Overview of the Russia. Stavka Verkhovnogo glavnokomanduiushchego miscellaneous records

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Title: Russia. Stavka Verkhovnogo glavnokomanduiushchego miscellaneous records

Date (inclusive): 1914-1917

Collection Number: XX364

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: Russian

Physical Description: 1 manuscript box (0.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Military orders and directives issued by the Supreme Command, 1914-1915, and clippings collected by the Supreme Command, 1914-1917, relating to World War I military campaigns, principally on the Eastern front.

Creator: Russia. Stavka Verkhovnago glavnokomandui͡ushchago

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Russia. Stavka Verkhovnogo glavnokomanduiushchego miscellaneous records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

Supreme Command, Russian Imperial army.

Scope and Content of Collection

Military orders and directives issued by the Supreme Command, 1914-1915, and clippings collected by the Supreme Command, 1914-1917, relating to World War I military campaigns, principally on the Eastern front.

Related Materials

The notebook in this collection do not include all communiqués issued by the Stavka. The Hoover Institution Library has the published Soobshcheniia shtaba verkhovnago glavnokomanduiushchago for the years 1914, 1915, and 1916 as a hard copy and on microfilm . These published volumes contain the texts of all communiqués by the Stavka, which were numbered continuously:

• The 1914 volume contains communiqués no. 1 (August 3, 1914) through no. 153 (December 31, 1914) • The 1915 volume contains communiqués no. 154 (January 1, 1915) through no. 530 (December 31, 1915) • The 1916 volume contains communiqués no. 531 (December 31, 1915/January 1, 1916) through no. 964 (December 31, 1916)

A published 1917 volume does not appear to exist. Most likely, such a volume was not published anymore, as it would have had to be prepared in early 1918, i.e., after the Bolshevik seizure of power.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia

World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front

box 1

Notebooks 1914-1917

Scope and Contents

Six 22-cm notebooks with newspaper clippings of communiqués by the Staff of The Supreme Commander–in–Chief of the Imperial Russian Army (Stavka), issued by the office of the Quartermaster General. Besides communiqués, the notebooks also include clippings of additional newspaper articles that are not direct communications from the Staff.

Some of these volumes show library call numbers they were once assigned. Probably, they were placed into an archival box because of their delicate condition. Handwritten dates on the pages onto which the clippings are glued apparently indicate the days on which the communiqués appeared in the press.

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Directives 1914-1915

Scope and Contents

One folder entitled Osnovnyia direktivy i direktivnyia ukazaniia Verkhovnago Glavnokomanduiushchago i zhurnaly soveshchanii (July 14, 1914—August 9, 1915).

Contains typed, verified copies of directives of the Supreme Commander–in–Chief of the Imperial Russian Army. These directives were issued by the Chief of Staff of the General Headquarters of the Imperial Russian Army, General Nikolai Ianushkevich, in the form of telegrams or letters to military commanders, including General Iakov Zhilinskii, General-A. Mikhail Alekseev, Adjutant General Ivan Ivanov, Adjutant General Ivanov, Adjutant General Nikolai Ruzskii.

At the beginning of the folder, there is an inventory listing every single document, incl. date, title, author, and addressee (total number of documents: 177). Almost all documents are copies of telegrams, very few are copies of letters. The typical length of telegrams is rather that of a letter. Some of the telegrams have attachments in the form of multi-page reports.