Register of the Aleksei Milrud papers
Finding aid prepared by Lyalya Kharitonova
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Aleksei Milrud papers
Date (inclusive): 1890-2006
Collection Number: 2012C4
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian, Latvian, German and English
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(2.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, printed matter, personal documents, and photographs, relating to Russian and Latvian émigré affairs. Includes
papers of Hella Beatrice Milrud, wife of Aleksei Milrud, and of Mikhail Mil'rud, father of Aleksei Milrud and journalist in
Latvia.
Creator:
Milrud, Aleksei, 1916-
Creator:
Mil'rud, Mikhail, 1884-
Creator:
Milrud, Hella Beatrice, 1923-1984
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2012.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Aleksei Milrud papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Russian-Latvian émigré in the United States.
Scope and Content of Collection
Much of Alexei Milrud's collection relates to the activities of his father, Mikhail Milrud, editor of the newspaper Segodnia
in Riga, Latvia, between the two world wars. The collection includes materials on Mikhail's career and copies of his NKVD
file (he was arrested by the Soviets when they incorporated Latvia), as well as materials relating to the newspaper and the
history of Russian publishing in Latvia. Also included is an interview with Alexei Milrud describing life in Latvia before
and during the Second World War.
After the war, Alexei and his wife, Hella-Beatrice Tomsen, worked for US military intelligence, screening displaced persons
and debriefing Soviet defectors in the early 1950s. Some of that activity is reflected in the collection.
Other matters covered in the subject files are war crimes in Latvia during World War II and, the Baltic states on the road
to and following their independence in 1991. Additional materials relate to an organization of Soviet defectors in Germany,
TsOPE (Tsentral'noe ob"edinenie poslevoennykh emigrantov). The rich correspondence (letters to Milrud from Dmitrii Levitskii,
Grigorii Klimov and others) supplements the biographical and subject files, providing additional insight into the history
of Russian émigré communities and anticommunist activities.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Latvians -- United States
Russians -- United States
Journalism -- Latvia
Biographical file
1923-1994
box 1, folder 1
Educational records
1923-1934
box 1, folder 3-4
Military service records
1946-1990
box 1, folder 5-6
Personal identification documents
1930-1983
box 1, folder 7-9
Milrud, Anna Stepanovna
1915-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes personal and legal papers, correspondence, and clippings.
box 1, folder 10-13
Milrud, Hella Beatrice
1943-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes personal papers, military service and legal records, letters of condolence, and clippings.
box 2, folder 1-5
Milrud, Mikhail Semenovich
1919-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes personal and legal papers, correspondence, clippings, copies of his NKVD file
box 2, folder 11
Abyzov, Jurij (Abizovs, Jurijs)
1995-2002
box 2, folder 17
Bagdasarian, Ilse
1982-1985
box 2, folder 18
Berzins, Alfreds
1959-1960
box 3, folder 1
Brendel, Traudl
1984-1985
box 3, folder 2
Bushman, Anna Sergeevna
1986-1988
box 3, folder 3
Fleishman, Lazar
1995-2006
box 3, folder 5
Klimov, Grigorii Petrovich
1952-1960
box 3, folder 6
Levitsky, Dimitry A.
1986-2000
box 3, folder 7
Miloradovich, Serafim
1987-1993
box 3, folder 8-9
Milrud, Mikhail Semenovich
1923-1942
box 3, folder 10
Ravdins, Boruhs (Boris Anatol'evich)
1997-2001
box 3, folder 11
Temnyi, Vasilii
1990-1991
box 3, folder 13
Westermann, Alexander
1946-1947
box 3, folder 14
Westphall, Nikolai
1989-1990
box 3, folder 15
Baltic Russophobia
1985-1997
Scope and Contents
Includes reports, clippings, and other printed matter.
box 3, folder 16
Religion and culture of emigration
1975-1988
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings and other printed matter.
box 3, folder 17-19
Segodnia(Сегодня)
1922-1995
Scope and Contents
Includes Aleksei Milrud's intervieiw by Lazar Fleishman about the history of the newspaper and clippings.
box 3, folder 20
Центральное Объединение Политических Эмигрантов (ЦОПЕ)
1954-1958
Scope and Contents
printed matter
box 3, folder 21
War crimes in Latvia
1947-1988
Scope and Contents
Includes articles, reports, and clippings.
Photographs
1890-1980
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs depicting Aleksei Milrud, his family and friends through the years, arranged chronologically.
box 5, folder 9
Printed Matter
1951
Scope and Contents
Satirikon, Vol. 1-2, and 5
Oversize Material
1995-1991
box 6, folder 1-3
Printed matter
1934-1991
Scope and Contents
Includes newspapers and clippings.
box 6, folder 4
Photographs
circa 1925
Scope and Contents
Photo prints of of Anna Stepanovna Milrud (2)
