of subscriptions to Le Gaulois and Le Figaro, in XIIIc(3), folder 16

Index IXb, Folder 6

Reference: See incoming telegram, June 21, 1905, concerning the necessity of "warning" the French public against a French correspondent writing unfavorable articles, in XIIIc(3), folder 18

Index IXb, Folder 7

Reference: See incoming telegram, June 1, 1905, with instructions for press releases to newspapers concerning disorder on the Potemkin, in XIIIc(3), folder 18

Box 90

c. Cooperation with Russian missions abroad

Scope and Contents note

As the documents in this small collection indicate, contacts of Okhrana representatives with diplomatic, consular, and other Russian missions abroad was considered undesirable, if not expressly forbidden. Under Vg, the documents related to actual liaison for purposes of exchanging information, required particularly in war days or in cases of checking on the loyalty of employees and applicants for visas and passports. Under this index, the documents deal chiefly with overt matters. It is interesting to note that missions abroad used the normal diplomatic channels, communicating with their home office, which referred the matter to Okhrana Headquarters, where, in turn, the case was submitted to the Okhrana representative in the field.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 140
Index IXc, Folder 1

Dispatches and notes of the cooperation with diplomatic and consular missions in overt matters, 1906-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 140

General note

See also the collection under Vg.
Index IXc, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Box 90

d. General services, favors

Scope and Contents note

The first four folders hold a few dispatches and many letters referring to general matters of no operational or intelligence significance. The letters are mostly requests for various favors or expressions of thanks therefore, inquiries about addresses or welfare of individuals, denunciations among émigrés, and the like. In the Folder 5 there is a batch of some few hundred calling cards and an equal number of picture post cards addressed mostly to Okhrana personnel and kept as souvenirs.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 140-141
Index IXd, Folder 1

Letters from Headquarters concerning general services, 1881-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 140
Index IXd, Folder 2

Letters on various matters in general services, 1881-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 140
Index IXd, Folder 3

Reports on Russian workers at the Auby mines, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 140
Index IXd, Folder 4

Undated letters on various matters

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index IXd, Folder 5

Miscellaneous documents including a pack of calling cards, picture postcards, 2 notebooks of Rosenkrantz (1890), etc.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index IXd, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 91-101

X. Operational techniques

Box 91

a. Agent documentation

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana enjoyed special status in matters of obtaining passports and other travel documents for the use of its agents. It had the facilities and contacts with the issuing authorities at home and abroad, and it could arrange for the passports to read in any pseudonym chosen for an agent's use. The passports and communications about them show that an agent could be given two passports at the same time, for instance, one for use in Russia, and another one for abroad. The dispatches also show that the Okhrana abroad was supplied with blank passports, to be used at its discretion or at the discretion of the case officers.
As one set of documents shows, agents were given briefing instructions on the use of passports in connection with foreign resident requirements in France and other countries. In addition to the required briefing of the agents with extra-legal passports, the Okhrana also informed such organs as the border controls about the nature and authority of any passport that might otherwise come under suspicion.
The documents in this collection are included mostly as samples, in order to give a comprehensive picture of the methods of agent documentation.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 1

Passport for agent Simon Zilberstein ("Aleks"), 1906

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 2

Passport for agent Herzig, under the name of Bekchiev, 1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 3

Passport for Okhrana office employee Fedorova in Paris, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 4

Passport issued in Vitebsk for agent Model, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 5

22 Russian passports

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 6

Letters of documentation for agent Neuhaus, 1911-1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 7

Briefing materials on passport and foreign resident requirements in France, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 8

Special passes for agents, some signed by Durnovo, 1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 9

Dispatches pertaining to the use of passports in secret Okhrana operations, 1903-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xa, Folder 10

Cross-reference sheet

Box 91

b. Control of photographic studios in Paris

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana in Paris never succeeded with the requests to establish a photographic section of its own. Principal agent Marcel Bittard-Monin, upon the Okhrana's request, went so far as to collect all necessary data on photographic equipment and costs, but an Okhrana photo shop was never set up. Headquarters and area subdivisions were equipped with police-type laboratories, as the assortments of pictures on file from their rogue (revolutionary) galleries indicate.
The extensive photographic file (see boxes under XIIIf(4)) was the product of constant collection. Many photos of revolutionaries came from Headquarters files. Another sizeable collection was gathered in the field, particularly through the control of, or less formal contact with, various photographic studios in Paris and elsewhere. In the pictorial files of the Okhrana are many sets of pictures obtained from studios catering to Russian émigré groups.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xb, Folder 1a

Letter to Ambassador from Photo-Malivert offering their services, 1905

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xb, Folder 1b

Documents concerning the cost of equipment for photographic studios in the Paris Okhrana office, 1909

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xb, Folder 1c

Dispatch concerning extra copies of photographs of revolutionaries from St. Petersburg, 1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xb, Folder 1d

Letter from Paris photographic studio announcing a change of address, 1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 141
Index Xb, Folder 2

Reference: For information on the Laizier photographic studio in Paris, 1914, see IIIe, folder 3

Index Xb, Folder 3

Reference: See the personal dossier of Henri Ozanne, who was hired in 1908 for his photographic services, in IIIe, folder 3

Boxes 91-92

c. Censorship and perlustration

Scope and Contents note

The only systematic and fairly continuous censorship of mails was developed by the Paris Okhrana in an area of coastal resort towns of the Italian Riviera. Its non-Russian agents succeeded in engaging some postal officials to "lend" them the mail (at the rate of five francs per letter) for overnight use and perlustration (exact copy with a transparent overlay). If such helping service was achieved in Paris or other parts, it was only occasionally and with the help of accommodating concierges rather than postal employees.
Before modern photocopying, perlustration was a method of considerable advantage. Copyists were able to reproduce the "hand" of the writer, leaving no telling mark on the original, with envelopes (use of steam for opening) resealed expertly and without traces of added glue. In 1909, the Paris Office requested the establishment of a photographic darkroom for copying of correspondence, but no such section was ever added.
Folder 1 of this collection is an assortment of perlustrated letters of various revolutionaries abroad. The contents, reproduced in typed form, are unimportant and included primarily as examples of perlustration. Folder 2 has two dispatches referring to Burtsev's accusation censorship by the Okhrana in Paris and also two sets of letters addressed to revolutionary Rubanovich. Included with these is an expense account of principal agent Bint in Paris, charging five francs for each letter, possibly paid to the cooperating mail clerk. The items in Folder 3 include a set of original censored letters, Headquarters instructions to submit letters intercepted from Burtsev's mails, and an account of the scandal in Italy, where a postal employee was dismissed for delivering the mail of the revolutionaries to an Okhrana agent.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 1

Perlustrated letters of various revolutionaries abroad in Geneva, Paris, London, etc., 1903, 1905

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142

Scope and Contents note

Marked in the Okhrana file as useless as intelligence sources.
Index Xc, Folder 2a

Dispatches concerning censorship of mail in Paris and Burtsev's accusation in the press, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 2b

Perlustrated letters to Rubanovich, 1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 2c

Perlustrated letters, 1895-1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 2d

Intercepted letters from Moscow to Pontoise and from Montreaux to Switzerland, 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 3a

Various intercepted and perlustrated letters, 1884-1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 3b

Instructions about sending intercepted letters of Burtsev to Headquarters

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 3c

Dispatches regarding the scandal with agents in the Italian post office, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 3d

Report from the Paris office concerning the establishment of a photographic darkroom for perlustration of correspondence, 1909

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 3e

Dispatch on the perlustration of Fundaminskii's mail, 1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xc, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Index Xc, Folder 5

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 18, February 1, 1903, on the use of perlustrated correspondence of revolutionaries by the Okhrana offices, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index Xc, Folder 6

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 22, February 28, 1903, on the use of information obtained from intercepted mail, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index Xc, Folder 7

Reference: See agent Pouchot's report on Leone's turning to Burtsev, in XXVIIa, folder 3

Index Xc, Folder 8

Reference: For complete sets of perlustrated mail addressed to Agafonov and Natanson, June 1908-March 1909, see XXIVa

Box 92

d. Graphological study of handwriting

Scope and Contents note

A number of small folders and enveloped were set aside in the original Okhrana files, marked as samples of handwriting and original signatures. The records do not reveal the assets or capabilities of the Paris Office in matters of graphological study, but some documents indicate that letters were submitted to it for analysis and identification of handwriting. The files also contain photographs of samples of handwriting.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 142-143
Index Xd, Folder 1

Perlustrated letters used as examples for the study of the handwriting of revolutionaries; samples of Burtsev's handwriting, 1905-1907

Access

Available on microfilm reel 142
Index Xd, Folder 2

Photographs of handwriting samples of Trautman and an unidentified individual

Access

Available on microfilm reel 143
Index Xd, Folder 3

Samples of handwriting kept on file

Access

Available on microfilm reel 143
Index Xd, Folder 4

Letters from Zabrezhnev, submitted for analysis to the Paris Okhrana, 1905

Access

Available on microfilm reel 143
Index Xd, Folder 5

Dispatches pertaining to graphological studies and identification of individuals through them, 1905-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 143
Boxes 92-99

e. Surveillance

Scope and Contents note

The surveillance of subversives and various types of suspects was one of the principal tasks of the non-Russian investigation agents. While assignments called for any type of detective work and contacting of police and security organs or postal employees, hotel clerks and concierges, most of their time was used for watching the movements and associations of their Russian revolutionary targets. The bulk of this extensive collection covers surveillance reports arranged in folders according to the agent reporting. The substance of these reports, wherever of more permanent significance, may be found in the dispatches prepared from raw reports and in other subject files; these surveillance reports, in many instances discussing the nature of the work itself, are gathered in illustration of the methods and results of operation.
The first 54 folders are arranged alphabetically by agents serving at their surveillance assignments. The contents are for the most part written raw reports and telegrams. The targets of their surveillance and the dates of operation are stated, but not always the locale.
Folders 55-60 pertain to special surveillance tasks, team assignments, journal or log record keeping on surveillance jobs, etc. The inventory to Xe describes each set of papers by folder. Of some special interest are such documents as requests for increases in surveillance staffs (Folder 55), assignment distribution by teams and targets, and surveillance difficulties after defection of an important agent (Folder No. 56), or surveillance of high Russian officials, including even General Gerasimov, in command of the gendarmes (in various folders). Under Folder 60, there is a collection of eighteen notebooks illustrates recordkeeping on surveillance assignments, distribution of agents, assignment of targets, results, etc.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 143-159
 

Reports by agent

Index Xe, Folder 1

Aebersold, Jean, 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 143

Scope and Contents note

Reports from London on Karpovich and Stenback in particular.
Index Xe, Folders 2-3

Barthes, Aime, 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 143

Scope and Contents note

Reports from Paris and Grenoble.
Index Xe, Folder 4

Bint, Henry, 1911-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reels 143-144
Index Xe, Folder 5

Bittard-Monin, Marcel, 1908-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reels 144-145
Index Xe, Folder 6

Boniol, Marius, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 145

Scope and Contents note

Reports from Paris and Cannes on Dobrovskii, Lokevich, Feit, Barthold, and "Ernest."
Index Xe, Folder 7

Bouteillier, Pierre, 1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 145
Index Xe, Folder 8

Breyne, Charles de, 1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 145

Scope and Contents note

Mainly reports on Fabrikant.
Index Xe, Folder 9

Capusso, Luigi, 1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 145
Index Xe, Folder 10

Cazayus, Rene, 1913-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 145

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Eichenbaum, Kartvelov, Jollivet, Leroy, etc.
Index Xe, Folder 11

Charlet, Charles, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 145
Index Xe, Folder 12

David, Etienne, 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 145
Index Xe, Folder 13

Delangle, Charles, 1911-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 145

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Barthold, Kobyzev, Argunov, Alianskii, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 14

Drouchot, Berthe, 1911-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 146
Index Xe, Folder 15

Durin, Henri, 1909-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reels 146-147

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Alianskii, Klebodorov, Tarasova-Bobrov, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 16

Dussaussois, Gabriel, 1912-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 147
Index Xe, Folder 17

Feuger, Fernand, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 147
Index Xe, Folder 18

Fontaine-Hamard, Paul, 1910-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 148

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Klemov, Lukanov, Fabrikant, Boulanger, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 19

Fontaine, Mme., 1910-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 148
Index Xe, Folder 20

Fontana, Jean Louis, 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 148
Index Xe, Folder 21

Frumento, Arturo, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 148
Index Xe, Folder 22

Godard, Georges, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 148

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Korisko, Gluckman, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 23

Gottlieb, René, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 149

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Dobrovolskii (Chatillon), Argunov (Paris), Barthold (Paris), Fabrikant (Nice), Shkolnik (Paris), Bessel (Paris), and Guerchnikov (Paris).
Index Xe, Folder 24

Hennequin, Edmond, 1910-1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 149

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Chernovskii, Lukanov, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 25

Henry, Charles, 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 149
Index Xe, Folder 26

Invernizzi, Eugene, 1908-1916

Access

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Index Xe, Folder 27

Jaton, Oscar, 1912-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 150
Index Xe, Folder 28

Jollivet, Georges and Raoul, 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 150

Scope and Contents note

Reports from Paris, Genoa, etc. on Vadimov, Boulenger, Vassiliev, Mazurenko, etc.
Index Xe, Folder 29

Laurent, Bernard, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 151

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Bakulin, Barthold, Mazurenko, Korisko, Bessel, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 30

Lecointe, Eugene, 1909-1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 151

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Mokronov, Chernovskii, Kontrasvitz, Eugenie.
Index Xe, Folder 31

Leon, Georges, 1912-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 151
Index Xe, Folder 32

Leone, Francesco, 1911

Access

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Index Xe, Folder 33

Lévęque, Eugéne, 1903-1913

Access

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Index Xe, Folder 34

Otte, Leon, 1911-1913

Access

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Scope and Contents note

Reports from Brussels.
Index Xe, Folder 35

Ozanne, Henri, 1909

Access

Available on microfilm reel 152
Index Xe, Folder 36

Pavesi, Francesco, 1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 152

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Stoliarov and others.
Index Xe, Folder 37

Pouchot, Auguste, 1910-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 152

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Moiseenko, Fundaminskii, Boulenger, Eichenbaum, Korisko, Barhold, etc.
Index Xe, Folder 38

Powell, Francis, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 152

Scope and Contents note

Reports from London.
Index Xe, Folder 39

Richard, Gabrielle, 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 153

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Sophie Brodsky, Maria Shkolnik, Richetnikov, Denisovich, Mamontov, and Deverenko.
Index Xe, Folder 40

Rigault, C., 1891-1907

Access

Available on microfilm reel 153
Index Xe, Folder 41

Rime-Coussonnet, Georges, 1913-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 154

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Fundaminskii, Barthold, Lopatin, Karpovich, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 42

Riot, Robert, 1912-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 154

Scope and Contents note

Reports from Paris on Nathanson, Barthold, and Korisko.
Index Xe, Folder 43

Robail, Jean, 1910-1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 154

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Spann, Makarov, Barthold, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 44

Roselli, Adolphe, 1912-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 154

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Fabrikant, Klimova, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 45

Rougeaux, Anatole, 1912-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 154

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Argunov, Volkhovskii, Barthold, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 46

Sambain, Albert, 1903-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 154

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Krochmal, Marie Goldsmith, Nachatyr, Moiseenko, Gumerus, Ernest, Dobrovolskii, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 47

Sauvard, Alphonse, 1910-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 155

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Boulenger, Feit, Sletov, Stoliarov, Barthold, Korisko, etc.
Index Xe, Folder 48

Schmidelin, Edouard, 1909-1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 155
Index Xe, Folder 49

Thomas, Rene, 1909

Access

Available on microfilm reel 155
Index Xe, Folder 50

Thorpe, Michael, 1908-1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 155
Index Xe, Folder 51

Tiercelin, Mme., 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 155

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Lukanov, Fabrikant, Lebedev, Godefrein, Maria Wendel, Barthold, Korisko, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 52

Vizzardelli, Vincenzo, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 155
Index Xe, Folder 53-54

Vogt, Maurice, 1909-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 155

Scope and Contents note

Reports on Makarov, Lukanov, Moiseenko, Lydov, Vadimov, Korisko, and others.
Index Xe, Folder 55a

Records on the surveillance of Tikhomirov, 1884

Access

Available on microfilm reel 156
Index Xe, Folder 55b

Daily surveillance reports on the arrests of revolutionaries in Paris by agents Rigault and Fehrenbach, 1890

Access

Available on microfilm reel 156
Index Xe, Folder 55c

Daily surveillance reports of Lazarev, 1894

Access

Available on microfilm reel 156
Index Xe, Folder 55d

Dispatch from the Paris Okhrana requesting reorganization of the surveillance system, 1906

Access

Available on microfilm reel 156
Index Xe, Folder 55e

Surveillance report on Patrick, contact of the revolutionaries, 1906

Access

Available on microfilm reel 156
Index Xe, Folder 55f

Dispatch requesting permission to increase surveillance staff of the Paris office, 1909

Access

Available on microfilm reel 156
Index Xe, Folder 56

Surveillance reports by the Paris Okhrana team, 1909 December

Access

Available on microfilm reel 156
Index Xe, Folder 57a

Papers on the surveillance system and assignment of teams and targets, 1909

Access

Available on microfilm reel 157
Index Xe, Folder 57b

Bittard-Monin's report on the problems of surveillance due to Leroy's defection to Burtsev's side, 1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 157
Index Xe, Folder 57c

Dispatch concerning the expansion of the Paris Okhrana surveillance force, 1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 157
Index Xe, Folder 57d

Notes on the grouping of surveillance teams and assignment of targets, 1911-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 157
Index Xe, Folder 57e

Surveillance of Russian naval captain Ketlinskii, 1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 157
Index Xe, Folder 58a

Surveillance reports on 22 Russians in connection with the "Laboratoire Russe de Zoologie" at Villefranche by agents Fontaine and Fontana, 1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 157
Index Xe, Folder 58b

Surveillance reports on Barthold, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 157
Index Xe, Folder 58c

Surveillance reports on Dobrovolskii; reports from various detectives in Paris, including Powell and Kerr, recalled from London, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 157
Index Xe, Folder 59a

Surveillance reports on Mme. Korisko in Paris, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 158
Index Xe, Folder 59b

Surveillance reports on Mme. Kartvelova, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 158
Index Xe, Folder 59c

Surveillance reports on Argunov and family in Clarens and Davos, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 158
Index Xe, Folder 59d

Surveillance on General Gerasimov, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 158
Index Xe, Folder 59e

Miscellaneous material on surveillance referencing communiqué No. 391 (March 7/20, 1913), 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 158
Index Xe, Folder 59f

Letter on the nature and extent of surveillance in various places

Access

Available on microfilm reel 158
Index Xe, Folder 59g

Miscellaneous materials on surveillance, 1886-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 158
Index Xe, Folder 60

Agents' notebooks with addresses, assignments, journals, and surveillance records, 1893-1894, 1909-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reels 158-159
Index Xe, Folder 61

Cross-reference sheet

Index Xe, Folder 62

Reference: See directive circular no. 5200, August 13, 1902, on rules of surveillance, in XIIId(1), folder 8

Index Xe, Folder 63

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 15, January 10, 1903, with instructions on surveillance procedures, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index Xe, Folder 64

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 50, September 11, 1903, with instructions on surveillance procedures, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index Xe, Folder 65

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 63, December 11, 1903, with instructions on surveillance procedures, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index Xe, Folder 66

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 83, April 29, 1904, with instructions on assignment of surveillance agents, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index Xe, Folder 67

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 86, May 20, 1904, regarding the processing of surveillance data, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index Xe, Folder 68

Reference: See daily surveillance reports on Burtsev and his revolutionary intelligence agents in 1909, in XVIId, folder 3

Box 99

f. Safe houses (clandestine quarters, passwords)

Scope and Contents note

The original Okhrana files contained no separate folders or records pertaining to its handling of such matters as safe houses for secret meetings with agents, passwords, or various tricks of recognition. From the memoranda in the various operational folders, it can be noted that case officers arranged meetings with subordinate agents according to circumstances rather than in conformity with any routine procedure.
Only a small batch of documents treating specifically the subject are collected in this folder on safe houses and passwords. Agent Mme. Tiercelin in Paris was frequently assigned the responsibility of renting or equipping safe houses (apartments) for clandestine meetings of agents and case officers. Two sets of her bills in this connection are included in the folder.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 159
Index Xf, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to clandestine meetings, safe houses, and passwords, 1905-1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 159
Index Xf, Folder 2

Bills and expense accounts of agent Tiercelin and others in connection with safe houses, 1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 159
Index Xf, Folder 3

Dispatch proposing a villa rental in Nice, 1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 159
Index Xf, Folder 4

Circulars and dispatches giving accomodation address for agents, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 159
Boxes 100, 101A, 101B

g. Albums of photographs for office and agent use

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of important revolutionaries were inserted in albums for use as reference and instructional and recognition materials. One large album, with each mounted photograph given a reference number, was used as the basic reference in the Paris Okhrana Office. The collection contains fourteen medium-size albums in approximately the same arrangement, some of them with names under the pictures, some with an index of names attached to the covers. Another set of fifteen pocket-size albums in a similar order was entrusted to agents assigned to surveillance tasks in the field. Not all of these albums are in the same arrangement of pictures, while the numbering system for persons in the illustrations is usually the same. Thus, the agent reporting from the field did not have to mention the name of his target, but only the number assigned in the album.
Index Xg

Large album of photographs of revolutionaries for office use

General note

This portion of the collection was not microfilmed.
Index Xg

Medium size albums with indices of names

Box 101A

Medium size album with indices of names (1), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Medium size album with indices of names (2), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Medium size album with indices of names (3), 1890-1910

Box 101A

Medium size album with indices of names (4), 1890-1910

Box 101A

Medium size album with indices of names (5), 1890-1910

Box 101A

Medium size album with indices of names (6), 1890-1910

Box 101A

Medium size album with indices of names (7), 1890-1910

Box 101A

Medium size album with indices of names (8), 1890-1910

Box 101A

Medium size album with indices of names (9), 1890-1910

Box 101A

Medium size album with indices of names (10), 1890-1910

Box 100

Medium size album with indices of names (11), 1890-1910

Box 100

Medium size album with indices of names (12), 1890-1910

Box 100

Medium size album with indices of names (13), 1890-1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 159
Index Xg

Pocket size albums for agent use

Access

Available on microfilm reel 159
Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (1), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (2), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (3), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (4), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (5), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (6), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (7), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (8), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (9), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (10), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (11), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (12), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (13), 1890-1910

Box 101B

Pocket size album for agent use (14), 1890-1910

Boxes 102-103

XI. Penetration and infiltration of opposing groups

Box 102

a. Double agents

Scope and Contents note

Nearly all agents of the so-called vnutrenniaia (internal) agentura abroad served with the purpose of penetrating and infiltrating the revolutionary groups. In a broad sense, all these penetration agents were double agents, but few of them actually served in such a capacity, i.e. few of them achieved the status of serving as alleged revolutionary agents against the Okhrana, which controlled them. Some such cases were developed early in 1914. Okhrana agents were employed by the revolutionary counter-intelligence, but under continued and actually increased Okhrana control. The case of agent Dolin (code names: Lenin and Shari) was different in that he was hired by the German service to work for them on sabotage tasks in Russia, but of course under the guidance and control of the Okhrana.
Folder 1 of this collection contains documents on this double agent, Dolin, operating from 1914 to 1916. Included in the same folder are the papers on double agents Permiak (Brontman), Maria Petrova (Julieta), and Berg. Folder 2 includes materials on double agent Mme Richard (Jane), working for the Okhrana as Burtsev's agent in 1914. Other outstanding double agent cases in the collection are those of Rapaport (Silberman); Starkov for the period of 1906-1908; Beitner (Levushka, Moskvich, etc.), who acted as Burtsev's partner in the Novoe Yremia; Batushanskii (Babadzhan), and others. Folder 2 also holds some of the papers on the Frenchman Jollivet, one of the successful Okhrana operators in the capacity as agent for revolutionary counter-intelligence.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 1a

Dolin-"Lenin," 1914-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 1b

Permiak, 1912-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 1c

Petrova, Mariia L., 1911-1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 1d

Berg, I., 1915-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 2a

Richard, Mme., 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 2b

Rappoport, 1906-1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 2c

Beitner, L.D., 1904-1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 2d

Batushanskii, B., 1907-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 2e

Notes, letters, dispatches, and reports on the following double agents: Abramov, Brodskii, Zilbertstein, Wackman, Ankerman, Poznanskii-Goldendakh, Weisman, Chauvin, Zagorskaia, Kogan-"Aleks," Gudin, Rabinovich, "M" (Milewski), Jollivet, Gramm, and Grunbaum-"Monser"

Access

Available on microfilm reel 160
Index XIa, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XIa, Folder 4

Reference: See index numbers IIIe, IIIf, and VIk

Index XIa, Folder 5

Reference: See agent Wackman's reports on conferences in XVIc

Index XIa, Folder 6

Reference: See Jollivet's reports, 1913-1914, on his French double agent team in Burtsev's office, in VIk, folder 29

Boxes 102-103

b. Placement of agents into conspiratorial organizations

Scope and Contents note

Headquarters in St. Petersburg made frequent suggestions on target organizations, committees, and revolutionary conferences that should be penetrated through the placement of agents. Such prnoteing was received even in a few cases where the case officer had already proceeded to install operatives as members of committees of the revolutionary target groups. The targets were, of course, all revolutionary units, coming into existence in every western community where there was an appreciable number of emigres from the Empire, so many in fact that the Paris Okhrana never had enough men to satisfy its needs.
A method was therefore developed to have the agents at important centers, preferably at top levels, in committees and spots where the continuity of placement and further build-up of their cover as revolutionaries was fairly assured. The main targets of penetration thus came to be such centers as the central committees of the Socialist Revolutionaries and Social Democrats, the Anarchist center in London, the terrorist fighting unit of the Socialist Revolutionaries, the major revolutionary press, and the groups engaged in arms smuggling. The folders of this collection are arranged for the most part by the name of the penetration agents, as listed in the inventory to the folders, one or very few papers are enclosed on some of these operatives, and any research on these individuals should also include a review of the folders on individual agents under Indices Ille and Illf, and, the case of non-Russian agents, also in VIk.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 1

Report to Headquarters on various matters referring to the revolutionaries (1903); instructions from Headquarters; Burtsev's action exposing Okhrana agents; correspondence regarding penetration activities; Vorobeichik (1895), Prodan (1904), and Zagorskaia (1905), 1895-1905

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
 

Agent files

Index XIb, Folder 2a

Kurianskii, 1905-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2b

Kaplun, 1907-1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2c

Kensitskii

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2d

Iost-Tetelman, 1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2e

Chizhikov, 1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2f

Zenkovskii, 1909

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2g

Shakhnovskii, 1909-1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2h

Zharkov, 1908-1909

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2i

L'vov, 1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2j

Kaminchan, 1910

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2k

Brodskii, 1910-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2l

Eniseiskii, 1910-1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2m

Molchanovskii, 1910-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2n

Kagan, 1910-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2o

Makharevich, 1911

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2p

Orlovskii, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2q

Dlikman

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 2r

Rudenko, 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3a

Rek

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3b

Demetrashvili, 1912-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3c

Poznanskii, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3d

Shakhovskii ("Falstaff"), 1911-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3e

Briandinskii, 1912-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3f

Kuranov, 1912

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3g

Dorozhko-"Moliére," 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3h

Kozlov, 1912-1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3i

Goncharov, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3j

Mass, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3k

Mikhnevich, 1913

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3l

"Mars," 1913-1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3m

Lebuk, 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3n

Lerner

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3o

"Amerikanets," 1914

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3p

Paul, 1911-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 3q

Mikhailkovskii

Access

Available on microfilm reel 161
Index XIb, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Index XIb, Folder 5

Reference: For agent Pilenas's letters on Lithuanian revolutionaries in London, see XXII

Index XIb, Folder 6

Reference: See agent Kornfeld's report on the personal history of Rubinovich and an intelligence analysis, in XVIb(1)

Index XIb, Folder 7

Reference: See documents on the exposure of agent Kensitskii in XXIVc

Box 103

c. Outstanding cases

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
 

(1) Missions to Scandinavia - Sambain, Aebersold, and other agents

Scope and Contents note

The documents contained in this subject file refer to the wartime mission of agent Sambain to the Scandinavian countries on an espionage and counter-espionage mission on behalf of the Okhrana. Sambain was primarily interested in German activities in Sweden and Finland as well as German espionage activities in Stockholm and at the Russo-Swedish border point of Torneo-Haparanda. His intelligence assignment also concemed the illegal trade in Russian rubles.
The documents in this file include correspondence indicating that friendly relations were established between Sambain and the Stockholm police. The file also contains Sambain's report on German espionage in Sweden as well as reports on Shliapnikov, Anichkin, Chicherin, and Count Holstein, contacts with agent Aebersold in Norway, and a German military training camp for young Finns and Swedes.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(1), Folder 1a

Correspondence relating to Sambain's mission to Scandinavia, 1915-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(1), Folder 1b

Sambain's report on German espionage in Sweden, 1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(1), Folder 1c

Communications between Powell, Sambain, and the Paris Okhrana regarding Shliapnikov, Anichkin, Chicherin, and Count Holstein, 1915-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(1), Folder 1d

Communications relating to the mission of Aebersold to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, 1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(1), Folder 1e

Sambain's reports on his contacts with Rougier, 1916

Access

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Index XIc(1), Folder 1f

Sambain's reports on German military training camps for young Finns and Swedes, 1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(1), Folder 1g

Krasil'nikov's reports from Copenhagen on conditions within Germany, 1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(1), Folder 1h

Receipts from the mission to Scandinavia

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(1), Folder 2

Reference: See outgoing telegram no. 24, February 5, 1916, on Sambain's mission to Scandinavia, in XIIIb(2), folder 8

Index XIc(1), Folder 3

Reference: For agent Sambain's letters on German espionage in Sweden, 1916, see VIIIb, folder 10

Index XIc(1), Folder 4

Reference: For an intelligence directive and reports on Sweden, the Finns, and Germans, see VIIIb, folder 10

Index XIc(1), Folder 5

Reference: For notes of Russian navy and war attaches in Stockholm on German agent Kalisher and the Dahlstrom firm, see VIIIb, folder 10

Index XIc(1), Folder 6

Reference: For correspondence of Count Holstein, 1916, see VIIIb, folder 4

 

(2) "Lucy" among the revolutionaries in New York

Scope and Contents note

Agent George Patrick (XIc(2)), operating in New York under that true name, was an educated Russian Jew with many years of experience at home and in France before he settled in America to continue his activities among the Jewish revolutionary organizations. His almost daily reports under the code name "Lucy" gave a most comprehensive account of the Marxist movement among the immigrants in New York and other American cities. Only eleven documents are included in this folder. For his extensive reports, see Index Number Illf, Folder 28.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(2), Folder 1

Agent "Lucy" Patrick's reports on the activities of Russian revolutionaries in New York, 1914-1917

Access

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(3) Malinovskii and prisoners of war in Germany

Scope and Contents note

The folder on Roman Malinovskii (XIc(3)) contains only a copy of his 1914 lecture in Paris. This revolutionary was not handled by the Paris Office but by case officers in St. Petersburg, who developed him to the point of getting elected as a member of the Duma, to watch, for the Okhrana, the activities of the Social Democrats in that august legislature.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(3), Folder 1

Dispatch on Malinovskii's lecture in Paris, 1914

Access

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(4) Zhitomirskii in Berlin

Scope and Contents note

The folder on Moishe Zhitomirskii (XIc(4)) pertains mostly to the case of his assignment in Berlin, where he worked with Kamo (after the Tiflis robbery) on the preparation of a major arms smuggling deal. The capture of Kamo involved Zhitomirskii as well, and the Okhrana was thus placed in considerable difficulties with the German police so as not to reveal that Zhitomirskii was its agent. (See XXVIIc.)

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(4), Folder 1

Agent Moishe Zhitomirskii's assignment to Berlin in connection with tracing the Tiflis money in Germany, 1902-1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 162
Index XIc(4), Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

 

(5) Others

Scope and Contents note

Includes some documents on the priest Gapon, Vedeniapin, and on the Bulgarian Socialist group.

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Index XIc(5), Folder 1

Dispatches on Gapon and outstanding revolutionaries, 1905-1916

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Index XIc(5), Folder 2

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 120, January 13, 1905, on Gapon's plans to lead a workers' demonstration, in XIIIc(2), folder 6

Index XIc(5), Folder 3

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 121, January 20, 1905, on Gapon's influence as an agitator among workers, in XIIIc(2), folder 6

Index XIc(5), Folder 4

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 154, September 8, 1905, reporting that Gapon acquired a false passport, in XIIIc(2), folder 6

Boxes 103-106

XII. Planning intelligence and provocation operations

Box 103

a. Security operations

Scope and Contents note

The files contain no specific instructions or briefs on the methods of developing security measures as a matter of principle inherent in the planning operations. Okhrana principals mounting operations abroad were intensely on the alert when confronted with such tasks as insuring for the physical safety of traveling members of the imperial household. Headquarters directives and Paris Office implementation of the requirements in that respect led to systematic planning in each case of such travels, so that despite all the numerous efforts none of their plans to assassinate the imperial travelers abroad could be carried out. (For planning of this type of security, see the collection under Index Number XVd.)
Planning the most sensitive operations which involved provocation was left to Okhrana chiefs abroad. (The revolutionaries, in order to discredit the Okhrana, called all its acts "provocation"; what is meant here are the exceptional and rather few cases in which agents were assigned to participate in conspiracies for violence in order to control and prevent ouch acts or to make possible the arrest of the entire gang.) In planning such operations, each case was handled according to circumstances, and the agent and target involved.
The collection under this index contains the correspondence between Rachkovskii and Hackelman-Landesen-Garting in connection with the conspiracy of bomb-throwing Russians in Paris in 1890. The agent acted as one the principals in order to make possible the arrest of the large band of terrorists. (See Rachkovskii-Garting correspondence.) The other documents on the famous provocateur, Evno Azef, are in a separate collection under XIIc(1).

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Index XIIa, Folder 1a

Petr Rachkovskii's notes to Hackelman (Garting) in connection with a terrorist conspiracy, 1890

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Index XIIa, Folder 1b

Correspondence between Rachkovskii and Garting on operational plans and clippings, 1893-1906

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Index XIIa, Folder 1c

Rachkovskii's draft reports on operational matters, 1894

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Index XIIa, Folder 1d

Chief Rataev's letters on operational matters, 1903-1915

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Index XIIa, Folder 1e

Dispatches and notes on operational matters; Chief Krasil'nikov's review of anarchist operations and actions to be taken; the case of agent Goldendach, 1905-1916

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Index XIIa, Folder 1f

Krasil'nikov's notes for French Sûreté, 1915

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Index XIIa, Folder 1g

Krasil'nikov's notes concerning a fake story for backstopping agent Dolin, 1915

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Boxes 104-105

b. Direction of provocation by Okhrana chiefs

Scope and Contents note

This collection concentrates on the planning and direction of activities of the four consecutive Paris Okhrana chiefs, Petr Ivanovich Rachkovskii (1885-1902), Leonid Aleksandrovich Rataev (1902-1905), Arkadii Mikhailovich Garting (1905), and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Krasil'nikov (1909-1917). General and personal documents on these directors of the service abroad are filed also under Index Number IIIb.
This collection pertains to operational matters, planning and conducting problems at certain periods and specific outstanding tasks. It is evident from the documents that the chiefs in Paris were vested with considerable prerogative in all operational matters. Dispatches reveal that they consulted Headquarters on many matters, but no document shows that Headquarters actually issued planning directives for intelligence operations or provocation acts. It frequently came with suggestions mentioning the desirability to penetrate such and such a revolutionary group, at times not knowing that the Paris Office had already achieved the penetration and was submitting reports originating from the operation.
It may be largely on account of this independence in planning that the operational patterns differed from chief to chief. The paramount target of all were the revolutionaries, but each of the chiefs went about the task differently. Rachkovskii excelled as a diplomat, with a planned policy to engage full support of the French Surete, His great provocation operation engaging agent Landesen in 1890 to catch a large group of terrorists red-handed was conceived and carried out probably in order to make the French security organs act and thus assure the imperial regime in St. Petersburg of the earnestness of the French government in dealing with the subversives. The publicity in connection with the case and Rachkovskii's engagement of publicist Jules Hansen supported in full the emerging Franco-Russian alliance.
Rataev appears from the documents to place less emphasis on political action. His methodical records show him to be a conscientious civil servant, depending in operations on his own Russian agents.
Garting, a master in planning provocation, as shown in his achievement in 1890, greatly expanded the services, particularly in stopping arms shipments and checking the terrorists by installing penetration agents in key locations and also by expanding the teams of non-Russian agents and improving liaison with the foreign service.
Krasil'nikov, the last and very capable chief, reorganized the service in 1913. Unlike his predecessors, he depended on a group of staff agents who, as deep cover Okhrana officers, conducted all major operations with Russian penetration agents and also a few non-Russian double agents. As numerous drafts of reports in his own handwriting show, he was invariably the planner and behind-the-scenes director of every operation.

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Index XIIb, Folder 1

Petr Ivanovich Rachkovskii file, 1882-1900

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Scope and Contents note

Includes letter on Wilson, a member of the French parliament, and letters addressed to Rachkovskii in Russian, Polish, and French pertaining to operational problems and intelligence.
 

Leonid Aleksandrovich Rataev file, 1902-1905

Index XIIb, Folder 2

Drafts for operational dispatches, 1902-1903

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Scope and Contents note

Includes dispatch from Director Lopukhin.
 

Notebooks

Index XIIb, Folder 3

1902 September 20 - 1903 January 29

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Index XIIb, Folder 4

1903

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Index XIIb, Folder 5

1904 January 1 - April 27

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Index XIIb, Folder 6

1904 January 1 - June 6

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Index XIIb, Folder 7

1904 December 13 - 1905 June 24

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Index XIIb, Folders 8-9a

Arkadii Mikhailovich Garting file, 1902-1906

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Index XIIb, Folder 9b

Rachkovskii's notes, 1903-1909

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Index XIIb, Folder 9c

Request for wages from Nyborg, 1906

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Index XIIb, Folder 9d

Court summons for Garting, 1907

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Index XIIb, Folder 9e

Dispatch pertaining to Garting's trip to St. Petersburg, 1908

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Index XIIb, Folder 10

Garting's instructions to case officer Barkov

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Index XIIb, Folders 11-16

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Krasil'nikov file, 1908-1917

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Scope and Contents note

Includes address booklets of revolutionaries and agents kept by Krasil'nikov.
Index XIIb, Folder 17

Cross-reference sheet

Index XIIb, Folder 18

Reference: See the story on Landesen (Garting) in a supplement to L'Eclair, 1890, in XVIa, folder 6

Index XIIb, Folder 19

Reference: See outgoing telegram, March 21, 1908, from Garting on Burtsev's attempt to expose him, in XIIIb(2), folder 6

Index XIIb, Folder 20

Reference: For Krasil'nikov's false story on a bomb explosion in Russia to deceive the Germans, see agent Lenin's file (1915) in XIa

Box 106

c. Outstanding provocation cases

 

(1) Evno Azef

Scope and Contents note

This extensive collection on Azef, internationally publicized by the revolutionaries as, the most despicable and criminal agent of the Okhrana, is incomplete because Azef was not in fact an agent of the Paris Okhrana, but was placed abroad and controlled directly by a case officer in St. Petersburg Headquarters. For years, the Okhrana abroad knew about Azef only as another revolutionary and had him and his wife under surveillance like all other leading terrorists. Gradually, it appears from the documents, Azef's Okhrana connection became known to the Paris Office as well, but no record indicates that he was ever controlled operationally by the case officers abroad. Thus, this collection contains no documents on operational directives and controls over the man.
Folder 1 is a chronological assembly of the dispatches on Azef and his activities as a terrorist, including many intercepted letters of him and his wife. It would appear from these that even at Headquarters the writers of the dispatches sending the censored mail to Paris did not know the true connections of Azef. The folder also contains several reviews of the case after the exposure in 1908, including a volume printed in German by Leo Deutsch, Der Lockspitzel Asew und die terroristische Taktik.
Of special interest in Folder 2 are the documents pointing to Lopukhin's role in exposing Azef and Premier Stolypin's discussion of the case in the Duma.
Index XIIc(1), Folder 1

Miscellaneous dispatches, surveillance reports, and other materials on Azef, 1902-1915

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Scope and Contents note

Includes intercepted and perlustrated mail of Azef and his wife Liubov', records of the trial by the revolutionary tribunal, newspaper clippings about his exposure, and 2 copies of Leo Deutsch's Der Lockspitzel Asew und die terroristische Taktik.
Index XIIc(1), Folder 2a

Lopukhin's role in the exposure of Azef, 1908

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Index XIIc(1), Folder 2b

Headquarters circular on Azef, 1908

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Index XIIc(1), Folder 2c

Report on the secret Paris session of the members of the "right" group of Socialist Revolutionaries about the Azef affair, 1909

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Index XIIc(1), Folder 2d

Circulars on the whereabouts of Evno Azef and his brothers, 1910

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Index XIIc(1), Folder 2e

Duma proceedings in French

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Scope and Contents note

Contains Premier Stolypin's discussion of the Azef affair on pages 63-125.
Index XIIc(1), Folder 2f

Premier Stolypin's speech in the Duma regarding Azef

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Scope and Contents note

Includes a draft translation.
Index XIIc(1), Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

 

(2) Controls in arms shipments

Scope and Contents note

Agents Beitner, Rabinovich, and others were given assignments to work among the revolutionaries engaged in purchasing and smuggling arms to Russia. Non-Russian agents obtained the cooperation of several port authorities as an operational support to deep cover agents, and in a few cases actual networks of the Okhrana were set up for the control of arms smuggling, i. e. detection, prevention at the outset, or capture and destruction after the attempts. In a few instances, these operations have the elements of provocation, especially in the cases of the agents named above; but in general the efforts were of counter-intelligence nature -- learning about the revolutionary efforts and using the information with friendly liaison services capable of intercepting the smuggling through, their ports or border points.
This collection contains papers on firms serving the smugglers, a number of notes on Meyer Wallach-Litvinov, the key man in procuring arms on a large scale, whose greatest (although unsuccessful) operation, involving an entire shipload, was penetrated and thus controlled by the Okhrana. (See documents in XXIVh and XVII-1. )
Index XIIc(2), Folder 1

Dispatches, letters, and other materials relating to arms smuggling into Russia, 1905-1913

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Scope and Contents note

Includes papers pertaining to the the Buckland Firm in Hamburg.
Index XIIc(2), Folder 2a

Paris office comments on organizing surveillance over illegal arms shipments into Russia, 1906

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Index XIIc(2), Folder 2b

Smuggling of arms and the involvement of Litvinov, Nikitich, and others, 1906

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Index XIIc(2), Folder 2c

Litvinov's order for arms, 1906

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Index XIIc(2), Folder 2d

Double agent Rabinovich engaged in arms smuggling, 1906

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Index XIIc(2), Folder 2e

Request for information on the SS John Grafton, 1905

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Boxes 106-183, 229-240, 243

XIII. Processing of intelligence

Boxes 106-114

a. Analysis and collation of information (raw reports)

Scope and Contents note

The Paris Okhrana was frequently under pressure requesting the verification of submitted information, the analysis of its contents, filling up incomplete or sketchy reports, and comparing information received from various sources. The necessity for analysis of information submitted by case officers in half-finished reports and the supplementary information from raw reports of surveillance agents and liaison contacts made this processing of intelligence a continuous major task of the Okhrana center. The reports came in in various forms, each agent using his own method, but observing the required nature of presenting the substance of intelligence reports according to set formulas.
Non-Russian agent reports came mostly in French, but also in German and some in English and Italian. If the information warranted, they were translated into Russian. The contents were compared with other reports on the same topic and the information previously on file.
Russian or deep cover agent reports were handled differently, with the first screening of the contents made by the supervising case officer, who appeared to be chiefly responsible for analysis. The original reports of agents never went beyond his office. He prepared his own reports for the Paris Office based on whatever he received from the agents in the field. it is possible that destruction of reports from deep cover (penetration) agents was considered an imperative procedure by the case officer. In his reports to the Paris Office, he would never use the true names or pseudonyms of his sources, but only code terms. Case officer reports thus came in fairly finished form; and frequently the Paris Office, after comparing the contents with available information, merely had them typed for submission under its serial number.
The care taken in analyzing and preparing the reports is particularly noticeable in this collection of the last few years of Okhrana operations. It is obvious from the numbers of drafts and substantive and editorial corrections that a report was subject to as many as six revisions before final typing.
Only the first two folders in this large collection deal with actual norms, notes, and instructions concerning intelligence analysis and preparation of reports. All other folders up to No. 39 are filed in chronological order. Since the material in all these raw reports served for the outgoing dispatches, it can be of use to the researcher interested in the substance only as a supplement to what may be more conveniently found in the dispatches under Index Number XIIIb(l).
While the chronological order in Folders 3 to 40 includes the used raw reports from all agents, Folders 41 to 45 contain only the reports of the case officer covering information received from one of the most active deep cover agents in London, Kokochinski (or "Gretchen"). As samples, these reports show the standard practice analysis and transcription by the case officer, then collation and final editing by the reports officer in Paris.

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Index XIIIa, Folder 1

Drafts discussing the verification of intelligence reports, comparing data of conflicting reports, setting standards of information requirements

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Dispatches, reports, notes, and other materials

Index XIIIa, Folder 2

1904-1916

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Index XIIIa, Folder 3

1886-1900

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Index XIIIa, Folder 4

1901-1902

Scope and Contents note

Includes drafts by Chief Garting in Berlin

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Index XIIIa, Folder 5

1903

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Index XIIIa, Folders 6-7

1904

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Mostly Rataev's drafts from Paris.
Index XIIIa, Folder 8

1905-1909

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Index XIIIa, Folder 9

1910

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Index XIIIa, Folder 10

1911

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Index XIIIa, Folders 11-12

1912

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Scope and Contents note

Numbered from 5-1683.
Index XIIIa, Folders 13-15

1913

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Numbered 1-2100.
Index XIIIa, Folders 16-20

1914

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Numbered 1-1798.
Index XIIIa, Folders 21-28

1915

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Numbered 1-1485.
Index XIIIa, Folders 29-37

1916

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Numbered 1-1309.
Index XIIIa, Folders 38-39

1917

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Numbered 1-166.
Index XIIIa, Folder 40

Undated notes, drafts, and raw reports

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Index XIIIa, Folders 41-45

Agent Kokochinskii ("Gretchen") reports on the Bund, Social Democrats, and others, 1910-1917

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Index XIIIa, Folder 46

Cross-reference sheet

Index XIIIa, Folder 47

Reference: See outgoing dispatches not sent because of the revolution in Russia, in XIIIb(1)

Boxes 115-129

b. Outgoing data

Boxes 115-127

(1) Outgoing dispatches

Scope and Contents note

The outgoing dispatches, all addressed to Okhrana Headquarters (except a set in 1901-1904 to the Berlin Agentura) combine administrative personnel, operational, and intelligence matters all in one collection, with a separate serial numbering for each year. Some of the early outgoing dispatches had irregular numbering or were referenced only by the dates they were prepared. Soon, however, a system of serialization came into use and was adhered to until the termination of the service.
Until the use of the typewriter was introduced for the preparation of dispatches, the Paris Office saved the drafts of its dispatches for reference copies. Later, at least one carbon copy was retained for the outgoing files. The names of individuals and organizations mentioned in the dispatch were recorded on index cards for the reference file.
A comparison of the early outgoing dispatches with those of later years shows that the Paris Okhrana only gradually acquired the practice of reporting operational, administrative, and intelligence contents in separate dispatches. As the reporting system improved, it started limiting each dispatch to one intelligence topic, since such practice suited better the needs of filing and analysis done by Headquarters.
The collection of outgoing dispatches is inventoried by years, a copy of the inventory inserted with each volume, giving each document's number and date and a short description of its contents. A reference column gives the index number of the subject matter under which the document is filed. Where no such number is given, the document has been left in the original volume.

Downloadable PDF Index of Outgoing Dispatches

  1. Index Outgoing Dispatches  
Index XIIIb(1)

1886

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Index XIIIb(1)

1887

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Index XIIIb(1)

1889-1891

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Index XIIIb(1)

1890

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Index XIIIb(1)

1891

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Index XIIIb(1)

1892

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1892-1893 (Bound volumes)

Index XIIIb(1)

Volume 1

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Index XIIIb(1)

Volume 2

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Index XIIIb(1)

Volume 3

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Index XIIIb(1)

1893

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Index XIIIb(1)

1894

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Index XIIIb(1)

1895

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Index XIIIb(1)

1896

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Index XIIIb(1)

1897

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Index XIIIb(1)

1898

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Index XIIIb(1)

1899

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Index XIIIb(1)

1900

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Index XIIIb(1)

1901

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Index XIIIb(1)

1902

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Index XIIIb(1)

1903

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Index XIIIb(1)

1904

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Index XIIIb(1)

1905

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Index XIIIb(1)

1906

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Index XIIIb(1)

1907

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Index XIIIb(1)

1908

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Index XIIIb(1)

1909

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Index XIIIb(1)

1910

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Index XIIIb(1)

1911

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Index XIIIb(1)

1912

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Index XIIIb(1)

1913

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Index XIIIb(1)

1914

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Index XIIIb(1)

1915

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Index XIIIb(1)

1916

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Index XIIIb(1)

1917

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Index XIIIb(1)

Dispatches not sent, 1915-1917

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Box 128

(2) Outgoing cables

Scope and Contents note

Record keeping of outgoing telegrams was much less uniform or systematic than that of the written dispatches. From the many draft notes for the telegrams, it was obvious that their substance was often subject to careful analysis of all available information before a telegram was set in final shape for encoding and sending. The information that went into the text was subject to the same processing as that of the dispatches -- the names of individuals and organizations mentioned were placed on index cards for further reference.
Drafts of outgoing telegrams in this collection are filed in chronological order. It can be noted from the system of serial numbering that many of them are missing. More complete, however, is the record of outgoing cables beginning in book form on November 10, 1910, and continued until 1917. In these logs, each telegram is given a serial, number, date of sending, and its full text is recorded. These large logs are arranged so that the outgoing cables are entered on the front half and the incoming cables beginning from the back half of the book.

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Index XIIIb(2), Folder 1

1887-1902

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Scope and Contents note

Includes telegrams about the French minister's trip to Russia (1899); information on the Fighting Unit of the Socialist Revolutionaries (1902); and other materials.
Index XIIIb(2), Folder 2

1903

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Scope and Contents note

Mainly from Rataev in St. Petersburg to Garting in Berlin.
Index XIIIb(2), Folder 3

1904

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Mainly from Rataev in St. Petersburg to Garting in Berlin.
Index XIIIb(2), Folder 4

1906

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Index XIIIb(2), Folder 5

1907

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Mainly from Garting on leading revolutionaries, requests for funds, alerts on arms smuggling and illegal border crossings, plans of terrorists, etc.
Index XIIIb(2), Folder 6

1908

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Index XIIIb(2), Folder 7

1909

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Telegrams for Garting, Andreev, and Krasil'nikov to Headquarters on Azef and Lopukhin, etc.
Index XIIIb(2), Folder 8

1910-1917

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Index XIIIb(2), Folder 9

Undated drafts

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Box 129

(3) Outgoing cables: logs and texts

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Index XIIIb(3), Folder 1

Volume of outgoing telegrams sent from Darmstadt, Frankfurt, and Bad Neuheim during the Tsar's visit to Hessen, 1910 August 5 - November 10

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Index XIIIb(3), Folder 2

Log of the complete texts of outgoing telegrams, 1910 January - 1912 August

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Index XIIIb(3), Folder 3

Log of the complete texts of outgoing telegrams, 1912 August - 1915 December

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Index XIIIb(3), Folder 4

Log of the complete texts of outgoing telegrams, 1916 January - 1917 March

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Boxes 130-157

c. Incoming data

Boxes 130-152

(1) Incoming dispatches from Headquarters

Scope and Contents note

The bulk of the incoming dispatches originated in the Special Branch (Osobyi Otdel) of the Department of Police in St. Petersburg, i. e. Branch (Deloproizvodstvo) V, and VI after 1915. This branch was the actual Okhrana Headquarters, referred to also as the "Political Section." Dispatches originated also in the office of the chief of the Police Department and in several other branches, such as Personnel (I), Bookkeeping (III), Detective or Criminal (Vlll), and Branch IX, which handled Okhrana matters pertaining to war. Up to a certain period, a portion of the dispatches came from the Okhrana's provincial subdivisions communicating directly with the Paris Office, but this practice was gradually discontinued for better coordination and integration of communications. A small amount of incoming mails also came from Russian diplomatic and other missions abroad.
The collection of incoming dispatches also contains the dispatches from the Berlin Agentura to Paris (1901-1904).
Incoming dispatches were not limited to intelligence and operational directives or administrative and personnel matters. More often than not, they contained intelligence information. Thus, the contents were integrated with the intelligence files of the Paris Okhrana. The processing of information contained in the incoming dispatches followed the same pattern as all other intelligence reports. Each dispatch was given a separate number. (The largest number of incoming dispatches for one year was achieved in 1911 with 2,011 dispatches.) The Paris Office then checked all names and target organizations in the dispatch and reference cards were made for all names checked. Since the incoming dispatches often required a response on available information, checking through index reference cards thus became a standard procedure in analyzing and collating information.
The collection of incoming dispatches is inventoried by years, a copy of the inventory inserted with each volume, giving each document's number and date and a short description of its contents. A reference column gives the index number of the subject matter under which the document is filed. Where no such number is given, the document has been left in the original volume.

Downloadable PDF Index of Incoming Dispatches

  1. Index of Incoming Dispatches 

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Available on microfilm reels 219-277
 

To Berlin

Index XIIIc(1)

1901

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 219
Index XIIIc(1)

1902

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 219
Index XIIIc(1)

1903

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 219
 

To Paris

Index XIIIc(1)

1886

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 221
Index XIIIc(1)

1887

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 221
Index XIIIc(1)

1888

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 221
Index XIIIc(1)

1889

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 221
Index XIIIc(1)

1890

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 221
Index XIIIc(1)

1891

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 221
Index XIIIc(1)

1892

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 221
Index XIIIc(1)

1893

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 221
Index XIIIc(1)

1894

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 222
Index XIIIc(1)

1895

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 222
Index XIIIc(1)

1896

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 222
Index XIIIc(1)

1897

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 222
Index XIIIc(1)

1898

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 222
Index XIIIc(1)

1899

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 223
Index XIIIc(1)

1900

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 223
Index XIIIc(1)

1901

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 223
Index XIIIc(1)

1902

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 224
Index XIIIc(1)

1903

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 224-226
Index XIIIc(1)

1904

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 226-228
Index XIIIc(1)

1905

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 229-231
Index XIIIc(1)

1906

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 232-233
Index XIIIc(1)

1907

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 233-235
Index XIIIc(1)

1908

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 235-237
Index XIIIc(1)

1909

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 237-242
Index XIIIc(1)

1910

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 243-249
Index XIIIc(1)

1911

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 250-260
Index XIIIc(1)

1912

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 260-266
Index XIIIc(1)

1913

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 267-271
Index XIIIc(1)

1914

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 272-274
Index XIIIc(1)

1915

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 274-275
Index XIIIc(1)

1916

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 276
Index XIIIc(1)

1917

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 277
Index XIIIc(1)

Garting's reports from Berlin, 1901-1905

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All dispatches with an index number in the reference column have been filed under the corresponding series (e.g. XVI). All other dispatches are available on microfilm reel 277
Boxes 152-154

(2) Weekly intelligence summaries from Headquarters

Scope and Contents note

The practice of analyzing and collating intelligence information is evident in the weekly intelligence summaries issued by Okhrana Headquarters in the period from 1902 to 1905. All copies of these bound documents in large format are in this collection, many of them in duplicate. It is evident that for the issue of these briefs on the revolutionary situation, the analysts at Headquarters compiled and collated all available information from sources and abroad. The studies are organized in each weekly issue by areas, thus giving a comprehensive survey of the growth of the revolutionary movement and much information on individuals and organizations. These printed materials do not have indices or tables of contents; they were intended primarily for current briefing of Okhrana officers at home and abroad.
Folders 1 to 7 contain general briefs, in chronological order for the periods covered. Folders 8 and 9 are more specific situation reports on the student movements in Russia, with 12 issues for 1901 and 1902.
Another set of similar intelligence situation reports were the lengthy briefs on individual revolutionary parties. These are filed in the folders for those respective parties under Index Number XVIb.

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Available on microfilm reels 277-281
Index XIIIc(2), Folder 1

Nos. 1-13, 1902 September-December

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Available on microfilm reel 277

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: activities of the Socialist Revolutionaries, the "Iskra" group, important subversives. Based on reports from guberniia Okhrana stations.
Index XIIIc(2), Folders 2-3

Nos. 14-65, 1903

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Available on microfilm reels 277-278

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: activities of revolutionary groups and leaders; labor agitation and strikes, operational and administrative instructions.
Index XIIIc(2), Folders 4-5

Nos. 66-97, 99-118, 1904

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Available on microfilm reels 278-279
Index XIIIc(2), Folders 6-7

Nos. 119-145, 147-160, 162-163, 1905

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Available on microfilm reels 279-280

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: the strike at the Putilov plant, the spread of unrest and upheavals, student activities, Gapon, Social Democrats, etc.
Index XIIIc(2), Folder 8

Summaries on the student movement by cities: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, Kazan, Kharkov, etc., 1901 November 1-December 15

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Available on microfilm reel 281
Index XIIIc(2), Folder 9

Summaries on the student movement, 1902 February 5-March 30

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Available on microfilm reel 281
Index XIIIc(2), Folder 10

Reference: For Headquarters intelligence summaries on the structure and activities of the Socialist Revolutionaries, Social Democrats, and other subversive political groups, see XVIb

Boxes 154-157

(3) Incoming cables

Scope and Contents note

Record keeping for incoming telegrams was similar to that for the dispatches. Each message was given an incoming serial number. The names of individuals contained therein were checked and entered in the reference card index. However, there was a lack of systematic filing of cable messages. Many of them were inserted with incoming dispatches, others stored in separate folders, in code or decoded. A more methodical system was introduced in 1910. All incoming telegraphic messages were then entered in a clear text and in numerical order in a log book. Four large log books for the period from 1910 to 1915 were arranged so that the front half of the book was for incoming messages and the back half for outgoing telegrams. (See the logs under Index Number XIIIb(3).)

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Available on microfilm reels 281-286
Index XIIIc(3), Folders 1-12

1887-1902

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Available on microfilm reel 281
Index XIIIc(3), Folders 13-15

1903

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Available on microfilm reel 282
Index XIIIc(3), Folders 16-17

1904

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Available on microfilm reels 282-283

Scope and Contents note

Includes telegrams from Cairo.
Index XIIIc(3), Folders 18-19

1905

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Available on microfilm reel 283

Scope and Contents note

Includes telegrams from various cities in Egypt from agent "Loir."
Index XIIIc(3), Folders 20-22

1906

Scope and Contents note

Nos. 37-773

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Available on microfilm reels 283-284
Index XIIIc(3), Folders 23-26

1907

Scope and Contents note

Nos. 10-787

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Available on microfilm reel 284
Index XIIIc(3), Folders 27-34

1908-1917

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Available on microfilm reel 285
Index XIIIc(3), Folder 35

Reference: See the reverse side of the log books in folders 1-3, in XIIIc(3), telegrams for 1910-1915, which contain the full texts of the incoming telegrams for those years

Boxes 157-169

d. Headquarters circulars

Boxes 157-159

(1) Operational directives

Scope and Contents note

The files reveal that the Okhrana's Headquarters in St. Petersburg maintained a system of intelligence and operational circulars even before it founded its Paris office for operations abroad. Through the years, the system was subject to many changes in form and volume. At all times, however, the service of publishing and disseminating circulars was a major function of the Special Department (Vth, and later Vlth Deloproizvodstvo). The intelligence entered in these publications was the sum total of all counter-intelligence information on the revolutionaries, foreign agents, and subversives in general. The purpose of the circulars was instructional -- an operational aid, alert, and warning on individuals, organizations, and their activities.
The collection under this Index Number includes, in the first six folders, bound volumes which include operational directives and also, for the most part, lists of individuals wanted by the police department because of forbidden political activities, terrorist acts, crimes, etc. These volumes cover the period from 1886 to 1910. The volume in Folder 7 is entirely instructional, chiefly for regular police uses, giving a Russian adaptation of the Bertillon anthropometric system.
Folders 8 to 12, arranged in chronological order from 1894 to 1916, concern operational and intelligence directives issued by Headquarters. This extensive collection of circulars in mimeographed form was for the use and guidance of Okhrana establishments at home and abroad.

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Spisok lits rozyskivaemykh po delam departamenta politsii (Police Department Roster of Persons Subject to Investigation)

Scope and Contents note

Alphabetic, tabular presentation with columns for name, background, description, and police action requested.
Index XIIId(1), Folder 1

1886

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Available on microfilm reel 285
Index XIIId(1), Folder 2

1889

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Available on microfilm reel 286
Index XIIId(1), Folder 3

1893

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Available on microfilm reel 286
Index XIIId(1), Folder 4

1899

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Available on microfilm reel 287
Index XIIId(1), Folder 5

Alfavitnyi ukazatel' (Alphabetic Guide to the Search List and Circulars of the Department of Police), 1900

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Available on microfilm reel 288
Index XIIId(1), Folder 6

Alfavitnyi spisok lits rozyskivaemykh tsirkuliarami (Alphabetic Roster of Individuals Listed in Wanted Circulars), 1910

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Available on microfilm reel 288
Index XIIId(1), Folder 7

Rozysknoi al'bom: Vypusk 1 (Investigation Album), 1913

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Available on microfilm reel 288

Scope and Contents note

Instructions on the investigation of thieves, robbers, etc., after the Bertillon system; samples of keeping records.
 

Headquarters circulars containing operational directions and instructions to subordinate Okhrana outposts at home and abroad

Index XIIId(1), Folder 8

1894-1903

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Available on microfilm reel 289
Index XIIId(1), Folder 9

1904-1907

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Available on microfilm reel 289
Index XIIId(1), Folder 10

1909-1911

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Available on microfilm reel 289
Index XIIId(1), Folder 11

1912-1914

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Available on microfilm reel 290
Index XIIId(1), Folder 12

1915-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 290
Boxes 159-169

(2) Warning lists

Scope and Contents note

This extensive collection is limited to various Headquarters compilations of warning or watch lists. The arrangement is by years of publication, from 1887 to 1917. The form of the publications changed as the years went by, until the final printed form of rosters was established and adhered to in 1907. These rosters were then issued weekly until the end of the Okhrana. They contained separate lists, each in alphabetical order, of persons subject to investigation, surveillance, or arrest; of persons previously mentioned in rosters but currently declared of no further interest to Okhrana organs, etc.
In addition to the printed rosters, the Okhrana published in mimeographed form circulars on individual revolutionaries, giving in these circulars more detailed biographical accounts and outlining the activities for which Okhrana action was ordered. The circulars on important revolutionaries were extracted from this compilation for inclusion under separate folders in XVII.
The biographical materials on individual political offenders, published in the weekly rosters from 1907 to 1917 is all reproduced in biographical cards stored under Index Number XIIIf(4)(c). These cards and photographs are in fact a reprint, one individual per card, from the paragraph on the person appearing in the roster.
Folders 3, 17, and 27 contain special rosters issued as circulars on individuals expelled from Russia. Among these are foreign nationals discovered or suspected to be foreign agents.

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Available on microfilm reels 290-312
Index XIIId(2), Folder 1

1887-1889

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Available on microfilm reel 290

Scope and Contents note

Circulars of the 3rd Branch of the MVD, addressed mostly to guberniia police. The Paris office at this time retained only circulars dealing with revolutionaries abroad or those in contact with émigrés.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 2-3

1891

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Available on microfilm reel 290

Scope and Contents note

Includes roster of foreign nationals expelled from Russia and 60 circulars numbered 164-5580.
Index XIIId(2), Folder 4

1892

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Available on microfilm reel 291

Scope and Contents note

16 circulars numbered 684-5117.
Index XIIId(2), Folder 5

1893

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Available on microfilm reel 291

Scope and Contents note

48 circulars numbered 357-7454.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 6-8

1894

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Available on microfilm reels 291-292

Scope and Contents note

Includes 92 circulars numbered 162-9344 and a roster of expelled foreign nationals. Circular no. 1800 gives a biographical and political police account of 195 people and a roster of names taken off the watch list.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 9-10

1895

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Available on microfilm reel 292

Scope and Contents note

82 circulars numbered from 430-10882.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 11-12

1896

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Available on microfilm reels 292-293

Scope and Contents note

82 circulars numbered from 53-11121.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 13-14

1897

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Available on microfilm reel 293

Scope and Contents note

84 circulars numbered from 524-11384.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 15-17

1898

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Available on microfilm reel 294

Scope and Contents note

Includes roster of foreigners expelled from Russia from 1894-1898.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 18-19

1899

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Available on microfilm reels 294-295

Scope and Contents note

46 circulars numbered from 132-2263.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 20-21

1900

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Available on microfilm reel 295

Scope and Contents note

46 circulars from 43-2862.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 22-23

1901

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Available on microfilm reel 296

Scope and Contents note

41 circulars from 131-4292.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 24-27

1902

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Available on microfilm reels 296-298

Scope and Contents note

66 circulars from 111-8268 and roster of foreigners expelled from Russia.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 28-30

1903

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Available on microfilm reels 298-299
Index XIIId(2), Folders 31-33

1904

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Available on microfilm reels 299-301

Scope and Contents note

38 circulars from 630-14771. Circular no. 5500 includes the police background on Dzhugashvili (Stalin).
Index XIIId(2), Folders 34-36

1905

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Available on microfilm reels 301-302

Scope and Contents note

47 circulars from 132-14994.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 37-40

1906

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Available on microfilm reels 302-303

Scope and Contents note

Includes roster of persons permitted to go abroad instead of being exiled to Siberia.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 41-43

1907

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Available on microfilm reels 303-304

Scope and Contents note

30 rosters. The numbering system for Headquarters biographic cards begins with this volume of circulars, with numbers up to 5152.
Index XIIId(2), Folder 44

1908

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Available on microfilm reel 304

Scope and Contents note

14 rosters numbered to 10673.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 45-47

1909

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Available on microfilm reel 305

Scope and Contents note

Includes printed rosters numbered to 16949.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 48-49

1910

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Available on microfilm reel 306

Scope and Contents note

41 rosters with file numbers for biographical cards up to 20332.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 50-52

1911

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Available on microfilm reels 307-308

Scope and Contents note

Rosters with file numbers for biographical cards from 20336-22800.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 53-54

1912

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Available on microfilm reels 308-309

Scope and Contents note

Rosters with file numbers for biographical cards up to 25537.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 55-56

1913

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Available on microfilm reels 309-310

Scope and Contents note

Rosters with file numbers for biographical cards up to 28595.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 57-58

1914

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Available on microfilm reels 310-311

Scope and Contents note

Rosters with file numbers for biographical cards up to 32013.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 59-60

1915

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Available on microfilm reels 311-312

Scope and Contents note

Rosters with file numbers for biographical cards from 32014-34833.
Index XIIId(2), Folders 61-62

1916-1917

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Available on microfilm reel 312

Scope and Contents note

Rosters with file numbers for biographical cards to 39341.
Box 169

(3) Warnings on dismissed agents

Scope and Contents note

This collection gives some insight into Okhrana practices within Russia with regard to security checking and other counter-intelligence activities for purposes of weeding out or keeping out of the service unreliable agents. These circulars, dated from 1909 to 1916, refer to particular individuals whose services had been proven as unreliable or whose loyalties were subject to questioning. In some cases, no reasons for dismissal are given; in others it is obvious that decisions were made on the basis of investigation.
Only one of these documents is actually a roster of a large number of such dismissed agents. In it a statement is made that the individuals were supplying the service with information but were proven as unreliable or actually provocateurs on behalf of the revolutionaries.

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Available on microfilm reel 313
Index XIIId(3), Folder 1

1909

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Available on microfilm reel 312
Index XIIId(3), Folder 2

1910

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Available on microfilm reel 312
Index XIIId(3), Folder 3

1911

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Available on microfilm reel 312
Index XIIId(3), Folder 4

1912

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Available on microfilm reel 313
Index XIIId(3), Folder 5

1913

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Available on microfilm reel 313
Index XIIId(3), Folder 6

1914

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Available on microfilm reel 313
Index XIIId(3), Folder 7

1915-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 313
Boxes 170-173, 173A

e. Journals for incoming and outgoing messages

Scope and Contents note

A journal or log book of incoming and outgoing dispatches was probably kept from the very beginning of the Okhrana service in Paris. The files, however, contain only the journals dating back to the year 1891, one book for the first ten years for each, incoming and outgoing. These entries were nothing more than a record-keeping device and a check upon what messages had been attended to. Some entries give brief statements of the contents or comments concerning replies to communications.

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Available on microfilm reels 313-316
 

Incoming messages

Index XIIIe, Folder 1

1891-1901

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Available on microfilm reel 313
Index XIIIe, Folder 2

1901-1904

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Available on microfilm reel 313
Index XIIIe, Folder 3

1902-1905

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Available on microfilm reel 313
Index XIIIe, Folder 4

1905-1907

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Available on microfilm reel 313
Index XIIIe, Folder 5

1908-1909

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Available on microfilm reel 314
Index XIIIe, Folder 6

1910-1911

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Available on microfilm reel 314
Index XIIIe, Folder 7

1912-1915

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Available on microfilm reel 314
Index XIIIe, Folder 8

1916-1917

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Available on microfilm reel 314
 

Outgoing dispatches

Index XIIIe, Folder 9

1891-1902

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Available on microfilm reel 314
Index XIIIe, Folder 10

1901-1904

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Available on microfilm reel 314
Index XIIIe, Folder 11

1902-1904

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Available on microfilm reel 315
Index XIIIe, Folder 12

1908

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Available on microfilm reel 315
Index XIIIe, Folder 13

1910-1911

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Available on microfilm reel 315
Index XIIIe, Folder 14

1912

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Available on microfilm reel 315
Index XIIIe, Folder 15

1913 January-July

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Available on microfilm reel 315
Index XIIIe, Folder 16

1913 August-December

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Available on microfilm reel 315
Index XIIIe, Folder 17

1914

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Available on microfilm reel 315
Index XIIIe, Folder 18

1914-1915

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Available on microfilm reel 315
Index XIIIe, Folder 19

1915-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 316
Index XIIIe, Folder 20

1916

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Available on microfilm reel 316
Index XIIIe, Folder 21

1917

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Available on microfilm reel 316
Boxes 173, 229-240, 243

f. Index card system

 

(1) Reference card index files on

 

(a) Individuals

 

Main operational index file

Scope and Contents note

Contains about 85,000 cards giving the surname and, in most instances, the given name and patronymic of various individuals. References to incoming, outgoing dispatches, circulars, or other documents are also recorded. In some instances, the cards also give the individual's alias, occupation, party, or subversive affiliation, photograph available, and reference to his residence. Among the entries are references also to spies (working for foreign governments) and to deserters from the Russian services
Contains about 85,000 cards in Russian rearranged in Roman alphabetical order as follows: a, b, c (Russian CH), d, e, f, g, h (Russian KH), i, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s (includes Russian SH and SHCH), t, u (Russian IA and IU), v, z (includes Russian ZH). Entries for the letters S-T were filmed slightly out of sequence.
Box 230A

Aage-Alekseev

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Box 230A

Alekseev-Apraksin

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Box 230A

"Apsis"-Azef

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Boxes 230A, 230B

Azef-Bariatinskii

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Box 230B

Baryshnikova-Berzin

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Box 230B

Berzin-Bliumenfel'd

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Boxes 230B, 230C

Bliumenfel'd-Boiartsev

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Available on microfilm reel 409
Box 230C

Boiartsev-Budkevich

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Box 230C

Budo-Bzheski

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Available on microfilm reel 411
Box 230C

Chachin-Chistoserdov

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Available on microfilm reel 412
Boxes 230C, 230D

Chistoserdov-Diakonov

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Box 230

Diakova-Dolinda

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Box 230

Dolinda-Eikhman

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Boxes 230D, 230E

Eikhner-Eropkina

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Box 230E

Eropkina-Fetskin

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Box 230E

Fevarot-Frol'kis

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Boxes 230E, 230F

Frol'kis-Garanzhe

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Box 230

Garaveli-German

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Box 230

Germann-"Glebushka"

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Box 230

Glik-Gol'dsmit

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Boxes 230F, 230G

Gol'dsmit-Gotlib

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Box 230G

Gotovitskii-Groisman

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Boxes 230G, 230H

Groisman-Gus'kov

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Box 230H

Guskvarna-Hmelevskii

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Box 230H

Hmurzhinskii-"Iosif"

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Box 230H

"Ios'ka"-Kameneva

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Boxes 230H, 230I

Kamenskii-Kasper'

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Box 230I

Kasperovich-Kissina

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Box 230I

Kist'-Kolarov

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Boxes 230I, 230J

Kolbasa-Kostovich

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Box 230J

Kostovich-Krigs'

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Box 230J

Krikman-Kuznetsov

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Boxes 230J, 230K

Kuznetsov-Lebedev

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Box 230K

Lebedev-Levin

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Box 230K

Levin-Litvak

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Box 230K

Litvak-Liubimov

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Boxes 230K, 230L

Liubimov-"Maksim"

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Box 230L

"Maksim"-Manuil'skii

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Box 230L

Marmork-Meier

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Box 230L

Meier-Minevskii

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Box 230M

Minin-Moldavan

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Box 230M

Moritts-Naumov

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Box 230M

Naumov-Nordshtrem

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Boxes 230M, 230N

Nordshtrem-Orlov

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Box 230N

"Pavel"-Pire

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Boxes 230N, 230O

Pirino-Pototskaia

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Box 230O

Potlazhan-Raevskii

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Box 230O

Radlov-Rembitskii

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Boxes 230O, 230P

Reper'-Rotshtadt

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Box 230P

Rottshtadt-Rudzit'

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Box 230P

Rud'skii-"Sasha"

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Boxes 230P, 230Q

"Sasha"-"Sergei"

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Boxes 230Q, 230R

"Sergei"-Shchegoleva

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Box 230R

Shchegoleva-Shishkin

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Box 230R

Shishkin-Shreider

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Box 230R

Shreider-Siblei

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Box 230R

Siblin-Speranskii

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Boxes 230R, 230S

Spert'-Srvandstian

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Boxes 230R, 230S, 230T

Srvandstian-Tornan'

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Boxes 230R, 230S, 230T

Stoliarchik-Teshko

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Boxes 230R, 230S, 230T

Stoliarchik-Sysoev

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Boxes 230R, 230S, 230T, 230U

Sysoev-Uiarskii

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Boxes 230S

Torn'-Tselen

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Box 230T

"IU"-Iazykov

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Available on microfilm reel 466
Box 230T

"V"-Vasich

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Available on microfilm reel 467
Box 230T

Veber-Vinogradov

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Box 230T

Vinogradov-Voronov

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Boxes 230U, 230V

Voronov-Zarkhi

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Box 230V

Zarin-Zolov

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Box 230V

Zolov-Zhiull'era

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Pre-1907 operational index

Scope and Contents note

An earlier operational index file in French containing about 22,655 cards. This file, first started from French and other Western police records on Russians abroad, gives the names, passport records, residence, affiliations and other data on the target individual and on émigrés of interest to the Okhrana. References to dispatches and agent reports are made only in a few entries.
Box 231A

A-B

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Available on microfilm reel 473
Box 231A

C

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Box 231A

D-E

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Boxes 231A, 231B

F-I

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Box 231B

J-K

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Boxes 231B, 231C

L-M

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Boxes 231B, 231C

K-N

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Box 231C

N-P

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Available on microfilm reel 482
Boxes 231C, 231D

O-S

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Box 231

T-Z

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Police Department index

Scope and Contents note

Index contains about 7,650 cards, giving names and references to revolutionaries abroad reported on in the Police Department circulars prior to the latter's introduction of biographic cards published by Headquarters. Only the full names and references are given. In Roman alphabetical order.
Box 232A

A-B

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Box 232A

C-I

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Boxes 232A, 232B

K-M

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Box 232B

P-R

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Box 232B

R-S

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Box 232B

S-V

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Box 232B

W-Z

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(b) Organizations

Scope and Contents note

Approximately 5,500 operational reference cards giving the names of organizations and publications advocating a revolution in Russia or sympathetic to the revolutionaries. All subversive, Marxist, anarchist, and minority groups are included. The cards reference dispatches, circulars, telegrams and other documents. Organized in Roman alphabetical order.
Box 233A

A-L

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Box 233A

L-R

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Box 233A

R-Z

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(2) Biographic card file

Scope and Contents note

These cards were published by Okhrana Headquarters as reprints of the texts contained in the rosters collected under XIIId(2) (available on microfilm reels 290-312). There is one card per subject individual, including a reproduction of the police photograph and profile where available.
The information on the cards follows a standard form, giving the police file number from the roster, full name of the individual, date and place of birth, religion, antecedents, siblings, marital status, and his police record of offenses and punishments. The card also indicates the action to be taken by the Okhrana: arrest, surveillance, etc.
These cards on file are numbered up to 37,000, while the latest rosters of warning lists, from which these cards were reprinted, number above 39,000.
Boxes 229A-229CC

Main index

Access

This portion of the collection was not microfilmed.
 

Asians

Box 229DD

A-B

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Available on microfilm reel 503
Box 229DD

C-H

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Available on microfilm reel 504
Box 229DD, 229EE

I-L

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Box 229EE

M-O

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Box 229EE

O-S

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Box 229FF

T-Z

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Box 229FF

Z

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(3) Operational and intelligence topics

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Available on microfilm reels 492-502

Scope and Contents note

Two small files of cards used for reference purposes for mounting operations and preparing intelligence dispatches.
Box 233B

Financial management; targets; codes; operational addresses, etc.

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Available on microfilm reel 496
Box 233B

Index cards to Socialist Revolutionary Party activities

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Box 233B

Meetings and conferences

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Box 233B

Sensitive operational documents on targets

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Box 233B

Operational file on Zhitomirskii

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Available on microfilm reel 497
Box 233B

Deep cover agents

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Box 233B

Agentura

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Box 233B

USA - Canada

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Box 233B

Unions

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Box 233C

Illegal use of passports

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Available on microfilm reel 497
Box 233C

Photographic operations

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Box 233C

Surveillance and espionage

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Available on microfilm reel 497
Box 233C

Cities and countries

 

(4) Photographs

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This portion of the collection was not microfilmed. Digital copies also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 

Scope and Contents note

A folder of dispatches in this collection (XIIIf(4)) is illustrative of the growing use of photographic documentation in mounting operations and reporting counter-intelligence. Under Index Number Xg are stored the albums of photographs of important revolutionaries for the use of agents and case officers. This collection of photographs may have served similar purposes, but more likely it was a repository used together with all other biographical and reference material as an aid in the preparation of intelligence reports. Doubtlessly also, the photographic materials were organized in some alphabetical or other order. The complete mix-up of all photographs in boxes when the files were received by the Hoover Institution was probably due to the frantic identification searches by the Investigation Commission of 1917, which contributed greatly to the disorder of the files.
The dispatches in this folder relate various transmittals of photographs, requests for them, etc. The first seven boxes of photographs are now organized in alphabetical order (Xlllf(4)(a)). Many individuals in the box of group photographs have also been identified. One box contains some portrait-type pictures of leading revolutionaries.
Included in the collection are three boxes of negatives on glass plates, some still in good condition (Xlllf(4)(b)). Many of these were apparently obtained from various photographic studios in Paris catering to Russian émigrés but under some control by the Okhrana (see Xb).
Also placed with this collection as a matter of sampling is a collection of Russian and German police records with photographs and anthropometric data on a number of individuals (Xlllf(4)(c)).
 

(a) Prints

Downloadable PDF Index of Photographic Prints

  1. Photographic Print Index  
Box 236A

Abachidze, A., 1914

Box 236A

Abrakhamov, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Abrahamoff
Box 236A

Abramov, Mikhail Nikolaevich, 1907-1909

Box 236A

Abramovich, Rakhil', circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Abramovskii, Eduard, 1893

Box 236A

Adamovich, Mikhail Prokhorovich, 1911

Box 236A

Adamskaia, Varvara, 1906

Box 236A

Adler, Friedrich, 1910

Box 236A

"Adol'f," 1910

Scope and Contents note

Also "Solomon"
Box 236A

Afanas'ev, Sergei Ivanovich, 1903

Box 236A

Agafonov, Valerian Konstantinovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Agapov, 1905

Scope and Contents note

Also Sidorenko
Box 236A

Agaronian, Avetis, 1915

Box 236A

Ahrberg, Wilhelmine, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Aizenshtadt, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Akinfieva, Ekaterina Dmitrievna, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ekaterina Nikitina, Liza, Mariia, Mikhailova, and Bessel'
Box 236A

Alad'in, Aleksei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Al'berts, Karl Georgievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Aleinikov, Veniamin Markovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

"Aleksandr," circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Aleksandriiskii, Vul'f Leibovich, 1902

Box 236A

Aleksandrov, Aleksei Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Aleksandrov, Grigorii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Aleksandrov, Ivan Mikhailovich, 1915

Scope and Contents note

Also Jean Alexandroff
Box 236A

Aleksandrov, Petr, 1910

Box 236A

Aleksandrova, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Alekseenko, Fedor Nikitich, 1904

Scope and Contents note

Includes photograph of his corpse
Box 236A

Alekseevskii, Ivan Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Aleksinskii, Grigorii Aleksievich, 1913

Box 236A

Aleksinskii, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Aliev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Alperine, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Altschuler, 1917

Box 236A

Amaglobili, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Amaglobeli
Box 236A

Amaglobili, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Ambrozhevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Alexandre Amphiteatroff
Box 236A

Anan'eva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Anan'in, Evgenii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Andreev, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Alias Krasov
Box 236A

Andreev, Aleksandr Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Code name: Kudriavyi
Box 236A

Andreev, Andrei Nikiforovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Andreev, Grigorii Vasil'evich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Georges Andreeff
Box 236A

Andrikanis, Nikolai A., circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Andropov, Sergei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Anguez, Paul Edward, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also: Angez, Auguez
Box 236A

Anteyperovitz family, 1917

Box 236A

Anteyperovitz, Ludwig Stanislavovitz, 1917

Scope and Contents note

French card
Box 236A

Antipin, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

"Apollon," 1913

Box 236A

Arbatov, Vladimir, 1911

Box 236A

Arbatova, Nina, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Argunov, Andrei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Arkhangel'skaia, Nadezhda, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Arnev, Aleksandr Iakovlevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See Box 236P
Box 236A

Aropovsky, Michel, 1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Mikhail Aropovskii
Box 236A

Ashkinazi, Shlema Shmulevich, 1912

Box 236A

Auerbakh, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Alias Averbakh, Victor Teodoroff
Box 236A

Averkieva, Vera Aleksandrovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Avksent'ev, Nikolai Dmitrievich, 1914

Scope and Contents note

Includes photograph with his daughter Aleksandra Nikolaevna Pregel'' (nee Avksent''eva)
Box 236A

Azvolinskii, Viktor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Babich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Babin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Badulin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Bagdassarian, Tigran, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Bagrianovskii, Kornelii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Bakai, Mikhail, 1900?

Box 236A

Bakalov, Georgii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Bakiera, Franciszeck, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Bakradze, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Photograph of Bakradze with Anna Frelich
Box 236A

Bakunin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Bakunin, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Bakunin, Charles, 1915?

Scope and Contents note

Also Bakounine
Box 236A

Balamez, Gavriil Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Ballagina, Alexandra, 1914?

Box 236A

Ballagina, Olga, 1917

Box 236A

Baranov, 1894

Box 236A

Bariatinskii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Erofeev, d''Ostrovsky, agent "Falstaff"
Box 236A

Barilio, Andrea di, circa 1883-1917

Box 236A

Barnoff, Fedor, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also William Scott, Charles Todd, Barnov
Box 236A

Bartenev, Ivan Vasilievich, 1913

Box 236B

Bartol'd, Boris Vladimirovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Barthold and Lydoff
Box 236B

Barykov, Sergei Ivanov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Basovskii, Iosif Borisovich, 1902

Box 236B

Basta[?], Pavle, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bastrytscheff, Pierre, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bauman, Nikolai Ernestovich, 1902

Scope and Contents note

Also Nicholas Bauman
Box 236B

Beck, Georg, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Begenev, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Beilin, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Al''bin
Box 236B

Belenkina, Adel', circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Belenkina, Lida, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Belevich-Stankevich, Boleslav Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Belousov, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Belov, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Belov, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Belov, Nikolai Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Belovitskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Belrekii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Belyi, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bendeliani, David Gavriulovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Berdichevskii, 1890

Box 236B

Berezin, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Azvolinskii?
Box 236B

Berezin, Viktor Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Bakulin
Box 236B

Bergman, Rudolf, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Berlin, Borukh Zel'man, 1900

Box 236B

Berman, Anna Leibovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bernatskii, Vatslav, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Wácław Kóstek-Biernácki
Box 236B

Bernson, Bertha, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bernstein, Sarah-Ruhel, 1917

Box 236B

Bertson, Arman, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Henri Gerard, Genri Zherard
Box 236B

Bessel', Aleksei Pavlovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Vinogradov
Box 236B

Bessel', Mariia Mikhailovna, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Liza"
Box 236B

Beziuk, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Alias Zhuravlev
Box 236B

Beziuk, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bichachi, Shaima Iakov, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also: Bishashi, Bikhakh, Bychachy
Box 236B

Bida, Timotheus Pawloff, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Biegoun, Eugenie, 1917

Box 236B

Biegoun, Maria, 1917

Box 236B

Bilit, Boris Grigor'evich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Bontsion Gershevich
Box 236B

Biode, Genrikh, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bishentrop, Ian, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Jan Bichantropp
Box 236B

Bisk, Isaak Solomonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bizura, Rubin Abramovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also known as "Robert"
Box 236B

Bliumenfel'd, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bliumenfel'd, Iosif Solomonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bobrov, circa 1883-1917

Availability

Use copy available. Hoover Identifier 26001.XIIIF.236B.0127

Scope and Contents note

Negatives
Box 236B

Bobrovskii, Aleksandr Semenovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bochkarev, Ivan Petrov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Boev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bogdanov, Ivan Grigor'evich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Bogdanoff
Box 236B

Bogin', circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bogomolov, Valerian, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bogoslanits, Mikhail, 1912

Scope and Contents note

Also Michel Bohoslaniz
Box 236B

Boikov, M., circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bokhanovskii, I., 1903

Box 236B

Bonishko, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Borisiuk, Avraam, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Maksim Litvinov, Vallakh
Box 236B

Borisov, Sergei Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Borneman, Vladimir Andreevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Boroda, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Boroda, Sergei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Botniker, Vera, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Brauch, Michel-Joseph, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Morris Braun
Box 236B

Bregman, Iosif, 1911

Scope and Contents note

Includes photographs with Mariia Bruskina
Box 236B

Breitfus, Andrei-Genrikh-Eduard, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Ekaterina Konstantinovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Brilitskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Brodskaia, Sof'ia (Shifra), circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bromberg, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

1890
Box 236B

Bronner, Vol'f Moiseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bronshtein, Boris, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bronshtein, Leiba Davidovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Leon Trotsky
Box 236B

Brontman, Evsei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Brown, Victor, 1912

Scope and Contents note

Also Viktor Broun, "Iurii"
Box 236B

Bruskina, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Bulgakov, Georgii Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Burachevskaia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Born Petkevich-Stanislava
Box 236B

Burachevskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Burghard, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Burkat, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236B

Burtsev, Vladimir L'vovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Butkovskii, David Nakhmanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Bykov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Bykov, Aleksei, 1911

Box 236C

Cafozzi or Capozzi, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Chabattini, Artur, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Chachava, Noi Slonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Chaikowski, Alexander, 1917

Box 236C

Chemeriskii, Shlema Ikhilevich, 1912

Box 236C

Chenykaev, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Cherepov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Cherepov, Aleksei Mikhailov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Cherkinskii, Morduk Mendelevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Chernavskii, Mikhail Mikhailovich, 1910

Scope and Contents note

Also Michel Tchernawsky, code name "Kozel"
Box 236C

Cherniak, Iakov, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See BOX 236P
Box 236C

Cherniavskaia, Galina, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Chernitsyn, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Konstantin"
Box 236C

Chernov, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Miguel Schernov
Box 236C

Chernov, Viktor Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Chernova, Ol'ga, 1913

Scope and Contents note

Also Olga Tchernoff
Box 236C

Chernyshevskii, N. G., circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Chininov, Konstantin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Chizhikov, Berka Vul'fov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Chkhenkeliia, Nikolai Dmitrievich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Chkhenkeli
Box 236C

Chomski, Moris Israel, 1917

Box 236C

Chumaevskii, Aleksei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Cocish, Serbe, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Cohen, Mark, 1917

Box 236C

Czartoyski, Adam, 1917

Box 236C

D[?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dakkar, Auguste, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Damaskin, [Pietre?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Damian', Emil, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Danilova, Elizaveta, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Darushicheva, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Prokof''eva
Box 236C

Dashinskii, F., circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dashkevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Davidenko, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Davrishev, 1908

Scope and Contents note

Davricheff, Joseph
Box 236C

Davydov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Deb[...?], Charles, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Debagorii-Mokrievich, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Debogorii
Box 236C

Deich, Lev Grigor'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dembeski, Alexandre, 1893

Box 236C

Dembskii, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Demus, Lily Margarita (nee Libau), circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Denenbaum, 1910

Box 236C

Deriabina, Serafima Ivanovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Deshina, Zinaida, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dialektov, Valerian, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Diamontov, Valerian, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Divnogorskii, Nikolai Valerianovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Vasilii Vlasov
Box 236C

Dlougatch, Isaac, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dmitrenko, Vsevolod Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dobkewitch, Cajetan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dobkin, Meer Khaimovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dobrazhinskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dobroliubov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dobrovol'skii, A., circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dobrovolsky, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Petroff
Box 236C

Dolgenko, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Man
Box 236C

Dolgenko, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Woman
Box 236C

Dolgoneruk?, Antoni, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dolgopol'skii, Iosif Faivish Mendelevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dolzhenko, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dombrowski, Adam, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Adam Dombrovskii
Box 236C

Dormidontov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dorogobed, Aleksei, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Dorogobid
Box 236C

Dribin, Rafail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dronov, Pavel Makarovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dubuzharskii, 1908

Scope and Contents note

Douboujarsky
Box 236C

Dukin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dutchak, Andrei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Duvan, Anna Moiseevna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Duvan, Iakov Shebotaev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dykler, Shloima Mosesovitch, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dzerven, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Dserwen
Box 236C

Dzerzhinskii, Feliks Edmundovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dzhamgarova, Nvarda, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ioannis''ian
Box 236C

Dzhaparidze, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dzhibladze, Silvestr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Dzis'ko, Mikhail Timof'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Efron, Paul, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Efroussi, Sophie, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ephrussi
Box 236C

Egorov, Ivan Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Egorov, Petr Semenovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Eisenman, Jacob, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Ekimova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Elizarova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Emel'ianchenko, Ivan Iakovlevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Endrzheevskii, Boleslav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Endrzheevskii, Vasilii Antonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Engel'man, Otto, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Epshtein, [Zakhar?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Eremeev, Ivan Maksimovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Erkoimashvili, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Ermolenko, Anna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Ermol'nikov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Eroguine, Zinaide, 1890

Box 236C

Eropkina, Matrena, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Er'zia, Stepan Dmitrievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Evzerov, Moses, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Ewentow, Salman-Abram, circa 1883-1917

Box 236C

Ezerskaia, Fania, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fabrikant, Iakov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fabrikant, Vul'f Osipovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Vladimir. Code name Dal''nyi
Box 236D

Fabrikantova, Iuliia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Faiman, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fain, Zalman [Nokhimovich?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fainman, Anna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fedorov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fedorov, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fedorov, Osip, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fedorov, Petr Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fedorov, Vasilii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fedorova, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See BOX 236P
Box 236D

Fedorova, Mariia Andreeva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fedorova-Chernova, Ol'ga Elis'eva, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Wife of Viktor Chernov
Box 236D

Fedorova-Zabrezhneva, Nadezhda, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fedulov, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Fedouloff
Box 236D

Fedulov, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Feit, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Felberg, Elias, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Feldmann, Wladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fenigstein, Abraham Wolf, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

1916 or 1917
Box 236D

Fetiskin, Vasilii Grigor'ev, 1907

Box 236D

Figner, Vera, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Filipchenko, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Filipchenko, Iurii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Filippeo, Maksim, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Filippovich, Titus Anton Kazimirovich, 1896

Box 236D

Filitz, David, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

1916 or 1917
Box 236D

Firsova, Nadezhda, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fishman, Vil'iamin Moiseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Flotova, Khil'da, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fogel'man, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fomichev, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Bakhrushinskii
Box 236D

Fradis, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Frankfurt, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Code name: Znakomyi
Box 236D

Freilikh, Pavel Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See BOX 236P
Box 236D

Frenkel, Beniamin Shliamovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Friauf, [Nikolai?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fridberg, Boris Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fridmann, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Friedmann, Iankel Leib, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Fudel', Pavel, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Dolzhenko
Box 236D

Fuks, Lev, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Fuchs
Box 236D

Furer, Aron, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Furer, Aron-Shmul, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gabuniia, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gadev, 1908

Box 236D

Galkin, Semen Pavlovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gal'perin, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Wife of Gal''perin
Box 236D

Gal'perin, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Sister of Gal''perin
Box 236D

Gal'perin, Lev Khaimovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Lev Efimovich
Box 236D

Gal'peron, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gal'tseva, Liubov' Efimovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gamsaxurdia, Konstantine, 1916/1917?

Scope and Contents note

Also Konstantin Semenovich Gamsakhurdia
Box 236D

Ganelina, Sofiia Solomonova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Ganenko, Emel'ian Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gapon, Georgii Apollonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Garmidor, Moisei Efraimovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Baranov
Box 236D

Garness or Garnes, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gasko, Rebekka, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gasparinotto, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gavronskii, Meer Osherovich, 1907

Box 236D

Gavrushin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gel'bart, Vul'f, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gel'fand, Khaim Shimonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gel'ms, Vil'gel'mina, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gentsel', Ivan Ivanovich, 1902

Scope and Contents note

Also Giovanni Hentsel
Box 236D

Gerber, Tsal' Nuselovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gershuni, Grigorii Andreevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gervasii, Anna Pavlovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gibal'skii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Ginbin, Petr Borisovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Ginsberg, Iokhem Tiudelevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Johem Tudelewitz
Box 236D

Gintsburg, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Ginzburg, Iakov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Girshovich, Abram Leibovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gladkikh, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Glikin, Shlema, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gogeliia, [Georgii?], 1914

Scope and Contents note

Also Goguelia, Gogelia, Orgeiani
Box 236D

Gold, Ginia, 1916/1917

Box 236D

Goldberg, Joseph Meyerovich, 1917

Box 236D

Gol'dberg, Vladislav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gol'dendakh, David, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also David Borisovich Riazanov
Box 236D

Gol'denfarb, 1908

Box 236D

Gol'denfarb, Leon, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gol'dfarb, Tevel' Mordkovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Shub
Box 236D

Gol'dman, Boris Isaakov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gol'dman, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gol'dshtein, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gol'dshtein, Elena, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Helene Goldstein
Box 236D

Gol'dshtein, M[?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Goluboglazov, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Goluboglasov
Box 236D

Goncharenko, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gorbunov, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gordin, Iakov Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Goriaev, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Includes photograph of an airplane
Box 236D

Gorizontova, Aleskandr Fedorova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gorky, Lidia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Lydia Andreeff
Box 236D

Gorodetskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gorovits, Vera Isaeva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gorpinenko, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gots, Mikhail Rafailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236D

Gots, Vera, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Goubermann, Simhe Abram, 1916/1917

Box 236E

Gouxhman, Herson, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Govorov'in, S., circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grabenko, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grabor, Joseph, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gramatikov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gredinger, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grekov, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

See also Zafiridi
Box 236E

Gribin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gridenger, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grigor'eva, Natal'ia Aleksandrovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grinberg, David, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grinberg, Joseph, circa 1916-1917

Box 236E

Grinster, Iakov-Iosif Moiseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grishin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grishin, Lavrentii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gromova, K., circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grosser, Bronislav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Grozdov, Valentin Alekseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gruzdeva, Kseniia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Guerin, Henri Leon, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gurevich, ?, 1908

Box 236E

Gurevich, Chevel Hirsh, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gurevich, Emmanuil, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gurfinkel, Samuel, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gurskii, Marian Grigor'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gusev, Petr Ivanov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gussar, Serge, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Gvatua, Avksentii Dmitrievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Hansman, Rudolf, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Hartmann, Joseph, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Hentzel, Giovanni (Ivan), circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

1902
Box 236E

Hirschving, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iagolkovskii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Cyprien Philippe Jagolkowski
Box 236E

Iakovenko, Boris Valentinovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iakovlev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Zharikov
Box 236E

Iakovlev, Ivan Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iakovlev, Vasilii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iakovlevich, Grigorii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iakubovich, Ivan-Ignatii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Ialovetskii, Vladimir Antonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iampol'skaia, Frida, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Frieda Jampolska
Box 236E

Iamshchikov, Gavriil Grigor'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Ianson, Ianis, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Janis Jansons-Brauns
Box 236E

Ianulaitis, Avgustin, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Augustinas Janulaitis
Box 236E

Iastrebov, Aleksandr Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Il'in, Mikhail Andreev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Il'ina, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Inguildeyeff, Hassaiyen, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Inguildeyeff, Ismyatula?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iofe, Adol'f Abramov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Ioffe, V., circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iogikhes, Lev Shmuilovich (Samuilovich), circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Leo Jogiches, Otto Karlov Engelman, Tyszka
Box 236E

Iozefson, Sara (Sofiia), circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Isaak, Avraam, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Isuv, Iosif Andreevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Itkina, Frada Girsheva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

"Iudessa," circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Anna
Box 236E

Iudilevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iudilevskii, Iankel, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Iakov
Box 236E

Iungerov, Lev Vasil'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Iurgens, 1908

Scope and Contents note

Also Jurgens
Box 236E

Ivanitskaia, Mariia Petrova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Ivanov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Izbitskii, M. Iosif, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Jankowski, Alexandre, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Jankowski, Georges, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Jedrzejowski, Boleslas Antoine, 1893

Box 236E

Kabanov, Anton Sergeevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kabireff, Marie, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Mariia Kabireva
Box 236E

Kachetkova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kadariia, Chachu Khakhaevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Saprom"
Box 236E

Kadomtsev, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kafliants, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kagan, Edlia (Adel') Gabrieleva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kagan, Il'ia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

"Kan''"
Box 236E

Kaganovich, Shlioma Khaimovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also known as "Anarkhist Isaak"
Box 236E

Kaidonovskii, Berka, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kaiutin-Kaiutenko, Afanasii Stepanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kalafat?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kalandadze, Feodor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kalia, Iosif, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kaliaev, Ivan Platonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kalibrin, Anatolii Evangelovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kalinin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kalinin, Aleksandr M., circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kalinoff, Fedor, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Kalinov
Box 236E

Kalinovskaia, Elisaveta Ivanova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kallistov, Sergei Nikolaev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kal'man, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kamel'kevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Molchanov
Box 236E

Kamgonshner, Abraham Henri Motelevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kamler, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kanashev, Aleksei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kaniskov (Kanniskoff), circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Photograph with Lukanov (Lukanoff)
Box 236E

Kapeliush, Fedor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kaplik, Berko, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Karelin, Apollon, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kariakin, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Code name: Vanichka
Box 236E

Karpenko, Grigorii, 1907

Box 236E

Karpinskii, V., circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Karpovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Karpovich, Petr, 1911

Box 236E

Kartsevskii, Sergei Iosifovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236E

Kartvelova, Aleksandra, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kashinstev, Ivan Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kasparek, Teodor, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Fedor
Box 236F

Kassiush [Kassiusch?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Katcharowsky, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F
Box 236F

Kats, Boris Davidov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kats, Itska Nakhmanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kats, Leizer, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kats, Lipa Khaim Khonov Moiseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kats-Weber, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Katcz-Weber
Box 236F

Katsnel'son, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Katunskii, Moisei Iakovlevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kaus, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kazaevskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kazakov, Anatolii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kazakova, Tat'iana Pavlovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kelder, Auguste, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kennan, George, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236F

Kensitskii, Mechislav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kereselidze, Leon and Georgii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also include photograph of N. Migalov
Box 236F

Kerzhner, Moisei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kevorkov, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Amirov, "Khero," Khachatur Amirov
Box 236F

Khaletskaia, Izabella, 1884

Box 236F

Khasanov, Akhmed, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Khazanova, Ziama?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kheifets, Abram Zalmanov-Iankelev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Khodzhamiriants, Migran, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Khokhlov, Nazar, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Khotimskii, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Khrustalev-Nosar', Georgii Stepanovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236F

Khudadov, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Khudadov, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Khododov
Box 236F

Khudadova, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Khododova
Box 236F

Khudadova, Ol'ga Petrovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Khvorostanskaia, Appolinariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kiknodze, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kiladze, Davyd Simonovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Datik"
Box 236F

Kilpi, Kosti, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kipiani, 1887

Scope and Contents note

Also Serge Berditchewski
Box 236F

Kireevskii, Semen, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kirillov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kirillov, Dmitrii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kirischeck, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Kirishek
Box 236F

Kirschrood, Samuel Leibovich, 1916

Box 236F

Kiselevskaia, Anna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kisin, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kisin, Zalman Aizikovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Alexandre Kharkoff, Aleksandr Khar''kov
Box 236F

Klapina, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klapina, Zinaida, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klebodorov, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Klebodoroff
Box 236F

Klechewsky, Boris J., circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kleibas, Eduard, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klement'eva, Praskov'ia Efimovna, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Klemientiewa
Box 236F

Klepikov, F., circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kliachko, Semen, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klimin, Boris Innokent'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klimova, Natalia Sergeevna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klimovich, Stanislav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klitchoglou, Serafima, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klushin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klushin, Boris, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klushina, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Klyshko, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kmytsik, Osip, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Kmycik
Box 236F

Knuniants, Bogdan Mirzadzhanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kobliakov, Vul'f Sholom Aronovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kobyleva, Mariia Grigor'eva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kobylianskii, Ladislav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kobylinskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kochurikhin, N., circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kock, Johan, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P; Also Iogan Kokk
Box 236F

Kofman, Sof'ia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kogan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kogan, Eidlia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Koigen, Fishel', circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kok, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Matweyew, Matveev, Karl
Box 236F

Kolbasi, K., circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kol'berg, 1909

Box 236F

Kolganov, Iakov, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ginzburg
Box 236F

Kolodina, Mariia Borisovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kolosov, Andrei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kolosov, Evgenii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kolosova, Irina, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kolosova, [Valentina?], circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Wife of Evgenii Kolosov
Box 236F

Komaritzny, W. A., circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Komissky?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Komorskii, Vatslav, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Roginskii, Mishel''
Box 236F

Kon', Zakhar, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kondrashev, Ivan, 1907

Scope and Contents note

Also Morozov
Box 236F

Konik, Movsha, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Konstantinovskii, 1913

Scope and Contents note

Also "David." Includes photograph with his wife, a child, and two women named Ol''ga and Lucia.
Box 236F

Koretskaia, Rozaliia Davidovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Koretskii, Faivel (Pavel) Abramovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Korisko, circa 1883-1917

Box 236F

Kornienko, Fedor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Korolkov?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Korsak, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Korsakow, Dmitry, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Dmitrii Korsakov
Box 236G

Korshun, Vasilii Vasil'ev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Korsunskaia, Khanna Nusimova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Korzinkin, Paul (Pavel), circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kosarev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kosmodamianskii, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Jean or Giovanni Kosmodamiansky
Box 236G

Kosovich, Stanislav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kossovich, Antonina Nikolaeva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kossovskii, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kostarev, Vladimir Fedorovich, 1910

Box 236G

Kotovich, Iankel, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Zorokhov?
Box 236G

Kotrakhov, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kouks, Sarah Wolfowna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kovalev, Luka Pakhomovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kovalev, Stanislav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kovalev, Stepan Danilovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kovalik, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Koval'skii, Adam Adol'fovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kovarskii, Iuda, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kozakewitz, Sofia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kozlov-Grachevskii, Iakov Timofeevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kozlovskii, Vladislav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kraevskii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Krajewski
Box 236G

Krakhmal'nik, Rubin Shaia Abramovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Krakov, Pavel, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Paul Krakoff
Box 236G

Krantsfel'd, Raisa, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Krasikov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Krasin, Leonid Borisovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Code name: Nikitich
Box 236G

Kratkovsky, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kratkovsky, David, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kravchinskii, Sergei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kravets', Aleksei Trofimovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Kravetskii-Ignatenko
Box 236G

Kravets', Arkhip Osipovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kravets', Ul'iana, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kravets, Zus' Abramov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kreitz, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kremer, Aaron, 1901

Box 236G

Kreslowski, Hirsh Raphael, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Krichevskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kriegel, John, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kris, Nikolai Meerovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Krokhmal, Viktor Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kroliunitskii, Iurii Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kropotkin, Petr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kruglikov, Filadel'f Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Krugman, Iudel' Gershkovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Krul', Iakov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Krupskaya, Nadezhda, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Includes negative
Box 236G

Krzykowski, Faustyn, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kuazik, David, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Daunis, David
Box 236G

Kuchinskii, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

See also "Appolon"
Box 236G

Kudriavtsev, Aleksei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kufel'd?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kulichev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kulikovskii, Petr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kulisher, Iakov Moiseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kundzin, David Davidovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kupriianov, Dmitrii Fedorovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kuris'kov, Mikhail Andreevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Includes photograph of his wife Kseniia Gruzdeva
Box 236G

Kurnatovskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kutasevich, Aleksandr Leonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kuvarshalov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kuz'min, Andrei Illarionovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Kviatovskii, Iogann', circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Johann Kwiatkowsky
Box 236G

Ladyzhnikov, [Ivan Pavlovich?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Laitinen, Iulius, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Landansky, Eugeny Alexandrowitch, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lando, Shmul' Moiseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lapidus (unknown friend of), circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lapin, Ian, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Jean Lapine
Box 236G

Larionova, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Mariia Oskonova?
Box 236G

Laskaia, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Latoshnikov, Sergei Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Lotoshnikov
Box 236G

Laurenceau, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lavrenius, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lazarev, Egor Egorovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lazarkevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lazofsky, Abraham, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Lazovskii
Box 236G

Leband, Hans, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Leband, [Zenis?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lebedev, Boris Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lebedev, Vladimir Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lebedeva, ?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lebedeva, Aleksandra, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Lechinskii?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Leibovich, Anna Evseevna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Leiteizen, Gavriil Davidovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Lindov
Box 236G

Leliuk, Fedor Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Leman, Inna Germogenovna, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Maiden name: Smidovich
Box 236G

Leman, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

"Leon," circa 1883-1917

Box 236G

Leonovich, Mariia Grigoreeva, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Wife of Vasilii Viktorovich
Box 236G

Leonovich, Vasilii Viktorovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Kobyzev
Box 236H

Leont'eva, Tat'iana, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also known as Stafford
Box 236H

Lepin, Dmitrii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lepin, Ian, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Leepin
Box 236H

Lepin, Ian, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lerchinskii, Stefan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lermus(?), Ida, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Leroy, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Leterner, Charles, 1894

Box 236H

Letnikova, Aleksandra, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Code name: Dusha
Box 236H

Levenshtein, Aron, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Leventis, Srul, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Levi, Movsha Fishelevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Levi, Samuel, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Leviash, Viktoriia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Levidi, Adol'f Efrim Gershevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Levit"
Box 236H

Levin, Boris, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Aleksandr" and "Abramov"
Box 236H

Levin, Lazar', circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Levit, Roza [Iosifovna?], circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Rossa
Box 236H

Levit, Sam, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Levitskii, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Levkovitch, Shaia Itzekovitch, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lewina, Anna Samuelowna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lewina, Samuel, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Liakhotskii, Anton Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lianger, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Langer
Box 236H

Lianger, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Liasotzky, Dominik Anton, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Lacocki?
Box 236H

Liberman, Lev Aronovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236H

Libermann, Iankel-Liebovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Libert, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lifer, Aron, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Liefer?
Box 236H

Ligskii, Konstantin Andreevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lindberg, A., circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Linovskii(?), circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lis, Joseph, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lisakevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lishev, Nikolai Viktorovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lisheva, Ol'ga Viktorovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Litvak, Iankel', circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Liubarskaia, Vera Fedorovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Liubenko, Pavel, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Liudzhus, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ludjus, Iavoras
Box 236H

Liulenetskii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Code name: Anatolii, Liuliu
Box 236H

Liutoshevskii, Konstantin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Liuvshin, Vasilii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Livanskii, Boris, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Boris Liwansky
Box 236H

Lolua, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lomov, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Troitskii?
Box 236H

Lopoushanski, Michael, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lukanov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lukashevich, Anna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lukashkin(?), Vasilii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Luk'ianovich, Sofiia Aleksandrovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lukomskii, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lunkevich?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lur'e, Mikhail [?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lur'e, Mikhail Leizerovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Lur'e, Mikhail Zalmanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

L'vov, Sergei Dmitreevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

M[?], David, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Maizel', Eva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Makhaiskii, Ivan Konstantinovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ian Vatslav, Makhaev, Vol''ski
Box 236H

Makharashvili, S., circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Makhnovets, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Maklovskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Makovskii, ?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Makovskii, Itsek, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Makoziol?, Ita, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Maks, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Maksimov, Aleksandr Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Makushin, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Maleev, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mal'eva, Aleksandra Vasil'eva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Maligonov, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Malikova, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Malinovskii, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Malinovskii, Roman, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Malitskaia, Ol'ga, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Malkhas'ian, Mel'kon Mel'konovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Malkhasian
Box 236H

Malovichko, Ivan Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mal'tsev, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mal'tsman, Boris, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Malum'ian, Khachatur, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Agnuni"
Box 236H

Mandelkorn, Uri Rudol'fovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mandel'shtam, Martyn, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also known as Martyn Nikolaevich Liadov and Lidin
Box 236H

Man'kovskaia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Man'kovskii, Mechislav Konstantinovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mantsev, Vasilii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Maravskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Marchlewski, Julian Baltazar, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Markelov, Aleksandr Dmitrievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Markelova, Mariia Mikhailovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Markina, Anna, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Ol''ga"
Box 236H

Martynov, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Marushenko, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mashitskii, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Masinzon, Rafail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Maslov-Stokoz, Vasilii Pavlovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Zhuk, Baranov, Baturinskii
Box 236H

Master, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Jan Jankovlevich
Box 236H

Mat'e, Elizaveta Andreevna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mazhis, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mdivani, Budu (Polikarp) Gurgenovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Medem, Vladimir Davidovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Meerovich, Samuil, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Karl"
Box 236H

Meilakhovich, Iankel', circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

"Meiran," circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Meisner, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Meitus, Anna Leibova-Vol'fova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Melenevskii, Mariian, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Meliaev, A. P., circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Konstantin Akashev
Box 236H

Melkov, Petr Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mel'nikov, Grigorii Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Mel'nikov, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Merle, Evgenii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Metal'nikov, N. I., circa 1883-1917

Box 236H

Metal'nikov, Nikolai Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mgebrov, A[leksandr?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Migalov, N., circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Migdal', Leizer, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Migutskii, Viktor Anufrievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

"Mikhail," circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

"Mikhail 2," circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mikhailov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mikhailov, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mikhailovskii, Simon Leonard Adamovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mikhalevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mikhal'skii, Ignatii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mikhel'son, Vul'f, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mil'chik, Isai Isaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mirskii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Meshkovskii, Kudriavtsev
Box 236I

Mirskii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Kamo
Box 236I

Mirskii-Mariniolo, Kazimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mishukov, [Dmitrii?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Miuller, Karl Eduardovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Muller
Box 236I

Mlaeva, Aleksandra, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Moiseenko, Boris Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Moiseenko, Sergei Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Molochnikov, Aron, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Monasevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Monforiia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Moris, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Maurice
Box 236I

Morozov, Ivan Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Morosoff
Box 236I

Morozova, Anna Ivanovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mościcki, Ignacy, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Movshovich, David Khaim, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mrost, Mal'vina, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mudrov, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Mukhanov, Petr Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Munich, 1908

Scope and Contents note

Also Munjitsch
Box 236I

Muratov, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Murav'ev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Muravlev, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

See also Beziuk
Box 236I

Musatov, Dmitrii Sergeevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Muzil', Ignatii Ignat'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Muzil', Nikolai Ignat'evich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Rogdaev
Box 236I

Nacht, Siegfried, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Zigfrid Nakht
Box 236I

Nagorskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nakashidze, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nakhamkis, Ovshe Moiseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Narkevich, Iodko, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Witold Jodko-Narkiewicz, Thomas Witold, Iodko-Narkevich
Box 236I

Nasonova, Ol'ga, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Natalenko, Nestor Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Natanson, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Naumov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nazadov?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nazarbekian, Avetis (Avo), circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nazar'ev, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nebudek, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Goriaev
Box 236I

Nedzel'skii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ogarev, Petrov
Box 236I

Neiburg, Petr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Neimark, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Neimark, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Neiskii, Petr Alekseevich, 1907

Box 236I

Nekliudov, Aleksei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nelidov, Ivan Pavlovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Tverskoi
Box 236I

Nemchenko, Avram, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236I

Nezhdanov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Neznamov, Nikolai Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Niiazov, T., circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Voronin
Box 236I

Nikiforova, Mariia Grigor'eva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nikitin, Andrei, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Sergei
Box 236I

Nikitina, Elizaveta, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nikolaev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nikolaev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nikolaev, Mikhail Konstantinovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nilov, Andrei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nimvitskii, Boris, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nochakov?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nogin, Viktor Pavlovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Makar"
Box 236I

Noiak, A. K., circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Naiak?
Box 236I

Nosar', Georgii Stepanovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Khrustalev
Box 236I

Noskov, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Novitskii, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Novozhilov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nusenboim, Melaniia Abelevna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Nussemann, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Oblogin, Petr Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Obukhova, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Odoleev, Semen Pavlovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Ogarkov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Opits, Liudovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Orlov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Orlov, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Orlov, Leonid, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Ortenberg?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Osberg, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Osharin, Vladimir Andreevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Osinskii, Valeriian, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236I

"Osip," circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Osipova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236I

Ostroumova, Mariia Andreevna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Ostrovets, Adam, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Ostrovskii, Leonid, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Sergeev, Erofeev, Fal''staf
Box 236J

Ovchinnikova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Ovitskii, Lev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Ovsianikov, Nikolai Dmitreevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Ozelevskii, Oskar Eduard, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236J

Ozol', Al'bert Eduard, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Ozol', Ivan Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Ozolin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Padlewski, Stanislaw, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Paiunen, Karl-Al'mar Karlovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Palichkovskii, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pal'shau, Mikhail Vladimirovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Panov, Vasilii Akimovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pasen'kova, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Pasien''kova
Box 236J

Pashin, Georgii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pasiniokoff?, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Posiniokoff
Box 236J

Pauli, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pavilius, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pavlov, Dmitrii Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pavlov, Dmitrii Trofimovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pavlova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pavlovskii, Iosif, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pedul, Petr Semenovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Perazich, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Perl, Feliks or Rafail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Perlin, Nakhman Senderovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Perlmann, Gutman Girshon, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Perl'shtein, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

With Ryvkina
Box 236J

Perovskaia, Sofiia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236J

Persits, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Perzner, Samuil, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Peshkova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Peskin, Izrail', circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pesochenskii, Sergei, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Serge
Box 236J

Peters, Aleksandr Al'bertovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Peterson, V., circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Petrov, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Smirnov
Box 236J

Petrova, ?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Petrova, Ol'ga, 1908

Box 236J

Petrovskii, Kazimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Petrulis, Iosif Benediktovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pfeiffer, Carlo, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Piatkov, Petr, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also, "Peter the Painter," Shtern
Box 236J

Piatnitskaia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Piatnitskii, Petr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pigit, Anna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Piker, Saul, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Pikker, Martynov
Box 236J

Piliugin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Piłsudski, Józef, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ziuk, Dubrovskii
Box 236J

Plekhanov family, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pliuskot, Osip, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pnevskii, Adam Ianovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Poderanskaia, Aleksandra, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Podvitskii, Boris Vladimirovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pokhitonova, Anastasiia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pokotilov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pokrovskii, Aleksandr Dmitrievich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236J

Poletaev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Poliakov, Aleksei Alekseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Politkovskii, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Nikolai Pashchenko
Box 236J

Poliukhov, Vladimir Andreevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Polonskii [wife of], circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Polonskii, Aizik Zalman Ilia Girsh Berkovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Poltzer, Johannes, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Poluboiarinov, Valer'ian Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Poniatovskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Ponkratov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Ponza, Giovanni Antonio, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Popov, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Popov, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Nicolas Popoff
Box 236J

Popov, Pavel Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Popov, Sergei Vasil'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Portnoi, Kusel'-Gendel', circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Margolis, Yekutiel Portnoy?
Box 236J

Posse, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Potamianos, Gerasim Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Potamianos, Nikolai Gerasimovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Potaska, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

With Dolgenko
Box 236J

Potresov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Potrubach, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pozin, Vladimir Ivanov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Poznanskii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Kogan''"
Box 236J

Predkal'n, Andrei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Predtechenskii, Anatolii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Preide, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Preker?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Preobrazhenskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pribylev, Aleksandr Vasil'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Prokof'ev, Georgii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Prokof'eva, Mariia Alekseevna, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Darushicheva, Emma
Box 236J

Pronkovskii, Konstantin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Prosh-Proshiants, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Proskuriakov, Ivan Konstantinovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Punga, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pusa, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Pustovoitova, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Rabinovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Georgii Romanovich
Box 236J

Rabinovich, Isaak Vul'fovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Rabinovich, Morits', circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Rabinovich, Ovsei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Rabinovich, Roza, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Vera
Box 236J

Rabinovich, Sara, circa 1883-1917

Box 236J

Rabinovich, V., circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rabinowitz, Maurice, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rabinowitz, Zev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Radchenko, Liubov', circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Radin, Berka, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rafalovskii, Daniil, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rafalovskii, Iakov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Raichen, Simkha Gershevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Raider, Nataliia, 1907

Scope and Contents note

Also Nathalie Rayder, Kuz''mina
Box 236K

Raikhmann, Israel David Shlemovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rakitnikov, ?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rakitnikov, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rakitnikov, Nikolai Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rakitnikova, Inna Ivanovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rakovcic?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Ramishvili, Noi Vissarionovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rapoport, David, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rappoport, Leizer, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rappoport, Solomon, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rarenko, V., circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Raskin, ?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Raskin, Moisei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Ratner, Leiba, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Radkin
Box 236K

Ravich, Sarra Naumovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Reclus, Paul, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Reider, Nataliia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Reimond, 1908

Scope and Contents note

Also Reymond
Box 236K

Rein, Rafail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Reines, Zakharii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rensgagen, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Renshagen
Box 236K

Reuter, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Reiter
Box 236K

Reznik, Isidore, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Riabchinskii, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Riedelskii, Salvator, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rigg[?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rips, Mikhail Girshovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Movsha
Box 236K

Ritter, Friedrich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Auguste Dakkar
Box 236K

Rivkind, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Roginskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rogova, Evdokiia Kondrat'eva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Romanov, Stepan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Romanovich, Georgii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Rubinovich and Rabinovich
Box 236K

Roshat, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Rochat
Box 236K

Rotshtein, Lazar Zakharevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Rothstein, "Valerian"
Box 236K

Rotshtein, Samuil, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rozen, Movsha Aron Mordkov Khaimovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rozenbaum, Khaim, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rozenbaum, Mendel', circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rozental', Iosif, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rozhdestvenskii, Mikhail Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rubanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rubanovich, Grigorii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rubin, A., circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rubin, David, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rubinshtein, Mark Geshelevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rublianskii, Ichke, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rudnev, Vadim Viktorovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rudneva, Lidiia Ivanova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rudzevich, Iosif, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ivan
Box 236K

Ruets, Berta Karolina, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Ruets, Elizaveta Richardovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rufel'd, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rutenberg, Petr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Rymgailo, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Ryndin, Fedor Konstantinovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Safarov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Sakharov, Ivan Nikolaevich, 1886

Box 236K

Salaridze, Simeon or Simon, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236K

Salkina, Evgeniia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Zalkina
Box 236K

Sal'nin, K., circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Grishko
Box 236K

Samoilov, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Samoilov, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Samuel, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Sandberg, Sof'ia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Sheina Rebekka
Box 236K

Sanguinetti, Dolores, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Dolorosa Sanginetti
Box 236K

Sanzhur, Ivan Aref'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Sarokin or Sorokin, 1912

Box 236K

Satel', circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Saul(?), Malka Shimelovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Savel'ev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Saverkin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236K

Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Savitskaia, Lidiia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sazonov, ?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sazonov, Egor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Schenberg, Ernestina, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Shoenberg
Box 236L

Schimelmitz, Esriel Wolf, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Schmulki, Sam, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Kovenski, Shmul''ke?
Box 236L

Schwarz, Anna Ethel, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Shvarts
Box 236L

Seleznev, Petr, 1907

Scope and Contents note

Also Paulo
Box 236L

Seliuk, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Semenov, Fedor Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Semenov, Vasilii Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Serebriakov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sergov, U., circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sermus, Ida, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Seroshevskii, Vatslav, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Wacław Sieroszewski
Box 236L

Sesekin, Fedor Fedorovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sesitskii, Il'ia Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shadovskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shagiakhmetov, Islam, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shalambaridze, Silvestr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shalenberedze, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shalit, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shantser, Virgilii Leonovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Marat
Box 236L

Shapiro, ?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shapiro, Aron, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shapiro, David, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shapiro, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shapiro, Osip, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shchekoldin, Fedor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shchepetev, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shchepeteva, Anna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shebedev, Vsevolod Dmitrievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sheftel', Felitsiia Isaakovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sheina, Mariia Vasil'eva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sheintsis, S., circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shenkevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shental', Ul'rikh, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shershov, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Gorin
Box 236L

Shestakov, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shilek, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Shimen
Box 236L

Shimkevich, Mikhail Vladimirovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shishalova, Olimpiada Mikhailovna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shishko, Leonid, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shiutts, Moisei, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Shutz and Shultz
Box 236L

Shklovskii, Girsh, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shkol'nik, Mariia Mordukova, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Shkol''nikova
Box 236L

Shlezinger, Ella, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shliapinkov, Aleksandr Gavrilovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shlikhter, Aleksandr Grigor'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shmuilovich, D., circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shneur, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

"Agent de Shneur"
Box 236L

Shpiro, Moses Efraim, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Spiro
Box 236L

Shpiro, Samuel, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shrag, Il'ia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shrapunov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shub, Pavel, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Gol''dfarb
Box 236L

Shul'man, Aron, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shul'meister, Efrem, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shultz, David Adam, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shultz, Martin (?), circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Shvarts, Luiza Tereziia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Lidiia-Mariia
Box 236L

Sichinskii, Miroslav Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sidorchuk, Petr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sierozputowski, Wladislaw, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sikorskii, Shimel'-Leiba Vul'fovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sil's, Ian Karlovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Siils
Box 236L

Sil'vin, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sipido, Jean Baptiste, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Siranus, Iogan', circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sisov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sitek, Osip, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sitnikov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Siverov, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Siverskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Skolozuk, Samson, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Skrepkin, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Skritin
Box 236L

Sladkopevtsev, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Slavek, Valeriian, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Slavinskii, Bronislav Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Borovskii
Box 236L

Slepner, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sletov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Sletov, Stepan Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Smelov, Pavel, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Smirnov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Smirnov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Smirnov, Ivan Davydovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Smirnov, Valer'ian, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Smus, Hil Ianov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236L

Snitkin, Izrail', circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sobinskaia, Leontina, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sobolev, Petr Vasil'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sofronskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Soifer, Moisha, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sokolov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sokolov, Mikhail Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sokolovskii, Petr Valeriianovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Soldatov, Leonid Konstantinovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Solntseva, Elizaveta, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Solov'ev, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Solovichin
Box 236M

Somova, Evgeniia Ivanovna, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Born Zil''berberg. Also Savinkova and Shirinskaia-Shikhmatova
Box 236M

"Sonia," circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sosedkov, Dmitrii Ivanovich, 1907

Box 236M

Soshnikov, Innokentii Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Soskis, Meer Davidovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Gol''dfarb
Box 236M

Speranskii, Anatolii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sprantse, Iogan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Stakhurskii, Ian-Vikentii Antonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Starynkevich, Ivan Iul'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Stavskii, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Steinlof, Herman, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Kalish
Box 236M

Stepanov, Evgenii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Stepanovskii, Vladimir Iakovlevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Stepniak, S., circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Stiazhkina, Praskov'ia Afanas'evna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Stiopan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sto[?], circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Stoimenova, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Iuliia Debagorio-Mokrievich
Box 236M

Stoliarov, Ivan Vasil'evich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Pavel." Includes photographs with Nataliia Klimova.
Box 236M

Stolovaia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Strakhal, Il'ia Ignat'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Stramilov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Strashevich, Sigizmund, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Stringer, Morris, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also John Wade
Box 236M

Strokov, Pavel I., circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Struve, Petr Bergardovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Studenik, Petr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sukhomlin, Vasilii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sukhomlina, Anna, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Asia
Box 236M

Sulima, Georgii Stepanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Surzhitskii, Stefan (Ivan), circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sushchinskii, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sushchinskii, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sutte, Karl, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Svetkovskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Svezhinskii, Aleksandr Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sviatopolk, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Sviderskii, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Petr Silov
Box 236M

Sysoev, Aleksei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tablov, Max, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Tablow
Box 236M

Takhtarev, Konstantin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Takovleva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Taranov, Konstantin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tarasov, Boris Favstovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tarasova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tarasova, Aleksandra, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tarasova, Ol'ga, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tarasova, Vera, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Taratuta, Aron, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Taratuta, Ovsei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Taratuta, Viktor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tarlo, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Kats
Box 236M

Tarshis, Iosif, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Osip Aronovich Piatnitnitskii
Box 236M

Taubman, Il'ia Borisovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Teplov, Aleksei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tereshkovich, Iu., circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tetiaev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Thaer, Ahmed, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tibal'di, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Timashev, Pavel Stepanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tirimov, Pavel, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tischler, Wilhelm, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tissen, Iogan Gergardovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Titov, Vitalii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tiutchev, Nikolai Sergeevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Tolchenov, Mikhail Alekseevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Tolchenko
Box 236M

Toliados, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Toluzakov, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Toporov, Vladimir Viktorovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Trautman, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Trepov, Vasilii Osipov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Trofimenko, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Troianovskii, Boleslav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Troianskaia, Anna, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Troitskii, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236M

Troitskii, Vasilii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Somov
Box 236N

Trusevich, Stanislav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Trushkovskaia, Sof'ia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Trushkovskii, Ieronim, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsebrikova, M. K., circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsederbaum, Fedor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsederbaum, Iulii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Martov
Box 236N

Tsederbaum, Sergei, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Ezhov
Box 236N

Tsentura, David, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsentura, Gersh, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsereteli, Mikhail Georgievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tshchondorisk?, Joseph, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsimmerman, Anatolii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsingovatov, Nikolai, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsingovatova, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsodel, Frants, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Franz Zodel
Box 236N

Tsukerman, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Zuckerman
Box 236N

Tsvetkov, Grigorii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tsvetkov, Nikolai Grigor'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tukmankin, Sergei Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Turchaninov, Pavel Dmitrievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tverdovskii, Grigorii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Tylitskii, Stanislav, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Tylicki, Tilitskii
Box 236N

Tynnikov, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Udalov, Aleksandr Maksimovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Urakina, Rachel, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Usov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Uspenskii, Viktor Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Ustinov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Ustinov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Ustinov, Mikhail Alekseevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Uznadze, Lavrentii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vadimov, Andrei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vainberg(?), Shaika Khamovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vainer, Moisei Abramovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Weiner
Box 236N

Vainshtein, Aron, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vainshtein, Semen Lazarevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vallakh, Meer, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Abraham Borisiuk, Maksim Litvinov, Wallach
Box 236N

Vanichka, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Varavko, Vasilii Viktorovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also German Savitskii
Box 236N

Varenov, Leonid Dmitrievich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Varshavskii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

With Dokhman
Box 236N

Varshavskii, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vartepov, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vasich, Nikolai Nikolaevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Nikolai Voennyi"
Box 236N

Vasil'ev, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vasil'ev, Sergei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

"Vasilii, Grigor'evich," circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Diaden''ka"
Box 236N

Vaslavskii, Abram Nakhmanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vasser, Moisei Iakovlevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vedeniapin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Veidenfeld, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Veinberg, Abram, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Abraham Weinberg
Box 236N

Veinshtok, Viktor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Veists, Martyn, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Martin Weisz
Box 236N

Veiverin, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Verigin, Vadim Mikhailovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Versilova, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vidmar, Frantsisk, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vikhi or Vikha, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vileon, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vilkov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vil'skii, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vil'son, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Wilson
Box 236N

Vimba, Arnold, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Arnold Wineba
Box 236N

Viniarskii, Lev Eduardovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vinogradov, Viacheslav Kupriianovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Stepa
Box 236N

Vinogradov-Bessel', Aleksei Pavlovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vishnevskaia, Ester, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vislitskii, David, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vladimirskii, Mikhail, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vladimov, Grigorii Rubanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vladzov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vogt, Vladimir, 1908

Box 236N

Voichinskii, Martyn Ignat'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Voinich, Mikhail Leonardovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vol'f, Srul Naftulovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Volianskii, Nikon Ivanovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Volkhovskii, Feliks, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Felix
Box 236N

Volkov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Volodia, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Wladislaw
Box 236N

Vol'per, Maks, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Max Wolpert
Box 236N

Vorovskii, Vatslav, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Wacław Worowski
Box 236N

Vovk, Vasilii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vul'fovich, Iulii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vul'fson, Vigdor, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Vul'pe, Ivan, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Walk, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Wasiutynski, Andrew, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Weber, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Werbaough, Moise, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Werbach?
Box 236N

Werner, Friedrich Karl, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Winkler, Ernest, circa 1883-1917

Box 236N

Wojciechowski, Stanisław, 1893

Scope and Contents note

Also Stanislav Vaitsekhovskii
Box 236N

Wraag, Wasil Michaelovitz, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Yehudda, Shaiak, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zafiridi, Aleksandr, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Grekov
Box 236O

Zaitsev, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zaitsev, Grigorii Stepanovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

OVERSIZE - See box 236P
Box 236O

Zaitseva, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zakharchenko, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zakhar'ev, Iarchuk Khaim, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zakharov, Denis Efimovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zakras, Andrei, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zalevskii, Feofil, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zalmanov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zamukhovskii, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zapol'skii, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Dovnar
Box 236O

Zaslavskaia, Mariia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zavadskii, Aleksandr Antonovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zbarskii, Iakov Feliksovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zborovskii, Saul Shlemovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zeia, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zeitkin, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zelenskii, Evgenii Osipovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zelich?, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zel'tser, Anton, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zemliachka, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zenzinov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zeziulenskii, Girsh (Nikolai), circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Bogdan"
Box 236O

Zhelikhovskaia, Ol'ga, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Vinogradova
Box 236O

Zherkov-Zherchenko, Tikhon, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zheronimius, Bella, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Geronimus
Box 236O

Zhilin, Ivan Iakovlevich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zhitlovskii, Khaim, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Includes Avram and Shaia Zhitlovskii
Box 236O

Zhnudskii, Vatslav, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zhukaev, Salangkeri (Nikolai) Asakhmetovich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zhuravlev, Petr Petrovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Vasilii Beziuk
Box 236O

Zhurovskii, Cheslav-Feliks Ignat'evich, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zick, Michael Semenowitz, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zommerfel'd, Vladislav Iakovlevich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also "Martynov"
Box 236O

Zuikov, circa 1883-1917

Box 236O

Zverin, Aron Isaakovich, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Also Zverev
Box 236O

Zyrulnik, Levi Nosolevich, circa 1883-1917

Boxes 238-240

(b) Glass negatives

 

(c) Police identity reports

Downloadable PDF Index of Police Identity Reports

  1. Police Identity Reports Index  
Box 243

Handwritten report, 1913 July 31

Scope and Contents note

"'Signalement' description of unknown person."
Box 243

Abachidzé, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Abachidzé, Alexandre, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Abdreef, Lydia, 1918

Box 243

Abrahamoff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Agafonoff, Talérian, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Akhmatoff, Jean, 1914 February 10

Box 243

Alexinsky, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Andreff, Georges, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Arefieff, 1919

Box 243

Auerbach, Vladimir, 1913

Box 243

Babroff, 1913

Box 243

Balabanoff, Angelique, 1914 March 7

Box 243

Barthold, Boris, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Barthold, Boris, 1913

Box 243

Bass, Guillet, 1914 March 4

Box 243

Beckermann, 1913 August 13

Box 243

Beloussoff, Alexandre, 1913 August 1

Box 243

Beloussoff, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Beloussoff, Valentine, 1913

Box 243

Benson, Nathan, 1916 February 14

Box 243

Berezine, Victor, 1913 August 1

Box 243

Berlinoff, Auguste, 1913

Box 243

Bernatsky, 1913

Box 243

Berzine, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Berzine, Jean, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Letter from J. Berzine to Madame
Box 243

Bettinkoff, 1913

Box 243

Bezuck, Yourauleff, 1913 August

Box 243

Bichantropp, 1913

Box 243

Blank index card, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Blumenfeld, Amelie, 1913 August

Box 243

Blumenfeld, Joseph, 1913

Box 243

Blumental, Adolphe, 1913

Box 243

Bogatski, Henri, 1913 September 25

Box 243

Bogazski, Henri, 1913

Box 243

Bogdanoff, 1913 August

Box 243

Borissoff, 1913 August

Box 243

Borissoff, Terye, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Bornemann, Vladimir, 1913

Box 243

Bornstein, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Boulgakoff, Georges, 1912

Box 243

Bourtzeff, Vladimir, 1913 August 1

Box 243

Boutilkine, Jean, 1913 August 1

Box 243

Boyasky, Harry, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Brodsky, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Brodsky, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Sheet of paper with list of relations
Box 243

Brodsky, Sophie, 1913

Box 243

Broon, Victor, 1913

Box 243

Brozgol, 1913

Box 243

Bykoff, Alexis, 1913

Box 243

Chagiakhmetoff, Tslam, 1913

Box 243

Chagiakhmetoff, Tslam, 1913

Box 243

Chalitte, 1913

Box 243

Chalitte, Molf, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Chenisse, 1913

Box 243

Chmaisnok, Moise, 1913 August 19

Box 243

Choulik, 1913

Box 243

Dakar, Auguste, 1913

Box 243

Davidoff, Maria, 1913

Box 243

Debreyne, Charles, 1913

Box 243

Depohl, Jules, Gustave, 1913

Box 243

Desaube, Georges, 1913

Box 243

Djeaparidse Ivanovsky, Tarina, 1913

Box 243

Dobrovolsky, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Dolyenko, Anna, 1913 July 26

Box 243

Dory, 1914 March 6

Box 243

Efroussi, Sophie, 1913 August

Box 243

Eichembaum, Tsevolade, 1913

Box 243

Eitchinsky, Alexandre, 1914 January 15

Box 243

Elkine, 1913 August

Box 243

Erofeieff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Eroffeef, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Fabricantoff, Julia, 1913

Box 243

Faynsilberg, Paul, 1913

Box 243

Federoff, Victor, 1913 July 11

Box 243

Fedoroff, Jean Henry, 1913

Box 243

Fedoroff, Olga, 1913

Box 243

Fedoroff, Ossipe, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Figner, Vera, 1913

Box 243

Finkelberg, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Flabukaul, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Foudameusky, 1913

Box 243

Frielich, Jacques, 1913

Box 243

Frielich, Jacques, 1913 July 12

Box 243

Galperine, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Gambachidze, Basile, 1914 March 24

Box 243

Geiger, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Glik, Naoum, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Glotoff, Jacques, 1913

Box 243

Glukmann, 1913 July 23

Box 243

Goguelia, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Goldstein, Maurice, 1910

Box 243

Gorfinkel, 1913

Box 243

Gorodetski, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Gotz, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Note to 'Chere Madame' from 'V. Gotz'
Box 243

Gotz, Vera, 1913

Box 243

Gouliaeff, 1913

Box 243

Gredinger, 1913

Box 243

Gretchneff, 1913

Box 243

Gribine, 1912

Box 243

Guedrine, 1913

Box 243

Guessesberg, 1913

Box 243

Guessesberg, Zarehis, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Guinsberg, 1913 August 19

Box 243

Haeprezath, 1913

Box 243

Handwritten report, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Handwritten report, title reads: "Signalemente"
Box 243

Herzenstein, Judas Wolf, 1913

Box 243

Hichmann, Anatole, 1913

Box 243

Holstein, Vladimir, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Hzikowsky, Elias, 1913

Box 243

Ignatin, Muzil, 1913

Box 243

Ivanoff, 1913

Box 243

Ivanoff, Sophie, 1913

Box 243

Jakinoff, Michel, 1913

Box 243

Jakowlewieff, Cain, 1913 August 13

Box 243

Jasfroboff, 1913

Box 243

Jeanne, 1913

Box 243

Jeanne, Pierre, Serge, Albert, 1913

Box 243

Joukowski, Alexandre, 1913

Box 243

Kabanoff, Antoine, 1913

Box 243

Kacendenbagvey, 1913

Box 243

Kadomtzeff, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Kalian, 1913

Box 243

Karaline, Apollon, 1913

Box 243

Karassouloff, Helene, 1913

Box 243

Karassouloff, Olga, 1913

Box 243

Karlstein, 1913

Box 243

Karpovitch, Pierre, 1913

Box 243

Kasatchenko, 1913

Box 243

Katcharovsky, 1913

Box 243

Khoudadoff, 1913

Box 243

Khoudadoff, Marie, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Khoudadoff, Vladimir, 1914 August

Box 243

Kirischeck, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Kissme, Alexandre, 1913

Box 243

Kissme, Alexandre, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Klapina, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Handwritten note to Mlle Klapina from Julie.
Box 243

Kleibass, Edouard, 1913

Box 243

Klepikoff, 1913

Box 243

Kletovsky, Edouard, 1913

Box 243

Klimoff, Nathalie, 1913

Box 243

Kobylansky, Ladislav, 1913

Box 243

Kobylinsky, Ladyslas, 1913

Box 243

Kogan, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Kolegaeff, 1912

Box 243

Kolossoff, Eugene, 1913

Box 243

Komirsky, 1913

Box 243

Konstantinoff, 1913

Box 243

Kopelova, Nathalie, 1913 August 19

Box 243

Korsouvsky, 1913

Box 243

Kosloff, Jacques, 1913

Box 243

Kosmodamiansky, 1913

Box 243

Kosowsky, Michel, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Kotik, 1913

Box 243

Kotrotkoff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Koulikovsky, Pierre, 1911

Box 243

Koulischer, Jacob, 1913

Box 243

Koumeny, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Kourisko, Michel, 1913

Box 243

Kouzmine, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Kravetz, Jean, 1913 August 13

Box 243

Kriegel Jean, 1913

Box 243

Kronstaloff, Mazar, 1913

Box 243

Kropolkine, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Kroul, Jacob, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Kurland, Abraham, 1913

Box 243

Laille, 1913

Box 243

Landy, 1913

Box 243

Laouer, 1913

Box 243

Lapatine, Kevolad, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Lapine, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Lazareff, 1913

Box 243

Lebensbaum, Edouard, 1914 February 10

Box 243

Leonovitch, 1913

Box 243

Leonovitch, Marie, 1913

Box 243

Leonowitch, 1913

Box 243

Lesaulvier, 1913

Box 243

Letchtinki, David, 1913

Box 243

Lezinnes, 1913

Box 243

Ligsky, Constantin, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Loubarsky, Vera, 1914 February 26

Box 243

Lunovziarsky, Valerian, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Makovhime, 1913

Box 243

Maleeff, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Maltzeff, Jean, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Malysceff, Alexandre, 1913 September 25

Box 243

Man leaning back against a rock face, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Markach, Nina, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Martinson, Edouard, 1913

Box 243

Martmoff, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Maurice, 1913

Box 243

Mazurenko, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Medwed, Michel, 1913

Box 243

Meerowitch, Leo, 1914 February 10

Box 243

Meissmer, Ferdinand, 1913

Box 243

Meitousse, Anna, 1909 July 31

Box 243

Metalnikoff, Ivanoff, 1913

Box 243

Meteh, 1913

Box 243

Minor, 1913

Box 243

Miroliouboff, Victor, 1913

Box 243

Moiche, Fiskinel, 1913

Box 243

Moiisseenko, Boris, 1913

Box 243

Moiisseenko, Nicolas, Serge, 1913

Box 243

Moisenko, 1913

Box 243

Monassovitch, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Mousenko, Serge, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Moyseff, Nadine, 1913

Box 243

Mychkine, Basile, 1913

Box 243

Nassonoff, Olga, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Natanson, Marc, 1913

Box 243

Nesseriantz, 1913

Box 243

Neymeyanoff, 1913

Box 243

Nikitin, 1913

Box 243

Nikolaeff, 1912

Box 243

Nikolaeff, Michel, 1913

Box 243

No. 1, 1913

Box 243

No. 2, 1913

Box 243

No. 3, 1913

Box 243

No. 4, 1913

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No. 5, 1913

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No. 6, 1913

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No. 7, 1913

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No. 8, 1913

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No. 10, 1913

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No. 11, 1913

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No. 12, 1913

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No. 13, 1913

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No. 14, 1913

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No. 15, 1913

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No. 17, 1913

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No. 18, 1913

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No. 20, 1913

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No. 28, 1913

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No. 29, 1913

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No. 31, 1913

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No. 36, 1913

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No. 37, 1913

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No. 39, 1913

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No. 43, 1913

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No. 44, 1913

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No. 45, 1913

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No. 46, 1913

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No. 47, 1913

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No. 48, 1913

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No. 49, 1913

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No. 50, 1913

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No. 51, 1913

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No. 52, 1913

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No. 53, 1913

Box 243

No. 55, Aleksai Kanashev, 1909

Box 243

No. 56, femme de Kolary, 1913

Box 243

No. 59, 1913

Box 243

No. 60, 1913

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No. 61, 1913

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No. 62, 1913

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[No. 62?], 1913

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No. 63, 1913

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No. 64, 1913

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No. 65, 1913

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No. 66, 1913

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No. 67, 1913

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No. 68, 1913

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No. 69, 1913

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No. 70, 1913

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No. 71, 1913

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No. 72, 1913

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No. 73, 1913

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No. 74, 1913

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No. 75, 1913

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No. 76, 1913

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No. 77, 1913

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No. 78, 1913

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No. 79, N. Varshavov, 1913

Box 243

No. 80, Frada Girteva Itkina, 1913

Box 243

No. 81, 1913

Box 243

No. 82, 1913

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No. 83, 1913

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No. 84, 1913

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No. 85, 1913

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No. 86, 1913

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No. 87, 1913

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No. 88, 1913

Box 243

No. 88, V. Gruzdeva, 1913

Box 243

No. 89, 1913

Box 243

No. 90, 1913

Box 243

No. 91, 1913

Box 243

Nossar, 1913

Box 243

Nyloff, Andre, 1913

Box 243

Oboukhoff, Vera, 1913

Box 243

Ocharine, Vladimir, 1913

Box 243

Odelieff, 1913

Box 243

Odoleieff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Oiitoff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Oselewsky, Oskar, Edouard, 1913

Box 243

Ostroumoff, Marie, 1913

Box 243

Oustimoff, Michel, 1910

Box 243

Oustinoff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Oustinoff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Pataoff, 1913

Box 243

Piatkoff, Jacquelet, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Piatnitzky, Pierre, 1913

Box 243

Plekanoff, Alexandre, 1914 February 26

Box 243

Polak, Vera, 1914

Box 243

Police identity reports, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Polmkowsky, Rose, 1913

Box 243

Polonsky, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Portrait of an unidentified man, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Portrait of an unidentified man, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Portrait of an unidentified woman, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Posiniokoff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Poznansky, 1913

Box 243

Preobajensky, Nicolas, 1913

Box 243

Priaouff, Emile, Edouard, Nicolas, 1913

Box 243

Procopoff, Georges, 1914 March 4

Box 243

Prokofiewa, Maria d'Alessio, 1913

Box 243

Prybileff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Prybileff, Alexandre, 1913

Box 243

Prybileff, Alexandre, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Pupkowicz, Gloria det Gustave, 1914 February 14

Box 243

Rabinovitch, Georges, 1913

Box 243

Rabinowitch, Rosa, 1913

Box 243

Radzilewsky, 1913

Box 243

Ratkinikoff, 1913

Box 243

Ratner, 1913

Box 243

Reitzmann, Samuel, 1913

Box 243

Reuter, 1913

Box 243

Riamoff, Ekaterian, 1913

Box 243

Rikhter, Vladimir, 1913

Box 243

Ritter, 1913

Box 243

Romanoff, 1913

Box 243

Romoff, Salomon, 1913

Box 243

Rondenko, Valerian, 1913

Box 243

Roskoff, Modeste, 1914 March 14

Box 243

Rotkoff, Stephanie, 1913

Box 243

Roubanovitch, 1913

Box 243

Rouiller, 1913

Box 243

Routkovsky, Anatolie, 1913

Box 243

Rygier, Maria, 1913

Box 243

Salbard, Vladimir, 1913

Box 243

Sandel, Guillarme, 1914 February 10

Box 243

Scheffer, Samuel, 1913

Box 243

Schkolnik, Marie, 1913

Box 243

Schultz, Moise, 1913

Box 243

Schweikovsky, Povalo, 1913

Box 243

Sergueieff, Alexandre, 1911 March 12

Box 243

Serye, 1913

Scope and Contents note

Handwritten authorization for 'Serye' from anon.
Box 243

Siramis, 1913

Box 243

Slatopolsky, Alexandre, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Sletoff, 1913

Box 243

Sloy, Jules, 1913

Box 243

de Smelinsky, Victor, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Smirnoff, 1913

Box 243

Smirnoff, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Handwriting sample
Box 243

Smirnoff (Mlle), 1913

Box 243

Smirnoff, Jean, 1913

Box 243

Socten, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Somoff, Eugenie, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Soukhomline, 1913

Box 243

Soukomline, Anna, Assia, 1913

Box 243

Spengler, 1913

Box 243

Stoliaroff, 1913

Box 243

Strakov/Strakor, 1913

Box 243

Strokoff, Paul, 1914 February 10

Box 243

Summary of photographs with a single copy in the index, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Heading reads: "Photographies à me seul exemplaire collè sur la fiche"
Box 243

Tatarsky, Isaac, 1913

Box 243

Tchekoff, 1913

Box 243

Tchenikaeff, 1913

Box 243

Tcherniavsky, Michel, 1913

Box 243

Tchernoff, Michel, 1913

Box 243

Tchoudousk, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Tchoumakoff, Jacques, 1913

Box 243

Teploff, 1913

Box 243

Tichonov, Marie, 1913 August 13

Box 243

Toporoff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Trakineff, Rachel, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Trenkvil, Manrue, 1913

Box 243

Trojanska, Anna, 1913

Box 243

Trotsky, Raissa, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Turkin, Levy, 1913 August 19

Box 243

Tutceef, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Tzinkovakoff, 1913

Box 243

Unidentified handwriting sample, circa 1883-1917

Scope and Contents note

Handwritten note, no identifiers.
Box 243

Unidentified man sitting at a chair, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Unidentified portrait of a woman, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Uspinsky, 1913

Box 243

Vadinoff, Andre, 1913

Box 243

Verbisky, Boris, 1913

Box 243

Vinogradoff, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Vinogradoff, Alexis, 1913

Box 243

Viroy, 1913

Box 243

Vishnevtky, Esther, Dveira, 1913

Box 243

Volkovsky, Felix, 1913

Box 243

Vosteim, Igoroganess, 1913 August 19

Box 243

Vovsi, Joseph, 1913

Box 243

Weinberg, Abraham, 1913

Box 243

Weinthal, Armand, 1913

Box 243

Weinthal, Armand, 1913

Box 243

Weitstein, 1913

Box 243

Wetzel, 1912 November 11

Box 243

Williams, 1913

Box 243

Wladimiroff et Riskine, 1913 August 13

Box 243

Wyristem, Georges, 1913

Box 243

Yakowleff, 1913

Box 243

Yaravko, Lydia, 1913 August 19

Box 243

Yaroslanski, Boris, 1913

Box 243

Yemunob, Ustinov, 1913

Box 243

Zakaroff, Denis, 1913

Box 243

Zalkind, Victoria, 1913

Box 243

Zamarajeff, Pierre, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Zanzinoff, 1913

Box 243

Zanzinoff, 1913

Box 243

Zchernoff, Victor, 1913

Box 243

Zetlin, Michel, 1914 March 24

Box 243

Zilbermann, 1913

Box 243

Zilbermann, 1913

Box 243

Zimermann, Bernard, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Zoitzeff, Serge, circa 1883-1917

Box 243

Zuckermann, 1913

Boxes 173-180

g. Émigré rosters

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana abroad developed in its very early years of operation the practice of keeping a complete record of all émigrés abroad. The purpose of this was to take the obvious first step in intelligence efforts against the revolutionaries and their activities. Any new names of subversives or suspects were checked against these records as to his or her name, address, occupation, passport, and the like. The bulk of information on émigrés entered in the large ledgers or specially printed folios was obtained from various cooperating police offices and, in fewer cases, from non-Russian investigation agents.
This extensive collection of rosters in book form dates back to 1887 and continues through the years. There is little uniformity in the ledgers; and specially prepared rosters, some of which are not even in alphabetical order, some of which are incomplete, and some of which list the names only, or the names and addresses, while others, with folios arranged in columns, render considerable other details.
The collection is arranged chronologically, most of the books covering Paris and Prance. A comprehensive collection on Belgium shows that the uniform collection could have been secured only by transcription from police records. The records on émigrés in Switzerland, in German cities, and others are in similar order.

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By year

Index XIIIg, Folder 1

1887

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Index XIIIg, Folder 2

1890

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Index XIIIg, Folders 3-4

1891

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Index XIIIg, Folder 5

1892-1893

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Index XIIIg, Folders 6-8

1893-1894

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Index XIIIg, Folder 9

1894-1895

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Index XIIIg, Folder 10

1897-1898

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Index XIIIg, Folder 11

1898-1899

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Index XIIIg, Folder 12

1899-1900

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Index XIIIg, Folder 13

1900-1902

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Index XIIIg, Folder 14

1902

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Index XIIIg, Folders 15-17

1903

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Index XIIIg, Folder 18

Undated roster

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Scope and Contents note

Book with entries by agent Neuhaus in Berlin on Russians in Germany.
Index XIIIg, Folder 19

1910

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By location

Index XIIIg, Folder 20

Belgium, 1910-1914

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Scope and Contents note

Folios on Russian émigrés in printed form from Belgian police registers of foreigners.
Index XIIIg, Folder 21

Switzerland, 1915-1916

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Scope and Contents note

Rosters with about 2500 entries from Bern, Zurich, and Lausanne.
Index XIIIg, Folder 22

France, 1891-1894

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Scope and Contents note

Includes roster of "jeunes gens faisant partie de la colonie russe" at Nancy. Rosters include subjects of Bulgaria, Serbia, and Poland.
Index XIIIg, Folder 23

Various

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Scope and Contents note

Includes émigrés in Darmstadt, Germany; Russian physicians in Paris (1905); list of Russians in Tilff, Belgium (1912); émigrés in Heidelberg; Russian revolutionaries in London (November 1905); Russian revolutionaries in Italy (1910-1913); etc.
Index XIIIg, Folder 24

Without dates or locations

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Index XIIIg, Folder 25

Roster of Russian anarchists and Narodovoltsy (People's Will) in Paris, 1890

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Index XIIIg, Folder 26

List of newspapers and magazines in England and the United States; names and addresses of Russian revolutionaries in London, 1894-1896

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Index XIIIg, Folder 27

Russian revolutionaries in Bern, Switzerland, 1898

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Index XIIIg, Folder 28

Alphabetized catalog of revolutionaries with photographs available

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Scope and Contents note

Letters A-D only. Under "Remarks," there are entries on the individual's political affiliation, police action, and references.
Index XIIIg, Folder 29

Alphabetized roster used as a working ledger, 1900-1914

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Index XIIIg, Folder 30

Alphabetized ledger of agent reports on émigrés, 1915

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Index XIIIg, Folder 31

Rosters of émigrés and students in Paris and Germany, 1902-1903

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Boxes 181-183

h. Rosters of Russian students attending schools abroad

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana's collection of rosters on Russian students abroad began in 1893 through agents enrolled as students. As some of the documents in this collection indicate, the agent-student compiled lists of his student compatriots or submitted short biographic cards on each. This was the practice at the University of Paris and some German schools, but only for a few school years.
The Okhrana then resorted to the simpler method of obtaining printed school catalogues, which listed teachers and students, and kept these as a reference on Russian students. All such catalogues found in the files are listed in the inventory.

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Index XIIIh, Folder 1

Dispatches concerning rosters of students abroad, 1910-1915

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Faculty of Medicine in Paris

Index XIIIh, Folder 2

1898-1899

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Index XIIIh, Folder 3

1899-1900

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Index XIIIh, Folder 4

1900-1901

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Index XIIIh, Folder 5

Montpellier, France, 1896, 1910

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Index XIIIh, Folder 5

Nancy, France, 1910, 1913

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Index XIIIh, Folder 6

University of Liege, Belgium, 1909-1910

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Index XIIIh, Folder 7

Germany, 1904-1907

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Scope and Contents note

Includes rosters from Leipzig, Mittweida, and Saxony.
Index XIIIh, Folder 8

Zurich and Bern, undated

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Index XIIIh, Folder 9

University of Geneva

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Scope and Contents note

Includes Liste des Autorités, Professeurs, Etudiants de l'Universite de Genéve.
Index XIIIh, Folder 10

University of Lausanne, 1893-1898

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Index XIIIh, Folder 11

University of Bern, 1893-1898; 1909-1910

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Index XIIIh, Folder 12

Hochschule Zurich, 1893-1898

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Index XIIIh, Folder 13

ETH Zérich, 1895-1899

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Index XIIIh, Folder 14

Fribourg, Zurich, and Darmstadt, 1893-1910

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Index XIIIh, Folder 15

University of Lausanne, 1898-1917

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Index XIIIh, Folder 16

University of Geneva, 1900-1912

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Index XIIIh, Folder 17

Unidentified medical school, 1893-1894

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Index XIIIh, Folder 18

Zurich, 1898-1907

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Index XIIIh, Folder 19

Berlin, 1908

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Index XIIIh, Folder 20

Darmstadt, 1903, 1906

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Index XIIIh, Folder 21

University of Bern, 1903

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Index XIIIh, Folders 22-23

Munich, 1904

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Index XIIIh, Folder 24

Paris, 1891

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Index XIIIh, Folder 25

Russian students in contact with revolutionaries, 1892

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Boxes 184, 244

XIV. Communications

Box 184

a. Pouch systems with home office

Scope and Contents note

Written communications between the Paris Office and Headquarters were carried by pouch as well as regular, registered mail. Some instructions from Headquarters on the preparation of pouches, the use of double envelopes, the sealing of letters and packages, and addressing are still extant among the papers in this collection. Also included are a few sample envelopes of registered Okhrana mail, with the Police Department wax seal, and post office receipts.

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Index XIVa, Folder 1

Dispatches and notes referring to communications by Okhrana pouch through diplomatic courier, 1907-1917

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Scope and Contents note

Includes directives on how to address the mail, preserved samples of addresses, envelopes of regular registered mail with wax seal, etc.
Box 184

b. Correspondence between field installations

Scope and Contents note

Normally all field correspondence between the Paris Office and subordinate establishments or agents abroad, as well as correspondence with Okhrana provincial offices in Russia, went through regular postal and telegraphic channels. For this reason, the correspondents resorted heavily to the use of double talk and words with meanings as agreed upon in advance. The use of word and number codes, usually some ad hoc system, was frequent not only for telegrams but for intelligence reporting in general. Difficulties arose in wartime when various governments began to introduce censorship. The documents in this collection discuss that problem as well as various other points in the handling of communications in the field.
At the end of the collection (in Folder 2) is a log book for incoming registered mail from July 1915 to March 1917. Only the dates and the names of sender and addressee are entered. Both mail from Russia and from field correspondents is entered; correspondents from Russia are addressed by their true name, those from abroad usually by their pseudonym. Letters from the field are more numerous than those from Russia.

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Index XIVb, Folder 1

Dispatches concerning codes used in correspondence between field offices, 1906-1914

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Index XIVb, Folder 2

Journal for incoming registered mail from operatives in the field and in Russia, 1915-1917

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Boxes 184, 244

c. Code systems

Scope and Contents note

A series of circular dispatches from Headquarters reveals how from time to time a code system was compromised or suspected as possibly being learned by unauthorized persons. These memoranda show that Okhrana Headquarters never gave these matters the benefit of the doubt. The slightest suspicion meant that the code had to be replaced by another one. Several samples of codes are included herein. Others may be found in the collection of coded and decoded messages collected in XIVd.
The code used very extensively for non-Russian operators for many years (included in this collection) was a simple transposition of letters. A printed card giving the system of encoding and decoding was given to all investigation agents of some standing.

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Index XIVc, Folder 1

Dispatches containing code systems; Headquarters circulars on codes compromised and withdrawn from use; notes and instructions on the handling of codes and coded messages, 1903-1914

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Index XIVc, Folder 2

Glass plates with a British code

Access

This portion of the collection was not microfilmed.
Index XIVc, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XIVc, Folder 4

Reference: See operational card index file for reference to Okhrana codes

Box 184

d. Encoded and decoded messages, drafts, worksheets

Scope and Contents note

This collection supplements Index Number XIVc with examples of actual encoding of outgoing telegrams and deciphering of encoded incoming messages. Experts on code can detect from the worksheets in these folders that the Paris Office and Okhrana Headquarters preferred three fairly simple systems. The most common practice was to use four variable, two-number digits for 25 letters of the Roman alphabet. The table simply listed the letters, giving four sets of digits for each, e.g.:
a - 75, 23, 14, 09
b - 33, 11, 88, 70
Using such a variable choice of digits was deemed completely secure as long as the key or tables on encoding and decoding were safe.

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Index XIVd, Folders 1-2

Drafts of encoded outgoing telegrams, coded and deciphered incoming messages, and worksheets, 1894-1917

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Index XIVd, Folder 3

Envelopes

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Box 184

e. Secret writing

Scope and Contents note

Only a set of "cyclostyle" sheets were found in the Okhrana files, indicating that someone had probably been using them for a simple type of secret writing. There are no evidences among the files of agent reports that any method of secret writing was employed.
On the other hand, Okhrana people used chemicals and the application of heat to detect secret writing in the intercepted mail of the revolutionaries. The intercepted correspondence of Krupskaya (Lenin's wife), for instance, has more examples marked that the text was developed from "chemical inks" than those without such notations.

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Index XIVe, Folder 1

Two sheets of used cyclostyle paper

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Index XIVe, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Index XIVe, Folder 3

Reference: See case officer Litvin's report from London in 1915, in IIIb, folder 23

Boxes 185-188

XV. Security of establishments and personnel

Box 185

a. Physical security of Okhrana establishments and documents

Scope and Contents note

Assuring secrecy of operations and security of files, in view of constant efforts by the revolutionaries (Burtsev) to penetrate the Okhrana and expose its agents, constituted a permanent worry for Headquarters and the chiefs of the Paris Office. Instructions, issued in this matter by Headquarters, were very strict.
At the beginning of World War I, when French authorities were evacuated from Paris, the Okhrana office also moved to Bordeaux but soon returned to its readjusted and re-equipped office at 79 rue de Grenelle.

Access

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Index XVa, Folder 1

Dispatches, 1896-1916

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Scope and Contents note

Includes instructions from Headquarters for security measures of Okhrana establishments.
Index XVa, Folder 2

Reports on the purchase of sample gas bombs and hand grenades to use against rioters, 1913

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Index XVa, Folder 3

Report on the visit of officers Tregulov and Lebedev, 1913

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Index XVa, Folder 4

Letters and reports on renting an apartment for Iosefovich, 1914-1915

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Index XVa, Folder 5

Temporary transfer of the Paris office to Bordeaux and return to Paris, 1914-1915

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Index XVa, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVa, Folder 7

Reference: For a report on the transfer of the Okhrana offices to Bordeaux, August 22, 1914, see IIe, folder 6

Box 185

b. Security of agents

Scope and Contents note

The files on agents under Indices Ille and Illf and VId and VI-1 illustrate in many instances that the lives of Okhrana agents abroad, as in Russia, were subject to frequent threats of exposure and murder by the revolutionaries. To protect its people, the Okhrana abroad developed and adhered to its system of code names and to its practice of communicating with agents in such a way that most of the Okhrana permanent employees did not know the true identity of the agents. The case officers did not visit the Okhrana office, and the agents did not know each other. Two of them might have known each other as fellow revolutionaries, but not as agents.
The collection in these folders does not contain specific papers on the security of agents; but the collection of dispatches, papers on individual cases, and some of the circulars on security matters yield a fair insight into the practices relating to the matter of preventing agent exposure. Some of the papers show also that the Okhrana was interested in modern protective equipment for the use of the agents. One set of papers dealing with security precautions for traveling imperial personages is included in Folder 1 because parts of it also concern the security of agents themselves.
The collection of court proceedings against agent Rips for his attempt to kill case officer Colonel von Kotten in 1910 is included because of the many references to physical security of Okhrana personnel exposed to the revolutionaries in Paris.

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Index XVb, Folder 1a

Passes issued in Russia (1887-1882); assignment of agent Gutman; security investigation of agent Kavtaradze, 1887-1914

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Index XVb, Folder 1b

Agent code names, pseudonyms, true names, 1907-1917

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Index XVb, Folder 1c

Okhrana's interest in modern protective equipment, 1913-1914

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Index XVb, Folder 1d

Security measures to protect imperial personages abroad, 1913

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Index XVb, Folder 2a

Dispatches relating to security precautions for agents, 1894-1913

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Index XVb, Folder 2b

Notes on the trial of agent Rips for his attempt on the life of case officer Colonel von Kotten, 1910

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Index XVb, Folder 2c

Forms on agent's pay; security regulations on agent handling, 1910-1911

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Index XVb, Folder 2d

Garting's apprehension that Lopukhin exposed Azef

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Index XVb, Folder 2e

Activities of Burtsev and Bakai (revolutionary police)

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Index XVb, Folder 3

Case of defected agent Rips in the French court: complete summary of proceedings, 1910

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Index XVb, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Box 185

c. Methods of checking on the security of agents

Scope and Contents note

Only three dispatches with attached letters were placed in this folder. They refer to cases of Manasevich-Manuilov in Paris, the revolutionary Lopatin in possession of a list of Okhrana agents in Italy, and an agent named Abramov in Moscow. More background material on this topic may be located in agent folders under IIIe, Illf, and VId.

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Index XVc, Folder 1

Correspondence found in the possession of Manasevich-Manuilov, 1910

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Index XVc, Folder 1

Dispatch advising that revolutionary Lopatin has a list of Okhrana surveillance agents in Italy, 1911

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Index XVc, Folder 1

Correspondence found in the possession of agent Abramov in Moscow, 1913

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Boxes 185-188

d. Security of high personages traveling abroad; physical safety

Scope and Contents note

One of the major responsibilities of Okhrana establishments abroad, essentially different from the normal tasks of collecting intelligence on revolutionaries, was the perennial requirement of participating in the task of providing physical safety of the traveling monarch, members of the imperial family, and other high personages. They traveled on state visits and incognito. Regardless of the method or purpose of travel, the separate imperial security in St. Petersburg participated not only as corporal guards but in advance preparations for transits safe from interferences by revolutionaries.
Invariably the Paris Okhrana was called upon for assistance, by doubling and tripling surveillance over the movements of terrorists, and by engaging foreign liaisons for special protection. Non-Russian agents of the Okhrana, called from the more routine posts in a given locale, were set up in teams to guard trains and stations or the areas surrounding the intended lodging for the distinguished visitors. Okhrana planning was methodical, as the various security programs in this collection of documents indicate, depending heavily on its own agent resources and synchronizing its plans of watchfulness with that of the imperial security corps and the local organs of the respective countries.
The folders in this collection are assembled to cover separately each major trip of the Tsar, the Dowager Empress, and the Grand Dukes and Princes. Some of the folders are selections of day-to-day-surveillance reports. Folder 17 is a booklet containing Okhrana regulations on security measures for the safety of an imperial trip.

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Index XVd, Folder 1

Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich's trip to France, 1912

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Index XVd, Folder 2

Travels of the Russian Empress in Europe, 1909-1914

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Index XVd, Folder 3

Tsar's travels in Europe, 1895-1897

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Index XVd, Folder 4

Tsar's trip to Paris, 1909

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Index XVd, Folder 5

Tsar's trip to Paris, 1913

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Index XVd, Folder 6

Daily reports from agent Maurice Vogt on the stay of imperial personages in London, 1910

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Index XVd, Folder 7

Surveillance reports on German ports in connection with security arrangements for travel, 1911

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Index XVd, Folder 8

Lecointe's accounts of the visits of Queen Aleksandra to England, Denmark, and Sweden, 1911

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Index XVd, Folder 9

Bint's report on his assignment to protect an incognito lady and child in Bad Elster, Germany, 1911

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Index XVd, Folder 10

Agent Vogt's reports on the visit of royalty to Vichy and Biarritz, 1913

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Index XVd, Folder 11

Instruktsiia (Regulations regarding security measures for imperial trips abroad), 1913

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Index XVd, Folder 12

Tsar's trip to Konstanz, 1914

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Index XVd, Folder 13

Imperial trip to Germany, 1910

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Index XVd, Folder 14

Miscellaneous notes, 1897-1914

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Index XVd, Folder 15

Tsar's visit to Berlin, 1913 May

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Index XVd, Folder 16

Tsar's trip to Hesse, 1910

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Index XVd, Folder 17

Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich's travels in Europe, 1910-1914

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Index XVd, Folder 18

Tsar's tour of the Baltics, 1910

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Index XVd, Folder 19

Bittard-Monin's report on attempt on the life of the Russian Minister of Education, in Nice, 1912

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Index XVd, Folder 20

Notes and wires regarding the protection of the Minister of the Interior in Germany, 1911

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Index XVd, Folder 21

Partial roster of personnel serving Russian royalty

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Index XVd, Folder 22

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVd, Folder 23

Reference: See the operational card index file for references to security arrangements during the trips of Russian royalty abroad

Index XVd, Folder 24

Reference: See outgoing telegram, September 26, 1903, relaying the Tsar's order for Lopukhin to go to Italy to discern the political climate for a potential visit

Box 188

e. Control of information passed to security organs of other countries

Scope and Contents note

Despite the close cooperation with foreign security organs, the Paris Okhrana was extremely cautious in passing information to them, not only in order to protect its sources, but to restrict the flow of intelligence only to the essentials or to those elements that were to the Okhrana's advantage if the cooperating organs were informed on. The Paris Office fully realized that it could not expect adequate control over the information passed on to the French and German services.
These four dispatches pertain to relations with the Belgian, French, and Prussian security organs. In each case, revealing information to them threatened the security of sources. In fact, one of the reasons that Okhrana key agent Maurice Leroy had to be dismissed was the lack of control of the information revealed to the French.

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Index XVe, Folder 1

Dispatches regarding the exchange of information passed to security organs in countries other than France: the cases of Chicherin, Leroy, and Mantenfel

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Box 188

f. Intelligence transmitted to services of other countries

Scope and Contents note

When the war came, the exchange of intelligence information between the Okhrana and representative organs of the Allied services in Paris became a daily routine, as may be noted in the folders on the wartime Okhrana under Index Number Ille and on counter-espionage in VIIb, as also various folders on liaison, in Index Numbers under V. The collection under this title (XVf) contains only samples of the materials transmitted. The copies are for the most part duplicates of other copies placed under other indices according to the contents of the subject matter.
These samples show that information was transmitted in sanitized form, never mentioning the source or anything that might possibly help to disclose the source. The degree of reliability of source or substance of the information is given in some of these transmittals. It appears also that the Paris Okhrana refrained from classifying these intelligence notes. Only a few original drafts (on Paris Office letterhead), addressed to the Italian chief of service in Paris, carry the classification of "confidential". In contrast, Okhrana memoranda to Headquarters were normally marked "secret" (sekretno) or "top secret" (sovershenno sekretno).

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Index XVf, Folder 1

Intelligence reports in French on individuals and organizations transmitted to French, Italian, and British intelligence services during the war, 1914-1917

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Boxes 189-196

XVI. Target groups

Box 189

a. History of revolutionary movements

Scope and Contents note

The paramount and openly stated task of the Okhrana establishments abroad was to seek contacts with foreign security services in order to provide security for the traveling imperial personages and to prevent terrorist plots at home and abroad. In line with this assignment, Russian revolutionary groups of all philosophic and ideological description became the agency's principal targets. It watched and studied all émigré groups by collecting intelligence about them and penetrating them by placing agents posing as revolutionaries in revolutionary committees, councils, conferences, and congresses. In many instances, the Paris Okhrana was informed daily on the revolutionary meetings, frictions, and cooperation, agenda, and conspiracies. As an intelligence agency, it reported faithfully and without bias to Headquarters, thus leaving in the carbon copies now collected under these indexes some truly authentic source materials on the history of the Russian revolutionary movement.
In addition to the papers on the early history of the Russian revolutionary groupings abroad, Index XVIa includes documents discussing all revolutionary groups, papers that could be placed under nearly all sub-titles on political parties and minority groups.
Much of the material in these folders is on the nihilists, including handwritten tracts and memoirs of known revolutionaries abroad. In Folder 1, a draft report of 1890, probably intended for the French Sûreté, discusses the nihilists in Paris; another similar draft, based on correspondence with Leon Jolivard, deals with nihilists in London and Berlin. Rachkovskii's notes on George Kennan are dated 1893 and a draft of 1901 points to the cleavage between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
Folder 2, starting with the year 1889, contains general reports on student groups, Narodnaia Volia, the Bund, general materials on leftist organizations and leaders. At the end is a Headquarters circular (1916) giving the history of Russian revolutionary movements. A chart at the end shows graphically the structure of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party and its affiliation with the national minority parties.
Folder 5 contains a 1906 intelligence brief on revolutionary groups within Russia. A special issue of L'Eclair, Paris, July 5, 1890, treats in detail and with illustrations the famous trial of the nihilists in Paris (Folder 6).

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Index XVIa, Folder 1

Reports from the Paris Okhrana on revolutionaries, including correspondence with Leon Jolivard regarding nihilists in London, 1890-1908

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Index XVIa, Folder 2

Chart of the composition of the Social Democratic Workers Party; information on revolutionaries; reports, circulars, and intercepted letters, 1889-1916

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Index XVIa, Folder 3

Data on individual revolutionaries; handwritten memoirs, reports, and letters, 1887-1914

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Index XVIa, Folder 4

Matters pertaining to revolutionary publications abroad: Burtsev's correspondence; handwritten articles; tracts; and memoirs on revolutionary parties (from the mid-19th century)

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Index XVIa, Folder 5

Headquarters circulars (no. 1510 and supplement) on revolutionary groups within Russia, 1906

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Index XVIa, Folder 6

Articles from the foreign press on nihilists, including the July 5, 1890 issue of L'Eclair on the Paris trial of the nihilists, 1890

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Index XVIa, Folder 7

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIa, Folder 8

Reference: For letters and reports from various agents in London in French, Polish, and Russian from 1891-1902, see XIIIa

Index XVIa, Folder 9

Reference: For agent Farce's report of 1902 containing a list and description of revolutionaries and their publications in London and the United States, see VIk, folder 23

Index XVIa, Folder 10

Reference: See "L'Affaire Azef" in Hors de Loi , in XIIc(1)

Boxes 189-195

b. Individual groups

Box 189

(1) Narodovoltsy

Scope and Contents note

The Okhrana files are comparatively meager on documents dealing with the Narodnaia Volia (People's Will), or Narodovoltsy. This organization had already become a fairly cohesive political group among the émigrés abroad even before the Okhrana developed into a full-fledged agency in Paris. The terrorist excesses hurt the organization, and by the 1890s, most of the outstanding leaders were affiliated with the larger political grouping of Socialist Revolutionaries in Prance or the Anarcho-Communists in England. The Narodovoltsy may thus be considered as the antecedents of the Socialist Revolutionaries and their extremist terrorist detachments. In fact, some of the enclosed documents in this collection refer to the Narodovoltsy and Socialist Revolutionaries as almost one and the same group, so that no line can be drawn as to where the antecedents ended as an organized grouping and the successor took over.
Folder 1 of the collection contains several long drafts of reports to Headquarters and other communications on the party and its leaders. In Folder 2, much information on the same is given in three Headquarters circulars. Lavrov, one of the theoreticians of the group in London, wrote a large number of Narodnaia Volia tracts, a collection of which is placed in Folder 3.

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Index XVIb(1), Folder 1

Drafts and dispatches on the Narodovoltsy and early Socialist Revolutionaries, 1886-1907

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Scope and Contents note

Includes intercepted letters concerning revolutionary publications.
Index XVIb(1), Folder 2

Reports and personal data on various Narodovoltsy; circulars from Headquarters; personal data and intelligence analysis of Rubinovich, 1888-1908

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Index XVIb(1), Folder 3

Mimeographed tracts by Lavrov, 1892

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Index XVIb(1), Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Box 190

(2) Social Democrats

Scope and Contents note

This collection of Headquarters and Paris Office dispatches, notes, publications, intercepted letters, newspaper clippings, and short published and unpublished tracts includes many documents dealing with the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party (RSDWP) and its leaders. The bulk of it could therefore be classed also under XVIb(6), which deals specifically with the RSDWP and its fractions, the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and the narrow group of Lenintsy. The researcher studying the background of Russian Social Democracy, the RSDWP, and the emerging communist party would thus find it essential to consult the papers under all these indices and also the special personal folders on Lenin, Plekhanov, and Trotsky under XVII.
In many of the documents in this collection the term "Social Democrats" is used almost as a generic term. The Duma faction is referred to as the "Social Democrats" and many intelligence reports refer to the RSDWP simply as S. D. Then, there is a number of smaller groups, such as Social Democratic Internationalists, Social Democratic Independents, or Free Socialists, organized in Paris by Vsevolod Mikhailovich. This collection includes also papers pertaining to the Social Democracy in Western Europe.
Each folder is organised in chronological order. In Folder 1, which holds various correspondence, a draft at the beginning of the set gives a short chronology of the Social Democrats since 1876 and refers to the Russian Social Democratic Party as the "United Social Democratic Workers Party".
Folder 2 is somewhat specific on Lenin's role in the Party, showing his maneuvering of the Bolsheviks to supremacy. Folders 4 and 6 concern the Latvian, Jewish, and Polish groups participating in the Russian Social Democratic Party, while Folder 5 contains a set of resolutions and proclamations of the Party. Some of these are also found among the unassorted materials in Folder 8.

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 1

Correspondence between Headquarters and Paris; reports on the activities of Social Democratic party groups in Europe, the United States, and Russia, 1876-1917

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 2

Dispatches on Lenin's methods on the road to power; manuevering of the Bolsheviks within the party; gains and losses by the Mensheviks, 1904-1916

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 3

Dispatches on the attitude of the Social Democratic party toward the war, 1914-1916

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 4

Dispatches on the activities of the Latvian group in the Russian Social Democratic Party, 1904-1913

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 5

Resolutions, proclamations, appeals, and circulars issued by the party, 1904-1917

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 6a

Dispatches on the disagreements between the Bolsheviks (Lenin) and the Polish group of the party, 1911-1914

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 6b

Dispatches concerning the Internationalists

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 6c

Dispatches concerning Social Democratic propaganda schools in Bologna and Longjumeau, 1910-1911

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 6d

Dispatches on party contacts with similar parties in Europe and the United States, 1912-1916

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 6e

Circular issued by the Jewish section of the Social Democratic party, 1913

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 6f

Dispatches concerning the revolutionary press; reports by agent Bint; articles in Vorwérts, 1901

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 6g

Reports from agent Powell on revolutionaries in London and their contacts with British nihilists, 1913

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 7

Dispatches and reports on Social Democratic leaders, their movements, activities, functions, and addresses, 1904-1910

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 8

Intercepted letters, 1902-1912

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 9

Incomplete manuscripts on the Social Democrats in Russia (undated part of a novel), booklet of dues, and small pamphlets

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Index XVIb(2), Folder 10

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIb(2), Folder 11

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 31, May 1, 903, for a draft of the by-laws of the 2nd RSDWP Congress in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index XVIb(2), Folder 12

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 64, December 18, 1903, for a survey of the composition and organization of the RSDWP in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index XVIb(2), Folder 13

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 67, January 8, 1904, for report on the Brussels congress of the RSDWP in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index XVIb(2), Folder 14

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 132, April 7, 1905, for the program of the 3rd RSDWP Congress in XIIIc(2), folder 6

Index XVIb(2), Folder 15

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 154, September 8, 1905, for the program of a RSDWP conference in Ekaterinodar in XIIIc(2), folder 6

Boxes 191-192

(3) Socialist Revolutionaries

Scope and Contents note

This political organization was by far the most formidable target for the Okhrana. Among its leaders were men of higher educational qualification -- professional people, a number of them with funds of their own, and more widely spread than all other political factions. They also proved to be more aggressive, with separate clandestine sections for the promotion and carrying out of terror, than other rebel groups. In addition, they developed an intelligence organization of their own, not only to carry conspiracies into Russia, but to counteract the efforts of the Okhrana at home and abroad.
The collection under this Index Number does not include all Okhrana materials on the Socialist Revolutionaries. The subsequent index, XVIb(4), with the collection of papers on the militant terrorist units, includes many documents on the fighting and mobile units maintained as the more clandestine and conspiratorial branches of the Party. The separate files under XVII for leaders like Chernov, Gots, and Savinkov likewise contain much information on the activities of the Party. Finally, the file on Vladimir Burtsev, the self-styled intelligence chief of the revolutionaries, gives another aspect of the activities of the Socialist Revolutionaries.
Among the contents in the folders on the Socialist Revolutionaries, the following are of particular significance: Folder 1: Instructions and briefs supplied by Headquarters. The case of Azef and its impact on the Party; Folder 3: Rosters, personal data on party leaders; Folder 5: Socialist Revolutionary groups by countries, conventions and conferences.

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 1

Dispatches and circulars

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Scope and Contents note

Includes instructions and intelligence on the Socialist Revolutionary Party from Headquarters (1901-1909); terrorism and expropriations (1905-1914); the Azef case and its impact (1909-1913); Socialist Revolutionary party activities in Russia (1910-1914); attitude toward the war (1914-1916); financial problems of the party (1903-1915); secret addresses for letters.
Index XVIb(3), Folder 2

Various revolutionary publications

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 3

Rosters, reports, and circulars with personal data on individual members, 1903-1916

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 4

Reports on the activities of Socialist Revolutionary groups abroad (rifts, splits and attempts at unification), 1903-1917

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 5

Reports on Socialist Revolutionary groups in New York, Montreal, Belgium, Switzerland, England, and Germany, 1901-1916

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 6

Reports on conventions of Socialist Revolutionary groups abroad, 1904-1915

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 7

Reports on the Socialist Revolutionary Party Central Committee, the Regional Committee, and the Council, 1908-1915

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 8

Dispatches pertaining to the activities of Socialist Revolutionary groups in Paris, 1910-1916

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 9

Publications, resolutions, and other materials, 1903-1915

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 10

Intercepted letters, 1905-1912

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Index XVIb(3), Folder 11

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIb(3), Folder 12

Reference: See operational card file index for references to Socialist Revolutionary activities and congresses

Index XVIb(3), Folder 13

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 7, November 11, 1902, for a review of the activities, membership, and publications of the Socialist Revolutionary party in Russia, in XIIIc(2), folder 1

Index XVIb(3), Folder 14

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 43, July 23, 1903, for plans for organization of a foreign branch in Geneva, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index XVIb(3), Folder 15

Reference: See directive circular no. 10412, 1906, for instructions for the peasant union of the Socialist Revolutionary party, in XIIId(1), folder 9

Index XVIb(3), Folder 16

Reference: For a listing of individual leaders in the party and in its fighting unit, see XVIIn

Index XVIb(3), Folder 17

Reference: For "Report on Savinkov," 1915, see XVIIi

Box 192

(4) Militant terrorist units

Scope and Contents note

The collection of documents under this subject is supplemental to the materials gathered under XXIVi on terrorist techniques and XXVIId, threats upon the life of security personnel. All revolutionary groups resorted to terror, not so much to eliminate by assassination the individuals considered as oppressive tyrants, but for the purpose of creating confusion and, often, to eliminate popular personages in the Tsarist governmental and social structure. Of all the revolutionary groups, however, it was only the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries that maintained permanent fighting units (boevaia druzhina) which carried on a systematic program of terror under the subsequent leadership of Gershuni, Azef, and Savinkov. (See XVIIi.)
The Social Democratic Workers Party (Bolsheviks), at times on record as being opposed to terror as a revolutionary instrument, had in time of stress (1905) instructions on its program for attacks on government establishments, arsenals, banks, and liquidation of government organs. Also, the bloody armed robbery in Tiflis and similar excesses were organized by the RSDWP leaders, but the purpose of these was to obtain funds needed for the revolution rather than mere terror. The funds from the Tiflis and other robberies went for the needs of Lenin, Litvinov, Krassin, and their revolutionary plans. (See particularly the files on Litvinov and Krassin in XVII-1, XVIIm, and XXVc.)
The folders of this file contain dispatches about terrorists from 1890 to 1914. Folder 4 has a series of Headquarters circulars on individual terrorists.

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Index XVIb(4), Folder 1

Dispatches on terrorists, arms smuggling in Russia, and other activities, 1890-1914

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Index XVIb(4), Folder 2

Clippings, reports, and dispatches on terrorist publications, acts of terror, Burtsev's role, and criticism of his behavior (Bakai), 1906-1914

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Index XVIb(4), Folder 3

Intercepted letters written by terrorists, 1905-1912

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Index XVIb(4), Folder 4

Data on individual terrorists, with emphasis on Savinkov's group in Paris, 1903-1915

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Index XVIb(4), Folder 5

Reference: See operational card index file for reference to terrorist units

Index XVIb(4), Folder 6

Reference: For "Liste des actes terroristes et des pillages a main armee en Russie, commis depuis 15 octobre 1907 jusqu'au 8 avril 1910," a statistical and chronological account, see XXIVi

Boxes 192-193

(5) Anarcho-Communists

Scope and Contents note

This collection contains documents on anarchists of the "school" that followed the teachings of Prince Petr Kropotkin in his London and other European exiles, the descendants of the old nihilist school, and several factions that variously called themselves Anarcho-Communists.
As the files show, all these "schools" were strongly influenced by the Western European anarchists, fairly fashionable in pre-World War I days. The files show also that the Russian Anarcho-Communists were an assortment of militant exiles, but not as organized as the terrorist bands of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries. Their principal purpose was akin to that of the West European anarchists -- to kill off the crowned monarchs or the ruling heads of governments, but by aiming primarily at the Russian rulers. The adherents were a conglomerate from all strata an occasional nobleman like Kropotkin, malcontent intellectuals, deserters, unemployed émigrés, and also ordinary criminals, as some of the police records indicate.
A document in Folder 1 reports on the plan of Italian anarchists in Hamburg conspiring attempts on the lives of the crowned heads of Europe. Several papers in other folders refer to European anarchists. The dispatches in Folder 1 deal with various acts of terror, such as the Houndsditch robbery and murders, committed by Russian Anarcho-Communists, which led to close cooperation with Scotland Yard.
Folder 2 has dispatches referring to anarchist publications, including five handwritten unpublished tracts and copies of the "Worker's Friend" in Yiddish.
Prince Kropotkin's file, in Folder 3 has papers on Russian liaison with European and American anarchists, intercepted letters, etc.
In Folder 4, a 61-page account on the First Conference of the Russian Anarcho-Communists in December 1913 is included. And Folder No. 5 has a Headquarters circular which gives a comprehensive brief on the Anarcho-Communists in 1909 and their organization and activities.

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Index XVIb(5), Folder 1

Dispatches, letters, and reports, 1901-1915

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Scope and Contents note

Includes reports on planned attemps by Italian anarchists in Hamburg on the lives of crowned heads of Europe; acts of terrorists and banditry committed by anarchists outside of Russia (including the Houndsditch affair).
Index XVIb(5), Folder 2

1905-1917

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Index XVIb(5), Folder 3

Letters and reports on and by Prince Kropotkin; reports on the liaison of Russian Anarcho-Communists with European and American anarchists (1909-1916); intercepted letters (1895-1909); list of non-Russian anarchists not permitted to enter Russia; appeals of anarchists against the war, 1895-1916

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Index XVIb(5), Folder 4

Dispatches on anarchist activities in Paris, London, Switzerland, and Belgium, including a protocol of the 1st United Conference of Russian Anarcho-Communists Abroad, 1907-1916

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Index XVIb(5), Folder 5

Exchange of intelligence on Anarcho-Communists between Headquarters and the Paris office, 1893-1914

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Scope and Contents note

Includes a 120-page brief for agents (1909); dispatches referring to anarchist activities in the United States (1914); established identity and personal data on individual anarchists (1903-1916); Headquarters circulars (1910-1911); copies of the publication V pomoshch in Russian and Yiddish (1910-1913).
Index XVIb(5), Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIb(5), Folder 7

Reference: See operational card index file for references to anarchist organizations

Index XVIb(5), Folder 8

Reference: For a listing of individual Anarcho-Communists, see XVIIn

Index XVIb(5), Folder 9

Reference: For letters, raw reports from various agents in London, in French, Polish, and Russian, 1891-1902, see XIIIa

Index XVIb(5), Folder 10

Reference: For letters on Erofeev, drafts of telegrams on "Falstaff," see XIb

Index XVIb(5), Folder 11

Reference: See agent Farce's reports from London, 1901-1907, in VIk, folder 23

Boxes 193-194

(6) Russian Social Democratic Workers Party

Scope and Contents note

Many papers in this collection have sections dealing with Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, for which materials are grouped under subsequent specific index numbers. These two folders cover general papers and reviews discussing all the factions of the party.
A set of circulars from Headquarters includes extensive intelligence briefs based on all available intelligence on the structure, leadership, programs, and activities of the party. These valuable documents, based on information obtained from Okhrana agents participating in the party, are analyses made at various periods of growth,from 1903 to 1916.
A number of charts in the collection adds to the interpretation of the RSDWP and its relation to the Polish, Latvian, and Jewish parallel organizations. A chart prepared by the Okhrana in 1909 depicts the pattern of subsequent Communist Party pyramidal structures, from the local and functional cells to the hierarchy of the Central Committee and the top bureau. Full texts of resolutions and appeals of the party, or excerpts from them, add further to the historic source materials on the pre-revolution Russian communist movement.

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Index XVIb(6), Folder 1a

Exchange of intelligence between Headquarters and the Paris office, 1901-1915

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Index XVIb(6), Folder 1b

Structural charts of the RSDWP (1909); letter with official seal, 1909

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Index XVIb(6), Folder 1c

Circulars and briefs from Headquarters on the RSDWP and its leaders, 1903-1916

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Index XVIb(6), Folder 1d

Intercepted letters, 1904-1909

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Index XVIb(6), Folder 1e

Resolutions and appeals issued by the Party, 1905-1916

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Index XVIb(6), Folder 2

Drafts and reports on the RSDWP, 1903-1915

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Index XVIb(6), Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIb(6), Folder 4

Reference: For summary report by principal agent Henry Bint, May 16, 1916, see VIk

Box 194

(a) Bolsheviks

Scope and Contents note

The rudiments of split in the RSDWP into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions became apparent in the very first years of its existence. Much of the information on the growing friction because of ideology, tactics, as well as differences in the character of the leaders, may be observed in many documents of the preceding folders under XVIb(6).
This folder concerns the emerging Bolshevik or Communist Party. At the end of the file are two copies of the leaflet announcing the publication of the newspaper Kommunist in Geneva.

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Index XVIb(6)(a), Folder 1

Drafts and dispatches on the RSDWP, 1908-1917

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Index XVIb(6)(a), Folder 2

Activities of the Latvian group in the Party (intercepted letters), 1914-1916

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Index XVIb(6)(a), Folder 3

Intercepted letters referring to the Bolsheviks; Aleksinskii's letters, 1904-1912

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Index XVIb(6)(a), Folder 4

Report on the Russian revolutionary press in Paris, 1915 December

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Index XVIb(6)(a), Folder 5

Circular issued by the Social Democratic group "Vpered," 1910

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Index XVIb(6)(a), Folder 6

Letters with official seals; announcement of the publication Kommunist, 1905, 1915

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Index XVIb(6)(a), Folder 7

Reference: For a review of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party, see XVIb(6), folder 1

Box 194

(b) Mensheviks

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The split between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks widened particularly after the outbreak of World War I. Lenin's partisans dubbed those of Plekhanov the "Social-patriots". Roughly, the major issue of the two was exemplified in dispute as to whether Russia and the Allies should be supported to win the war, against Germany or not. While the Mensheviks were vacillating and some of them were even in favor of supporting the imperial regime to win the war, to the Bolsheviks, the defeat of Russia became the most desirable step for the advancement of the revolution.
Among the documents in this file dealing with the activities of the Mensheviks is a Headquarters circular giving the contents of a resolution the Mensheviks adopted at Lausanne in August 1915. The included list of leaders shows that the majority of the important revolutionaries abroad, even up to 1916-1917, were Mensheviks, holding on to the socialist ideology but supporting the war effort against the Central Powers. (For materials on Plekhanov, leader of the Mensheviks, see XVIIlb.)

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Index XVIb(6)(b), Folder 1

Dispatches and circulars pertaining to the Mensheviks and activities of various groups, 1909-1915

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Index XVIb(6)(b), Folder 2

Dispatches and circulars on Menshevik leaders ("Socialpatriots"), 1910-1912

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Index XVIb(6)(b), Folder 3

Intercepted letters, 1905

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Index XVIb(6)(b), Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Box 194

(c) Lenintsy

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The term "Lenintsy" (Lenin's men) was used primarily in some of the Okhrana Headquarters circulars relating to a rather narrow circle within the Bolshevist group of the RSDWP. Essentially the same group was originally referred to as the "Iskrovtsy" (from Iskra, the paper founded by Lenin at the turn of the century). During the war, this informal group of zealous supporters aggressively advocated the defeat of Russia and was, for that reason, often referred to as Germanophile.
The circulars in this collection carry pre-war dates. They refer to the illegal, secret organization of the Lenintsy and the conspiratorial work to foment the revolution. Several notes in French dated 1916 discuss the activities of Lenin, Trotsky, and others, and their publication Nashe Slovo.

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Drafts and reports on the activities of Social Democratic "Lenintsy" group, 1902-1916

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Index XVIb(6)(c), Folder 2

Headquarters circulars briefing officers and agents of the Okhrana on the "Lenintsy" group, 1912-1914

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Index XVIb(6)(c), Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 194-195

(7) Students and other émigré groups

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Hundreds of students from Russia were enrolled by the end of the 19th century in French, Swiss, and German universities. Many of these came from Russian universities, where they had already been subjected to much of the prohibited revolutionary propaganda. Abroad, the exposure to leftist ideologies became more intense. The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party in particular was interested in spreading its ideology among students. Various circles were formed -- early student unions, mutual self-help units, most of which soon became little more than front organizations for the RSDWP. Similarly, other émigrés not organized in the major political groups but forming circles, libraries, mutual aid clubs like the "Emigrantskaia Kassa" (a kind of émigré savings and loan unit), though loyal to the regime as individuals, often became convenient front organizations of the RSDWP.
There is no record to show that the Okhrana used such groups as anti-propaganda instruments. Instead, it engaged individual students for reporting on the activities of these leftist front organizations. (On the latter, see XXIVg, on early types of communist front organizations.)
Folders 1-4 of this collection contains dispatches, drafted reports, and rosters of Russian student groups in European countries. In Folders 5-13, the reports are on Polish and Georgian students, activities of all-Russian émigré organizations, etc.
Folder 14 contains a collection of 15 intelligence summaries on student movements in Russia, published by Okhrana Headquarters in book form through school semesters of 1900 and 1901. There is no evidence whether these lengthy summaries were discontinued after 1901. In the box at the end of this collection are some 600 handwritten cards prepared by agents for biographic information on Russian students in Europe in 1899-1901. (A much more extensive record on students in Europe has been placed under Xlllh.)

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 1

Correspondence between Headquarters and the Paris Okhrana referring to the actitivies of Russian students abroad, including 3 reports, 1901-1915

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 2

Rosters and data on individual Russian students in Western Europe, 1893-1916

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 3

Dispatches and reports referring to conventions and meetings of Russian students abroad, 1910-1915

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 4

Dispatches on the activities of Russian students in London, Germany, Paris, Switzerland, and Belgium

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 5

Reports on Polish student organizations in Krakow and on Georgian student organizations of a revolutionary character, 1911, 1913

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 6

Intercepted letters, 1899-1904

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 7

Student Iosif Gotthelf's notes on the Swiss government; drafts of articles on social problems, 1902, 1905

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 8

Dispatches relating to activities of Russian émigré organizations of political and social character, 1912-1917

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 9

Dispatch concerning the failure of revolutionaries to gain teachers for their cause when touring Western Europe, 1912

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 10

Dispatches on the dormant organization Independent Socialists and its leader Mikhailovich, 1913

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 11

Dispatch on Wallach (Litvinov) and Lebedev, leaders of a Russian émigré group in London, 1915

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 12

Dispatch reporting on the Jewish colony in London (Whitechapel) and pro-German feelings, 1915

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 13

Leaflets issued by the Russian Seaman's Union Abroad (front organization), 1914

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 14

Weekly intelligence summaries from Headquarters on the student movement, 1901-1902

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Index XVIb(7), Folder 15

Student biographic cards and circulars issued by students, 1899-1901

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Boxes 195-196

c. Congresses and important conferences

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Conventions and meetings of Russian revolutionaries were of prime importance to the Okhrana for the following reasons: most of them were held outside of Russia, thus escaping surveillance of the home police; these gatherings disclosed plans of action; they revealed contacts the revolutionaries had with other leftist organizations in Europe and America as well as the degree of their cooperation; and the conferences often disclosed sources of funds for the revolutionaries.
While many conferences of the revolutionaries were held in secret, with the place and time known only to the subversives, they were usually well covered by the Paris Office through penetration agents, at times themselves attending as recognized revolutionaries. Detailed reports on the composition, agenda, resolutions, and plans of action were thus forwarded to Headquarters promptly. The latter, in turn, informed the Paris Office on certain conferences not attended by agents of the Paris Okhrana.
Folders 1-4 contain dispatches from and to Headquarters pertaining to various meetings of the RSDWP, the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, all-Russian conferences and meetings (mostly during World War I), and meetings with foreign groups. Folders 5-7 have the correspondence on the international socialist movement and cooperation of Russian revolutionaries, their attendance at conferences at Stuttgart, Copenhagen, London, Vienna, Zurich, Zimmerwald, Bern, Kintal, and The Hague (1906-1916). Resolutions and manifestos and some intercepted mail is included. Folders 8-9 contain data on revolutionary leaders and meetings of the Baltic Slavs, Maksimalists, Austrian Slavs, Macedonian revolutionaries, the Russian cultural congress in Italy, Trade Union Conventions in London, the Zionist Conference in Vienna, etc.

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Index XVIc, Folder 1

Dispatches concerning conventions and meetings of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party, 1901-1917

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Index XVIc, Folder 2

Dispatches, notes, and letters on conventions and meetings of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1906-1912

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Index XVIc, Folder 3

Dispatches pertaining to meetings and contacts with Bulgarian anarchists (Chashin), 1901-1915

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Index XVIc, Folder 4

Dispatches and drafts on all-Russian conferences, meetings, and unified actions, 1908-1916

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Index XVIc, Folder 5

Dispatches and reports on the International Socialist movement, 1906-1916

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Index XVIc, Folder 6

Resolutions and manifests of the Socialist Revolutionary and Social Democratic parties, 1909-1916

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Index XVIc, Folder 7

Intercepted letters referring to revolutionary congresses, 1904-1909

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Index XVIc, Folder 8

Data on individual revolutionary leaders and their activities, 1909-1916

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Index XVIc, Folder 9

Miscellaneous reports

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Scope and Contents note

Topics include the Maksimalists (1907); convention of Macedonian revolutionaries and elections of the Supreme Committee (1908); meeting of the right wing of the Socialist Revolutionaries in Paris on the Azef case (1909); Congress of Austrian Slavs in Krakow (1911); Social Democratic Party conference in Vienna (1912); Russian cultural congress in Italy (1913); International Zionist Conference in Vienna (1913); 1st Trade Union Convention in London (1914); meetings of Balkan Slavs in Sofia and Bucharest (1915). Also includes notebook listing revolutionary conferences and meetings (1914).
Index XVIc, Folder 10

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIc, Folder 11

Reference: See operational card index file for references on revolutionary meetings and congresses

Index XVIc, Folder 12

Reference: See operational card index file for references to International Socialist conferences

Box 196

d. Cohesion, cleavage, and morale

Scope and Contents note

Unity in planning and agreement on common action among Russian revolutionaries abroad as well as between various parties were generally elusive or of temporary character. The fact that all revolutionary groups were against the Tsarist government did not carry enough weight to prevail over diversified methods with which they endeavored to attain their only goal the revolution in Russia.
Inside each revolutionary party there were differences of opinion, clashes between individuals, invariably interfering with the ultimate, purpose. The struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, out of which of characteristic of Lenin came victorious, is characteristic to almost all revolutionary groups. Congresses and conferences served more often as battlegrounds for ambitious leaders than as forums for coordinated action.
This unity in purpose and disharmony in action created a gap deepened by the war to; the point of making any span impossible.
The collection in Folder 1 contains drafts and reports describing or revealing the cleavage and action for unification of revolutionary groups abroad between 1894 and 1917. Among the intercepted letters in Folders 3 and 4, there are several from or addressed to Lenin and other important revolutionaries, discussing frictions between and within their groups.

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Index XVId, Folder 1

Drafts and reports on cleavage and action for unification among revolutionary groups abroad, 1894-1917

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Index XVId, Folder 2

Reports on the attitude of revolutionary organizations toward war and divided opinions on its outcome, 1914-1917

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Index XVId, Folder 3

Intercepted letters mailed from Russia abroad, 1902-1910

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Index XVId, Folder 4

Intercepted letters mailed to Russia from abroad, 1901-1912

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Index XVId, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 196-205, 242

XVII. Revolutionary leaders

Boxes 196-197

a. Vladimir Il'ich Lenin and Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

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The earliest document in Lenin's file, dated June 6, 1895, is a dispatch from St. Petersburg, advising that Lenin had departed from Russia. There is also a dispatch dated September. 7, 1900, regarding Lenin's second departure abroad, where he published for a while the newspaper Iskra with Martov (Tsederbaum), Potresov, and Plekhanov.
Folder 1 contains copies of a number of intercepted letters between various individuals, mostly revolutionaries, discussing Lenin and his views. This file further contains a lengthy report on the 1903 Social Democratic Congress in Brussels, prepared by Chief Rataev of the Paris Okhrana Office (Outgoing Dispatch #168/1903).
The inventory sheets for Folders 2-5 are prepared in considerable detail, listing individual letters written by Lenin and Krupskaya or received by them. The letters are copies rendered verbatim by the Okhrana's offices from intercepted mail. Since it was the practice of Okhrana offices to return to the post offices the mail for delivery to addressees, it is possible that much of the original mail was thus lost, while the Okhrana's copies remained.
Since copies of intercepted correspondence that became subjects of dispatches were kept at Petersburg Headquarters, they came into Bolshevik hands like most all of the other Okhrana documents. As Lenin's Polnoe sobranie sochinenii compilation reveals, many of these copies were preserved. Most of those included in the printed collection are verbatim reproductions, while some of them differ in small details from the samples in this collection. The letters of Lenin's wife, Krupskaya, included in this collection are not printed in the Sochineniaa.

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Index XVIIa, Folder 1

Dispatches and letters pertaining to Lenin and Krupskaya; intercepted correspondence between revolutionaries referring to Lenin or Krupskaya, 1900-1917

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2a

Memorandum from Headquarters advising that Ulianov departed from Russia for abroad, 1895

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2b

Letter from Nizhnii Novgorod to Liege discussing disagreements between the Lenin and Martov factions, 1903

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2c

Report on the split among the "Iskrovtsy," 1904

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2d

Excerpt from a letter from Lenin in Geneva to his mother in Kiev, 1904

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2e

Report on "Katia" Krupsakaya as an important member of Iskra, 1904

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2f

Letter from Lenin, Zverev, and Glebov in Darmstadt to Dauge in Moscow, 1904

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2g

Letter from Lenin in Nuremberg to Dr. Aleksandrov in Gomel, 1904

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2h

Letter from Krupskaya in Nuremberg to Shpolianskaia in Moscow, 1904

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2i

Letter from Lenin to Anton Peres in Moscow, 1904

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2j

Letter from Lenin in Nuremberg to Sokolovskii in Odessa, 1904

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2k

Dispatch from Headquarters advising that Bogdanov is giving financial help to Lenin, 1905

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2l

Report on the 3rd London RSDWP Congress and Lenin's role, 1905

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2m

Letter from Krupskaya in Leipzig to Vera Mikler in Moscow, 1905

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2n

Letter from Lenin in Munich to Pushenskii, 1905

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2o

Letter from Lenin in Munich to Pushenskii in Kherson (with English translation), 1905

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2p

Report on the Social Democratic Conference in Vyborg and Lenin's role, 1906

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2q

Letter from Krupskaya to Lenin

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2r

Report on the All-Russian Conference of the Social Democratic Party in Paris, 1909

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2s

Roster of the members of the RSDWP-Bolshevik faction abroad, 1909

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2t

Letter from Moscow to Krupskaya containing the texts of agitation pamphlets, 1909

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2u

Letter from Lenin in Paris to his sister in Russia discussing peace with the Mensheviks, 1910

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2v

Report on the composition of the RSDWP Central Committee including Lenin, 1910

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2w

Letter from Lenin in Paris to I. K. Frim in Bucharest, 1911

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2x

Letter from Krupskaya in Paris to Iukevich in St. Petersburg, 1911

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2y

Report on Lenin's attempts to sue Tsetkina for 80,000 francs, an inheritance left by Schmidt, 1911

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Index XVIIa, Folder 2z

Memorandum from Headquarters reporting on a conference of Lenin's political partisans, 1912

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3a

Report on Lenin and Zinovyev (Grigorii Radomysl'skii) moving to Krakow to be closer to Russia during the Duma elections, 1912

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3b-3e

Letters from Lenin in Krakow to the Pravda editorial office in St. Petersburg, 1912

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3f

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Nazarov in St. Petersburg, 1912

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3g

Letter from Lenin in Krakow to the editorial office of Sovremennyi mir in St. Petersberg, 1912

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3h-3k

Letter from Krupskaya to Akselrod in St. Petersburg, 1912

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3l-3m

Letter from Krupskaya to Podvoiskii in St. Petersburg

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3n-3o

Letter from Lenin in Krakow to the Pravda editorial office in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3p

Letter from Lenin in Krakow to Lazurkin in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3q

Letter from Lenin in Krakow to Bel'skii in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3r-3u

Letters from Krupskaya in Krakow to Podvoiskii in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3v

Letters from Lenin in Krakow to his sister Mariia in Saratov, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3w

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Kvaleva in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3x

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Podvoiskii in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3y

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Knipovich in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 3z

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Rymash in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4a

Letter from Krupskaya in Zakopane to Kvaleva in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4b

Letter from Krupskaya in Zakopane to Podvoiskii in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4b

Letter from Lenin in Zakopane to Podvoiskii in St. Petersburg

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4c

Letter from Lenin in Zakopane to Kolkov in St. Petersburg

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4d

Letter from Lenin in Zakopane to Podvoiskii in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4e

Letter from Lenin in Krakow to Pravda editorial office in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4f

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Sekorskii in Tiflis, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4g

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Kavtaradze in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4h

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Za pravdu in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4i

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Samolei in St. Petersburg reporting on the strike movement, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4j

Report on the 2nd Regular Conference of the RSDWP and Lenin's role, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4k

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Antoshevskaia in Viatka, 1913

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4l

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Elizarova in St. Petersburg, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4m

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Anton Samolei in St. Petersburg, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4n

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Nina Krug in St. Petersburg, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4o

Letter from Krupskaya in Krakow to Voitsekhovskii in St. Petersburg, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4p

Letter from Krupskaya in Vienna to Sikorskii in Tiflis regarding preparations for a congress, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4q

Letter from Krupskaya in Zakopane to Proveshchenie in St. Petersburg on the 2rd International Conference of Women Socialists and Female Workers' Organizations, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4r

Letter from Krupskaya in Rabka to Ivan Samovarov, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4s

Letter from Krupskaya in Poronin to Enukidze in St. Petersburg asking for information on Georgian and Armenian newspapers published in the Caucasus, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4t

Letter from Krupskaya in Austria to Ivan Samovarov in Kremlevo Station, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4u

Report advising that Lenin is not in prison in Krakow, but is living in Berlin, 1914

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4v

Letter from Lenin's sister Mariia in Petrograd to Lenin in Bern containing family news, 1915

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Scope and Contents note

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4w

Report on Lenin's attitude towards terrorism, 1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4x

Briefs on Safarov, relative of Krupskaya, Ludmila Stiglis and Selikmann, 1915

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4y

Report on Lenin's defeatist views regarding Russia's participation in the war, 1915

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Index XVIIa, Folder 4z

Letters in French by or about Lenin, 1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5a

Lenin's letter to Safarov in French, 1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5b

Chronological review of Lenin's activities from February 1904-April 1916, 1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5c

Surveillance reports on Lenin by agent Bint, 1915-1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5d

Report on Lenin's lecture, "Conditions of Peace and the National Question," 1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5e

Resume of Lenin's report in Zurich entitled "The War and Two Internationals," 1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5f

Statements by Lenin to Safarov on French revolutionaries, 1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5g

Resume of a lecture delivered by Lenin in Geneva entitled "Two Currents in the International Workers' Movement," 1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5h

Report on the Geneva Conference of émigré Treasuries, with Krupskaya as secretary, 1917

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5i

Cable about Lenin receiving the protection of Germany, 1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5j

Report on Lenin's participation in the Bern Conference of International Socialist Commissions, 1917

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5k

Draft of a declaration to be published by the RSDWP Central Committee (represented by Lenin) on the conference of socialists of the "concordat" countries, 1917

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5l

Report on existing opinion on Lenin's attitude towards terror, 1917

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5m

Report concerning Lenin's mistress Inessa Armand, 1917

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5n

Okhrana circular on Nadezhda Krupskaya

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5o

Safarov's letters to Krupskaya, 1915-1916

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Index XVIIa, Folder 5p

English translations of Lenin's correspondence

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Index XVIIa, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIa, Folder 7

Reference: For agent Zhitomirskii's (Daudet) reports on Lenin and his group from 1911-1913, see IIIf, folder 36

Index XVIIa, Folder 8

Reference: See agent Bint's 1917 report on Inessa Armand in VIk, folder 5

Index XVIIa, Folder 9

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 61, 1903, on Anichkin, a student in St. Petersburg, involved in a plot with Lenin in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index XVIIa, Folder 10

Reference: See outgoing telegram no. 224, January 9, 1916, advising that Lenin's courier "Liza" is departing Switzerland for Russia, in XIIIb(2), folder 8

Box 197

b. Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov

Scope and Contents note

The collection of papers on this Marxist theoretician, founder of the Russian Social Democratic Party, and comrade and opponent of Lenin, dates from 1891 to 19l6. Folder 1 contains an assortment of various dispatches, while the documents in Folder 2, individually described, refer to his various activities, organizational work, funding, extraditions, and differences with the Bolshevik faction of the Party. Of considerable interest are the intercepted letters. As later with Lenin, Plekhanov had troubles with P. Lavrov, the anarchist leader in London. Also includes Headquarters circulars giving Plekhanov's physical description and photograph.

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Index XVIIb, Folder 1

Various dispatches referring to Plekhanov, 1894-1916

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2a

French surveillance agent reports on Plekhanov, 1891

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2b

Letters on Plekhanov and his work, 1892

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2c

Plans of the French government to deport Plekhanov and Selikrevskii, 1894

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2d

Report that Plekhanov still visits Geneva, 1894

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2e

Plekhanov's intention to withdraw from the Party, 1905

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2f

Views of the Kostroma Committee regarding Plekhanov's desire to represent the Party at the International Socialist Bureau, 1905

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2g

Letter from Smirnov to Plekhanov in Geneva about Deutsch and Zasulich, 1906

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2h

Letter regarding a financial contribution for Plekhanov, 1909

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2i

Okhrana's circular on Plekhanov with his photograph, 1909

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2j

Physical description of Plekhanov, 1912

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2k

Report that Burtsev and Plekhanov are planning to go to Russia, 1912

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2l

Plekhanov's letter on preparations for the Duma elections, 1912

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2m

Plekhanov's letter on non-recognition of Lenin's Central Committee as the central organization of the Party, 1912

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2n

Report that Plekhanov enrolled in electricians' school in Paris, 1912

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2o

Report that Plekhanov arrived in Paris to organize a meeting of the conciliatory faction, 1912

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2p

Letter to Plekhanov concerning the "liquidation" theory and other party theories, 1913

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2q

Lecture delivered by Plekhanov on "The National Question and the Social Democrats," 1914

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2r

Lecture entitled "War and the Social Democracy" delivered by Plekhanov in Lausanne, 1914

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2s

Report on the publication Edinstvo by Plekhanov, 1914

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2t

Dispatches concerning the whereabouts of Plekhanov, 1916

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Index XVIIb, Folder 2u

Background and activities report on Plekhanov

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Index XVIIb, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Box 197

c. Leon Trotsky

Scope and Contents note

The collection in Folder 1 covers the period from 1901 to 1917. The intercepted letters of Natalia and Lev Bronstein and those of Trotsky's wife are of particular interest, pertaining mostly to Party matters. Differences and reconciliations with Lenin are referred to in this as well as in individually inventoried documents in the second folder. Correspondence with the Socialists in the Duma, Trotsky's stay in the United States, his travels, and editorial work, particularly on Nashe Slovo are covered. Several Okhrana intercepts and copies include Trotsky's letters.

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Index XVIIc, Folder 1

Various dispatches and letters pertaining to Trotsky, 1901-1917

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2a

Report on RSDWP member Bronstein in Geneva and his relations with Helfand, 1904

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2b

Letters from "Sasha" in St. Petersburg to her husband Trotsky in Vienna, 1908-1910

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2c

Letter from Trotsky in Kiev to de Montbrand in Lausanne, 1909

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2d

Data on Trotsky's wife, 1910

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2e

Letter from Trotsky in Vienna to Duma deputy Pokrovskii, 1910

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2f

Report of the Nikolaevsk Okhrana chief on Trotsky, his wife, and other revolutionaries, 1912

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2g

Report of the Odessa Okhrana chief on Trotsky and his wife, 1912

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2h

Letters from an unidentified writer to Akselrod in Zurich and Trotsky in Vienna on the German Social Democratic Party conference, 1913

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2i

Letter from Trotsky in Vienna to the editor of Luch, 1913

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2j

Trotsky's letter to Duma member Chkheidze praising his speeches and commenting on Leninism, 1913

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2k

Report that Trotsky arrived in Paris, 1914

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2l

Trotsky's speech in Paris on "The Defense of the Homeland," 1915

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2m

Trotsky's speech in a workers' club in Paris, 1915

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2n

Bint's report on Trotsky's activities, 1915

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2o

Report on Chernov and Trotsky touring Switzerland and agitating for the cessation of the war, 1915

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2p

Report on the pro-German stance of Trotsky's newspaper Nashe slovo, 1915

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2q

Bint's report revealing Trotsky as an Austrian agent, 1916

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2r

Meeting of the Committee for the Resumption of International Relations and Trotsky's role in it, 1916

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2s

Documents pertaining to the deportation of Trotsky from France, 1916

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2t

Documents pertaining to Trotsky's efforts to obtain a Swiss visa, 1916

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2u

Moscow millionaire Shakhov's offer of financial assistance to Trotsky, 1916

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2v

Agent Bint's reports on Trotsky, 1916

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2w

Letter from Trotsky to his friends in New York, 1917

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2x

Arrival of Trotsky and his family in New York, 1917

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2y

Report on Trotsky as the editor of Nashe slovo

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Index XVIIc, Folder 2z

Official Okhrana circulars on Trotsky

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Index XVIIc, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIc, Folder 4

Reference: See reports on Trotsky's daily newspaper Nashe slovo and on the polemics of its banning, in XVIIr(1)

Index XVIIc, Folder 5

Reference: See report on Nashe slovo for 1916, banned as being pro-German, in VIIIb, folder 3

Boxes 197-198

d. Vladimir L'vovich Burtsev

Scope and Contents note

This extensive collection is the most telling proof that Vladimir Burtsev and his work represented a continuous and important target for the Okhrana in Paris. A competent writer, propagandist, and advocate of terror and assassination as a means leading to revolution, he developed also an active revolutionary counter-intelligence with the purpose of exposing Okhrana agents and discrediting the Okhrana as an establishment in European countries. In this connection, many of the documents concerning Burtsev are also located under XXIVa and XXIVb, since the bulk of revolutionary intelligence and propaganda was either directed by Burtsev or closely affiliated with his functions.
Folder 1, in two sections, contains general materials of Burtsev, dispatches on him and his writings, copies of intercepted letters, various agent reports, etc. His functions and the contributions of Okhrana defector Mikhail Bakai in exposing Evno Azef are well covered, as is also Burtsev's exposure of Okhrana Chief Garting.
Folders 2 to 5 have documents concentrating on certain periods and events, as for instance, Folder 5, with papers on Burtsev's stay in Rumania and England, his imprisonments in London, and the case of agent Bullier. Folder 3, in two sections, for the period from 1899 to 1917 concentrates on Burtsev's work in Paris, revealing the nature of the revolutionary police and Burtsev's methods of intelligence operations and press campaigns. Surveillance reports on him and his intelligence service are dated from 1906 to 1914.
Folder 4 covers the Okhrana's attempts to have Burtsev and his group deported from France, while the last folder (No. 5) contains information on his return to Russia, official trial records, intercepted correspondence from the jail, disposal of his archive and personal effects in Paris, etc.

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Index XVIId, Folder 1

Miscellaneous documents including intercepted letters, dispatches, and agent reports pertaining to Burtsev and the defector Mikhail Bakai, 1890-1916

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Index XVIId, Folder 2

Documents on Burtsev's stay in Romania and England, his arrest and imprisonment in London, and the case against agent Charlotte Bullier, 1890-1899

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Index XVIId, Folder 3

Collection of papers pertaining to Burtsev's work in Paris; Burtsev's revolutionary police; publication of Budushchee; detailed Okhrana report on his mode of operation; his press campaign against Garting and the Paris Okhrana; collections of surveillance reports on Burtsev; Burtsev's trip to the United States, 1899-1917

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Index XVIId, Folder 4

Dispatches and reports concerning the Okhrana's attempts to have Burtsev deported from France, 1904, 1909

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Index XVIId, Folder 5

Documents pertaining to Burtsev's imprisonment in Russia: official trial records, intercepted correspondence between the imprisoned Burtsev and Paris concerning the disposition of his personal affairs in Paris, 1914-1915

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Index XVIId, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIId, Folder 7

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 17, January 24, 1903, regarding Burtsev and Krakov in the Socialist Revolutionary Fighting Unit, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index XVIId, Folder 8

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 42, July 16, 1903, on Burtsev's role in the plot to assassinate the Minister of the Interior, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index XVIId, Folder 9

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 62, December 4, 1903, on Burtsev in England and Switzerland, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index XVIId, Folder 10

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 94, July 15, 1905, concerning Burtsev and Krakov, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index XVIId, Folder 11

Reference: For letters addressed to Burtsev and reports on his accusations against Okhrana censorship and perlustration, see Xc

Index XVIId, Folder 12

Reference: For reports on Jollivet's assignments on Burtsev and Leroy, 1914-1915, see VIk, folder 33

Index XVIId, Folder 13

Reference: See Charlotte Bullier's personnel file for reports on her contacts with Burtsev, in IIIe, folder 3

Index XVIId, Folder 14

Reference: See incoming telegram no. 166, January 21, 1903, for instructions concerning surveillance over Krakov between Bern and the Russian border, in XIIIc(3), folder 14

Index XVIId, Folder 15

Reference: See outgoing telegram, June 2, 1903, informing of a secret courier en route from Burtsev to St. Petersburg, in XIIIb(2), folder 2

Index XVIId, Folder 16

Reference: See outgoing telegram, November 12, 1903, advising that Burtsev is about to publish the fifth issue of Narodovolets, in XIIIb(2), folder 2

Index XVIId, Folder 17

Reference: See outgoing telegram, March 23, 1904, advising that Burtsev and Krakov left Paris secretly for an unknown destination, in XIIIb(2), folder 3

Index XVIId, Folder 18

Reference: See outgoing telegram, June 15, 1904, advising that Burtsev is expecting an event of grave consequences to take place in Russia, in XIIIb(2), folder 3

Box 198

e. Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev

Scope and Contents note

A large number of documents pertain to this important Bolshevik leader, closest associate of Lenin, writer, and orator. However, most of the Okhrana dispatches pertaining to his work and activities deal also with other top revolutionaries and have therefore been placed under various other index numbers. (See the cross-reference sheet in Folder 6. )

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Index XVIIe, Folder 1

Letter from Zinovyev in Paris to Mlle. Levin in St. Petersburg about the publication of a magazine, 1910

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Index XVIIe, Folder 2

Letter from Zinovyev in Paris to Duma member Poletaiev regarding the placement of a newspaper announcement, 1910

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Index XVIIe, Folder 3

Zinovyev's brochure "Elections to the Fourth Duma and Our Tasks," 1911

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Index XVIIe, Folder 4

Report that Zinovyev is in St. Petersburg, 1913

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Index XVIIe, Folder 5

Okhrana circular on the background of Zinovyev ("Radomyslskii")

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Index XVIIe, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Box 198

f. Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov and Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky

Scope and Contents note

The file on Miliukov consists of dispatches sent by Headquarters to the Paris Office, dating back to 1897 and giving his background and his contacts with Russian revolutionaries abroad. The Paris Office reported twice to Headquarters on Miliukov's comments on conditions which would assure the revolutionaries victory (May 1916) and on his meeting with Bulgarian minister Todorov (December 1916) in Lausanne. Miliukov was representing the Cadet Party in the Third and Fourth Dumas.

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1a

Background information on Miliukov, 1897

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1b

Letters from Soskis in Paris to Miliukov transmitting a manuscript for publication, 1898

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1c

Dispatch giving background information on Miliukov, 1902

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1d

Letter from Miliukov in London on his plans for a lecture tour of America, 1904

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1e

Memo advising that Miliukov left Russia again, 1904

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1f

Letter from "Shklovskaia" in London to Miliukov in St. Petersburg, 1910

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1g

Newspaper item titled "Les atrocitiés bulgares" on the role of Miliukov, 1913

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1h

Copy of La Courier Européen, co-published by Miliukov, 1914

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1i

On O. Masarik's correspondence with Miliukov, 1915

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1j

Clipping from L'Oeuvre with Miliukov's article, 1916

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1k

Report on Miliukov's meeting with Todorov, 1916

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Index XVIIf, Folder 1l

Letter from Chaikovskii in London to Miliukov in Sofia requesting participation in a revolutionary publication

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Index XVIIf, Folder 2a

Political background of Kerensky, 1913

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Index XVIIf, Folder 2b

Letter to Kerensky asking for legal advice, 1913

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Index XVIIf, Folder 2c

Official Okhrana circulars on Kerensky, 1915

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Index XVIIf, Folder 2d

Report on the activities of the "Russian Maritime Union" in London, 1915

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Index XVIIf, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Box 198

g. Viktor Mikhailovich Chernov

Scope and Contents note

Viktor M. Chernov, a prolific writer, was one of the most militant revolutionaries advocating terrorism. At the age of 24 he was in exile and at the head of the Socialist Revolutionary Central Committee in Paris, where he was constantly followed at close quarters by local Okhrana agents.
Arrested in October 1905 in Russia, which he entered illegally to edit a clandestine publication, Mysl, he fled abroad to become again a subject of surveillance. He maintained contacts with Gorky, Savinkov, Aleksinskii, and attended the Socialist Revolutionary Congress in London in 1908.
It was during the War that Chernov attained the peak of his importance as a revolutionary. A Paris report of November 1914 underlines his extremely energetic action among the revolutionaries in Paris, who felt caught between party allegiance and patriotic feelings, for serving purely revolutionary aims.
The Paris Office reported in 1915 that, in his anti-tsarism and anti-militarism, Chernov went so far as to merit the label of a Germanophile. Supported by Martov, he advocated the defeat of Russia and preached alliance with the German socialists.

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Index XVIIg, Folder 1

Intercepted letters to and from Chernov and his wife; Okhrana dispatches on Chernov and his group; agent surveillance reports, 1903-1916

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2a

Surveillance reports on Chernov by agent Fehrenbach, 1900

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2b

Letter to Chernov from Goldstein containing Shimel' Sikorskii's biography, one of Pleve's assassins, 1905

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2c

Letters from Kropotkin and other individuals, 1905

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2d

Chernov reports on a Petersburg meeting which included the participation of the Socialist Revolutionaries and Kadets, 1906

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2e

Plans to assassinate the Tsar, prepared by the Fighting Unit and involving Chernov, 1908

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2f

Chernov's reports on Iudelevskii's theories and the London Conference, 1908

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2g

Arrival of Chernov's wife in St. Petersburg, 1909

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2h

Circular on Chernov with photograph, 1909

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2i

Chernov's comments on the booklet "Conclusions of the Azef Affair Investigation Commission," 1911

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2j

Drafts of Savinkov's letters to Chernov, 1911

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2k

Arrival of Chernov in Paris from Italy to participate in discussions of a split in the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1911

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2l

Report that Chernov does not belong to the extreme left wing of the Socialist Revolutionaries, 1911

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2m

Lecture delivered by Chernov in Paris on "The Moral Problem in Ropshin's [Savinkov's] Novels," 1912

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2n

Lecture delivered by Chernov in Paris on the "Current Political Situation in Russia," 1912

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2o

Letters to and from Chernov and his wife, 1912

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2p

Report on Chernov's mother, 1913

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2q

Report that Chernov is in Italy, not engaged in revolutionary work, 1914

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2r

Dispatches and drafts for reports on Chernov's activities during the war, his propaganda to defeat Russia, editorial work, lectures, etc., 1914-1916

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2s

Lecture on "Evaluation of the Zimmerwald Conference," 1915

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2t

Official Okhrana circular on Chernov, 1917

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Index XVIIg, Folder 2u

Report on Chernov and Martov in a Germanophile, anti-militarist campaign, 1917

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Index XVIIg, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIg, Folder 4

Reference: See outgoing telegram, April 15, 1904, advising that Sazonov had spent two months with Chernov in Geneva in XIIIb(2), folder 3

Box 198

h. Mikhail Rafailovich Gots

Scope and Contents note

Gots emigrated from Russia in 1900 with an impressive political record as a terrorist and devoted member of the Socialist Revolutionary party. Upon his arrival in Paris in early 1901, he established close contacts with Chernov, Rubanovich, Rappoport, and Gavronsky and became the subject of surveillance by the Paris Okhrana, who followed him to Nice, Rome (where he was arrested), and Geneva, where he settled in 1903. Soon all activities of the Socialist Revolutionary party abroad centered around Gots's home. After his death in Berlin in 1906, his wife Vera continued to be active in the Socialist Revolutionary ranks until 1916.

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Index XVIIh, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to Mikhail Gots and his wife, 1902-1914

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2a

Reports on Gots and agents Fehrenbach and Bint, 1901

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2b

Draft of a report to Headquarters, 1903

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2c

Report on Gots's arrest in Italy, 1903

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2d

Report on Gots in Geneva, 1903

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2e

Clippings on Gots's particular view of terrorism, 1903

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2f

Report on Gots's illness, 1904

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2g

Terrorist Ivanov summoned by Gots to Geneva to plan an act of terror, 1904

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2h

Perlustrated correspondence of Gots and his wife Vera, 1905-1906

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2i

Funeral arrangements for Mikhail Gots, 1906

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2j

Gots's funeral in Geneva, 1906

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2k

Circular on Vera Gots, 1909

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2l

Vera Gots's plans to go to Russia, 1913

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2m

Agent Durin's reports on Vera Gots, 1914

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2n

Agent Bint's reports on Vera Gots, 1914

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Index XVIIh, Folder 2o

Perlustrated letter from Vera Gots, 1909

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Index XVIIh, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIh, Folder 4

Reference: See outgoing telegram, March 16, 1903, on attempts to arrest Gots in Italy, in XIIIb(2), folder 2

Index XVIIh, Folder 5

Reference: See outgoing telegram, September 11, 1906, report that Gots is dead, in XIIIb(2), folder 4

Box 199

i. Boris Viktorovich Savinkov

Scope and Contents note

Boris Savinkov, Socialist Revolutionary terrorist, was a key figure plotting the assassination of Minister of the Interior Pleve in 1904 and of the Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich in 1905, thereby gaining the attention of the Okhrana, which continued throughout his revolutionary career abroad, despite the fact that his importance as a revolutionary terrorist dwindled considerably after the two assassinations mentioned above.
The dispatches in the last folder of this series give accounts of the changes that took place in this Savinkov. Once a ruthless schemer of assassinations, he first lost his fervor in drinking and reckless living. When sobering up, he became opposed to terror as a revolutionary method and when the war came he practically broke away from revolutionary activities by engaging in war correspondence.

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Index XVIIi, Folder 1

Dispatches, notes, and reports on Savinkov, 1904-1917

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2a

Okhrana circular on Savinkov's background

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2b

Agent Fehrenbach's report on Savinkov, 1903

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2c

Savinkov's police record, 1904

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2d

Savinkov working in Tiflis, 1906

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2e

Savinkov located in Tiflis, 1906

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2f

Report in German on the arrival of Savinkov in Copenhagen from Finland, 1907

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2g

Report on Savinkov in Paris, perlustrated letters, including letter from his mistress breaking off their relationship, 1907

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2h

Agent Durin's surveillance reports on Savinkov from Paris, Villefranche, and Genoa, 1908-1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2i

Savinkov and his mistress, Evgeniia Somova, in Paris, 1908

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2j

Savinkov's withdrawal from revolutionary work, 1908

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2k

Savinkov's trip to Brussels, 1909

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2l

Report on difficulties maintaining surveillance over Savinkov, 1909

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2m

Incident between Savinkov and Okhrana surveillance agent, 1909

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2n

Official Okhrana circulars on Savinkov, one with a photograph, 1909

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2o

Okhrana's interest in Savinkov's mother, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2p

Physical description of Savinkov, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2q

Savinkov's suspicions of provocation in the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2r

Incident involving false information on Savinkov's presence in Frankfurt, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2s

Savinkov's trip to Berlin and re-entry into the Fighting Unit, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2t

Letter from Savinkov to his wife Vera in St. Petersburg, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2u

Savinkov's sudden departure from Paris, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2v

Revolutionaries collecting money to organize the assassination of the Tsar and Stolypin, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2w

Agent Andre's surveillance reports on Savinkov in Monte-Carlo, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2x

Agent Pouchot's surveillance reports on Savinkov, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2y

Agent Robail's surveillance reports on Savinkov

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Index XVIIi, Folder 2z

Agent Lecointe's surveillance reports on Boris and Sofiia Savinkov

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3a

Report on Savinkov and other top terrorists, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3b

Surveillance reports by Vogt and Lecointe on Sofiia Savinkov at Menton, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3c

Okhrana circular with Savinkov's physical description, 1910

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3d

Agent Bittard-Monin's reports on Savinkov, 1910-1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3e

Agent Aubert's surveillance of Savinkov, 1910-1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3f

Savinkov and entourage at Monte-Carlo, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3g

Savinkov's contacts and activities, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3h

Savinkov's withdrawal from the Fighting Unit, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3i

Report on preparations to keep Savinkov under constant surveillance, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3j

Letter from Savinkov to his wife in Paris about family matters, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3k

Correspondence between Savinkov in Théoule and Kolosov in Cavi di Lavagna, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3l

Note and drafts in Savinkov's handwriting, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3m

Draft letter in Savinkov's handwriting to Fundaminskii, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3n

Savinkov's stay in Paris, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3o

Mme. Richard's surveillance reports on Savinkov, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3p-q

Agent Fontaine's reports on Savinkov, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3r

Agent Vogt's reports from Cannes and San Remo, 1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3s

Agent Sauvard's reports on Savinkov and Somova in Paris and Cannes, 1910-1911

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3t

Savinkov-Malmberg's salvaged correspondence, 1911-1914

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3u

Natanson as Savinkov's adversary, 1912

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3v

Agent Barthes's surveillance reports from San Remo, 1912-1913

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3w

Savinkov's opposition to terrorism, 1913

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3x

Report on the techniques used to maintain surveillance over Savinkov, 1913

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3y

Two samples of Savinkov's handwriting, 1913

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Index XVIIi, Folder 3z

Two personal letters, 1913

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Index XVIIi, Folder 4a

Agent Delangle's surveillance reports from Nice, 1913

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Index XVIIi, Folder 4b

Dispatch and three letters by Savinkov, 1914

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Index XVIIi, Folder 4c

Agent Bint's surveillance reports from Paris, 1914

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Index XVIIi, Folder 4d

Reports on Savinkov's activities, 1915

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Index XVIIi, Folder 4e

Savinkov as a war correspondent, 1915

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Index XVIIi, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIi, Folder 6

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 85, May 13, 1904, in which Savinkov is reported in Russia, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index XVIIi, Folder 7

Reference: See circulars on Savinkov's fellow conspirators, 1909-1912, in XVIb(4), folder 4

Index XVIIi, Folder 7

Reference: See incoming telegram no. 294, March 20, 1909, with instructions for strict surveillance of Savinkov, in XIIIc(3), folder 28

Box 200

j. Roman Malinovskii

Scope and Contents note

Roman Malinovskii was a Tsarist police agent and a Bolshevik representative in the Duma who subsequently resigned from the Duma and went to Germany in 1914. The documents yielded by the Okhrana Archives on Malinovskii cover the period from December 1913 to August 1914 and consist of copies of two intercepted letters to Malinovskii, one intercepted letter mentioning him, and a number of dispatches on his resignation from the Duma and presence in Paris and on the accusations of provocation leveled against him by the Social Democratic faction.

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Index XVIIj, Folder 1

Dispatches and Malinovskii's intercepted correspondence, 1913-1914

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Index XVIIj, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Box 200

k. Aleksandr Antonovich Troianovskii

Scope and Contents note

Aleksandr Troianovskii joined the revolutionary movement in 1902 and the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party in 1904. He was exiled to Siberia in 1909, escaping abroad in 1910. He joined the RSDWP Central Committee and attended the 1912 congress in Basel as a delegate. The documents on Troianovskii consist of copies of intercepted letters to Troianovskii along with dispatches on his background and activities.

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Available on microfilm reel 365
Index XVIIk, Folder 1

Dispatches concerning Troianovskii and intercepted letters addressed to him, 1913-1915

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Index XVIIk, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Box 200

l. Meer Wallach (Maksim Litvinov)

Scope and Contents note

Maksim Litvinov (Wallach, "Papasha," "Feliks") became a member of the Social Democratic Party in 1898. He traveled throughout Europe and was a key figure in the attempts by the revolutionaries to change 500 ruble bank notes obtained in the Tiflis holdup. Litvinov was also very active in smuggling operations of the revolutionaries supplying revolutionaries in Russia with weapons.
The documents on Litvinov are arranged in chronological order in both folders and consist of outgoing and incoming dispatches as well as raw reports from agents in the field. They cover Litvinov's gunrunning activities, his attempts to exchange 500 ruble bank notes stolen in Tiflis, and his involvement in a bomb-making workshop. Also included are several copies of intercepted letters from Litvinov. On Litvinov's participation in arms smuggling and "expropriation" banditries, also see XXIVh and XXVc.

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Available on microfilm reel 365
Index XVIIl, Folder 1

Dispatches, notes and telegrams pertaining to Wallach (Litvinov)

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Available on microfilm reel 365
Index XVIIl, Folder 2a

Wallach (Litvinov) in Russia, 1905

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2b

Methods of transferring money to Wallach (Litvinov) in Berlin for the purchase of weapons, 1906

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2c

Letters from Wallach (Litvinov) concerning money for arms purchases, 1906

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2d

Perlustrated and transcribed letters, 1906

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2e

Letters from Wallach (Litvinov) in Brussels on arms smuggling, 1906

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2f

Letters from Litvinov on the purchase of arms to smuggle into Russia, 1906

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2g

Departure for St. Petersburg to raise 30,000 marks for arms, 1906

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2h

Case of security violation in handling information about Litvinov, 1906

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2i

Litvinov's activities in Vienna and Bulgaria, 1907

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2j

Report of the Berlin police chief on Wallach (Litvinov), 1907

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2k

Plans to go to St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1907

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2l

Wallach's (Litvinov's) role in changing 500 ruble bank notes stolen in the Tiflis robbery and attempts by the Russian government to extradite him to France, 1908

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2m

Deportation of Wallach (Litvinov) from France to England, 1908

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2n

Reports from London Okhrana agents on Litvinov as a German spy, 1915

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2o

Litvinov's wartime activities in London, 1915

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Index XVIIl, Folder 2p

Draft report on Litvinov as a German spy, 1916

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Index XVIIl, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIl, Folder 4

Reference: For a report on Litvinov's talks with Krassin on counterfeiting bank notes, 1907, see XXVc, folder 2L

Box 200

m. Leonid Borisovich Krasin

Scope and Contents note

This collection includes three circulars issued by Headquarters, with photographs, personal data and the revolutionary record of Leonid Krasin ("Nikitich"), dispatches, and a note in German with his address in Zellendorf, near Berlin.

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Available on microfilm reel 365
Index XVIIm, Folder 1

Okhrana circulars on Krasin ("Nikitich") with photograph, report on general background, and request for surveillance, 1909, 1911

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Index XVIIm, Folder 2

Krasin's address in Berlin

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Index XVIIm, Folder 3

Request to interrogate "Nikitich," arrested in Moscow, but not to expose secret agentura abroad, 1907

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Index XVIIm, Folder 4

Identification of Social Democrat "Vadim" (Postalovskii) as equal in importance to Nikitich, 1907

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Index XVIIm, Folder 5

Report on Krasin in Paris, 1908

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Index XVIIm, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIm, Folder 7

Reference: For reprot on Litvinov's talks with Krasin on counterfeiting bank notes, 1907, see XXVc, folder 2L

Boxes 200-201

n. Other important revolutionaries

Scope and Contents note

This collection is a continuation of the separate file kept by the Okhrana on revolutionaries whose activities warranted, at one time or another, special watchfulness. Of significance in this collection are the mimeographed Headquarters circulars giving a biographic account of these individuals and their political and police records. Many of the circulars also attach photographs. Two bound collections of the circulars are enclosed in Folder 8, together with indices of names. The entire set in Folders 1 to 6 is arranged in alphabetical order, with the names listed in the inventory of contents.

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Circulars and reports in alphabetical order

Index XVIIn, Folder 1

A-F

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Scope and Contents note

Includes Agabekov, Akselrod, Akshtein, Akulov, Aleksinskii, Andrikanis, Argunov, Avksentiev, Babaev, von Bach, Balivich, Bartenev, Berdo, Bernstein, Birzhishko, Borisov, Braginskii, Breshkovskaia, Buchholtz, Butkevich, Bychkovskii, Cherevanin, Chernenkov, Cherniavskii, Chernov (Vladimir), Chicherin, Chichinadze, Chkheidze, Deich (Deutsch), Dekabrev, Denisenko, Denisov, Dombrovskii, Donskoi, Dubrovinskii, Durko, Elanchik, Fabrikant, Fedorov, Feit, Figner,Frolenko, and Fundaminskii.
Index XVIIn, Folder 2

G-K

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Scope and Contents note

Includes Gavronskaia, Galkin, Galperin, Gedeonovskii, Gershuni, Glotov, Goguelia, Goldsmith, Gonecki, Gurvich, Igaev, Il'in, Iogikhes, Ionov, Izbitskii, Karskii, Karpovich, Khovrin, Klimova, Kochetkova, Koigen, Kollontai, Komorskii, Kopel'zon, Kovalenko, Kozlova, Kropotkin, Kudriavstev, and Kukhranov.
Index XVIIn, Folder 3

L

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Scope and Contents note

Includes Lagunov, Lanne, Lazarev, Lebedev, Lechenev, Leder, Levin, Listov, Liubin, Lopatin, Lorinskii, Lukanov (see also Lechenev), Lunacharskii (Lunacharsky), and Lunkevich.
Index XVIIn, Folder 4

M-P

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Scope and Contents note

Includes Maksimov, Malantovich, Malinovskii, Malstev, Mandelstam, Mankovskii, Martov, Maslov, Mdivani, Medem, Meerovich, Meisner, Menkes, Medvednikov, Mikelson, Mikhalkovskii, Minor, Moiseenko, Mokhov, Molochnikov, Mrost, Nakhamkis, Natanson, Naumov, Nesterovskii, Nikol'skaia, Nosar', Nudel'man, Ovsiannikov, Ozol', Pelipeiko, Piker, Podwicki, Poletaev, Popov, Portnov, Potapov, Potresov, and Povilus.
Index XVIIn, Folder 5

R-S

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Scope and Contents note

Includes Rabinovich, Rakhmilevich, Rakitnikov, Ramishvili, Rikhter, Rosenblum, Rozenfeld, Rubanovich, Sasha(?), Seiliger, Seliuk, Sereda, Serezhnikov, Shantser, Shapiro, Shestakov, Shishkin, Shishko, Shliapnikov, Shtammer, Shuliatikov, Shweidt, Sissoev (Sysoev), Skipotis, Skrypnik, Sklowski, Sladkopevtsev, Slepov, Sletov, Sokolov, Solomonovich, Soskis, Speranskii, Starynkevich, Starosel'skii, and Stiglis.
Index XVIIn, Folder 6

T-Z

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Scope and Contents note

Includes Teplov, Tkachenko, Todorov, Troitskii, Ulianov (Aleksandr), Vedeniapin, Viazmenskii, Vichenko, Vladimirov, Vnorovskii, Volkhovskoi, Yanulaitis (Janulaitis), Yudelevskii (Iudelevskii), Zagorskii, Zamiatin, Zasulich, Zenzinov, and Zhitomirskii.
Index XVIIn, Folder 7

Dispatches pertaining to important revolutionaries

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Scope and Contents note

Each document refers to two or more persons.
Index XVIIn, Folder 8

Biographic briefs on important revolutionaries

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Scope and Contents note

In two bound volumes, these briefs are mainly duplicates of circulars found in XVIIn, folders 1-6, although some do not appear in other collections. Each volume includes an index.
Index XVIIn, Folder 9

Lists of revolutionaries marked for intense surveillance, 1909-1916

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Index XVIIn, Folder 10

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIn, Folder 11

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 34, 1903, on Gershuni's arrest in Kiev, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index XVIIn, Folder 12

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 81, 1905, on Breshkovskaia's arrival in Russia, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index XVIIn, Folder 13

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 103, 1905, reporting that Sletov was arrested attempting to go to Russia, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index XVIIn, Folder 14

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 147, 1905, on terrorist Goguelia in Geneva, in XIIIc(2), folder 6

Box 201

o. Counter-intelligence of the revolutionaries (to penetrate the Okhrana)

Scope and Contents note

This folder contains documents (intercepted letters and dispatches) on suspected revolutionary counter-intelligence agents Trushkovskii, Zaleski, Sychev, and Bessel. However, the bulk of material on revolutionary penetration of the Okhrana is located in XXIVc.

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Index XVIIo, Folder 1

Dispatches, intercepted letters, and photographs, 1895-1912

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Scope and Contents note

Topics include the Trushkovskii case, false information on plans to assassinate the Tsar by Zalesskii, movement of vessels in European ports, rumors that Burtsev's archives were stolen, and associates of agent Permiak.
Box 201

p. Preparation for staging the revolution

Scope and Contents note

This subject file contains incoming and outgoing dispatches pertaining to revolutionary maneuvers in preparation for the revolution in Russia, covering the period from 1902-1916. The file also includes a printed Okhrana circular on revolutionary preparations in St. Petersburg (April 1916).

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1a

Exposure of Weise, consular employee, as a revolutionary collaborator, 1902

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1b

Report of a Russian battleship commander about suspicious vessels encountered near Skagen, 1904

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1c

Letter from a Bund representative in Berlin with a telegram from Durnovo to the Kiev police chief ordering the execution of revolutionaries, 1906

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1d

Dispatch containing an intercepted revolutionary telegram giving new orders, 1908

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1e

On Lopukhin's whereabouts in Europe, 1909

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1f

Note that three fighting detachments were kept from leaving Russia because Burtsev knew of plans to arrest them, 1909

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1g

Revolutionary police in Paris, 1909

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1h

Propaganda for touring teachers from Russia, 1910

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1i

Revolutionary plans to kidnap Okhrana Chief Garting

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1j

Reports about Burtsev's operations, 1910

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1k

On "Ivanov," who exposed 40 Okhrana provocateurs in Europe, 1910

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1l

Secret agent Simanov to be exposed in Russia, 1910

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1m

Burtsev's attempts to reveal the composition of the Paris Okhrana staff and agents, 1911

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1n

Bureau of Prisoners of War in Lausanne, 1915

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1o

Dissemination of communist propaganda among prisoners of war, 1915

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1p

Preparations for an uprising in the army, 1916

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Index XVIIp, Folder 1q

Situation report on revolutionary preparations in St. Petersburg, 1916

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Index XVIIp, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 201-205, 242

r. Revolutionary press

Scope and Contents note

The extensive collection on the revolutionary press abroad contains no full collection of any of the periodical publications but a good sampling of all. It was a standard intelligence collection requirement to dispatch to Headquarters, in multiple copies, all hostile publications; and the copies of the weekly letters of transmittal of printed matter would indicate that the emphasis was on supplying the home office rather than retaining all the samples in Paris.
Folders 5 and 7 under this index contain numerous dispatches on the revolutionary press in general, reviews of its growth and extent of influence, friction caused by editorial policies, shifting political influences, endless revolutionary polemics, and the like. Many of these papers deal with individual publications, political controls, and the development of Marxist editors. Ilia Erenburg is first mentioned among these in a dispatch of 1910. The dispatches are arranged in a chronological order, while the printed materials are listed individually as to the numbers or dates of the issues included.
Boxes 201-205, 242

(1) Abroad

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Newspapers

Index XVIIr(1), Folder 1a

Budushchee, 1912-1913

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Available on microfilm reel 369

Scope and Contents note

Contains issues no. 40 and 44.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 1b

Darkest Russia, 1913

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Scope and Contents note

Contains vol. II, no. 77.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 1c

Dimineata, 1914

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Scope and Contents note

Contains no. 3763.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 1d

Free Russia, 1898, 1909

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Scope and Contents note

Contains vol. 9, no. 2 and an incomplete copy of October 1909.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 1e

Golos, 1914-1915

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 6-32, 35, 37-39, 43, 71-86, 91, 93-100, and 108.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 1f

Golos sotsialdemokrata (edition for smuggling), 1908

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Scope and Contents note

Nos. 1-2 and 4-5.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 2a

Golos truda, 1914

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 1-17.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 2b

Golos truda (cont'd.), 1915

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 21, 24, 29-31, 33, 38, 40, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51, 55, and 59-61.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3a

Il libertario, 1913

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 491-492 and 494.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3b

Listok, 1913 May

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3c

Mysl', 1914

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Scope and Contents note

Contains no. 13.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3d

Nachalo, 1916-1917

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 14-15, 95, and 117.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3e

Nash golos, 1914-1915

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 1-5 and 87.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3f

Parizhskii vestnik, 1912

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3g

Prizyv, 1916

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 27, 32-33, 47, and 50.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3h

Proletarii, 1908-1909

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 36, 42-44, and 50. Some issues are printed on tissue paper suitable for smuggling.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3i

Russkii vestnik, 1917

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Scope and Contents note

Contains no. 126.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3j

Sila i pravo, 1904

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Scope and Contents note

Contains no. 1.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 3k

Zagranichnie otkliki , 1912

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Scope and Contents note

Contains no. 22.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4a

Zhizn' (Paris), 1915

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 1, 2, 4-38, and 41-62.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4b

Zhizn' (Geneva), 1915

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 3-7 and 26.
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4c

Znamia truda (Geneva), 1909-1914

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Scope and Contents note

Contains nos. 1909-1914.
 

Pamphlets, leaflets, and other materials

Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4d

Doloi tsaria, by Vladimir Burtsev, published in London, 1901

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4e

Batumskaia Boinia by the Socialist Revolutionaries, 1902

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4f

Graf L.N. Tolstoi i rabochii narod , 1903

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4g

Reprints from Byloe in pamphlet form, 1903

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4h

Krest'ianskoe zemlirasstroistvo , 1909

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4i

Appeal of the Socialist Revolutionary and Social Democratic parties to Russian workers, 1915

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 4j

Clipping from the newspaper Russkie vedomosti containing a review of a book about Rasputin, 1915

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5a

Leaflets issued by anti-defeatists and monarchists, 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5b

Appeal to the Russian proletariat by the Geneva Socialist Group marking the anniversary of January 9, 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5c

Pour la Paix des Peuples

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5d

Revoliutsionnie dni v Petrograde , by V. Chernov

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5e

Russian Free Press Fund pamphlets from London, 1894

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5f

Vsem pnoteanym russkago tsaria , 1902

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5g

Editorial policy of Free Russia in English and Russian, 1890

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5h

Russian Free Press Fund leaflets from London, 1894

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5i

Report on plans to publish Russian revolutionary propaganda in German in Russische Zustaénde , 1895

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5j

Report on the organization of a "flying squad" to deliver revolutionary propaganda to Russia, 1899

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5k

Headquarters request for more vigilance in intercepting and reporting shipments of revolutionary propaganda, 1900

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5l

Bulletins of various revolutionary groups, 1901-1902

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5m

Sionizm i interesy evreiskago proletariata (Zionism and Interests of the Hebrew Proletariat), 1903

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5n

Booklets and pamphlets in Yiddish published by Abraham Nathanson in London, 1903

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5o

Iskra, vol. III, no. 54

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5p

Report on anarchist plans to publish an "Anarchist Almanac" in Geneva, 1907

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 5q

Various dispatches concerning publications and editors, 1907-1914

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6a

Dispatches on the revolutionary periodicals Golos, Mysl', and Nashe slovo , 1914

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6b

Roster of members of the editorial board of the Paris newspaper Mysl'

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6c

Dispatches on the publication and closing of the Paris newspaper Mysl', 1915

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6d

Report on the newspapers Nashe slovo and Zhizn', published in the place of Golos and Mysl', 1915

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6e

Report on the Paris newspaper Nashe ekho, 1915

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6f

Report on the Paris newspaper L'Echo de Russie, 1915

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6g

Report on the newspaper Zhizn', 1915

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6h

French translation of Martov's article in Le noveau monde, 1915

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6i

Survey of contents of the revolutionary press, 1915-1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6j

Headquarters survey of revolutionary publications abroad, 1915

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6k

Report on the closing of the New York newspaper Volia, 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6l

Report explaining the closure of the New York newspaper Golos truda , 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6m

History of the newspapers Nashe slovo , Golos, and other émigré newspapers in French, 1915-1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6n

Brief on the Russian revolutionary press in Paris, 1915-1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6o

Report on Nashe slovo , 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6p

Report in French on the revolutionary press abroad to the Army General Staff, 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6q

On the banning of the revolutionary daily Nashe slovo as a pro-German newspaper, 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6r

Nachalo (Paris daily), vol. 1, no. 69, 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6s

Reports from Nashe slovo , edited by Trotsky, proving that the paper is pro-German, 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6t

List of the collaborators of the newspaper Golos in Paris, 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6u

Lists of revolutionary publications up to 1913, 1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6v

Leaflet, Chto delaietsia v Sibiri?

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 6w

List of Social Democratic publications until 1900

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 7

Dispatches, notes, and reports pertaining to the revolutionary press abroad, 1886-1916

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 8

List of revolutionary publications, 1912-1913

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 9

V pomoshch, 1910-1913

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Scope and Contents note

Includes nos. 1 (in Yiddish) and 3-5 (in Russian).
Index XVIIr(1), Folder 10

The Worker's Friend, 1915 March-July

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 11

Materialy dlia istorii russkogo Sotsial'no Revolutiutsionnogo dvizheniia , Geneva, 1896

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Index XVIIr(1), Folder 12

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIr(1), Folder 13

Reference: See the operational card index file for a list of revolutionary and other publications

Index XVIIr(1), Folder 14

Index XVIIr(1), Folder 15

Reference: See letters from London with French translations from Free Russia, The Anglo-Russian, and other pro-revolutionary newspapers, 1891-1902, in XIIIa

Index XVIIr(1), Folder 16

Reference: See agent Farce's reports from London, 1901-1906, for French translations of articles in Free Russia and other publications, in VIk, folder 23

Box 242

Various oversize material

Box 205

(2) In Russia

Scope and Contents note

The batch of dispatches in this folder relates mostly to intercepted letters of the revolutionaries, discussing the underground press in various parts of Russia. No examples of clandestine publications are included. The collection of printed materials at the end of the folder carries dates after the termination of the Okhrana. These posters and leaflets with Lenin's and Trotsky's proclamations must have been added to the files by the Investigation Commission of 1917-1918.

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1a

Documents (mostly dispatches on intercepted letters) pertaining to the revolutionary press in Russia, 1899-1914

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1b

Letter from Kiev to Switzerland describing a primitive mimeographing method, 1903

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1c

Clandestine printing shop in Warsaw, 1904

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1d

Letter from Kiev to Elsa Beer in Vienna on the effect of Social Democratic propaganda on industrial workers in Russia, 1905

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1e

Publication of the Moscow Social Democratic periodical Proletariat, 1906

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1f

Plans of Bilit, Argunov, Voronov, and others to publish revolutionary periodical in Baku, 1913

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1g

Irkutsk Social Democratic organ Sibir', 1914

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1h

Poster titled "Land Law" signed by the Chairman of the Council of Peoples' Commissars Vladimir, 1917

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1i

Poster issued by the Military-Revolutionary Committee concerning supplies for front-line troops, 1917

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1j

"Down with the Bolsheviks," an article published by the Petersburg Regional Committee of Bolsheviks condemning their opposition

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1k

"An die deutschen Soldaten," a leaflet signed by Ulianov (Lenin) and Trotsky

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1l

"Decree for Peace," a leaflet in Belorussian (Belarusian) adopted at a session of the All-Russia Meeting of Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Deputies Council, 1917 October 26

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1m

Tolstoy's short play Ot nei vse kachestva

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1n

Political cartoon

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Index XVIIr(2), Folder 1o

Mir narodov in German

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Scope and Contents note

Nos. 1 and 3 of the periodical published by the Council of Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants' Deputies in St. Petersburg for distribution among German troops.
Index XVIIr(2), Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIr(2), Folder 3

Reference: See the operational card index file for a list of revolutionary and other publications in Russia and abroad

Index XVIIr(2), Folder 4

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 113, November 25, 1904, on the organization of a large underground printing plant by the Russian Socialist Democratic Workers Party in Odessa, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

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s. Liaison with European and American revolutionaries

Scope and Contents note

The earliest documents in these folders date back to 1893. It is evident, however, that liaison of Russians with various Western revolutionaries had existed for many preceding years. The philosophic and ideological background for the movement was Western; and the contacts furnished considerable material and political support. All this concerned the Okhrana abroad. In addition to engaging the leftist press of France and all other European countries, the Russian revolutionaries also succeeded in gaining support from the liberal and leftist parliamentarians of France, Italy, another countries. Added to the attacks in the press, propaganda was channeled through parliamentary interpellations to the general public.
These papers give also the proceedings of the various international conferences of the Socialists, Russian attendance and liaison, a report on the French "Confédération générale du travail," and a review, in long-hand, of George Kennan's association with the Russian revolutionaries.

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Index XVIIs, Folder 1

Documents pertaining to Russian revolutionary liaison with European revolutionaries, 1903-1915

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Index XVIIs, Folder 2

Specific cases involving liaison with British and French revolutionaries; record of the French socialist defense of Rips, 1893-1910

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Index XVIIs, Folder 3

Liaison with Swiss and Belgian revolutionaries; Bittard-Monin's report on the connection between Russian revolutionaries and the French press; reports on Russian socialists in America; on Bulgarian revolutionaries; the Internationale Sozialistische Kommission zu Bern, 1911-1917

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Index XVIIs, Folder 4

Report in French on the Confédération générale du travail; pacifist movements among European socialists and Social Democrats, 1903-1916

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Index XVIIs, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

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t. Access to the foreign press

Scope and Contents note

The file contains documents covering the period from 1894 to 1917. On the whole, the Russian revolutionaries abroad had comparatively easy access to the foreign press through some of their most articulate representatives such as Burtsev, Gorky, Bakai, Agafonov, Savinkov, and Viktor Chernov. The bulk of material planted by Russian revolutionaries in the foreign periodical press dealt with sensational exposes of conditions in Russia. Burtsev utilized the foreign press for the purpose of rousing public opinion and governmental interest in the existence of Russian secret police in France, the background of Okhrana Chief Garting, and the famous leader of a revolutionary fighting organization, Evno Azef. The foreign press was also used to arouse public opinion during the Rips and Beilis trials. It is also revealed that the revolutionaries used such newspapers as the New York Times and the New York American in their propaganda campaigns in this country. The press in Italy, Britain, America, Germany, and Switzerland was exploited for revolutionary purposes. The documents found in the Okhrana archives on the revolutionary access to the foreign press indicate that this was a source of perpetual concern and harassment to the Okhrana. (Also see Index Numbers XXIVe, XXVIIa, and XXVIIb for information on this subject.

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Index XVIIt, Folder 1

Dispatches concerning revolutionary use of the foreign press; Russian translations of Burtsev's articles in the French press; report on Burtsev's plan for a press campaign against the Russian police; press used by French socialists during the Rips trial; list of newspaper clippings in the Okhrana archives, 1894-1917

Index XVIIt, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Box 205

u. Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin)

Scope and Contents note

The documents on Dzhugashvili (Chapur, Koba, Soso, Stalin) found in the Okhrana archives cover the period from 1911-1912 and consist of four official Okhrana reports on Dzhugashvili, an Okhrana circular on that individual, and a copy of an intercepted letter from Stalin in exile to Moscow.

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Index XVIIu, Folder 1

Four Okhrana background reports on Dzhugashvili (Stalin), one circular, and a copy of an intercepted letter from Dzhugashvili (Stalin), in exile, to Moscow, 1911-1912

Index XVIIu, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 205-207

XVIII. Revolutionary groups of national minorities of the Russian Empire

Boxes 205-206

a. The Jewish Bund

Scope and Contents note

The Russian Jewish leftist party, the Bund, was both Marxist and nationalist, hence popular among the Jewish working class. Its close ties with Jewish workers in Western Europe, the United States, and Canada brought the activities of this party under constant surveillance by the Paris Okhrana.
Folders 1 and 2 contain 317 dispatches exchanged between Headquarters and the Paris Office intelligence on the Bund leaders, their movements and activities, and intercepted letters, which gave the Okhrana inside information on the Bund's growing popularity. The flow of intercepted mail ebbed to a trickle in 1905 and the Paris Office had to intensify surveillance, including the penetration of the Bund. There are numerous documents pertaining to the Bund's publications ( Bund, Arbeiterstimme, Jewish Worker) in Yiddish and Polish until 1906, when the Central Committee resolved to issue only one daily newspaper.
Folders 3 and 4 include for the most part Paris reports on meetings, conventions and contacts with the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party. After the 4th Congress of the Jewish Workers' Union, the Jewish proletariat and many students were under the ideological influence of the Bund. The Zionist movement was not only opposed but even attacked by the Bund as the "reaction of the bourgeoisie." The liquidation of the Bund Central Committee in Russia in 1913 put the onus of surveillance of the Central Bureau and the Party's Committee Abroad on the Paris Office. Hence numerous detailed reports on meetings and all activities of the Bund were dispatched to Headquarters after that date.
There is also a translation of John Radcliffe's publication, in which he quotes a homily delivered by a "prominent rabbi" in 1916. A report discusses the strongly pro-German speech made in January 1916 by V. Kossovskii in the larger cities of Switzerland.

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 1

Dispatches on the activities of the Bund and its leaders in general and intercepted mail, 1902-1912

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 2

Dispatches on the activities of the Bund and its leaders in general and intercepted mail (cont'd.), 1913-1917

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3a

Resolutions of the 4th General Jewish Trade Union in Russia and Poland, 1901

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3b

Intelligence summary giving the organization principles of the Bund, 1902

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3c

Transfer of the Bund's printing shop from London to Geneva, 1903

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3d

Report on Kokochinskii, 1906

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3e

International society of Bund representatives in Basel engaged in purchasing landowners' estates in Russia, 1908

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3f

Activities of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins," 1908

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3g

Circular letter no. 111 of the Central Bureau of Workers' "Ferein" groups, 1909

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3h

Circular letter of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins," 1909

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3i

Okhrana chart of the structure of the Bund, 1909

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3j

Roster of members of the Bund Central Committee, 1910

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3k

Report on a Bund conference in Lemberg, 1910

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3l

Eighth Conference of the Bund (RSDWP), 1910

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3m

Report of the Warsaw Committee of the Bund to the Central and Foreign Committees, 1910

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3n

Review of revolutionary activities in Switzerland, 1910

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3o

Roster of members of the Foreign Committee of the Bund in Geneva, 1911

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3p

Expanded meeting of the Bund Central Committee in Warsaw, 1911

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3q

Report on the current state of affairs of the Bund, 1911

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3r

Bund in New York: committee for a fund-raising drive, 1911

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3s

Report on current activities of the Bund, 1911

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3t

Bund activity in various cities in the Russian empire, 1911

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3u

Resolution of the Bund Central Committee Abroad, 1912

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3v

Vienna Conference of the Central and Foreign Committees, 1912

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3w

Ninth Bund Conference in Vienna, 1912

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3x

Operations of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins," 1912

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3y

Circular letter no. 145 of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins," 1912

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 3z

Circular letter no. 147 of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins"

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4a

Circular letter no. 148 of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins"

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4b

Expanded conference of the Central and Foreign Committees in Vienna, 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4c

Current political activities of the Bund, 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4d

Circular letter no. 150 of the Amalgamated Workers' "Fereins," 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4e

Circular letter of the Amalgamated Workers' "Fereins," 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4f

Geneva conference of the Central Bureau of the Amalgamated Workers' "Fereins," 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4g

Circular letter no. 152 of the Amalgamated Workers' "Fereins," 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4h

Bund on the Beilis trial, 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4i

Circular letter no. 155 of the Amalgamated Workers' "Fereins," 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4j

Revolutionaries in Belgium, 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4k

Ninth Conference of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins" in Geneva, 1914

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4l

Circular letter no. 156 of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins," 1914

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4m

Conference of United Jewish Unions abroad, 1913

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4n

Circular letter no. 157 of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins"

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4o

Circular letter no. 159 of the Amalgamated Organization of Workers' "Fereins," 1914

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4p

Bund organizations in Russia, 1914

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4q

Boston conference of the Jewish Socialist Federation, 1914

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4r

Formation of the Jewish-Socialist Agitation Committee in New York, 1914

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4s

Socialist Revolutionary P. Rutenberg sent to America to convene a Jewish congress, 1915

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4t

Geneva Conference of the Bund Foreign Committee, 1915

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4u

Text of a sermon allegedly delivered by a rabbi on the destiny of the Jews, 1916

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4v

Current activities of the Bund, 1916

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4w

Bund Committee Abroad's report at the 2nd International Socialist Congress at Kienthal, 1916

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 4x

Bund organizations abroad, 1916

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 5

Pamphlets, newspaper clippings, agent reports, and mail referring to Bund publications and activities

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Index XVIIIa, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIIa, Folder 7

Reference: See operational card index file for references to the Bund

Index XVIIIa, Folder 8

Reference: See "Review of Parties Affiliated with the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party" in XVIb(60, folder 1

Index XVIIIa, Folder 9

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 8, 1902, on resolutions of the 5th Bund Conference, in XIIIc(2), folder 1

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b. The Zionist movement

Scope and Contents note

The Zionist movement started in Poland in 1897 and spread rapidly throughout the world. Its prime aim being the awakening of national pride among Jews and its final goal the regaining of Palestine by the Jews, the movement gained the support of wealthy Jews of Western European countries and the United States. The Paris Okhrana surveiled at close quarters the activities of Zionists outside Russia, their meetings, publications, and leaders.
The documents in Folder 1 include a report on the formation in London of a progressive group called the Zionist-Socialists (1901), which cooperated with the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party; a report on currents existing within the Zionist organization; a report in August 1913 on the formation of the "World Union of Jews," initiated at Frankfurt-am-Main and recruiting members from among wealthy Jews and intellectuals; a report on the Poale Zion Congress in Cracow in October 1913; and a lengthy dispatch to Headquarters in January 1915 informing on Germans seeking contacts with Zionist leaders in Berlin and Cologne, promising the liberation of Jews in Russia and Poland and help for Palestine by a victorious Germany against Jewish cooperation in defeating the Allies; reports on the activities of the Zionists in the international field, especially in the United States; report on the Zionist student organisation Gehaver; and numerous circulars issued by Headquarters.

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 1

Dispatches concerning the Zionist movement and its leaders, conferences, Zionist Socialists, Po'alei Zion, Agudos Israel, etc., 1901-1916

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2a

Miscellaneous papers, circulars, and reports on the Zionist movement, 1897-1915

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2b

Zionism and the Jewish labor movement, an Okhrana brief for the use of its officers and agents, 1909

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2c

Basel conference of Zionist delegates from Russia prior to the opening of the 10th Zionist Congress, 1911

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2d

Report on the 10th Zionist Congress in Basel, 1911

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2e

Circular report on the 11th Congress in Vienna, 1913

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2f

Report on the pro-German tendency in Zionism, 1913

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2g

Circular on the Zionist organization Gehaver, 1915

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2h

Circular on the All-Russian Zionist Congress in Moscow, 1915

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2i

Proposed congress of Zionists in New York, 1916

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 2j

Zionist organization Gehaver, 1916

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Index XVIIIb, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIIb, Folder 4

Reference: See the operational card index file for references to Zionist organizations

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c. Jewish émigré problems for Russian security abroad

Scope and Contents note

All Jewish organizations, whether at home or abroad, created problems for the Russian authorities, due to the vast contacts they had with the world's Jewish circles. The pogroms and deportations of Jews and the much publicized Beilis case had caused reaction abroad supported by many Jewish revolutionaries emigrating from Russia. All this was placing the Russian government under constant fire of criticism and demanded a keen vigilance from the Paris Okhrana. The file consists of four folders containing dispatches exchanged between Okhrana Headquarters and the Paris Office, miscellaneous documents, copies of The Worker's Friend and copies of V Pomoshch.

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Index XVIIIc, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing dispatches, 1898-1915

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Index XVIIIc, Folder 2

Jewish propaganda pamphlets and statutes of Jewish student associations, 1889-1917

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Index XVIIIc, Folder 3

Newspaper clippings on the Beilis trial

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Index XVIIIc, Folder 4

Issues of The Workers' Friend, published in London, and V pomoshch , 1905-1916

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Index XVIIIc, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIIc, Folder 6

Reference: See Agent Farce's reports from London, 1902-1906, in VIK, folder 23

Index XVIIIc, Folder 7

Reference: See booklets and pamphlets in Yiddish, London, 1903, in XVIIr(1)

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d. Activities in America: finances for Jewish movements

Scope and Contents note

Jewish immigrants from Russia, especially those of leftist affiliations, organized the Russian-Jewish Revolutionary Union in New York as early as 1899. They sought both moral and financial support for the similar movement in their former homeland. Bund activities in the United States preceded other Jewish activities, and in April 1914 the Federation of Jewish Socialist Workers, organized by emissaries of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party, counted 92,000 members.
Conditions created by World War I permitted the Jewish groups of all political orientations to intensify their activities, and Okhrana agents, supplied detailed information on movements of Jewish leaders and publica- tions and the work of their organizations. Among numerous reports, there are references to money received by two Jewish editors from the Germans for an anti-Russian propaganda campaign (April 1915), plans for the formation of a Jewish Legion for the occupation of Palestine (August 1915) and a congress of American Zionists in Boston (August 1916).

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Index XVIIId, Folder 1

Dispatches, notes, and intercepted mail, 1899-1916

Index XVIIId, Folder 2a

Jewish Socialist Labor Federation in New York, 1914

Index XVIIId, Folder 2b

Agent Bint's report on the foundation of a National Jewish League in New York, 1915

Index XVIIId, Folder 2c

Philadelphia conference of the Jewish Socialist Federation in America, 1915

Index XVIIId, Folder 2d

National Workers Conference in New York, 1915

Index XVIIId, Folder 2e

Bund conference in honor of A. Litvin, 1915

Index XVIIId, Folder 2f

New York Bund meeting in memory of "Bloody Sunday," 1915

Index XVIIId, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XVIIId, Folder 4

Reference: See the operational card index file for references to Jewish organizations in America and Europe

Boxes 207-209

XIX. Polish revolutionaries

Scope and Contents note

The Polish revolutionaries were organized mainly in the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, which cooperated closely with the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party. Until their center of activities was transferred from the Kingdom of Poland to Galicia, the P.S.P. activities were under the surveillance of the Warsaw Okhrana. As the leaders fled abroad (London, 1895), they became targets of the Paris Okhrana.
Prior to World War I, there were no important centers of Polish revolutionary activities outside of Russian Poland and Austrian Galicia, although Polish delegates attended conventions of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party abroad. It is the reports on these instances that make the Polish file of the Paris Okhrana. During the war, the activities of Polish leftist and conservative leaders were concentrated in Switzerland.
This collection is grouped roughly on early insurgents, the revolutionary underground, and leaders. However, no clear-cut separation by topics is possible, and the researcher in any phase of the Polish revolutionary movement may find it necessary to consult all the folders under this index.
The materials on early Polish revolutionaries are assembled mostly in Folders Nos. 1 to 4, the first one presenting a comprehensive coverage of the Padlewski case (the murder of General Seliverstov), and the subsequent ones on Polish revolutionaries in London and Paris, including much confiscated materials, letters and codes of 1890, and the reports of Polish agents of the Okhrana.
The documents on Joézef Pilsudski and other important revolutionary leaders are in Folders 5, 6, and 11. More material on the leaders can be culled from Folders 10, 12, and 13, containing dispatches, circulars, and other memoranda on Polish youth activities, student groups revolutionary and terrorist organizations, etc.

Access

Available on microfilm reels 380-384
Index XIX, Folder 1

The Padlewski case (murder of General Seliverstov), 1890-1893

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Available on microfilm reel 380

Scope and Contents note

Includes newspaper clippings and a bound collection of documents concerning the assassin and fellow conspirators.
Index XIX, Folder 2

Miscellaneous reports, 1889-1915

Access

Available on microfilm reel 380

Scope and Contents note

Topics include: individuals active in the Polish Socialist Party; Polish émigrés in Paris; Polish revolutionaries in exile; revolutionary codes confiscated from Rapaport's apartment; letters and code in Polish found in Mendelsohn's apartment; notes on Petrova confiscated from Polish revolutionaries; confiscated Reinstein papers; Stepanov's notes; notes and code confiscated at Sawitski's arrest. Also includes a code book.
Index XIX, Folder 3

Letters in Polish, 1887-1890

Access

Available on microfilm reel 380

Scope and Contents note

Includes those confiscated from Mendelsohn's apartment.
Index XIX, Folder 4

Reports of Polish agents to the Okhrana in Paris, 1892-1910

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Available on microfilm reel 380

Scope and Contents note

Reports by Wietrzyk and Bilewicz from London; Malankiewicz (Wierzbicki) and Rzondtza (Gruszewski) from Paris; M. Rakowski ("Polish Azef"); and an anonymous informer.
Index XIX, Folder 5

Circulars, dispatches and other materials on Pilsudski and other Polish leaders, 1893-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 381

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence of the Grabski brothers in 1893.
Index XIX, Folder 6

Dispatches and other notes on Polish leaders concerning their activities and contacts with Russian revolutionaries, 1891-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 381
Index XIX, Folder 7

Intercepted letters forward in dispatches to Headquarters, 1894-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 382
Index XIX, Folder 8

Dispatches concerning Polish revolutionary and patriotic publications, 1896-1917

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Available on microfilm reel 382
Index XIX, Folder 9

Polish issues in the foreign press: leaflets, clippings and galley proofs

Access

Available on microfilm reel 382
Index XIX, Folder 10

Dispatches and other materials on Polish youth activities, 1914-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 382

Scope and Contents note

Subjects include the Union of Polish Progressive Youth; Spojnia; Sokol and Strzelec; Zycie in Lvov; Concordia in Leipzig; the Polish Alliance of Revolutionary Youth; Independent Progressive Youth; Polonia in Munch; the Polish Catholic League; and Polish children in Paris.
Index XIX, Folder 11

Activities of Polish leaders in the international field for independent Poland, 1910-1917

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Available on microfilm reel 383

Scope and Contents note

Includes dispatches and circulars relating to political orientation of Polish leaders and their actions in Allied and Central Powers camps.
Index XIX, Folder 12

Dispatches on Polish revolutionary organizations and the independence movement, 1894-1916

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Available on microfilm reels 383-384

Scope and Contents note

Includes an 88-page summary prepared by Okhrana Headquarters in 1909.
Index XIX, Folder 13

Dispatches and notes on Polish terrorists, anarchists, and socialists, 1894-1917

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Available on microfilm reel 384

Scope and Contents note

Includes materials on contacts between the Polish Socialist Party and the Bund and a copy of Bulletin juif from January 1917.
Index XIX, Folder 14

Miscellaneous letters, books, and other materials, 1893-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 384

Scope and Contents note

Includes a drawing of a hand grenade, unidentified letters and notes, copy of the Illustrated Polish Weekly from 1915, stamps issued by the Polish Committee for Independence; and an appeal in Russian for support of the Social Democratic Party from 1893. Books include Russisch-polnische Beziehungen (1893), Czego chca? socyaliséci? (1902), Syberya (translation from Kennan); and Listy ulotne . Newspapers include Polonia (no. 10, 1917); Naprzód (nos. 31 and 51, 1904); and Robotnicza Solidarnosc.
Index XIX, Folder 15

Cross-reference sheet

Index XIX, Folder 16

Reference: See the operational index file for references to Polish national organizations

Index XIX, Folder 17

Reference: For a review of parties affiliated with the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, 1910, see XVIb(6)

Index XIX, Folder 18

Reference: For intelligence summary no. 63, December 11, 1903, for a survey of the Polish socialist movement in Galicia and elsewhere, in XIIIc(2), folder 3

Index XIX, Folder 19

Reference: For intelligence summary no. 81, December 11, 1904, on activities of the Polish organization Liga Narodowa, see XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index XIX, Folder 20

Reference: For letters and raw reports from various agents in London in French, Polish, and Russian )and particularly letters on Dembski and others in the 1890s, see XIIIa

Index XIX, Folder 21

Reference: See Agent Farce's reports from London, 1902-1906, in VIk, folder 23

Box 209

XX. Armenian groups

Scope and Contents note

The first mention of Armenian activity abroad appears in the Paris Okhrana files in a draft report referring to "Young Armenia," a student organization dating back to 1894 and to the existence of an Armenian Social Democratic group in London. It underlines the characteristic feature of all Armenian organizations, namely their prevailing nationalism, which Russian leftist groups considered untimely and incongruous with the revolutionary cause. The report also gives data on Armenian revolutionary publications ( Gaapara, Gnchak, Mshak, Murcha), Armenian leaders active abroad and their contacts with leftist elements, of Western Europe. Prince Viktor I. Nakashidze, an anarchist, stands out as a strong supporter of the Armenian movement, as do Mikhail Tsereteli, Georgii Dekanozi, Viktor Gogeliani, etc. Agent reports of May 1907 give information on Georgians residing in Switzerland and Paris. Reports from Headquarters send data on one of the most important Armenian organizations -- the Dashnaktsutyun (Dashnakts'ut'iwn) -- and its leaders (November 1907) publications (March 1908), and activities. Other reports in this folder deal with the Droshakists, "Independent Georgia," Armenians in Turkey, the Party of Unity and Progress, the Dashnaktsutyun by countries, including America, Armenian student groups, terrorist plans, etc.
Folder 2 contains a collection of clippings on Turkish atrocities committed against the Armenians, an Okhrana Headquarters brief on the Caucasian revolutionary movement, a report on the Dashnaktsutyun congress in Constantinople, Armenian revolutionary publications, resolutions adopted by the Armenian Social Democratic Party "Gnchak," the student union of Dashnakists in Paris and Berlin, and the agenda of the Vlllth Dashnaktsutyun congress in Erzerum.
 

a. Organization and newspapers, nationalist and socialist

Scope and Contents note

The first mention of Armenian activity abroad appears in the Paris Okhrana files in a draft report referring to "Young Armenia," a student organization dating back to 1894 and to the existence of an Armenian Social Democratic group in London. It underlines the characteristic feature of all Armenian organizations, namely their prevailing nationalism, which Russian leftist groups considered untimely and incongruous with the revolutionary cause. The report also gives data on Armenian revolutionary publications ( Gaapara, Gnchak, Mshak, Murcha), Armenian leaders active abroad and their contacts with leftist elements, of Western Europe. Prince Viktor I. Nakashidze, an anarchist, stands out as a strong supporter of the Armenian movement, as do Mikhail Tsereteli, Georgii Dekanozi, Viktor Gogeliani, etc. Agent reports of May 1907 give information on Georgians residing in Switzerland and Paris. Reports from Headquarters send data on one of the most important Armenian organizations -- the Dashnaktsutyun (Dashnakts'ut'iwn) -- and its leaders (November 1907) publications (March 1908), and activities. Other reports in this folder deal with the Droshakists, "Independent Georgia," Armenians in Turkey, the Party of Unity and Progress, the Dashnaktsutyun by countries, including America, Armenian student groups, terrorist plans, etc.
Folder 2 contains a collection of clippings on Turkish atrocities committed against the Armenians, an Okhrana Headquarters brief on the Caucasian revolutionary movement, a report on the Dashnaktsutyun congress in Constantinople, Armenian revolutionary publications, resolutions adopted by the Armenian Social Democratic Party "Gnchak," the student union of Dashnakists in Paris and Berlin, and the agenda of the Vlllth Dashnaktsutyun congress in Erzerum.

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Available on microfilm reels 385-386
Index XXa, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to Armenian revolutionary groups at home and abroad, 1894-1917

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Available on microfilm reels 385-386
Index XXa, Folder 2

Briefs, reviews, reports and circulars for briefing on Armenian revolutionary groups, 1909-1917

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Available on microfilm reel 386

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports on revolutionary parties in Caucasus (1909); socialists in Georgia (1909); and Dashnak, Gnchak, and other groups in various countries abroad.
Index XXa, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXa, Folder 4

Reference: See operational card index file for references to the Dashnaktsutyun Party

Index XXa, Folder 5

Reference: For Agent Kaplun's reports on Georgians in Switzerland, see IIIf, folder 21

Index XXa, Folder 6

Reference: For Agent Farce's reports from London, 1902-1906, see VIk, folder 23

 

b. Intelligence in connection with Tiflis robbery

Scope and Contents note

The Tiflis robbery, a major, but only one of a series of revolutionary operations, was obviously instigated from abroad by Litvinov, Krasin, and other Leninists, while the attack itself was perpetrated by the local Armenian and Georgian revolutionary terrorists. The first 22 documents in this collection are general or minor reports on this act of "expropriation". The subsequent six reports relate to Litvinov's participation, the arrest of ringleader Kamo in Berlin, and the revolutionary attempts to place in circulation the 500 ruble bank notes from the Tiflis holdup.

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Available on microfilm reel 386
Index XXb, Folder 1

Dispatches and notes relating to intelligence in connection with the robbery by revolutionaries in Tiflis, 1905-1909

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Available on microfilm reel 386
Index XXb, Folder 2

Reports on Litvinov's party of "expropriators," Kamo's arrest in Berlin, a list of Armenian "expropriators," and revolutionaries marketing stolen 500 ruble bank notes. Also includes clippings from Bulgarian newspapers, 1906-1908

Access

Available on microfilm reel 386
Index XXb, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Box 209

XXI. Finnish revolutionaries

Scope and Contents note

In 1899 Headquarters instructed the Paris Office to surveil in London the activity of the "Committee on Finland," presided over by Harold Perrot. From this date on, Finnish matters, especially smuggling arms and clandestine publications to Finland, continued to enter the agenda of the Paris Okhrana. Folder 1 contains a general collection of intelligence dispatches on the subject. The documents in Folder 2 deal with specific subjects: Konni Zilliacus and the northern route for arms smuggling to Finland and Russia, a brief on the political situation in Finland (1909), a circular about German support of the Finnish independence movement, etc.

Access

Available on microfilm reel 386
Index XXI, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to Finnish revolutionary activities, 1899-1917

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Available on microfilm reel 386
Index XXI, Folder 2

Miscellaneous dispatches and reports, 1904-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 386

Scope and Contents note

Topics include surveillance of Zilliaeus, Finnish agitators, the Northern underground for arms smuggling, a brief on the political situation in Finland, agitation among university youth, and independence movements in Finland supported by Germany.
Index XXI, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXI, Folder 4

Reference: See VIIIc for reports on the Finnish movement (1916)

Box 210

XXII. Latvians and Lithuanians

Scope and Contents note

The main reason in placing Latvian and Lithuanian revolutionary groups in the same file was their regional affiliation. (They are referred to by the Russian authorities as the "Baltic Provinces". ) There are just a few direct references to Lithuanians (and Estonians) in the files of the Paris Okhrana, due to the fact that they did not form a separate national group within the broad scope of the revolutionary movement. While cooperating with the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party, they joined the Poles under the banner of the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania. Another reason for the lack of documents referring to Lithuanians in the Paris Okhrana Office was that more prominent Lithuanian leaders were active within the political boundaries of Russia, thus being a target for local Okhrana networks.
The first mention of an organized Latvian group abroad dates to 1899, when a chapter of their Social Democratic Party was formed in London. From then on the activities of the Latvian Social Democratic Party in Russia had a strong reflection on its exponents abroad living in larger cities of Western Europe. Latvian revolutionaries established a close contact with all national groups cooperating with the Russian Social Democratic Party and kept it up to the outbreak of the October revolution. They attended all important meetings and conventions of the RSDWP, proving themselves as valuable planners and activists for the revolutionary cause. As terrorists, the Latvians made an impressive record. They also smuggled into Russia considerable quantities of clandestine publications and arms during the revolution of 1905.
Latvian emigres in the United States organized several groups of the Social Democratic Party, but only those active in San Francisco (1911) adhered to the home structure of the Party. Others acted independently. Folder 1 contains the agenda for the 4th Congress of the Latvian Social Democratic Party (March 1913), a trace of financial assistance from the German Social Democrats (July 1913), and evidence that a Latvian Social Democratic group in Boston, Massachusetts, built itself up to a membership of 370.
War conditions caused a cessation of activities of the Latvian Social Democratic Bureau Abroad, and attempts to revive it in Stockholm failed. Latvian contacts with Lithuanians during World War I became more lively and close. Folder 2 includes documents referring to cooperation between Latvian and Russian anarchists (Lapin and Teplov) for the purpose of smuggling arms to Russia (1909), the political platform of the Latvian Social Democratic Party, an Okhrana chart of the Latvian Social Democratic Party, a summary report on the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party and reports on its conventions, reports on resolutions and the organization of the Bureau of Latvian Social Democratic Groups Abroad, and data on Pietr Brede (Bredis, "Yeshka").
Index XXII, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to Latvians and Lithuanians in anarchist groups in London, 1899-1916

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Available on microfilm reels 386-387
Index XXII, Folder 2

Dispatches and agent reports, 1909-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 387

Scope and Contents note

Includes Lopin's report on Latvian anarchists in London; the platform of the Latvian Social Democratic Party; Agent Pilenas's reports on anarchists in London; a brief on the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party; report on the convention of the Estonian Social Democratic Party in Finland; the case of Latvian communist Bredis-Brede, alias Yeshka (Eshka); and circulars on the Fourth Congress of the Latvian Social Democratic Party.
Index XXII, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXII, Folder 4

Reference: See operational card index file for references to the Latvian Social Democratic and Socialist Revolutionary groups

Index XXII, Folder 5

Reference: For a review of parties affiliated with the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party, 1910, see XVIb(6)

Index XXII, Folder 6

Reference: For letters and raw reports from various agents in London, in French, Polish, and Russian, from 1891-1902, see XIIIa

Index XXII, Folder 7

Reference: For documents on the Houndsditch murders and robbery, see XVIb(5)

Box 210

XXIII. Ukrainian revolutionaries

 

a. General

Scope and Contents note

After their arrest and Siberian deportation at the turn of the century, a few Ukrainian revolutionaries (Russov, Liakhotskii) fled abroad. In Galicia, however, the revolutionary movement grew unhampered by Austrian authorities and began to radiate across the border to Russian Ukraine. After the 1905 revolution, Ukrainian revolutionary activities became stronger, and all Russian leftist parties had their followers in the main cities of the Ukraine (1908). "Pravda," the organ of the Ukrainian Soiuz "Spilka," was published in Vienna, with Trotsky as its editor (1908). In March 1914 an all-Ukrainian convention was held in Lvov with representatives of Russian socialists.
The collection of dispatches in Folder 1 includes documents on how in December 1914 the Ukrainian Soiuz was accused of accepting financial aid from the Austrian government, yielding to it the control of all activities; on "Bor'ba," published in Geneva as the organ of Ukrainian Social Democrats following Lenin's political line; on the Berlin organization, "Soiuz Osvobozhdeniia Ukrainy," headed by Petr Bendzia, acting under the auspices of Germany; on Ukrainian national committees; etc
Folder 2 contains documents on the organization of the Ukrainian "Spilka" Party and "Pravda," members of the "Spilka" abroad, the "Ukrainskaia Gromada" in Paris, and a survey of the Ukrainian movement (1916).

Access

Available on microfilm reels 387-388, 170a
Index XXIIIa, Folder 1

Dispatches and notes pertaining to Ukrainian revolutionaries and activities, 1900-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 387
Index XXIIIa, Folder 2

Dispatches and circulars, 1908-1916

Access

Available on microfilm reel 388

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports on the Social Democratic organ "Spilka," the "Ukrainska Gromada," and the "Russian Nationalist-Socialist Party." Also includes Zapiska ob ukrainskom dvizhenii, a brief for Okhrana personnel.
Index XXIIIa, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXIIIa, Folder 4

Reference: See operational card index file for references to Ukrainian nationalist organizations

Index XXIIIa, Folder 5

Reference: For accounts of "Spilka" and by-laws of the Social Democratic Union of the Ukraine, see XVIb(6)

 

b. Financial and other support from America

Scope and Contents note

The collection of documents under this subject heading includes the manifesto of Ukrainians in Canada and reports "on their activities, 1915-1916 (the "Mazepa" group); data on M. Sichinskii, leader of a "Mazepa" group in the United States; a report on the 3rd Convention of the "Mazepa" organization in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1916; reports on the "Ukrainian Congress in Canada" (1916-1917) and a new organization, "Ukrainska Rada"; and a list of brochures published by "Ukrainska Rada" (1917).

Access

Available on microfilm reel 388
Index XXIIIb, Folder 1

Dispatches and drafts of reports pertaining to the support of Ukrainian immigrant activities in America and their support to the revolutionaries, 1912-1917

Access

Available on microfilm reel 388
Index XXIIIb, Folder 2

Dispatches on Ukrainians in Canada, the Mazepa group, and branches of the Russian National Union, 1914-1917

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Available on microfilm reel 388
Index XXIIIb, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXIIIb, Folder 4

Reference: See the operational card index file for references to Ukrainian national organizations

Boxes 210-215

XXIV. Revolutionary intelligence and propaganda techniques

Boxes 210-211

a. Intelligence structure and security problems

Scope and Contents note

Their conspiratorial nature made all revolutionaries, particularly the terrorist groups, smugglers of arms, "expropriators," and planners, security conscious. Revolutionary doctrines required clandestine activities, with every participant on constant alert and passing information to leaders and comrades for their protection and for a safe promotion of the cause. As the revolutionary campaigns increased in intensity, the planners of acts needed advance intelligence for carrying out operations; and with the realization of Okhrana penetrations and betrayals, they developed their own counter-intelligence.
The materials under this subject file contain ample information on the growth of the revolutionary counter-intelligence from, so to speak, the grass roots, an extremely informal flow of information among leading conspirators with the gradual emergence of Burtsev's and other revolutionary services. These, aiming principally against the Okhrana, also assumed executive and judicial powers to intimidate and liquidate the opponent. Thus, it may be said that the revolutionary service was the ideological forerunner of the Bolshevik Cheka and the OGPU. The period covered by the collection extends from 1897 to 1917. The documents consist of incoming and outgoing dispatches, telegrams, perlustrated letters, and copies of intercepted letters pertaining to Burtsev's revolutionary intelligence operations, the exposure of secret Okhrana agents such as Yost, Kensitskii, Batushanskii, Metal'nikov, Tsetlin, and others, the organization of revolutionary police in Paris to combat the Okhrana, revolutionary investigation of suspected Okhrana agents.
There are also official MVD circulars giving Socialist Revolutionary Party regulations pertaining to the security of party meetings, a report on Burtsev's sources on the Okhrana as well as his methods of operation -- surveillance, targets, agents, and his sources of information from within the Okhrana.

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Available on microfilm reels 388-390
Index XXIVa, Folder 1

Dispatches and notes pertaining to revolutionary intelligence structure and security precautions, 1897-1916

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Available on microfilm reels 388-389
Index XXIVa, Folder 2a

Card notations from Okhrana operational files on agents investigated by Burtsev

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Available on microfilm reel 389
Index XXIVa, Folder 2b

Intercepted letters of revolutionaries (Fabrikant, Burtsev, etc.), 1886-1914

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Available on microfilm reel 389
Index XXIVa, Folder 3

Perlustrated mail addressed to Natanson, 1908-1909

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Available on microfilm reel 389
Index XXIVa, Folder 4

Perlustrated mail addressed to Agafonov, 1908-1909

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5a

Circular on the activities of the All-Russian Peasant Union in Russia, 1906

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5b

Circular from Headquarters concerning Socialist Revolutionary Party regulations pertaining to security at meetings, 1906

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5c

Circular concerning a resolution by the St. Petersburg Socialist Revolutionary Party concerning armed uprisings, 1906

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5d

Burtsev's sources on the Okhrana, 1908

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5e

Early organization of revolutionary intelligence, 1909

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5f

Revolutionary surveillance, exposure, and trial of Okhrana Agent Tsetlin, 1909

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5g

Mirtov's offer to operate against Burtsev's intelligence network, 1909

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5h

Burtsev's methods of operation, surveillance, targets, and agents, 1912

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Index XXIVa, Folder 5i

Burtsev's efforts to place his agents in the Okhrana, 1912

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Index XXIVa, Folder 5j

Revolutionary investigation of agents Mass and Franck, 1913

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Index XXIVa, Folder 5k

Burtsev's attempts to discover the new structure of the Okhrana office in Paris, 1914

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5l

Agent Jollivet's ("Tourist") reports on Burtsev's intelligence activities in Italy, 1914

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5m

Burtsev's anti-Okhrana intelligence activity in Italy, 1914

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5n

Interest in Social Democratic circles in the arrest of Medem, 1914

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Index XXIVa, Folder 5o

Documents on the Antonov-Aleksinskii case, 1914

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5p

Burtsev's sources of information from within the Okhrana, 1915

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 5q

Documents and references to individual revolutionaries, without Okhrana connections, who were suspected, investigated, or tried as provocateurs, 1907-1914

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVa, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXIVa, Folder 7

Reference: See day by day reports, from August 19-November 6, 1909, on the surveillance of Burtsev and his revolutionary intelligence agents, in XVIId, folder 3

Index XXIVa, Folder 8

Reference: See reports on surveillance difficulties after the defection of Okhrana agent M. Leroy and the creation of the "revolutionary police," in IIIe, folder 6

Index XXIVa, Folder 9

Reference: See the personal folder on Agent Serose on the position of Leroy in Burtsev's revolutionary police, in IIIe, folder 3

Index XXIVa, Folder 10

Reference: See Agent Richard's ("Jane") reports on Burtsev's office, March-August 1914, in XIa, folder 2a

Index XXIVa, Folder 11

Reference: See the assignments and reports from Mme. Jollivet and her son Raoul regarding Burtsev and Leroy, 1914-1915, in VIk, folder 33

Box 211

b. Use of defectors from the Okhrana

Scope and Contents note

The collection contains dispatches exchanged between Headquarters and the Paris Office referring to agents who defected from the Okhrana and cooperated with the revolutionaries, such as Sorkin, Meilakhovich, Yanitskii, Finkelman, Borisov, Leone, Joulia, Jollivet, Pilenas-Wallenrod, Sushkov, and Tiercelin, and to important cases -- Lt. Benson, Bakai, Menshchikov, Leroy, and Rips. Colonel von Kotten recruited agent Rips in Russia and brought him to Paris for deep cover work. It appears that Rips was actually a plant for the revolutionaries, who wanted to assassinate von Kotten. The latter escaped with several gun wounds, but the case came to court. Seven volumes of the proceedings in court, where the revolutionaries mustered a strong defense, are included in this set.

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Available on microfilm reels 390-391
Index XXIVb, Folder 1

Dispatches, circulars, and other materials pertaining to defectors of the Okhrana, 1887-1914

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVb, Folder 2

Clippings of articles written by Mikhail Bakai, 1909

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Available on microfilm reel 390
Index XXIVb, Folder 3

Clipping containing an interview with Burtsev on Okhrana defector Menshchikov

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Index XXIVb, Folder 4

Ambassador Bakherakht's story on the case of Russian Army Lt. Benson and his acquisition of a Swiss villa, 1915

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Index XXIVb, Folder 5

The case of Mikhail E. Bakai, 1908-1911

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Available on microfilm reel 390

Scope and Contents note

Includes dispatches notes, notes, telegrams, and reports on his background, exposure of Agent Kensitskii, relations with Burtsev, etc.
Index XXIVb, Folder 6

The case of Leonid P. Menshchikov, 1910-1916

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Available on microfilm reel 390

Scope and Contents note

Includes dispatches, clippings, circulars, and reports on his exposure of agents as a result of his defection, his memoirs, his visit to the United States, etc.
Index XXIVb, Folder 7

The case of Maurice Leroy, 1908-1909

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Available on microfilm reel 391

Scope and Contents note

Includes dispatches and reports on his defection and a photograph.
Index XXIVb, Folder 8

The case of Movsha (Mikhail) Rips, 1909-1910

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Available on microfilm reel 391

Scope and Contents note

Includes dispatches, reports, 7 volumes of stenographic notes of his hearing before the French court for the attempted murder of Colonel von Kotten.
Index XXIVb, Folder 9

Cross-reference sheet

Box 212

c. Penetration of the Okhrana

Scope and Contents note

The documents yielded by the Paris Okhrana archives on its penetration by the revolutionaries indicate that the Okhrana's main concern in this respect was Vladimir Burtsev, who succeeded in obtaining secret Okhrana information directly from the St. Petersburg Headquarters (1906-1907) and the Paris Office. He used the information to expose secret agents of the Paris Office.
This file contains double agent Jollivet's report on Burtsev's sources in the Okhrana as well as his report on Burtsev's intelligence activities. (See XVIId and XXlVb for additional information.) The papers serve as conclusive evidence that Burtsev periodically had access to secret files of the Okhrana both in St. Petersburg and Paris. Attempts by the revolutionaries to join the Okhrana as agents in order to obtain secret information were not as successful as Burtsev's direct access to classified Okhrana documents through regular Okhrana personnel.

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Available on microfilm reels 391-392
Index XXIVc, Folder 1

Reports and other notes pertaining to penetration of the Okhrana by revolutionaries, 1887-1917

Index XXIVc, Folder 2a

Clippings from Budushchee concerning the exposure of deep cover agents by Kensitskii and Dorozhko, 1908

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Available on microfilm reel 392
Index XXIVc, Folder 2b

Penetration by Burtsev of Swiss liaison with the Okhrana, 1909

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Available on microfilm reel 392
Index XXIVc, Folder 2c

Okhrana circular of a list of names of those suspected by the revolutionaries of being provocateurs, 1910

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Available on microfilm reel 392
Index XXIVc, Folder 2d

Burtsev's access to the Okhrana, 1912

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Available on microfilm reel 392
Index XXIVc, Folder 2e

Clippings about the exposure of Okhrana activities in the French press, 1913

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2f

Clippings from the Italian press exposing Okhrana activities, 1913

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2g

Burtsev's open letter to LePressence, head of the Civil Liberties League in Paris, exposing Okhrana agents and activities, 1913

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2h

Agent Jollivet's report on Burtsev's sources in the Okhrana, 1913

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2i

Clipping from Il Secolo about Burtsev in Italy, 1913

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2j

Burtsev's intelligence source on the Okhrana in the police department, 1913

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2k

Agent Jollivet's reports on Burtsev's intelligence activities, 1914

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2l

Burtsev's announcement in Brussels newspapers on Okhrana agents and their functions, 1914

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Scope and Contents note

Includes an article containing 29 names.
Index XXIVc, Folder 2m

Statements of State Counselor Berednikov in connection the with indictment of his exposure to Okhrana personnel, 1915

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2n

Agent Poznanskii's suit against Burtsev, 1914

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2o

Exposure of Okhrana agent Yost (Iost), 1908

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2p

Exposure of agent Kensitskii, 1908

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2q

Activities of Bakai's revolutionary police in Paris

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2r

Burtsev's and Bakai's claims that they have access to the police department of St. Petersburg, 1909

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2s

Burtsev's man Segal as an Okhrana agent, 1909-1912

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2t

Report on Burtsev's attempts to penetrate the Okhrana, 1912

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Index XXIVc, Folder 2u

Reports on Burtsev's exposure of agent Mass through a St. Petersburg source, 1913

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Index XXIVc, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXIVc, Folder 3

Reference: See the notes in double agent Berg's folder in XIa, folder 2d

Box 212

d. Documentation of revolutionary agents

Scope and Contents note

The documents in this file consist of incoming and outgoing dispatches and raw agent reports covering the period from 1894 to 1916. The Russian revolutionaries abroad were in constant need of documents and passports in order to maintain contact with their co-conspirators in Russia.
Passports were either stolen from Russian consulates abroad or purchased illegally from minor consular officials. Passports and other official documents and stamps were also produced in revolutionary printing shops. Another method of obtaining passports for illegal use was for one to be reported missing to consular officials in order to receive a new passport while the "lost" document then became ''available" after some alterations. A factor that helped the revolutionaries greatly in their forging operations was that no photograph of the legal owner was contained in the Russian domestic or foreign passports of that period. During the war there was a brisk trade in forged military service exemption certificates abroad.

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Index XXIVd, Folder 1

Dispatches and notes pertaining to the documentation of revolutionary agents, 1894-1915

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Index XXIVd, Folder 2a

Circulars pertaining to the theft of passport blanks and government stamps by revolutionaries in Russia, 1906

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Index XXIVd, Folder 2b

Request for instructions on how to handle possible fraudulent requests for new passports, 1906

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Index XXIVd, Folder 2c

Illegal use of a passport by a London anarchist, 1906

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Index XXIVd, Folder 2d

Geneva Russian consulate employee Lilin stole a large supply of passport blanks, 1908

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Index XXIVd, Folder 2e

Basel as the center for false Russian passports, 1914

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Index XXIVd, Folder 2f

Dispatches from the Russian consulate in Berlin about the use of passport blanks by the revolutionaries, 1908

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Index XXIVd, Folder 2g

Sale of false passports blanks in revolutionary circles in Paris, 1916

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Index XXIVd, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXIVd, Folder 4

Reference: For a list of passports, seals, and personal documents, see circular no. 145031/382, November 18, 1916, in XIIId(2), folder 61

Box 212

e. Propaganda outlets

Scope and Contents note

Revolutionary propaganda outlets involved the smuggling of propaganda materials into Russia, their storage and distribution both in Russia and abroad, public lectures and rallies, and the planting of anti-government articles in the foreign press. During the war, revolutionary propaganda was distributed among Russian prisoners of war in Germany and Austria. All of these aspects of propaganda are reflected in the documents under this classification. Also see Index Numbers VIIIb, XVIIt, and XXIVh for further source materials.

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Index XXIVe, Folder 1

Dispatches and other papers pertaining to revolutionary propaganda outlets, 1886-1917

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2a

Placard in French calling for a protest meeting of behalf of Burtsev, 1903

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2b

Organization of an "Information Bureau" in Berlin for keeping the socialist press abroad informed on happenings in Russia, 1906

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2c

Report on Social Democratic propaganda outlets in St. Petersburg, 1907

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2d

Obituaries for three revolutionary martyrs, 1907

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2e

Report on the editor of an anti-militarist newspaper in Genoa, 1908

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2f

Clippings from French and British press containing articles on behalf of the revolutionaries, 1908-1914

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2g

Smuggling of propaganda into Russia from London, 1909

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2h

Russian teachers' excursions into Europe and their exposure to revolutionary propaganda, 1910

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2i

Opening of the Université Populaire Russe é Paris, 1910

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2j

Report on attempts by revolutionaries to propagandize the crew of the Russian battleship "Slava" in Toulon, 1910

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2k

Zurich Socialist Revolutionary group dispatching propaganda to Russia, 1911

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2l

Publication of Bakai's brochure in New York, 1912

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2m

Socialist Revolutionaries in Constantinople engaged in smuggling illegal literature into Russia, 1912

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2n

Publication of special material in Brussels for propaganda among Russian army officers, 1912

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2o

Report that Burtsev is to be sued for slander in Paris, 1913

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2p

Report on shipment of illegal literature into Russia, 1914

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2q

Article in Belgian newspaper La peuple , with a Russian translation, exposing 29 names of Okhrana agents, 1914

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2r

Burtsev's exposure of Bint and Sambain and the Feuger blackmail case, 1914

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2s

Leftist press against the Okhrana and Krasil'nikov's survey, 1914

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2t

Leaflets on the Zimmerwald Conference in French and Russian, 1916

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2u

Article on the Russian occupation of Galicia

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2v

Report on the transportation of political contraband across the Prussian border

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Index XXIVe, Folder 2w

"Vers la dissolution de la Douma," article for the French press

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Index XXIVe, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Box 212

f. Liaison with European leftist groups

Scope and Contents note

The dispatches and raw reports included in this file, covering the period between 1902 and 1916, indicate that the Russian revolutionary movement abroad did involve liaison with German Social Democrats, Italian, anarchists, and French socialists. Liaison was maintained for purposes of influencing foreign governments in favor of the Russian revolutionary cause and to obtain material support for the revolutionaries. Parliamentary representatives of leftist foreign political groups were engaged for interpellations and to prod the governments against the Okhrana. The Russian revolutionary movement gained some influential friends among foreign leftist writers and politicians: Anatole France, Rebel, Jean Jaurès, and others.

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Index XXIVf, Folder 1a

Papers pertaining to intelligence and other underground liaison with French, German, and Italian socialist and anarchist groups, 1902-1910

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Index XXIVf, Folder 1b

Agent Woltz's surveillance reports on Benito Mussolini and various French, Bulgarian, and Serbian revolutionaries, 1904

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Index XXIVf, Folder 1c

Exclusion of police agents from Masonic lodges, 1912

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Index XXIVf, Folder 1d

Minutes of the meeting of the French Socialist Committee of Action, 1916

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Index XXIVf, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Box 212

g. Early types of communist front organizations among Russian émigrés

Scope and Contents note

Revolutionaries, particularly the Social Democrats, developed the practices of joining non-political associations of the émigrés for the purpose of converting them to their own political orientation and aims. A score of professional, cultural, and other societies started by the Russians abroad thus became tools and convenient spokesmen of the Marxists, i. e. the prototypes of the subsequent communist front organizations. This collection is fairly representative of the category. Some such organizations were founded by the revolutionaries with the outright purpose of supporting their aims, but under such names as "Committee for Russian Prisoners and Exiles," "Fund for Free Press," and other headings appealing for support on humane or democratic grounds. Organizations such as "Mutual Assistance Funds," "Student Unions," "International Women's Conferences," the "Peace Movement," etc., all patterns for subsequent communist fronts, had among the prime movers such agitators as Lenin's wife Krupskaya and Alexandra Kollontai. The Council of Russian Seamen's Unions, with the secretariat in England, was under communist control from the very beginning of its existence.
The folders contain documents referring to still other organizations that started out or gradually became communist fronts, as for instance the "Union of Professional Russian Writers," the "Bibliotheque," or wartime organizations to help prisoners of war in Germany.

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Index XXIVg, Folder 1

Dispatches and notes pertaining to organizations established by revolutionaries among émigrés for allegedly non-political purposes but serving Marxist or other revolutionary ends, 1905-1916

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Index XXIVg, Folder 2

Dispatches and other materials, 1914

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Scope and Contents note

Includes a book of receipts, by-laws of the Union of Professional Writers from Russia, resolution on Aleksinskii, invitation forms, records of a collection for a sick comrade, correspondence, etc.
Index XXIVg, Folder 3a

Headquarters circular concerning the "London Fund for Free Press in Russia," 1894

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Index XXIVg, Folder 3b

The Peace League and Konni Zilliacus's trip to London, 1904

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Index XXIVg, Folder 3c

Subscribers' list of the Bibliothéque (international), 1908

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Index XXIVg, Folder 3d

English language publication of the Committee to Help Political Prisoners, 1911

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Index XXIVg, Folder 3e

Dispatches and leaflets published by the Seamen's Union, 1911-1914

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Index XXIVg, Folder 3f

Russian students at Karlsruhe: meetings and resolutions, 1910-1913

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Index XXIVg, Folder 3g

Mutual assistance fund in Paris, the "émigré Treasury," 1912-1915

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Index XXIVg, Folder 3h

Circular on the International Women's Conference and delegate Krupskaya, 1914

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Index XXIVg, Folder 3i

Society to Aid Prisoners of War in Germany and Austria, 1915

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Index XXIVg, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Box 213

h. Smuggling to Russia of arms, publications, and revolutionaries

Scope and Contents note

Arms smuggling into Russia, according to this collection of documents, was at its peak during the Russo-Japanese War and the upheavals at its aftermath, in 1905-1907. The bulk of this collection thus originated in that period. Chief Garting in Paris spread the network of agents against revolutionary smugglers to many European countries, concentrating particularly in northern and Italian ports. His liaison with security agencies and port authorities in various countries brought some good results. The revolutionaries who engaged in smuggling during the peak period were the Social Democrats (Bolsheviks) and the Bundists.
The first two folders of the collection, with chronological arrangement of the documents, from 1894 to 1915 contain various dispatches, raw reports, revolutionary agents, arms, and propaganda. Documents on smuggling illegal literature are at the end of the second folder.
Folder 3 has a complete record of Okhrana surveillance over gunrunning from Antwerp, one of the favorite ports for the revolutionaries in 1905 and 1906. In Folders 4 and 5, specific reports of the same period illustrate the efforts of Garting and his agents in various other European centers and include individual agents' and liaison reports in 1910.

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Index XXIVh, Folder 1

Dispatches, raw reports, and intelligence notes on smuggling agents, arms, etc. into Russia, 1894-1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 2

Dispatches, raw reports, and intelligence notes on smuggling agents, arms, etc. into Russia (cont'd.), 1907-1915

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Index XXIVh, Folder 3

Complete record of Okhrana surveillance over gunrunning from Antwerp, 1905-1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4a

Garting's report to Rataev regarding the organization of surveillance over illegal gunrunning in Berlin, 1902

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4b

Berlin Okhrana office investigation of the production of hand grenades in Berlin, 1905

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4c

Garting's report on the Bund's funds for arms purchases, current methods and routes used by revolutionaries for smuggling arms and political propaganda into Russia, and proposals to control such contraband, 1905

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4d

Okhrana reports on gunrunning (arms trafficking) from Copenhagen, 1905-1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4e

Revolutionary arms shipments from various European ports, 1905-1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4f

Arms shipments from Sweden, 1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4g

Garting reports on gunrunning (arms trafficking) in Germany, France, Belgium and attempts to enlist British customs service in control of revolutionary arms shipments, 1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4h

Sofronskii and Wallach (Litvinov) engaged in purchasing arms in Europe, 1906

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Scope and Contents note

Includes intercepted letters from Sofronskii.
Index XXIVh, Folder 4i

Garting's trip to Denmark and Sweden to investigate arms smuggling, 1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4j

Arms shipments from Hamburg, 1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4k

Krause's information about an alleged ring of terrorists in Dresden, 1907

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4l

Police Captain Grénweller of Lébeck, Germany, on arms smuggling, 1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 4m

Arms shipments from England, 1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5a

De Groot's reports on arms shipments from Rotterdam, 1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5b

Arms shipments from Italy

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5c

Arms shipments from Amsterdam, 1906

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5d

Wallach (Litvinov) in Berlin to engage in smuggling machine guns into Russia, 1907

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5e

Smuggling of arms through Mannheim, 1907

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5f

Surveillance over arms smuggling from Denmark and Sweden, 1907

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5g

Headquarters' comments on the uselessness of Garting's agents in discovering arms smuggling, 1907

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5h

Agent Sambain's reports on surveillance of smugglers in Stockholm, 1910

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5i

Agent Neuhaus's reports from Memel (Klaipeda) on ships suspected of smuggling arms, 1910

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5j

Agent Fontaine's reports from the German-Russian border, 1910

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5k

Agent Durin's reports on arms traffickers from Wirballen (Virbalis), 1910

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5l

Movement of ships in Kiel suspected of arms trafficking, 1910

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5m

Engineer Buckland in London offers information on revolutionary arms smuggling, 1912

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Index XXIVh, Folder 5n

Report on arms smuggling into Russia

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Index XXIVh, Folder 6

Cross-reference sheet

Box 214

i. Terrorist techniques: bomb construction, deliveries, planning attacks, liberation of prisoners

Scope and Contents note

Many revolutionary groups adopted terrorism as their principal strategy and tactic. They resorted to violence to the degree that terrorism became practically synonymous with revolution. A statistical table among the survey in this collection shows that in the period from October 1907 to May 1910, revolutionary bands in Russia perpetrated 23,044 terrorist acts, in which the number of officials and other persons killed was 4,322 and wounded 4, 465. These acts, particularly against important officials, were inspired or actually committed by the conspirators coming from abroad with arms. The purpose of assassination was not to exterminate officials known as oppressors of the people or tyrannical in their methods; there is evidence rather that the revolutionaries were more concerned about killing off the more competent and popular high officials in order to bring chaos in orderly government and confusion in the public.
The collection of dispatches and various other documents in Folder 1, arranged chronologically from 1887 to 1916, gives many specific cases; but taken as a whole, it shows the general trend of the conspiracies. The life of the Tsar was threatened more frequently than any other; he was spared before the revolution, but not so some of the members of his immediate family and members of his cabinet. The dispatches, raw reports, and newspaper clippings describe the planning of assassinations, plots, construction of bombs and work on explosives in the laboratories of the revolutionaries. The role of such important terrorist leaders as Gershuni, Savinkov, Chernov, Sazonov, Barthold, and Gots is described.
Folders 2 and 3 are listed in the inventory by specific documents. The role of Vera Figner's campaign to execute prison breaks in Russia is referred to in several documents. On the technique of bomb construction by Russian terrorists, see Volume I of the Prefecture de Police in Vb, Folder 6. For the role of terrorist leaders, see also the folders under Index Numbers XVIId, XVIIg, XVIIh, and XVIIi.

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Index XXIVi, Folder 1

Dispatches, notes, and newspaper clippings pertaining to revolutionary terrorist techniques, 1887-1916

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2a

Report on a plot to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II (Nikolai II) formulated in Geneva by Afanasiev and members of the Polish Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1905

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2b

Individuals intending to go to Russia to engage in terrorism, 1905

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2c

Petr Rutenberg accused of murdering Georgii Gapon, 1906

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2d

School for training terrorists in Krakow operated by the Polish Socialist Party, 1906

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2e

Newspaper clippings in German on bomb deposits of Russian terrorists in Berlin, 1907

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2f

Averted attempt on the life of the Dowager Empress Mariia Feodorovna, 1907

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2g

Assassins of General von Launitz, 1908

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2h

Newspaper clippings on terrorist acts and anarchists, 1908-1914

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2i

Rips's motives for attempting to assassinate Colonel von Kotten, 1909

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2j

Plot to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II (Nikolai II) in Poltava and a request to watch suspicious movements abroad, 1909

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2k

Report on the possible use of aircraft by revolutionaries to commit acts of terror in Russia, 1909

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2l

Formation of a Socialist Revolutionary strong arm unit in Sweden with the participation of Savinkov and Sletov, 1909

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2m

Statistics on Russian government officials killed between 1907 and 1910 by Russian revolutionaries, 1910

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2n

Report on terrorist Boris Barthold, 1910

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2o

Formation of a Socialist Revolutionary strong arm detachment abroad, 1910

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Index XXIVi, Folder 2p

Preparations for the murder of Stolypin and Tsar Nicholas II (Nikolai II), 1910

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3a

The governor general of Warsaw received an anonymous letter from Cologne exposing a plot against Tsar Nicholas II (Nikolai II), 1911

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3b

A Paris group collaborates with the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1911

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3c

Announcement of terrorists about an attempt on the life of a prison official in Russia, 1911

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3d

Storage place for bombs in Chita, 1911

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3e

Bomb explosion in a Liege theater, 1912

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3f

Case of Widmann in Berlin offering information about a planned act of terrorism, 1912

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3g

Formation of a Society for Active Assistance to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Paris, which is to help organize prison breaks, 1912

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3h

Bylaws of the Society for Struggle against Imprisonment and Exile for Political Activities, 1912

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3i

Boris Bathold planning to go to Russia on a terrorist mission, 1913

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3j

Appeal of the Krakow Union to Aid Political Prisoners for funds to organize prison breaks, 1913

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3k

Terrorist group for the murder of Kasso, 1913

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3l

Reaction of the German press to the assassination attempt on the Dowager Empress in Rostock, 1913

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3m

Attempt on the life of former Turkish minister Sherif Pasha (Serif Pasa) in Paris, 1914

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3n

Formation of leagues to support political prisoners in Russia by raising funds to organize prison breaks, 1914

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3o

Statement of Snezhkov on a plot to assassinate the tsar, 1914

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3p

The case of Kirishek and six other Russians accused of espionage, bomb construction, etc., 1914

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3q

Hearings before the French tribunal in the case of Kirishek and four other Russian terrorists, 1915

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3r

List of documents found in the possession of Kirishek and other Russian anarchists on trial, 1915

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3s

A brief on Russian revolutionaries in France

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3t

Drawings for bomb construction with directions

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Index XXIVi, Folder 3u

Revolutionary plan to assassinate Tsarina Mariia Feodorovna in London

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Index XXIVi, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXIVi, Folder 5

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 71, 1904, on the assassination plot against Minister Pleve, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index XXIVi, Folder 6

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 94, 1904, on the assassination plot against Minister Pleve, in XIIIc(2), folder 4

Index XXIVi, Folder 7

Reference: See incoming telegram no. 1064, 1903, requesting information on the plans of the "Center" and the leaders of the Fighting Unit concerning the assassination of Minister Pleve, in XIIIc(3), folder 13

Index XXIVi, Folder 8

Reference: See incoming telegram no. 1085, 1903, ordering that Sazonov (the eventual assassin of Pleve) be kept under constant surveillance in Bern, in XIIIc(3), folder 13

Index XXIVi, Folder 9

Reference: See incoming telegram, June 17, 1904, on Finnish revolutionary sentiment and attitude toward the attempt on the life of Governor Bobrikov by a Finnish patient, in XIIIc(3), folder 16

Index XXIVi, Folder 10

Reference: See incoming telegram no. 329, 1904, announcing Pleve's assassination and a physical description of the assassin, in XIIIc(3), folder 17

Index XXIVi, Folder 10

Reference: For photographs of the types of bombs constructed by Russian revolutionaries, see Volume I of the books prepared by the French Sûreté, in Vb, folder 6

Box 214

j. Training of terrorists and propagandists' schools

Scope and Contents note

The documents included in this file cover the period from I906 to 1911 and pertain to Maksim Gorky's school on the island of Capri (1909), military training of revolutionaries in Paris (1907), the terrorist school in Paris (1910), the propagandists school organized by the Vpered (Leninist) group in Bologna (1910), the anarchist school in Paris (1911), and the first All-Party School of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party at Longjumeau (1911). Raw agent reports describe attempts to establish the whereabouts of Savinkov's terrorist training school (1911). Okhrana agent "Vladimirets," enrolled as a trainee in such a school describes the program of study and Lenin's participation in it. Several dispatches refer to the organization of military training by the revolutionaries in preparation of armed uprisings in Russia.

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Index XXIVj, Folder 1

Miscellaneous dispatches and raw reports on the indoctrination and training of terrorists and propagandists, 1908-1915

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2a

Circular letter describing a revolutionary program of training, 1906

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2b

Report on a military training school for revolutionaries in Paris, 1907

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2c

Maksim Gorky's school for revolutionaries on the island of Capri, Italy, 1909

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2d

Break of Lunacharsky (Lunacharskii) and Bogdanov with Gorky, whose Capri school had completely disintegrated, 1909

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2e

Students from the Capri school listening to Lenin's lectures in Paris, 1909

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2f

Establishment of a terrorist school in Paris, 1910

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2g

Propagandists' school of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party in Bologna, 1910

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2h

Polish Socialist training school in Liege, 1910

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2i

Anarchist school in Paris, 1911

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2j

First All-Party School of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party in Longjumeau, 1911

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2k

Okhrana penetration agent Vladimirets attending revolutionary training school in France, 1911

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Index XXIVj, Folder 2l

Agent Borisov-Dmitriev's reports from Liege, searching for Savinkov's training center for terrorists, 1911

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Index XXIVj, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 214-215

k. Infiltration of the armed forces

Scope and Contents note

This collection consists of incoming and outgoing dispatches, raw reports, and revolutionary propaganda leaflets. The material deals with revolutionary propaganda among Russian soldiers and sailors as well as officers, both abroad and in Russia. In the folders are dispatches, cables, and agent reports about the attempted mutiny on the Imperial cruiser Askold, detailed reports concerning the uprising of Russian soldiers at Gamp Delorme near Marseille (August 1916) and revolutionary infiltration of seamen's unions, along with samples of revolutionary propaganda disseminated among Russian prisoners of war in Germany and Austria. The file also contains reports on the revolutionary plan for a Russian officers congress abroad (1914), agent Weber's report on a revolutionary officers clique in the Russian Army (1915), and a report on the distribution of revolutionary propaganda on Russian ships docking at Hull, England.

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Index XXIVk, Folder 1

Dispatches and notes pertaining to the penetration of the armed forces, 1897-1916

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2a

Text of a revolutionary soldier's song and a revolutionary leaflet for officers, 1903

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2b

Revolutionaries to distribute propaganda among Russian prisoners of war in Japan, 1904

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2c

Revolutionary propaganda among troops in Turkestan Military District, 1907

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2d

Viennese Koscicki offering his services to combat revolutionary penetration of the army, 1908

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2e

Revolutionary propaganda on the Baltic fleet, 1910

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2f

Revolutionary membership in the armed forces, 1910

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2g

Report on revolutionary propaganda on the battleship Slava, 1911

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2h

Reports on revolutionary penetration of the Baltic fleet, 1912

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2i

Reports on illegal trade union of seamen abroad, with Headquarters in Antwerp, and the Union of Black Sea Seaman, 1913

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2j

Bitner and Fomin engaged in the dissemination of propaganda among Russian soldiers; leaflets addressed to officers and soldiers, 1913

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2k

Revolutionary penetration of naval units, 1914

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2l

Revolutionary propaganda among Russian prisoners of war in Austria-Hungary, 1915

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2m

Reports on the Russian Seaman's Union, 1915

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2n

Revolutionary plan for a Russian officers congress abroad, 1914

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2o

Revolutionary exploitation of disaffection in the army; officers' clique, 1915

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2p

Cables, reports, and other materials on the attempted mutiny on the Russian cruiser Askold at Toulon, 1916

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2q

Criticism of the administration of Russian army units in France, 1917

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2r

Illustrated supplement to Russkii vestnik , no. 2, 1917 February

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2s

Appeal to the lower ranks in the theater of war from the All-Russian Peoples' Organization, 1916

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2t

Pamphlet V plenu, published in Bern for distribution among prisoners of war in Germany, 1917

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2u

Russkii vestnik, no. 26, 1917

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2v

Protocol drafts on an uprising of Russian soldiers at Camp Delorme near Marseille, 1916

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2w

Chicherin and the Jewish appeal against military service

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Index XXIVk, Folder 2x

Okhrana circulars on revolutionary publications inciting the Russian armed forces, 1914

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Index XXIVk, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXIVk, Folder 4

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 34, 1903, regarding revolutionary propaganda on the Navy ship "Kronstadt," in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Box 215

l. Political action

Scope and Contents note

The incoming and outgoing dispatches, raw reports, and pamphlets included in this file cover the period from 1894-1917 and pertain to the political action of Russian revolutionary groups abroad in influencing foreign governments and political organisations. Outstanding cases, such as Vladimir Burtsev's exploitation of the Leone-Fontana case to impress the French government with the existence and operations of the Russian secret political police in France and Burtsev's anti-Tsarist activities in Italy, are covered by documents in this file. There are also documents on revolutionary groups influencing Duma factions, political action of student groups, revolutionary newspaper campaigns, action through the International Socialist Bureau and the French and other foreign socialist parties. (Also see XVIId, XVIIt, XXVIIa, and XXVIIb.)

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Index XXIVl, Folder 1

Documents pertaining to attempts made by revolutionaries to exert political influence on foreign governments, the press, social groups and political groups in the Russian Duma, 1894-1917

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2a

Text of a Bund appeal to the Russian people, 1905

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2b

Speech delivered by Starodvorskii in Paris at a meeting attended by French dignitaries, 1906

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2c

Reaction of Russian student circles abroad to a new decree in Russia, 1910

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2d

Martov and Rappoport appeal to Jaurés and Dumas (Socialist deputies) protesting against the Russian political police in France, 1913

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2e

Burtsev's trips to Italy to bring up the question of the Russian political police in Italy to the Italian parliament, 1913

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2f

Meeting of Lenin, Kamenev, and Radomyslskii (Zinovyev) in Krakow on the eve of a new session of the Russian Duma, 1913

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2g

Protests of Russian émigrés against the passage of a new bill in the United States barring the entry of terrorists, anarchists, etc. into the country, 1914

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2h

Messages exchanged between Vanderwelde, a representative of the International Socialist Bureau, and members of the Social Democratic faction of the State Duma, 1914

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2i

Political campaign leaflets from Kiev, 1915

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2j

Report on the revolutionary newspapers and pressure on the Duma, 1916

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2k

Paris Russian revolutionaries in support of Germany in the war, 1916

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2l

Ex-Duma member Aleksinskii participating in the newspaper Russkaia volia, 1916

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2m

Revolutionary leaders in favor of defeating Russia, 1916

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2n

Roster of Russian revolutionary defeatists and their demands, 1917

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2o

Paris revolutionaries' appeal to the Duma for amnesty for political émigrés abroad, 1917

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Index XXIVl, Folder 2p

Joint revolutionary manifesto on the occasion of the dissolution of the Duma

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Index XXIVl, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXIVl, Folder 4

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 162, November 1905, on Social Democratic preparations for the Duma campaign, in XIIIc(2), folder 6

Boxes 215-216

XXV. Financing of the revolutionaries

Box 215

a. American support: immigrant groups

Scope and Contents note

American financial support for the revolutionaries came from a few wealthy Americans who embraced the cause of freedom in Russia and contributions from a considerable number of workingmen's societies and lodges of the Russian, Jewish, Ukrainian, and other immigrants. A lively and popular campaign for liberalization of Russia was started with George Kennan's publications and lectures on his Siberian travels.
The documents collected in Folder 1 refer to the activities of Russian organizations in the United States and Canada for the collection of funds in support of the revolutionaries. In these papers, Headquarters and the Paris Office exchange information on leaders and movements in America. The papers in Folder 2 pertain to efforts of the leaders of the Jewish Bund, anarchists, Social Democrats, and Socialist Revolutionaries to channel financial help to European revolutionary groups through their respective organizations in the United States. This action gained momentum prior to and at the beginning of World War I but faded away in 1915, except for the Bund, backed by the American Federation of Jewish Workers. One report (February 1916) states that two anarchists in Chicago received $10, 000 from the Germans against their promise to blow up the offices of Russian military missions in the United States.

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Index XXVa, Folder 1

Dispatches and notes pertaining to American support of the Russian revolutionaries, immigrant groups, and organizations, 1891-1917

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Index XXVa, Folder 2a

New York meeting of the Society to Aid Revolutionary Russia, 1904

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Index XXVa, Folder 2b

Report from the Russian Embassy in Washington on activities of Russian revolutionaries in America, 1907

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Index XXVa, Folder 2c

Letter of a Russian informer in Pennsylvania, 1910

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Index XXVa, Folder 2d

Tasks of the revolutionaries in the United States, 1914

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Index XXVa, Folder 2e

Goldfarb's Bundist trip to America, 1914

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Index XXVa, Folder 2f

Mass meeting in memory of the Paris Commune in New York organized by the Russian section of the American Socialist Party, 1914

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Index XXVa, Folder 2g

Federation of Russian Workers (anarchists) in America, 1914

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Index XXVa, Folder 2h

Proposed congress of the Federation of Russian Workers in America, 1914

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Index XXVa, Folder 2i

List of socialist newspapers published in New York, 1914

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Index XXVa, Folder 2j

Resolution of the Boston Society to Aid Political Exiles and Prisoners, 1914

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Index XXVa, Folder 2k

Financial report of the Anarchist Red Cross in New York, 1914

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Index XXVa, Folder 2l

Russian émigré Workers' House in New York, 1914

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Index XXVa, Folder 2m

Pittsburgh Conference of Russian Workers' Unions, 1915

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Index XXVa, Folder 2n

Conference of Federated Organizations of New York (Golos truda), 1915

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Index XXVa, Folder 2o

New York meetings of the Society to Aid Political Exiles in Siberia, 1915

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Index XXVa, Folder 2p

Report on May 1 demonstration in New York, 1915

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Index XXVa, Folder 2q

Congress of the Anarchist Red Cross in New York, 1915

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Index XXVa, Folder 2r

Conference of Russian Social Democratic Groups in America held in New York, 1915

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Index XXVa, Folder 2s

Report on revolutionary organization in Boston, 1915

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Index XXVa, Folder 2t

Baltimore Congress of the Federation of Unions of Russian Workers in the United States and Canada, 1915

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Index XXVa, Folder 2u

Report on anarchists in New York and Chicago, 1916

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Index XXVa, Folder 2v

Arrival of former Duma member in America to raise money for war victims and Lithuanian students, 1916

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Index XXVa, Folder 2w

New Haven Conference of the Unions of Russian Workers in the United States and Canada, 1916

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Index XXVa, Folder 2x

Oberuchev in New York to raise funds to aid Russian prisoners of war, 1916

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Index XXVa, Folder 2y

New York meeting of the Society to Aid Political Exiles in Siberia, 1917

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Index XXVa, Folder 2z

Correspondence between Russian revolutionaries abroad (France, Belgium, England) with Russian immigrants in the United States, 1895

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Index XXVa, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Box 215

b. Russian domestic and foreign sources to aid the revolutionaries

Scope and Contents note

Folder 1 contains a general collection of documents on the activities of the revolutionaries at home and abroad to secure funds for their cause. In Folders 2 and 3, the dispatches (titled individually in the inventory to each folder) refer to the results of the constant campaigns for funds. Money was collected from all and any sources available -- wealthy individuals, legacies, collections and meetings, lectures, sale of literature, membership dues, etc. Money was needed to maintain the revolutionary leaders and fighting terrorist unit for the purpose of arms and explosives, publications, and operational expenses of all sorts.

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Index XXVb, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to Russian domestic and foreign sources to aid the revolutionaries, 1895-1917

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Index XXVb, Folder 2a

Account of a committee to help political prisoners in Russia, 1893

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Index XXVb, Folder 2b

A Czech offering information on revolutionaries counterfeiting money, 1906

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Index XXVb, Folder 2c

Revolutionaries attempting to get a share of a large estate left by Nikolai Schmidt, 1907

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Index XXVb, Folder 2d

Appeal of the International Committes to Aid Unemployed Workers in Russia, 1908

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Index XXVb, Folder 2e

Fiscal support of the Paris Group for Collaboration with the Socialist Revolutionaries, 1908

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Index XXVb, Folder 2f

Intercepted letter giving the financial statement of a revolutionary organization, 1909

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Index XXVb, Folder 2g

Appeal of the Central Committee to a number of lecturers in order to raise funds; Burtsev's financial difficulties, 1909

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Index XXVb, Folder 2h

Concerts and plays of the London anarchist club to aid the revolutionaries, 1910

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Index XXVb, Folder 2i

Rich merchant Michael Treitner giving large sums to Socialist Revolutionaries, 1910

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Index XXVb, Folder 2j

Vera Figner's Paris Committee to Aid Political Prisoners in Russia, 1910

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Index XXVb, Folder 2k

Rumors that the Japanese government offered Russian revolutionaries large sums of money in 1905 for sabotage work in Russia, 1910

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Index XXVb, Folder 2l

Organization of a Treasury to Aid Political Convicts and Prisoners in Liege, 1910

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Index XXVb, Folder 2m

Financial report of the Paris Group for Collaboration wit the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1910

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Index XXVb, Folder 2n

Rich merchant Semigradova in Kiev contributing large sums to revolutionaries, 1911

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Index XXVb, Folder 2o

Financial reports of the Oblast' Committee of Socialist Revolutionary organizations abroad and of the Brussels Socialist Revolutionary group, 1910-1911

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Index XXVb, Folder 2p

Son of rich merchant Fedotov giving financial help to the revolutionaries, 1911

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Index XXVb, Folder 2q

Financial statement of the Sazonov Library of the Paris Socialist Revolutionary Group, 1912

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Index XXVb, Folder 2r

Lausanne meeting of the Committee to Aid Convicts; funds to be sent to Vera Figner, 1912

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Index XXVb, Folder 2s

Offer of 150,000 francs made to Savinkov for terrorist acts, 1912

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Index XXVb, Folder 2t

Lecture by Aleksinskii to raise funds for the Vpered group, 1912

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Index XXVb, Folder 2u

Committee of the Zurich émigré Treasury, 1912

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Index XXVb, Folder 2v

Report on an alleged offer of funds made to Savinkov for terrorist purposes, 1912

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Index XXVb, Folder 3a

Funds received by Boris Savinkov for terrorist purposes, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3b

Financial report of the Paris Socialist Revolutionary Group, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3c

Arrival of Moscow millionaire Shakhov in Paris to help revolutionaries, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3d

Rich woman Sharzhinskaia and the interest of the revolutionaries in her money, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3e

Financial aid from Moscow tea merchants, the Vysotskii family, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3f

Indications that Nathanson received 30,000 rubles for terrorist purposes, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3g

Antwerp Union of Russian Sailors headed by Anichkin, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3h

Coupons to raise money for the Latvian Social Democratic Party, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3i

Fund-raising activities of the Latvian Social Democratic Party, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3j

Berlin students raising money to help political prisoners in Russia, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3k

Memo requesting identification of individual who donated 30,000 rubles to the Fighting Unit, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3l

Irregularities in the funds of the revolutionary treasury, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3m

Barthold to get a sum of money for terrorist purposes, 1913

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Index XXVb, Folder 3n

Zurich and Basel societies to aid political prisoners in Russia, 1914

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Index XXVb, Folder 3o

Basel meeting of the "Locan Union to Aid Exiles," 1914

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Index XXVb, Folder 3p

Fundraising lecture in Zurich, 1914

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Index XXVb, Folder 3q

Appeal for funds of the "Union of Russian Seaman" in London, 1915

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Index XXVb, Folder 3r

Vera Figner's Geneva "Group to Aid Political Exiles and Prisoners," 1915

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Index XXVb, Folder 3s

Donations by Moscow millionaires, the Morozovs, 1915

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Index XXVb, Folder 3t

Bern Conference of émigré Treasuries in Switzerland, 1916

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Index XXVb, Folder 3u

Appeal of the Central Secretariat of émigré Treasuries in Switzerland, 1916

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Index XXVb, Folder 4

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXVb, Folder 5

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 133, April 14, 1905, on the organization of a mutual insurance fund for members of Socialist Revolutionary and Social Democratic groups, in XIIIc(2), folder 6

Box 215

c. Expropriation, counterfeiting, and banditries

Scope and Contents note

"Expropriations," after the uprisings of 1905, became the policy, strategy, and tactics of the revolutionaries in general, particularly of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party. As a proletarian party, the latter was always in greater need of funds than the Socialist Revolutionaries, who had in their ranks a larger proportion of well-to-do members than Lenin's group. In essence, "expropriations" were nothing more than banditries serving as a source of funding the revolution and at the same time hurting the regime, creating chaos, and, with propaganda, serving as another slogan against capitalist oppression.
Folder 1 contains a number of dispatches exchanged between Headquarters and the Paris Office and pertaining to acts of expropriation and banditry committed by the Russian revolutionaries from 1893 to 1915. The documents in Folder 2 refer to specific banditries on a large scale, such as the Tiflis robbery (April 1907), Tashkent (1906) and Odessa (1907). There is also a brief (in German) prepared by the Munich police on Kamo-Mirskii's efforts to exchange Russian bank notes stolen at Tiflis (see XXVIIc), reports on the counterfeiting of bank notes (Leventhal), etc. A set of clippings from London newspapers on the attempted robbery at Houndsditch completes the file.

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Index XXVc, Folder 1

Miscellaneous documents pertaining to expropriations by the revolutionaries, 1893-1915

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Index XXVc, Folder 2a

Popov affair and description of a swindle with Russian stocks, 1893

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Index XXVc, Folder 2b

Aleksandr Belentsov, participant of a Moscow bank holdup, in Zurich, 1906

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Index XXVc, Folder 2c

Brothers Kereselidze and Nestor Magalov, who stole 315,000 rubles from a state treasury in Tiflis, 1906

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Index XXVc, Folder 2d

Extradition of participants in the Tiflis holdup from Switzerland, 1907

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Index XXVc, Folder 2e

Circular announcing rewards for the apprehension of individuals involved in stealing 544,000 rubles from Tashkent and Aulieatinsk finance offices, 1907

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Index XXVc, Folder 2f

Revolutionary plans to commit a large-scale robbery in a Caucasian city, 1907

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Index XXVc, Folder 2g

Bank robberies in Odessa, 1907

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Index XXVc, Folder 2h

Attack on a train en route from Tiflis to Batumi, 1907

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Index XXVc, Folder 2i

Kamo's role in the Tiflis holdup; his plans for other expropriations, 1907

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Index XXVc, Folder 2j

Brief on the Tiflis robbery prepared in German by the Munich police, 1908

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Index XXVc, Folder 2k

Disposition of the money stolen in the Verkhnedneprovsk holdup, 1907

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Index XXVc, Folder 2l

Litvinov's and Krassin's talks on counterfeiting bank notes following the Tiflis holdup, 1907

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Index XXVc, Folder 2m

Disposition of the money from the Tiflis holdup, 1907

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Index XXVc, Folder 2n

Agent Tsetlin and her suit against the revolutionaries for stealing her money, 1909

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Index XXVc, Folder 2o

Robert Leventhal engaged in counterfeiting Russian currency in Paris, 1912

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Index XXVc, Folder 2p

Dispatch of revolutionaries for an expropriation job, 1913

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Index XXVc, Folder 2q

Reports on the suspected participants of the Tiflis holdup

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Index XXVc, Folder 2r

Eight clippings referring to the attempted Houndsditch robbery

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Index XXVc, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXVc, Folder 4

Reference: For a letter from Munich on the Tiflis robbery, see Vd, folder 1

Index XXVc, Folder 5

Reference: See outgoing telegram no. 145, 1910, regarding the proposed plan of the revolutionaries to destroy money from the Tiflis holdup, in XIIIb(2), folder 8

Box 216

d. Extortion and blackmail

Scope and Contents note

Contains various documents referring to acts of blackmail and extortion, perpetrated by the revolutionaries, or in their name. There is also a list of Russians arrested in Lausanne (April 1908) in connection with extortion letters sent to S. Shiro. Folder 2 has documents pertaining to various cases of blackmail and extortion, such as Persitz, Prince Trubetskoi, Ganeshin, Troitskii, Kokovashin, and Fontaine, and also samples of threatening letters (1902-1912).

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Index XXVd, Folder 1

Dispatches pertaining to extortion and blackmail, 1906-1914

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Index XXVd, Folder 2a

Report on Agent Persitz, engaged in extortion from diplomats, 1902

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Index XXVd, Folder 2b

Revolutionary posing as Prince Trubetskoi, 1904

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Index XXVd, Folder 2c

The Ganeshin case (attempts of the revolutionaries to swindle him), 1906

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Index XXVd, Folder 2d

Attempts of revolutionaries to swindle Aleksandra Chuksina in Moscow, 1907

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Index XXVd, Folder 2e

Attempts of swindler Kokovashin to extort 350,000 rubles from the Russian government, 1907

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Index XXVd, Folder 2f

Blackmail in connection with former agent Paul Fontaine, 1911

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Index XXVd, Folder 2g

Sample extortion letters sent by revolutionaries, 1912

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Index XXVd, Folder 2h

Documents pertaining to former agent Louis Feuger, 1914

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Scope and Contents note

Includes his letter to the MVD minister requesting re-employment.
Index XXVd, Folder 3

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXVd, Folder 4

Reference: See notes on double agent Julieta, in XIa

Box 216

XXVI. Communications of the revolutionaries

 

a. Code systems

Scope and Contents note

The use of codes was not well developed by the revolutionaries. Intercepted mail often illustrates the use of code words and expressions, but full use of codes in digits was obviously rare. As some examples in the folders illustrate, they were of a simple, easily deciphered variety.

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Index XXVIa, Folder 1a

Codes used in correspondence by the revolutionaries, 1895-1912

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Index XXVIa, Folder 1b

Decoded letters, 1903-1904

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Index XXVIa, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXVIa, Folder 3

Reference: See intelligence summary no. 57, 1903, for a list of the codes of different revolutionary organizations not yet broken by the Okhrana, in XIIIc(2), folder 2

Index XXVIa, Folder 4

Reference: For the code system used by early Polish revolutionaries, see the papers on Rapoport and Savitski, in XIX

 

b. Secret writing

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Index XXVIb, Folder 1

Intercepted letters of the revolutionaries, written with invisible chemicals, which were later developed, 1904-1909

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Index XXVIb, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

 

c. Couriers

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Index XXVIc, Folder 1

Couriers of the revolutionaries, 1903, 1913

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d. General

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Index XXVId, Folder 1

Dispatch informing that the address of a Paris restaurant is being used by the revolutionaries for mail, 1911

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Box 216

XXVII. Methods of black propaganda, threats, poison pen letters

 

a. Burtsev's exploitation of the case of Francisco Leone

Scope and Contents note

The year 1913 was a turning point in the history of the Paris Okhrana Office. Burtsev succeeded in completely exposing the Russian secret police network in that city, thereby forcing the Paris Okhrana to change its organizational structure and operational methods. One of the cases used by Burtsev in his anti-Okhrana campaign was that involving Francesco Leone, who was fired by the Paris Okhrana and went over to Burtsev, giving him the information he acquired as an agent. The documents in this file clearly reflect the great concern of Krasilnikov for the security of his organization against the Burtsev-Leone conspiracy.

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Index XXVIIa, Folder 1

Dispatches discussing the repercussions of Leone's turning to Burtsev, 1913-1914

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Index XXVIIa, Folder 2

Notes on the dismissal of postmaster Christiani of Fezzano, Italy, for aiding the Okhrana with mail interceptions, 1914

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Index XXVIIa, Folder 3

Agents' reports on Leone's turning to Burtsev, 1912-1913

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Index XXVIIa, Folder 4

Newspaper clippings on the Russian police in Paris and Italy based on Leone's revelations, 1913

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Index XXVIIa, Folder 5

Cross-reference sheet

 

b. Burtsev's campaign against Garting

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In early 1909 the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Burtsev succeeded in exposing the Chief of the Paris Okhrana Office, Baron Arkadii Mikhailovich Garting, as one Heckelman-Landesen who, in 1890, was convicted by a French court to five years imprisonment for illegal possession of explosives. The documents in this file cover the period from November 26, 1908, to February 10, 1910, and consist primarily of frantic dispatches from Garting to the home office in St. Petersburg about Burtsev's persecution.

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Index XXVIIb, Folder 1

Dispatches concerning Burtsev's campaign against Garting of the Paris Okhrana, 1908-1910

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Index XXVIIb, Folder 2

Cross-reference sheet

Index XXVIIb, Folder 3

Reference: See outgoing telegram, 1909, on the effect of Burtsev's exposure of Garting's position, in XIIIb(2), folder 7

Index XXVIIb, Folder 4

Reference: See outgoing telegram, 1909, with Garting's pleas for help against Burtsev's campaign against him, in XIIIb(2), folder 7

Index XXVIIb, Folder 5

Reference: See outgoing telegram, 1909, asking Headquarters to direct the Paris Embassy to advise the French press that Garting and Landesen are not the same person, in XIIIb(2), folder 7

 

c. Exploitation of Kamo's case against Russian and German security organs

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The earliest document in this file on Semen Ter-Petrosian ("Kamo," "Dmitrii Mirskii") is an outgoing dispatch dated October 12, 1907, referring to "Kamo" as a young but highly active and daring revolutionary terrorist greatly valued by all Bolsheviks, including Lenin and "Nikitich." The report points out that "Kamo" was a key figure in the purchase of arms for revolutionaries in collaboration with Litvinov. Another report gives brief biographical sketch of that individual along with his career as a holdup artist of major proportions and a description of his great friendship with Lenin. When "Kamo" was arrested in Berlin in an apartment stocked with bombs and explosives, which he shared with a secret Okhrana agent, the Social Democratic circles succeeded in initiating a campaign accusing the Okhrana agent of planting the explosives in the apartment as an act of provocation, thereby causing considerable embarrassment to the Okhrana. "Kamo" successfully feigned insanity and was committed to a German asylum. The documents in this file also indicate that "Kamo" organized and participated in two holdups in Georgia, in Tiflis and on the Georgian Military Road. (See Index Numbers XXVb and XXVc for further information concerning the Georgian holdups. )

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Index XXVIIc, Folder 1

Headquarters circular, dispatches, and other materials on Simon Ter-Petrosian (Kamo, Dmitrii Mirskii), 1907-1908

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Scope and Contents note

Includes documents on his activities as a terrorist, his arrest in Berlin, and his commitment to a mental institution in Germany.
 

d. Threats upon the lives of security personnel, communist intimidation

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The Russian revolutionaries abroad utilized intimidation and threats to extort funds and to control the activities or to do away with certain government leaders and police officials. (See XXIVi, XXVc, and XXVd for additional information.) The documents in this file pertain to the murder of agent "Iost"- Chizhikov, the alleged suicide of agent Lisovskii, Burtsev's action against Garting and the Paris Okhrana, the terrorist Emma, accounts of the attempted assassination of Okhrana Colonel von Kotten by Rips, and the assassination of Colonel Karpov.

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Index XXVIId, Folder 1

Dispatches concerning the murder of Agent Chizhikov ("Yost," "Est"), 1908-1909

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Index XXVIId, Folder 2

Reports on the alleged suicide of Agent Lisovskii, 1913

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Index XXVIId, Folder 3

Burtsev's action against Garting and against the Paris Okhrana in general, 1909-1912

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Index XXVIId, Folder 4

Terrorist Emma and her access to a Riga prison, 1909

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Index XXVIId, Folder 5

Accounts of the attempt on the life of staff agent von Kotten by Rips, 1909-1913

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Index XXVIId, Folder 6

Notes and telegrams referring to the assassination of Colonel Karpov, 1909

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Index XXVIId, Folder 7

Dispatches, notes, and reports on various matters, 1905-1916

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Index XXVIId, Folder 8

Cross-reference sheet

Boxes 217-227, 237-238, 245

XXVIII. Miscellaneous

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An assembly of various items preserved as found in the shipment by Ambassador Maklakov. They remain with the collection as part of the original archive. Items include unused stationery, papers, pencils, and erasers, and other items found in the desk drawers of Okhrana Chief Krasil'nikov; stamps for office use and sealing wax, folders of maps and European city plans; telephone book, dictionaries, and a collection of calling cards.
Index XXVIII, Box 217

Office stamps for classifying, dating, serializing of documents, etc.

Index XXVIII, Box 217

Thermostat

Index XXVIII, Box 217

Pencils, pens, and sealing wax

Index XXVIII, Box 217

Small change box

Index XXVIII, Box 218

Personal telephone directory (some entries), alphabetized portfolio (empty)

Index XXVIII, Box 218

Three printers' cuts of unidentified photographs

Index XXVIII, Boxes 218, 238

Unused stationary of the Russian Embassy in Paris and the M.V.D. (Okhrana) office; official envelopes, one with the seal A.N.; unused scrap paper pad; loose paper

Index XXVIII, Box 218

Assortment of medical prescriptions for Chief Krasil'nikov

Index XXVIII, Box 218

Wooden tray for pencils

Index XXVIII, Box 219

Empty portfolio for Russian bank notes

Index XXVIII, Box 219

Four empty folders for filing incoming and outgoing dispatches

Index XXVIII, Box 220

Erasers, tape, thread, items from writing desk drawer

Index XXVIII, Box 220

Collection of calling cards

Index XXVIII, Box 220

Three desk blotters and a ruler

Index XXVIII, Boxes 221-225, Map case

Miscellaneous papers, pamphlets and publications

Scope and Contents note

Includes letters of credit from the Crédit Lyonnais, post card albums, travel guidebooks to various countries and cities, and foreign language grammar books.
Index XXVIII, Box 225, Map case

Assorted maps and city plans of Europe

Index XXVIII, Box 225

Miscellaneous pamphlets

Index XXVIII, Box 226

Panoramic photographs of Switzerland, Russian Red Cross in Stockholm pamphlet, and Monitore Italo-Russo, no. 6, 1917

Index XXVIII, Box 227

Index cards

Box 237

"Source Materials from the Okhrana Archives Pertaining to Political Intervention of the Central Powers in the Russian Revolutionary Movement," by Arsene G. Yourieff, circa 1916

Box 238

French manuscript on Socialist Revolution, 1908

Box 238

Annotated piece of wood, undated

Box 245

Shipping crate, undated

Box 228

XXIX. Inventories

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Index XXIX, Folder 1

Packing list for the contents of 17 boxes prepared for shipping on August 31, 1920